Anna Martine Whitehead

A woman with blue eyes and short curly hair wearing a headscarf and looking directly at the camera.

Performances:

Two figures seen from behind on a blackbox stage, one holds their right arm out.
ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2022
LAB ARTISTS PROGRAM MENTOR 2020
LAB ARTIST 2018
ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2018
ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2017

Anna Martine Whitehead does performance. Her work considering a Black queer relationship to time and space has been presented by venues including the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; San José Museum of Art; Velocity Dance Center; Links Hall; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has developed her craft working closely with Onye Ozuzu, Jefferson Pinder, taisha paggett, Every house has a doorand the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, among others. She is recognized with awards from the Graham Foundation, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, 3Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Chicago Dancemakers Forum. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and endurance for numerous journals and texts, and is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016).

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Photo caption(s) and credit(s): Anna Martine Whitehead by Nanci Ikejimba | 2016, Treasure, FreshFest, by Robbie Sweeney | 2017 ProductionMode, HPAC, by Sara Pooley | 2017, SPREAD, Links Hall, by Mev Luna

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