Since 2002, Anne has taught students off all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience. She is well versed in modern dance, ballet, improvisation and teaching composition, with additional experience teaching partner acrobatics, tumbling, physical theater, capoeira, flamenco, street jazz, and hip hop. As a teaching artist she has worked for Lincoln Center Education, The New Victory Theater, Cynthia King Dance Studio, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Center for Arts Education, Phillips Academy Andover, among others.
Anne began teaching at MS 358 in Jamaica, Queens in September 2015. As the founding dance teacher at this brand new new middle school, Anne had the pleasure of building a dance program from the ground up. Her curriculum fuses a multicultural approach to dance along with creative approaches that teach students technical skills, the cultural significance of many dance forms as well as helping them build skills of collaboration, creative thinking and self expression. Her students have performed in a professional project at The Evergreens Cemetery and the Queens Borough Arts festival at the Queens Theater.
In July 2020, Anne moved back to her home state of Rhode Island to join the team at Achievement First Iluminar Middle School. At Iluminar Middle, Anne has had the pleasure of being part of a growing school, teaching Dance to 5th and 6th Graders, as well as designing and leading Dance Expedition intensives at the school. She is excited to be a part of this amazing school as it continues to grow!
Image credits:
Top Left: Ms 358 Dance Majors in rehearsal at the Queens Borough Arts Festival at the Queens theater.
Top Right: Teaching at Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA. Photo by Whitney Browne.
Bottom Left: A 7th Grader performing in a studio showing at MS 358. Photo by Lawrence Johnson.
Bottom Right: Ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Dance and Theater Studio, courtesy of the ArtSPACE Grant from the Office of Arts and Special Projects, NYCDOE. Photo by Lawrence Johnson.