A bit more about Ruby:

Ruby Josephine Smith is a contemporary dance artist and choreographer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She fell in love with modern dance at the age of 10 and began to train more intensively after leaving the US when she was 19, traveling around Europe and participating in a wide variety of workshops and festivals. Eventually, she landed in Tangier, Morocco, where she worked with contemporary dance as an emerging art form in the city. Ruby lived in Tangier for 7 years and still maintains a professional base there. She taught regularly at several studios, performed and choreographed for local institutions, and collaborated with local and international artists to create new work. Her choreography has been sponsored by the US Embassy of Morocco, l’Institut Français, and the American Language Center Network, among others. She has also taught masterclasses at international schools in Paris, Mumbai, Chennai, and Ho Chi Minh City.  Now that she is back in the Twin Cities, Ruby has reintegrated into the local dance scene, working as a freelance artist. She teaches at Zenon Dance School, Hothouse, and WestMet Classical Training, and has choreographed for Threads Dance Project, CollabArts Twin Cities, and River's Edge Performance Series. She has performed in pieces by Jagged Moves, Analog Dance Works, Kendall Kramer, and Jennifer Mack. In all of her work, Ruby believes in the power of dance to tell stories, explore emotion, and form strong connections across boundaries and borders.