Anna Vomacka is driven by her curiosities and cravings for community, connection, and spaces of shared learning / (un)learning. Perhaps it is through this desire to connect and preserve her endless-curiosities that Anna found (and got stuck to) dance and movement. Anna’s work explores: collective realities, shared intimacy, idiosyncratic differences, physical manifestations of self-imposed & socially imposed labels, power of identity, emergence of community, and recycling of movements, dancers, ideas, waste. Anna graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance. While there she worked with Bebe Miller on the creation of two original works. Working extensively with former Trisha Brown dancer, Vicky Shick, Anna performed a recreation of Brown’s “Glacial Decoy” (1979). She was part of Ryan Kelly & Brennan Gerard’s Bessie award winning instillation “Timelining”, which premiered at The Kitchen (2014) and later shown at the Guggenheim (2015) and Artists Space (2023). Anna has worked with Nami Yamamoto since 2017, performing “Trooper’s Brother” at St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Labapalooza (2019) and World Premiering at Roulette (2022). She is currently on the First National tour of Life of Pi, working as one of the Richard Parker puppeteers.
Anna was the recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Alumni Space Grant in 2019. She used her Grantee time to create short film “listening near an edge”. Her previous choreographic works include short film “null”, immersive dance event “W A S T E in S P A C E”, and “embrace(d)”.
Anna is a 200 hour Certified Yoga Teacher. She completed her Teacher Training in June 2018 with Sondra Loring of Sadhana Yoga, Hudson, NY. She practices Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, and has taught classes at various YMCA’s, the Shala (Brooklyn), Yogis & Yoginis (Brooklyn) and private lessons. She is currently teaching on Zoom. Visit the online offering & yoga pages for more information.
