Hi, my name is Anna! I am a dance and aerial artist who dabbles in lighting design, and technical direction. I make endurance art, a fusion of dance, running, technology, aerial apparatus work, humor, grit, and vulnerability brought to you by misdirection and the refusal to give up. 

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My process is connected to instinct (sometimes the connection fails). I’m friendly with technology, I try out ideas, I am working on not being afraid to be seen trying, and I am repeatedly reframing failure and rejection. 

 

I wasn’t athletic growing up. I got hit in the face by a softball when I was running the bases at the 7th-grade team tryout. I sprained my ankle the first day of basketball practice, didn’t make the soccer travel team because I arrived an hour late and also I wasn’t good enough. Cross-country skiing was too hard and downhill skiing was too risky and I couldn’t get injured because then I wouldn’t be able to dance. I used to complain all the way to the trailhead and throw tantrums on family hikes. I keep a reject-ography, a running bibliography of all of the times I have heard the word "no." 

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Sometimes the best ideas involve a hot dog suit.

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