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ABOUT ANNIE
pronouns: she/her/hers
ANNIE PETERSON grew up dancing and writing in a small town in Northwestern Illinois, where she discovered the importance of resilient art-making as a vehicle to provoke conversation and stimulate change. Her desire to create, perform and serve the art community lead her to Milwaukee, where she is currently pursuing a BFA in the Peck School of the Arts, double majoring in Contemporary Dance Performance & Choreography and Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies (concentration in Public Relations and focus on nonprofit work) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In combining practices as an arts activist, Annie seeks to establish common ground through collaboration while helping fellow artists create and share their work. Annie currently serves as the Development Assistant for the Peck School of the Arts, where she assists in fundraising, grant writing and event planning.
Annie has performed in the works of many UW-Milwaukee faculty members and Milwaukee-based artists, including Maria Gillespie, Dawn Springer, Wild Space Dance Company, Simone Ferro, Dani Kuepper, and Zachary Schorsch. She is currently immersed in two research projects as an Undergraduate Research Fellow at UW-Milwaukee. She is extending her somatic practice with Daniel Burkholder in researching Feldenkrais Method, and under the artistic mentorship of Maria Gillespie, she is conducting movement research for improvisational performance.