My creative practice is rooted in somatic-based inquiry and the exploration of queer calibrations. I am a movement artist who studies the endowment of becoming and manifestations of experiential form. Often investigating landscapes of memory, grief, frequencies of color, ecological systems, and quotidian desire, I develop states of presence and design energetic attention through choreography, text, video installation, and task-based performance. I am interested in work that is quiet and expansive, using gesture, time, and glitch to understand the body and its intellect. My work sometimes challenges audience duration, requiring honest presence in order to receive the work, and I always extend a hand to come with. 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 subverts all that we feel to be true.
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bio
ANNIE PETERSON (she/they) is a movement artist, creative 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 Rhizome (DC), Dance Place (DC), Grapefruit Studios (Milwaukee), EXPS/SLC (Salt Lake City), and in various fields and living rooms. AP was a 2024 Artist Resident with Threshold Collective at MAAS in Philadelphia. AP has also collaborated with and performed in the works of Britta Joy Peterson, Maria Gillespie, Daniel Burkholder, Dawn Springer, Esther Baker-Tarpaga, and Cedar Becher, among many others. As the Associate Producer for Extreme Lengths Productions, AP has produced immersive and durational performances at The Voxel (Baltimore), the John F. Kennedy Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), and the Georgetown GLOW Festival (DC).
AP 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 three undergraduate fellowships to conduct movement/performance research and somatic/pedagogical research with mentors Maria Gillespie and Daniel Burkholder, respectively.
AP is an experienced arts administrator with previous work including Manager of Executive Affairs at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), Curatorial Fellow and Artistic and Community Programming Intern 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.