Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work is rooted in the poetic potency of choreography and its capacity for perceptual transformation. It grapples with the exhilarations and constraints of living in a body, grounded in presence and viscerality, and embraces aggression often denied within the feminine. Through an exploration of collective attention and action, her performances draw audiences into heightened states of noticing—revealing how bodies and environments transform one another, and how sound and light can alter our sense of time. Sperber is a 2026–27 Princeton Hodder Fellow and received a 2022 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer. Her work has been presented and commissioned by venues including The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, The Chocolate Factory, Roulette, Dance Theater Workshop, and the American Dance Festival. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, Ucross, Loghaven, The Marble House Project, The Yard, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Movement Research, among others. A co-founder of classclassclass, Sperber has taught at the American Dance Festival, Movement Research, Freeskewl, Pageant Space, Gibney Dance, and as a guest artist at Hunter College, George Washington University, and Wayne State University. She founded and directed BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn (2004–2014), and later Sunset Space Studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn (2018–2020).
