ANGEL ANDERSON Principal dancer; is a performing artist, scholar, and educator from the south suburbs of Chicago. Encompassing various dance forms rooted in Africanist traditions, her movement archive includes street and club dance forms, modern and contemporary sensibilities, neo traditional African dances, and traditional West African dances. Anderson is an alumna of the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Alongside performing nationally as a principal dancer of Rennie Harris Puremovement, she has assisted Harris in works such as “Dear Frankie” set on Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, as well as “Jacobs Ladder “set on Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Committed to remaining a student and acquiring knowledge on the of African American dance forms, Anderson studies under Rennie Harris University and Ecole Des Sables via the Training Diaspora Africa program. Her focus on expanding her knowledge and developing her teaching pedagogy reflects a dedication to passing on African American traditions to future generations.
Angel Anderson
