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Annie Kloppenberg is Associate Professor and Chair of Theater and Dance at Colby College. Her creative and scholarly research both focus on collaborative and improvisational practices. Collaborative processes sculpt dialectics that situate knowledge in the interstices between subjective understandings. Her creative research platform, Foreword/Afterword, conceived with collaborators Rachel Boggia and Meredith Lyons exposes the dialogues between collaboration, improvisation, and choreographic choice. They have presented this project as a performance, a workshop, and a research panel in a variety of contexts sucn as IDOCDE at Impulsedanz in Vienna, The Society of Dance History Scholars Conferences, The David Dorfman Dance Summer Intensive, and the Performance Garage in Philadelphia, for example. For many years, she toured with collaborators Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant, and Ed Luna as Like You Mean It, an improvisational ensemble.
Choreographic commissions, residencies, and fellowships have included: The Portland Ballet, Boston Dance Alliance /Mass MoCA, Summer Stages Dance/ICA Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop(NYLA)/ Cave Brooklyn, Colby College, the Taft School, Dublin Arts Center/Ohio Dance. Performance credits include the work of Lisa Race, Ashley Thorndike, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Headlong Dance Theater, and Bebe Miller, among others. She presents regularly at academic conferences and has published articles in Kinebago, The Dance Chronicle, and has an essay in a forthcoming edited volume on the aesthetics of imperfection. Annie is on the Board of the American College Dance Association and was a past Board member of NowNext Dance Mentoring Project and Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA. |