Workshops // Intensives // Pro Class // Residencies

Annie creates bespoke sessions tailored to the needs & desires of each group as much as possible, and her ongoing interest in creating high-quality, challenging, and accessible dance classes drives her to continually re-investigate her approach. As a dancer with a non-normative physicality, Annie draws from her own bodily experience in the mainstream contemporary dance world, as well as her wide-ranging contemporary dance practice, and wants to create spaces for dancers of all abilities to study & train at a professional level.

Annie's sessions vary in content but at their core will always resonate with the pleasure of moving, dancing in a supportive & generous environment, and the simple joy of getting sweaty to good music.

As a practicing artist Annie has lead sessions for diverse groups of dancers around the world for over a decade. Alongside her extensive teaching as a member of Candoco Dance Company, as an independent artist she has lead:

Morning professional classes at Greenwich Dance (UK)

Sessions on inclusive practice for pedagogy & dance students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (UK),

Company classes for Candoco Dance Company

Classes & creative sessions for Cando2 youth company

Candoco's first Summer Training Intensive

One-week professional masterclass series at the CCN2 Grenoble (France),

Creative Contemporary dance class at Siobhan Davies Dance (UK),

Workshops and classes for The Place, the CAT scheme, Conservatoire Nationale de Danse Lyon, amongst others

Professional morning classes at CODA festival, Oslo, Norway

Inclusive weekend workshop exploring Annie's improvisation practice, part of the Making a Difference initiative organised by Sophiensaele, at Uferstudios, Berlin.

Artist in Residence at Cardiff Dance Festival 2019: Choreographic residency at University of South Wales, Morning class for GroundworkPro Cardiff, panel member discussing disability and dance for Unlimited Meets Wales at Millennium Centre.

Cowles Guest Artist at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Jan-Feb 2020

In collaboration with other artists: Annie designed & delivered a series of week-long accessible professional development Labs across the UK as part of the collective AnnieVickySarah. She lead a Doing Day workshop for adults from a range of different backgrounds with Louise Ahl at Siobhan Davies Dance, delving into the improvisation methodologies she developed as part of her work Exercises in Telepathy.

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Diversamente in Danza photos: Giorgia Panetto/Elisabetta Panetto; AVS Shropshire Lab: Ewen MacIntyre; AVS Cumbria Lab: Kit Haigh; Candoco Dance Co: Pedro Machado

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