BIO: Dance scholar, choreographer/performer, cultural editor, and visual artist, Dr. Roxy Regine Theobald is also a Creative Somatic Educator specializing in body memory regulation, and the creator of the 'inner lines' method. She serves as a contemporary dance lecturer and somatic across BA, MA, and PhD programs at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Dr. Theobald graduated in linguistics and holds a first-class honours in Aesthetic Sciences and Technology of Arts, dance and theatre (France). Her Master's thesis, "Altérité et Aliénation en Danse Contemporaine" (Otherness and Alienation in Contemporary Dance), has been recognized as a significant contribution to scholarship on contemporary in France and is available at the library of the National Dance Centre (CND-Pantin). Her dance education includes studies at elite institutions such as  the Alvin Ailey School (New York), Goube European Dance Center, and Studio Elsa Wolliaston (Paris). She trained under Joan Peters and Penny Godboldo (Dunham Technique), Zofia Kalinska (Physical Theatre), Larrio Ekson, Peter Goss (contemporary dance), Christopher L. Huggins, Hope Boykin (Modern jazz dance), Wayne Byars (Ballet), and Marie-Claude Pietragalla (Contemporary). As an interdisciplinary research practitioner, her areas of interest lie in phenomenology, aesthetics, and cultural borders, focusing on selflexive processes across dance, theatre, poetry, and mixed media practices. Through her doctoral research, she developed the concept of "inner lines," a creative ethnographic method that illuminates an innovative approach to Francophone African genealogies, body memory trauma, and interculturality through dance performance. In the context of this research, she collaborated with former Ailey Company dancer Olivia Bowman-Jackson and acclaimed composer-musician Niwel Tsumbu. Dr. Theobald expands her 'inner lines' research framework beyond the Afrodiasic cultural context, offering it as a creative, holistic program. As an inner alignment facilitator, she provides a distinctive, creative mental health model for anyone seeking self-release, balance, and personal growth. As a visual, her artwork "Undulating Body" was exhibited at The Dorothy's Gallery in Paris (2015). Her dance film  Inner/Lines...Empowering Embodied Ancestral Voices (2024) was cited in Dance Magazine New York (202). As a reviewer, she has published for Africultures, Dance Light Magazine, Paris-Art.com, and Pratiques Corporelles, focusing on dance history, aesthetics, social and cultural aspects of identity issues. As a dance scholar, Dr. Theobald has attended international academic conferences and lectured on research-to-performance at various venues including Musée de l’Homme, Cité de l’Immigration, Centre National de la Danse, and Université Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès (France, 2011); Dora Stratou Dance Theatre for UNESCO (Greece, 2006); Department of Ethnographic Studies and English Literature at Colorado College (2011-2023); and Collegium for African Diaspora-CADD (2022-2024) hosted at Duke University. These experiences have deepened her knowledge African American culture, the French Africana Diaspora, Black Dance Aesthetic, and Physical Theatre, providing her with opportunities to contribute to the field of Dance Studies. In France, she shared her expertise in French media (2007, 2008, 2018). In her earlier career, she was a guest researcher at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she worked under the supervision of renowned anthropologist of dance Anya Peterson Royce to conduct postgraduate ethnographic research on the rhetoric of identity in African American aesthetics and dance performance. During her research residency in New York (2008), she met and interviewed dance pioneers such as Merce Cunningham, Gus Solomons Jr., and Bill T. Jones. She taught and held an artistic residency at Dance Limerick (Ireland) in 2021. Over the Spring quarter of 2023, Dr Roxy Regine. Theobald was  an International Artist-in-Residence at SLIPPAGE-Lab (Evanston, Northwestern University), directed by distinguished Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz. She collaborated with actor and composer-musician Mark P. O'Connor in the award-winning film Conversation (August 2024), cited in Dance Magazine New York. In 2025, she choreographed and performed "A Bird" (official video) for singer-songwriter Jenny Raïsänen. As a national advisory panel member for the Dance State Diploma in France, Roxy's accomplishments in dance research have gained recognition the Paris Ministry of Culture. Elected in 2022, she was also on the Board of Directors of Dance Limerick. Dr. Theobald is a 2022 recipient of the Irish Research Government of Ireland Award, and received the Dance Bursary Award 2026 by The Arts Council Ireland/An Chomhairle.