Anya Cloud (she/they) is an an experimental contemporary dance artist who is originally from Alaska. Anya is an experimental dance maker. Their research involves the intersections of Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Somatics, Dance Activism, Choreography, Collaboration, and Performance through queer, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives. Anya co-directs The Love Makers Dance Company with MakisigHer choreographic and performance work, both live and dance film, has been presented nationally and internationally through numerous venues, festivals, universities and in obscure spaces/places. Collaboration as a queer survival practice is central to all of her work. Anya orients her research, pedagogy, and practice through embodied questioning and sensitizing to cultivate radical aliveness. They believe in the transformative power of dancing with the bodies that we have as the people we are. Anya is committed to ongoing justice and decolonizing work, community facilitation and engagement, and supporting the viability and sustainability of experimental dance in relationship with the current world. She is currently working with the research question: what can we do together that we cannot do alone?
