Dance instructor, choreographer/performer, cultural editor, and visual artist, Dr. Roxy Régine Theobald is a researcher-practitioner She teaches in the BA (Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance) and MA (Master in Dance Performance programs and provides somatic practice courses for PhDs in Arts Practice at University of Limerick. Additionally, she graduated in linguistics and holds a first-class honours Master 2 in Aesthetic Sciences and Technology of Arts, combining 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 dance in France and is available at the library of the National Dance Centre (CND-Pantin). Her dance education includes Ailey School (New York), Goube European Dance Center, Studio Elsa Wolliaston (Paris). She trained under Joan 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 Ballet). As an interdisciplinary researcher, her areas of interest lie in phenomenology, aesthetics, and cultural borders, focusing on self-reflexive processes across dance, theatre, poetry, and mixed media practices. Through her doctoral research, she developed the concept of "inner lines"a creative ethnographic method through which she illuminates an innovative approach to Francophone African genealogies, body memory trauma, and interculturality through dance ethnography. In the context of this research, she collaborated with former Ailey Company dancer Olivia Bowman-Jackson and acclaimed composer-musician Ni Tsumbu. Roxy is a 2022 recipient of the Irish Research Government of Ireland award. As a visual artist, her artwork "Undulating Body" has been exhibited at The Dorothy's Gallery in Paris (2015). Her dance film "Inner/Lines... Empowering Embodied Ancestral Voices" was cited in Dance Magazine New York (2024). As a reviewer, she has published for Africultures, Dance Light Magazine, Paris-Art.com, and Pratiques Corporelles, focusing on dance history, aesthetics, and social and cultural aspects of identity issues. As dance scholar, Roxy 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, 7-2011); Dora Stratou Dance Theatre for UNESCO (Greece, 2006); Department of Ethnic Studies and English Literature at Colorado College (US, 2011-2023); and Collegium for African Diaspora (CADD 2022-24) hosted at Duke University. These experiences, which have deepened her knowledge of African American culture the French Africana Diaspora, Black Dance Aesthetics, and Physical Theatre, have provided 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, Roxy was a guest researcher at Indiana University-Bloomington where she worked under the supervision of the 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. During the Spring quarter of 2023, Roxy was an International Artist-in-Residence at SLIPPAGE-Lab (Evanston, Northwestern University), directed by distinguished Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz. In 2023, she choreographed and performed "A Bird" (official video) for singer Jenny Raïsänen. She collaborated with actor and composer-musician Mark P. O'Connor in the award-winning film "Conversation" (August2024). As a national advisory panel member for the Dance State Diploma in France, Roxy's accomplishments in dance research have gained recognition from the Paris Ministry of Culture. Elected in 2022, she is also on the Board of Directors of Dance Limerick (Ireland).