Anna is a choreographer and dancer living in Austin, Texas. Since graduating from Sam Houston State University with her BFA in Dance in 2021, she has danced for the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company while maintaining a personal focus on choreography. Her work uses mundane aspects of life as sources for movement generation: coffee, laundry, dinner, pants, and so on. She likes to draw attention to the nuance, strangeness, and humor that exists within the activities people do every day.
Events across Texas have been kind enough to include Anna’s pieces in their lineup: most recently Texas Dance Improvisational Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Aimed Dance Summer Fest, Blipswitch’s Offbeat X, and local concerts produced by Austin artists such as ZATERO Dance, Emily Rushing, Carissa Topham, and Jahna Bobolia. She has also brought her work to national festivals, including Mashup’s International Women’s Day Dance Festival (Los Angeles), MADCO's Dare to Dance (St. Louis), and White Wave Soloduo Dance Festival (New York City). In 2021, she received an emerging choreographer fellowship with Aimed Dance Company and created a new work with its dancers for their Summer Fest. During the Summer of 2023, she travelled to Washington to reset her duet Breakfast on the dancers of Bellingham Repertory Dance. Déjà vu- she and Jairus Carr completed this residency again in the Summer of 2023, resetting their collaborative duet This Thing That We’re Doing.
Along with her own choreography, Anna has performed on a variety of stages, both proscenium and nontraditional. During her time at Sam Houston State University, she had the chance to work with faculty members and guest choreographers Adele Nickel, Donald C. Shorter Jr., Evelyn Toh, Dionne Noble, and Rohan Bhargava. While living in Austin, in addition to training and performing with Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Anna has danced for dance company Blipswitch’s Kate Bush Waking the Witch Concert Tribute, filmmaker Oddalys Salcido’s dance film a guide to: delusion, and artist Justo Cisnero’s sculpture pop-up exhibit The Silk Flower and the Honey Bee.
In addition to dancing, Anna dabbles in reading, taking walks, and drinking overpriced coffee.