Anna Myer

Anna Myer began her dance training in 1962 with Esther Brooks, at the Cambridge School of Ballet, on a Ford Foundation Scholarship. Later Myer was awarded scholarships at the Joffrey Ballet, The School of American Ballet, and American Ballet Theater. Myer then joined the Boston Ballet, and subsequently performed and studied with Ana Roje in Boston and Yugoslavia. Additional credits include performances in works by contemporary choreographers such as Zeve Cohen, Caitlin Corbett, Marguerite Mathews, and Pauline Koner. In 1992, Myer founded Anna Myer and Dancers in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since its inception the company has performed the innovative choreography of Anna Myer to a steadily growing audience throughout the northeast, most notably in Boston and New York City. Her work has caught the attention and respect of some of the country’s most prominent dance critics, including Jennifer Dunning and Jack Anderson of The New York Times, and Christine Temin of The Boston Globe. In 1999 a feature article in the Sunday New York Times Arts and Leisure section, by Kevin Giordano, “Thinking Post Modern but Talking Michelangelo.” Christine Temin of The Boston Globe named the company one of the “Ten Best Dance Events of 2001″ and the Boston Phoenix listed the company’s 2003 season in its “Best of Arts and Dance 2003″ roundup.

Myer’s work has been funded numerous times by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Cambridge Arts Council; she has been presented by Dance Umbrells 1999 Boston Moves, Fleet Bank Celebrity Series 2003, and Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival 2002 and 2003. In 2005 she received a grant from the Turner Family Foundation to bring her work to urban high schools in the Boston.

Dancers

• James Brown
• Frank Campasino
• Marcio De Sauza
• Jeremy-Ruth Revilock-Frost
• Ellie Kusner
• Eric Lindemer
• Bess Rouse
• Nina Saraceno
• Carol Somers
• Rick Vigo
• Anne Zuerner
• Elizabeth Mochizuki
• Will Weaver

Music Collaborators

• Jakov Jakoulov – composer
• Susan Davenny Wyner – conductor