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DANCER/TEACHER

 

Annie is a dancer and dance instructor currently dancing with North Atlantic Ballet in Boston, and teaching around the greater Boston area. Her early training in Little Rock, Arkansas introduced her to ballet, pointe, hip hop, jazz, and contemporary. She began her pre-professional training under Arleen Sugano, and joined Ballet Arkansas’ Second Company at the age of 14. Annie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet from the University of Utah, where she also earned her Ballet Studio Teaching Certificate. While at University, Annie was privileged to have studied under professors such as Maggie Wright Tesch (Ballet West), James Ady (ABT, Pennsylvania Ballet), Jan Fugit (Ballet Colorado), Melonie Buchanan-Murray, Michael Bearden (Ballet West), and Jay Kim (Universal Ballet). She has been challenged to dance versatile works by choreographers such as Val Caniparoli, Eric Handman, and Tong Wang, Lucy Warren-Whitman among others.

Annie has experience teaching all levels--from two year olds to adults. She has taught jazz, contemporary dance, a boys movement class, creative movement, and strength and conditioning for dancers in addition to ballet. Annie has taught at studios such as Salt Lake City Ballet, The Dance Project SLC, Idaho Falls School of Ballet, and The School at Peridance in Manhattan; and was a staff member with Ballet Tech: The NYC Public School for Dance (under the director of Eliot Feld). Annie is a Level 1 & 2 Certified Instructor in mUvmethod, a safe and effective stretch and mobility program for dancers. At Phillips Academy, she currently teaches academic classes such as Introduction to Dance, Choreography, and a class for pre-professional dancers; and ballet, jazz, pointe, ballet partnering, and repertoire extracurricularly. She loves teaching the joy of dance to young artists! 

 
There is a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, its expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.
— Martha Graham

Photo Credit: Chris Peddecord