ABOUT ANNIE
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER/HERS
ANNIE PETERSON is a movement artist, collaborator, and arts activist in Milwaukee who designs and creates movement-based projects. Annie grew up dancing and writing in a small town, 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 and curation 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, donor relations, grant writing, and event planning. She is also the Administrative Intern for the Milwaukee Dance Theatre Network.
Annie has performed both her solo and collaborative work throughout Milwaukee and in the Young Choreographer's/New Works Showcase at Bates Dance Festival. She has performed in the works of many UW-Milwaukee faculty members, guest choreographers, and Milwaukee-based artists, including Maria Gillespie, Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Dawn Springer, Wild Space Dance Company, and Zachary Byron Schorsch. Through artistic merit and innovation, Annie has been awarded the Randy R. Reddemann Emerging Artists Scholarship, Ed Burgess Legacy Scholarship, Bates Dance Festival Artistic Merit Scholarship, Undergraduate Dance Scholarships, and UW-Milwaukee School of Undergraduate Research Fellowships.
Annie values research as means of creating, documenting and having dialogue about creative processes. She was a Spring 2018 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.