ANNA BOEHM
Anna Boehm (she/her) is a movement artist currently based in Kansas City. Her recent performance work settings include: Making Moves Festival (Kansas City), Creative Intersections (Kansas City), City in Motion (Kansas City), Waterperry Opera Festival (Oxford, UK), The Glitch Project (London), Fubunation (London). Anna attended the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, England earning a BA in contemporary dance and has trained at GagaLab NYC, BalletMet, and Joffrey. She has taught with the Kansas City Ballet, Take the Stage (Owen/Cox Dance Co), and various other training programs across the United States. Additionally, she has participated in NDI’s Dream Project teacher training, a dance program for children with disabilities in New York. Anna is passionate about dance education being accessible and inclusive, and works to break down hierarchical roles within dance practice, allowing for more voices to be heard and movers to be seen.
“As a movement artist and creator, I strive to follow a practice that encourages questioning. I continue to challenge my own thoughts and habits and am interested in the intersection between research and creation. For me, dancemaking follows a research process. The projects I engage in are always born out of curiosity. I continue to value relationships built between artists and aim to involve others as much as possible. When working in a collective, collaboration is what brings autonomy. I believe in the body as an archive, as well as shared authorship and ownership of works. Dance is a lived, fleeting experience, but the remnants of what it was remains in you forever- as the artist or the observer. I wish to create kinaesthetic responses from those that encounter my movement; using a movement language that is rooted in commonality. Connection is of utmost importance to me as an artist.”
——Anna Boehm