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ABOUT ANNIE
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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. She is also the Administrative Intern for the Milwaukee Dance Theatre Network.
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. Annie values research as means of creating, documenting, and having dialogue about creative processes. She has been a 2018 and 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellow at UW-Milwaukee for two research projects with Peck School of the Arts' dance faculty. Extending her somatic practice with Daniel Burkholder, Annie researched Feldenkrais Method and its relationship to contemporary dance practice, earning an Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Under the ongoing artistic mentorship of Maria Gillespie, Annie is currently conducting movement research for improvisational performance.