Robinson is now an associate professor in the Department of Theatre, where she teaches dance. While at AU, she has created five original full-length dance dramas for AU's Department of Theatre. I've been able to help bring attention to cultural diversity in the arts through the department. At least one play each year is by an African-American playwright. Teaching is the perfect venue.
Understanding is based on knowing what other people have contributed.
Inc. School and Dance Company, and six years later opened The Jessie Clinton Arts Centre, located in the city's old post office. Robinson started dancing as a child, taking her first lessons in her hometown of Tuskegee. At 16, she and her sister established the Robinette School of Dance in Tuskegee, aiming to instill the same passion for dance in others as they had. Robinson left Alabama in 1960 for Butler University in Indianapolis, where she majored in dance. She was the only black dancer at the Jordan College of Fine Arts.