Annie Boyer graduated cum laude from The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Dance in 2001. She earned her Single-Subject Teaching Credential in Physical Education from National University in 2019, and holds a California College Career & Technical Credential (CCTE) in Arts, Media and Entertainment. Annie is also an ABT® Certified Teacher, having successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
Growing up in Maryland, Annie was awarded early-release from high school to attend a pre-professional ballet program. She supplemented her training with workshops and summer intensives with Houston Ballet, BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio, and Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. After graduating high school, she attended the summer intensive at the internationally acclaimed school at Jacob’s Pillow in the Berkshires, and it was then that she first fell in love with modern dance.
At The Boston Conservatory, Annie continued her training in both ballet and modern, studying the techniques of Martha Graham, José Limón, and Paul Taylor. She also trained each summer during college with choreographer Seán Curran, formerly of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
After college, Annie spent seven years as a company member with Seán Curran Company, performing in New York City and touring throughout the United States. Additionally, she performed with The Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera. Annie then moved across the country and joined Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater. She performed with the company from 2007 to 2018, and worked with renowned choreographers such as Monica Bill-Barnes, Gabe Masson, Greg Sample, and Gina Bolles Sorenson and Kyle Sorenson of somebodies dance theater.
Throughout Annie’s professional performing career she taught dance to university students around the country, most notably at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, as well as other professional dancers. While living in New York, she taught dance to children, preschoolers and elementary age dancers in private dance studios. Later on, living in San Diego, she and her wife co-founded and directed DANCE FIERCE, an after school program for middle and high school students, in affiliation with San Diego Dance Theater (SDDT) from 2010 to 2013. Lastly, Annie has also been teaching dance as a Guest Artist for over a decade at schools all over San Diego, including Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley, Coronado High School and Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA), and others, and she conducted her student teaching at Creative Performing Media Arts Middle School (CPMA).
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