my artistic interest and movement research exist at the intersection between extreme physicality and healing;

With a career spanning groundbreaking dance institutions, from Ensemble Batsheva to PunchDrunk, to the Martha Graham Dance Company, Annie’s work lives in the tension between precision and abandon, the theatrical and the abstract, the serious and the absurd.

A sought-after creator, educator, and somatic movement practitioner, Annie brings her unique movement language, musical sensitivity, and understanding of the body, to dance programs, companies, and stages.

Through her work she is looking for some “truth” about the body to be revealed, and she is looking for an emotional truth to be told through movement.

“ I am deeply inspired by all things related to movement, the meeting of science and mystery, and the healing power of music, movement and art. I believe that dance is uniquely able to capture the complexity and nuance of our emotions and I am equal parts inspired by the abstract and the narrative. I am devoted to research, and process, and I love to make space for the unexpected and the “happy accident” while inside the making of a work. I believe that the classwork must be the stage work and that what we nurture and practice in the studio; HOW we move, HOW we listen, and HOW we collaboratively learn to follow the thread of an idea to completion, will lead us to the dance that is desiring/needing to be made.”

—Annie Rigney