Annalee Traylor

Annalee Traylor is a creator, choreographer, director, and educator originally from Huntsville, AL. Traylor is a high school graduate of UNCSA. She received her BFA cum laude from Point Park University

and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts with the S. Disney Lund Scholarship in Dance. She is currently in a year residency

at Emory University as the inaugural Emory Arts Fellow in Dance. In the fall, Traylor will make her directorial debut with Theater Emory’s production of The Other Shore. A founding member of the critically acclaimed August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble

(Top 25 to Watch, Dance Magazine), Traylor has had the honor of working with some of the most illustrious choreographers of our time, including Kyle Abraham, Robert Battle, Sidra Bell, Camille A. Brown, Darrell Grand Moultrie, and Kevin Wynn. As a freelance

performer, she danced with various projects and companies in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and NYC including slowdanger, Pennington Dance Group, and Clairobscur Dance.

 

Traylor's choreographic work has been presented nationally and abroad in LA, NYC, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Houston, Durham, Temecula, Seattle, the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal and at venues including Battery Park, Green Space, New Hazlett Theater, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Diavolo, Ferst Center for the Arts, Schwartz Center for

Performing Arts, and Highways Performance Space, among others. Her commissions include Kennesaw State University, Emory University, Periapsis Music and Dance, Texture Contemporary Ballet, Point Park University's International Summer Dance, REED Dance, The Dance Gallery Festival, Houston Contemporary II, Dance Canvas,

and Voices Carry Inc. Traylor participated in Dance Lab NY, working virtually with artists of Korzo Theater in The Hague, Netherlands and UNCSA’s Choreographic Institute under the direction of Juel D. Lane. She was awarded Outstanding Choreographer at Youth American Grand Prix Regionals. Traylor’s guest teaching credits include Emory University, Carnegie Mellon University, Sam Houston State University, Point Park University, CalArts, Dekalb School of the Arts, DanceWave, The Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh, the virtual international dance school, Ballet Together, among many other pre-professional programs, schools, and studios throughout the US. She is also on faculty for the guiDANCE experience and is a certified Romana’s Pilates instructor. This fall, Traylor will join Reinhardt University as an adjunct faculty member.