My creative practice is rooted in somatic-based inquiry. I am a movement artist who studies the endowment of becoming and manifestations of experiential form.
I am interested in work that is quiet and expansive, using gesture, time, and glitch to understand the body and its intellect.
Obsessed with the tension of performance, showing the pleasure in concentration, and the often awkward sublime, I experiment at the place where neuromuscularity meets time-space and consequence to create work that entangles and disrupts all that we feel to be true.
My work touches landscapes of memory, grief, frequencies of color, ecological systems, and both surreal and quotidian desire. I develop states of presence and design energetic attention through choreography, text, video installation, and task-based performance.
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bio
ANNIE PETERSON (she/they) is a movement artist, producer, and arts administrator based in Philadelphia. Obsessed with the tension of performance, showing the play in concentration, and the often awkward sublime, AP’s work has been shown at MAAS (Philadelphia), Rhizome (DC), Dance Place (DC), Grapefruit Studios (Milwaukee), EXPS/SLC (Salt Lake City), and in various warehouses, fields, and living rooms. Annie is one of eight artists powering hall pass, a multidisciplinary project space in Philadelphia.
Annie has produced multidisciplinary performances at hall pass, in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Voxel (Baltimore), the John F. Kennedy Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), and the Georgetown GLOW Festival (DC), among others. Annie is the Contract Manager with Lotus Arts Management and the Chief Operating Executive with Extreme Lengths Productions. Previous arts administration roles include the Manager of Executive Affairs at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), Curatorial Fellow at Dance Place, Public Relations Intern at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Development Assistant for the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Administrative Intern for Milwaukee Dance Theatre Network.
Annie graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, double major, in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography + Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies (2019). While in school, she received a Randy R. Reddeman Emerging Artist Scholarship and received three undergraduate fellowships to conduct movement/performance research and somatic/pedagogical research with mentors Maria Gillespie and Daniel Burkholder, respectively.