Anne Flynn
Anne Flynn is a dancer, teacher, writer, and dance education advocate. She is Professor of Dance in the Faculties of Kinesiology and Fine Arts with a wide range of experience across diverse aspects of the dance discipline. As a dancer, she performed and choreographed with partner Denise Clarke for most of the 1980’s appearing in Canada and abroad. She trained at the studios of Merce Cunningham, Erik Hawkins and Viola Farber, and worked with Richard Bull’s Improvisational Dance Ensemble, earning degrees from SUNY Brockport and Wesleyan University. In 1987 she co-founded Dance Connection magazine and her eclectic writing about dance has been published in numerous books and periodicals. She is co-editor with Lisa Doolittle of Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture (2000) and co-creator of the dance education advocacy video Dance: For Our Children (1998). She has won several awards for her writing and advocacy work, and has served on the boards of local, provincial and national dance organizations. She was instrumental in the creation of the B.A. Dance degree and is Manager of the Department's Urban Dance Connect, a community dance project. She has organized conferences at the national and international level, most recently for the Society of Dance History Scholars (Banff 2006) and the Society for Canadian Dance Studies (Calgary 2009). Flynn teaches in the areas of Dance Studies, Dance Improvisation and Dance Pedagogy.
