A Regina-based dance presenter, Robin Poitras is a prolific dance, performance and installation creator. In 1986 she co-founded New Dance Horizons in Regina, where she continues to act as Artistic Director. Robin's works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany, Mexico and Mongolia. I the fall of 2008, she was featured as eminence gris through a residency at 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto. At home in Regina she has developed and realized several multi-disciplinary and community performance projects, including The Pelican Project and the Ice & Fire Carnival. In the spring of 2009 Robin launched Rouge-gorge, a project-based company dedicated to her independent dance and performance practice. Rouge-gorge is presently a company in residence at New Dance Horizons’ House of Dance Studio. In its inaugural season, Rouge-gorge realized the commission of a new solo creation by Paul-André Fortier sponsored by local philanthropist Jacqui Shumiatcher, and began a new creation by Robin, entitled in fur till spring.  As well as the remounting of Robin’s early works, Left of centre and ‘Blowin’. Fortier’s “SHE” debuted at the 2009 Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver and will be presented at the 2010, Canada Dance Festival Robin holds a B.F.A. special honors degree in dance from York University and has received many grants and awards including the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006 Mayor's Awards for Business & The Arts in Regina.