Angela Pittman

Angie Pittman holds a B.A. in Dance from Old Dominion University and M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also a Certified Professional Teacher of The Umfundalai Technique, NAAADT.

Angie Pittman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose works sits in the Black Radical Tradition. Her work uses dance, text, and sound to illuminate nuanced and experimental portrayal of Black dance. Angie’s work resides in a space that investigates how the body moves through ballad, groove, sparkle, spirit, spirituals, ancestry, vulnerability, and power. Her choreographic work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center, The Invisible Dog(Catch 73), The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, and Roulette. Angie has had the pleasure of being able to create collaboratively with A Sef, Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, Athena Kokoronis, and Anita Mullin.

In 2017, Angie was awarded a “Bessie” for Outstanding Performer for her work with Skeleton Architecture, which was a vessel of Black womyn and gender nonconforming artists rooted in the rigor and power of the collective in practice. In 2022, Angie received a “Bessie” nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer. Her choreographic work has been supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and residencies through Tofte Lake Center, Movement Research, New Dance Alliance Black Artists Space to Create, and Djerassi.

As a dancer, she has danced in work by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Ralph Lemon, Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson, Kim Brandt, Miguel Gutierrez, Antonio Ramos, C Kemal Nance and many others.

Angie is currently an Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Dance at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to joining NYU, Angie has taught at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, MoMA, Sarah Lawrence College, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College.