About the Company
danceseattle was founded in 2005 by Anna James Percival, and is a registered non-profit organization. The danceseattle mission is to make dance accessible and fun, to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about creative communication through movement, to promote health in body and in mind, to collaborate with artists of various mediums in developing new works, and to share the joy of movement with our community - fostering appreciation and support of dance and art. To inquire about support through volunteering or donating, please e-mail us.

Company and Student Company Members
2009 Company Members: (pictured at left) Alex Ung, Summer Meyer, Lauren Matthew, Zoe Rose Friesen, Jordan Lindy Piehl, Jessica Orr.
2009 Student Company Members: Chloe Goolsby, Irene Muller, Izzy Lowell, Erin Welker, Sophia Schoener Scott, Sonya Pritchett, Tia Lehman-Pearsall, Natalie Najarian, Sabrina Weschler, Molly Tellekson.

Photo by Ted Leung

About the Director Anna Percival has been dancing since age three and has experience in ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, ballroom, African, tap, and musical theatre dance. She has performed locally with Fusion Dance Company, Bellevue Civic Theater, Ballet Bellevue, Northwest Ballet Theater, Rhythm Knights Dance Troupe, Seattle Jazz Dance Company, Puget Sound Musical Theater, Middle Earth Ball, CrossWind, Olympic Performance Group, and Seattle Theater Group's DANCEthis (2003, 2004, 2005).

Anna has performed nationally with Albany Birkshire Ballet's The Nutcracker, Carolina Dance Theatre's Coppelia, Juneau Dance's The Nutcracker, and Dancing Towards Freedom, and the 2000 national tour with Diversity Dance and Theatre. Anna has performed internationally at various venues in Vienna, Austria as part of ABC-Tokyo's 2005 engagement at the Vienna Festival.

Anna has choreographed for the Mountlake Terrace Dance Company, Opera Jupiter, Jerboa Dance, West Side Story for Auburn Avenue Theater, The Bard is Back for McLure Middle School, Alice and Wonderland and Babes in Toyland for the School of Spectrum Dance Theatre, Pacific Chamber Ballet, two productions of The Nutcracker (2007 and 2008), and Cinderella for Olympic Performance Group.

With over ten years of experience teaching dance, Anna has taught dance for Mountlake Terrace Recreation Pavillion, The Little Gym of Seattle, University Heights Center, All That Dance, Ballet Bellevue, Dance Academy of Bellevue, Loyal Heights Community Center, Kirkland Dance Center, Fusion Dance, The School of Spectrum Dance Theatre, Seattle University, Bainbridge Ballet, and Pacific Chamber Ballet. Anna currently lives in Cashmere, WA.

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