Angel Anderson

Angel Anderson is a black female-identifying movement artist, scholar, and daughter hailing from the south suburbs of Chicago. Her movement archive encompasses street and club dance forms alongside contemporary Africanist expressions, with her work containing intersectionalities of poetry, fashion, and Black-American methods of storytelling. A principal dancer in Rennie Harris’ Puremovement, Anderson has assisted Harris in setting works on Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, students at The Juilliard School, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Her debut work, Our Mama’s Mamas: A Remembrance of, has been presented at the American College Dance Association conference where it was further selected for the gala and named an alternate for the National Festival taking place this May in D.C. Anderson is currently finishing her first year as an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, where she is investigating the functions of black hair, matrilineality, and delving into archival work for the preservation of our matriarchs.