Anna Pinault is a Twin Cities native, who cut her teeth on nearly a decade in New York City, and currently works around the country as a dance artist and educator.
Her most recent performance work includes projects with TU Dance Company, Black Label Movement, and the Des Moines Metro Opera. Anna has performed works by Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Stephanie Batten Bland, Ronald K. Brown, Trebien Pollard, Alanna Morris, Isaac Martin Lerner, Rohan Bhargava, Joe Chvala, Dani Cole, Chafin Seymour, Gabe Katz, Kora Radella, Angelica Sitskin, and Catherine Cabeen, among others. She has a wide range of movement influences, from her background in hip hop and martial arts, to her studies in classical techniques and physical theatre. Her powerful and dynamic energy is unique in its ability to morph from style to style, all while maintaining dynamic articulation and grounded subtlety.
Anna’s recent choreography includes works commissioned by The Walker Art Center’s 2023 Choreographer’s Evening, TU Dance’s CULTIVATE Program, Black Label Movement: Movers Make, Zenon Dance School’s Zone Program, and Perpich Center for Arts Education. Her recent creation entitled foot/hold, is a solo work that embodies creature-like physicality and metamorphosis, exploring tension, release, and impact, and was selected for presentation at RADFest 2025 in Kalamazoo, MI. With a background in music, Anna’s choreographic creations are often soaked in rhythmic complexity and use movement as a musical voice. It is important to her to create work that, no matter how abstract, finds a way to welcome people in.
Anna is also passionate about sharing the power of movement through education, and her work as an educator has included The Dance Theatre of Harlem School, The Neighborhood Playhouse School, Zenon Dance School, Minnesota Dance Theatre & School, TU Dance Center, and the NYC Public School System, among others. She holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Exercise Science with a concentration in Human Movement Science from Concordia University Chicago, and is invested in educating and empowering dancers of all ages with knowledge about their bodies.
