Annalee Traylor is a creator, choreographer, director, and educator based in Atlanta, GA. Her art is a persistent study of physical expressivity and its boundlessness to elucidate the human experience. She explores this boundlessness through collaboration and intersectionality, specifically between dance and theatre, creating devised, tragicomic storytelling.
Traylor’s choreography has been commissioned and performed across the United States and internationally, reaching audiences in Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands, among others. Her work has been supported by Dance Lab NY, the UNCSA Choreographic Institute, Highways Performance Space, Kennesaw State University, The Dance Gallery Festival, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, and Emory University, where she was awarded the 2023/24 inaugural Emory Arts Fellowship in Dance. Currently, she is directing Theater Emory’s production of The Other Shore. She is creating original works for Kit Modus, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, premiering in spring 2025.
She has been on faculty at Emory University and a guest teaching artist at CalArts, Carnegie Mellon University, Sam Houston State University, Point Park University, Dekalb School of the Arts, Dancewave, Ballet Together, and The Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh, among others.
Traylor is a high school graduate of UNCSA. She received her BFA cum laude from Point Park University and MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts with the S. Disney Lund Scholarship in Dance. Annalee is on faculty at Reinhardt University and is an Artist in Residence at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.