Dance instructor, choreographer/performer, cultural editor and visual artist,  Dr Roxy Régine THEOBALD is researcher -practitioner. She teaches in the BA  (Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance), MA  (Master in Dance Performance) programs, and provides somatic practice courses for PhD’s in Arts Practice at University of Limerick. Additionally, graduated in linguistic, she 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 recognised as a significant contribution to the scholarship on contemporary dance in France and is available at the library of the National Dance Centre (CND-Pantin).

Her dance education includes The Ailey School (New-York), Goube European Dance Center, 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-Ballet).

Interdisciplinary researcher, her areas of interest lies in phenomenology, aesthetic and cultural borders, as 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 of Francophone African genealogies, body memory trauma and interculturality through dance ethnography.  In the context of this research, she collaborated with former dancer of  Ailey Company Olivia Bowman-Jackson and acclaimed  composer-musician Niwel 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 published for Africultures, Dance Light Magazine, Paris-Art.com, Pratiques Corporelles (topic related to dance history, dance aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of identity issues).

As a dance scholar, Roxy has attended international academic conferences and lectured in 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 Jaures (France, 2007- 2011); Dora Stratou Dance Theatre for UNESCO (Greece, 2006); Department of Ethnic Studies and English Literature of the Colorado College (US, 2011-2023), Collegium For African Diaspora (CADD 2022-24) hosted at Duke University.

These scholarly experiences, which have deepened her knowledge of African American culture, French Africana Diaspora, Black Dance Aesthetics, and physical Theatre provided her with opportunities to contribute to the fields of Dance Studies. In France she shared her expertise on French media (2007, 2008, 2018).

In her earlier career, Roxy was guest researcher at Indiana University-Bloomington where she works under the supervision of the renowned anthropologist of dance Anya Peterson Royce to conduct a postgraduate ethnographic research towards the rhetoric of identity in African-American aesthetic and dance performance. At that time, her research residency in New-York (2006) allowed her to meet and interview dance pioneers like Merce Cunningham, Gus Solomons jr. as well as  Bill T. Jones.

During the Spring quarter of 2023, Roxy was 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, composer-musician Mark P. O' Connor in the award-winning film 'Conversation' (August 2024).

National advisory panel member for the Dance State Diploma in France, Roxy's accomplishments in dance research have been effective with recognition by the Paris Ministry of Culture. Elected in 2022, she is also on the Board of Directors of Dance Limerick (Ireland).