Jade Charon Robertson

Jade “Charon” Robertson is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, an award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, intercessory artist, and mother. Her work bridges African diasporic traditions, contemporary performance, technology, and spirituality, centering empowerment, healing, and cultural affirmation in Black communities.At the heart of her practice is Gold, a multimedia project and children’s book (Gold: Made Just for You) that combines dance, film, sound, and writing to explore self-worth, imagination, and liberation. Gold also informs her scholarship, with peer-reviewed publications on dance film, dance technology in predominantly Black institutions, and Black girlhood, connecting artistic practice with education and cultural critique.Robertson’s dance films have received widespread acclaim. Recharge (2020), created in response to racial dialogue in Black America, premiered online to praise, and Reverse (2016) was featured by The New York Times.

Her work has screened at festivals including the Pan African Film Festival, Dance Camera West, Vancouver Black Independent Film Festival, Cannes World Film Festival, Charlotte Black Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival, and MKE Film Festival.Her artistry has been supported by major fellowships and residencies, including the 2024 Angela’s Pulse Dancing While Black Fellowship, the 2022–2023 Bill T. Jones/New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist Residency, the 2021 Gallim Moving Women Residency, the 2020 Hicks Choreographer Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow, and the Baba Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship at BAM, where she studied in Burkina Faso and Senegal.

Robertson earned an MFA in Dance from UCLA and a BA in Dance and Theater from Columbia College Chicago. She is pursuing an Ed.D. in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.