VISION

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The physically driven, tragicomic worlds Traylor devises with her collaborators rely on characterizations propelled by physical and emotional paradox. Ironic, situational, and flecked with symbolism, her work takes an anthropological look at human behavior and relations. It often engages the quotidian as a departure point to unearth the contradictory, grotesque, eccentric, and entropic.  Ultimately, her art is a persistent study of physical expressivity and its boundlessness to elucidate the human experience. Traylor explores this boundlessness through collaboration and intersectionality, specifically between dance and theatre, to create genre-bending, surreal storytelling that challenges and toys with societal conventions.  Recently, she conducted research on clowning and mimetic techniques during her residency as the 23/24 Emory Arts Fellow in Dance. 

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HISTORY

 

Traylor’s choreography has been commissioned and performed across the United States and internationally, reaching audiences in Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands and at venues including Battery Park, Green Space, Hudson Guild Theatre, New Hazlett Theatre, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Diavolo, Ferst Center for the Arts, American Dance Festival's Movies by Movers, Masspodium, Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Gibney, and Highways Performance Space among others. Her work has been supported by Dance Lab NY, the UNCSA Choreographic Institute, Highways Performance Space, Kennesaw State University, The Dance Gallery Festival, and Emory University, where she was awarded the 2023/24 inaugural Emory Arts Fellowship in Dance. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Callanwolde Center for Fine Arts in Atlanta, GA. Traylor was awarded Outstanding Choreographer at the Youth American Grand Prix semi-finals. 

 

As an educator, she has facilitated master classes throughout the United States and been on faculty at schools on the east and west coasts. She has been a guest teaching artist at CalArts, Carnegie Mellon University, Sam Houston State University, Point Park University, Dekalb School of the Arts, and The Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh among others. She is on faculty at Reinhardt University and the guiDANCE experience. She holds a classical Pilates certification through Romana's Pilates.

 

 

                                                           BIOGRAPHY

 

Originally from Huntsville, AL and based in Atlanta, GA, Annalee is the daughter of two artists, a musician and a dancer, who nurtured and supported her passion from an early age. She attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts and received her high school diploma from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Traylor obtained her BFA cum laude from Point Park University. Directly after graduation, she joined Pittsburgh's August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (Top 25 to Watch in Dance Magazine) for three years before freelancing with various companies including Pennington Dance Group, No)one Art House, Clairobscur Dance, Dolly Sfeir, and slowdanger among others. She obtained an MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts with the S. Disney Lund Scholarship in Dance.