Founded in 2012 and led by Roberta Jean, MYSTERYSKIN is a new dance group that celebrates liveness; likens the dancing body to sculpture and frames the presence of the performer.
Exploring a progressive physical language located in the visceral, the charged and uncharged body, MYSTERYSKIN produces contemporary dances and kinaesthetic works for diverse contexts that incorporate musical and sound design elements as well as sculptural forms.
Roberta’s parents practised dance professionally and she grew up watching performances and the process of making choreography. It wasn’t however until she experienced contemporary choreographer, Meg Stuart and visual artist, Ann Hamilton’s collaboration ‘Appetite’ at the Edinburgh Festival that she decided to intensively pursue her own pathway into dance and performance.
She trained in Contemporary Dance and Ballet at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and specialised in choreography, she then went on to complete an MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths College, London.
Roberta has recently been made associate artist at Dance City, she has also been a resident artist in London (Shunt, Greenwich Foot Tunnel, Chisenhale Dance Space and Battersea Arts Centre as part of THE INDEPENDENTS), Cardiff (Welsh Independent Dance), Marseille (as part of COLINA), Nottingham (Dance4), Totnes (Dartington Hall) and Vienna (DanceWeb in-conjunction with ImPulsTanz).