Photo by Owen Scarlett
This fall we are excited to welcome creator, choreographer, and director Annalee Traylor to campus as the Emory Dance Program's inaugural Arts Fellow. This fellowship, supported through a generous gift from Sarah Arison (‘07B), will provide Emory students and the entire Atlanta arts community the opportunity to experience and learn from Traylor’s uniquely inventive work that lives amidst the entanglement of dance and theatre.
Throughout the course of her year-long fellowship, Emory students and the greater Atlanta community will have several opportunities to engage with her in conversation and view her work on both students and working artists:
Collectively, Traylor's work has been presented nationally and abroad in LA, NYC, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Houston, Huntsville (TX), Seattle, Temecula, Brooklyn, Battle Lake, Durham, the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal, and at venues including Battery Park, Green Space, Hudson Guild Theatre, New Hazlett Theatre, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Diavolo, Ferst Center for the Arts, Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Gibney, and Highways Performance Space among others. She has been commissioned and awarded residencies through Kennesaw State University, The Dance Gallery Festival, Highways Performance Space, and Periapsis Music and Dance. Other commissions include Texture Contemporary Ballet, REED Dance, Point Park University's International Summer Dance, Houston Contemporary II, Dance Canvas, and Voices Carry Inc. In 2020, Traylor was awarded Outstanding Choreographer at the Youth American Grand Prix regionals. She was chosen for Dance Lab NY's 2023 Summer Cycle, a virtual residency with Korzo Dance of The Hague, Netherlands.
Choreographically, Traylor’s physically driven, tragicomic worlds house the paradoxical, emotionally focused characters who centralize her work. Her interrogation of intersectionality elicits genre-bending, animatedly nuanced storytelling that emphatically challenges and plays with societal conventions. Perpetually guided by intuition and impulse, Traylor's practice is nourished by archetypal and emotive state-based research that is inextricably colored by her experience as a female from the American South. She works with a variety of artists - it is through these meaningful, intimate, and shared collaborations that she is able to connect deeply to her understanding of why and how she tells the stories that she does.
To learn more about Annalee Traylor, visit annaleetraylor.com.
For information about the Emory Dance Program and upcoming events, visit dance.emory.edu and follow us on Instagram and Facebook at @emorydanceprogram.
Throughout the course of her year-long fellowship, Emory students and the greater Atlanta community will have several opportunities to engage with her in conversation and view her work on both students and working artists:
- Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation: September 19, 7:30pm at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts (free event)
- Emory Dance Company Fall Concert: November 16-18 at 7:30pm & November 18 at 2:00pm at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts ($15/$12/$8 tickets)
- In the spring of 2024, Traylor will offer a culminating showing open to the public. Details about this event will be released shortly. In addition to these offerings, Traylor will teach several courses throughout the fall and spring semesters, providing Emory students the opportunity to experience first-hand immersion in her creative practice and movement vocabulary.
Collectively, Traylor's work has been presented nationally and abroad in LA, NYC, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Houston, Huntsville (TX), Seattle, Temecula, Brooklyn, Battle Lake, Durham, the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal, and at venues including Battery Park, Green Space, Hudson Guild Theatre, New Hazlett Theatre, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Diavolo, Ferst Center for the Arts, Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Gibney, and Highways Performance Space among others. She has been commissioned and awarded residencies through Kennesaw State University, The Dance Gallery Festival, Highways Performance Space, and Periapsis Music and Dance. Other commissions include Texture Contemporary Ballet, REED Dance, Point Park University's International Summer Dance, Houston Contemporary II, Dance Canvas, and Voices Carry Inc. In 2020, Traylor was awarded Outstanding Choreographer at the Youth American Grand Prix regionals. She was chosen for Dance Lab NY's 2023 Summer Cycle, a virtual residency with Korzo Dance of The Hague, Netherlands.
Choreographically, Traylor’s physically driven, tragicomic worlds house the paradoxical, emotionally focused characters who centralize her work. Her interrogation of intersectionality elicits genre-bending, animatedly nuanced storytelling that emphatically challenges and plays with societal conventions. Perpetually guided by intuition and impulse, Traylor's practice is nourished by archetypal and emotive state-based research that is inextricably colored by her experience as a female from the American South. She works with a variety of artists - it is through these meaningful, intimate, and shared collaborations that she is able to connect deeply to her understanding of why and how she tells the stories that she does.
To learn more about Annalee Traylor, visit annaleetraylor.com.
For information about the Emory Dance Program and upcoming events, visit dance.emory.edu and follow us on Instagram and Facebook at @emorydanceprogram.
