Anna Marie Shogren

2022 SOLO CHoreographer

Commission for Non Edwards

Anna Marie Shogren is a dance artist connected to caregiving, social dance, and touch, researching this work recently as an Art and Health Resident at the Weisman Art Museum, working in collaboration with the UMN School of Nursing, and continuing for an exhibition at the Rochester Art Center in fall of 2022. She makes experiential and dance-based installations for public and visual art spaces. She has presented work largely in Minneapolis and New York, and performed in the work of Goshka Macuga, Emilie Pitoiset, Body Cartography Project, Yanira Castro, Hijack, Morgan Thorson, Karen Sherman, Faye Driscoll, and Laurie Van Wieren. She is invested in care work and health justice as a memory care worker, a single mother, a hospice CNA, and a fledgling death doula. Her practice is extended as a writer with MNartists, NY Arts Magazine and artist-run publications.