Anna Álvarez is a choreographer, movement director, performer and artist-scholar creating work ranging from dance, theatre, film, installations that are often site-specific.
Anna’s draws on an Indigenous/Latinx worldviews to explore how movement demonstrates the intra-connection of body-mind-environment.
A key aspect of her work is the artistry of exchanging creative processes.
Anna’s work occupies a distinct place in dance and theatre, drawing ideas from her movement heritage and cultural landscape.
She creates work that connects us to ourselves, community and environment. When teaching or working collaboratively within creative teams, Anna aims to empower and free performers through movement and embodiment.
Anna's training in Contemporary Dance and Tango sparked creative exchanges that led to hybrid dance languages. This inspired a vision of a collaborative and cross-disciplinary dance company rooted in the Latinx heritage.
Her movement background stems from a variety of sources and places. She trained in ballet and Tango from a young age and went on to study contemporary dance at the Facultade de Dança Angel Vianna in Rio de Janeiro.
Anna’s training also includes; Jazz, Samba, Capoeira, Rumba and Flamenco. More recently, she began training in Feldenkrais. Anna honours all of her movement teachers and maestros.
Within community art projects, she is an associate artist of Siobhan Davies Studios, Mandinga Arts and Artolution, leading and facilitating projects in the UK, Colombia and Jordan.
Anna Álvarez Compañia
Two performers from the Arcola Production of Moonlight. Photo credit: Carole Edrich
Anna founded the Anna Alvarez Compañia in 2020; a dance theatre company that explores storytelling through movement, mixing ideas from dance, theatre, music and illustration through the lens of the Latinx diaspora.
The Compañia explores the boundaries between disciplines. Our mission is to create work that connects us, using performance as the medium to share our stories from the epic to the everyday. Inspired by Latin American Magical Realism, we seek to take risks, think big and explore.
Collaborators
Lou Rogers: Producer
Madeline Wilson: Producer
Emma Evans: Producer for “Where are my glasses?”
John Castrillon: Production Manager
Santiago Jarra: Composer
Xavier Velastin: Sound Design
Diana Garcia: Illustration
Valerie McCann: Rehearsal Director
Munya Muchati: Videographer
