Faculty Fellow
Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Dance
Holy Defiance
Angie Pittman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose choreographic work uses dance, text, and sound inside of a Black Radical Tradition. Their 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 Theater, Danspace Project, and Roulette. Angie has had the pleasure of being able to create works collaboratively with A Sef, Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, Athena Kokoronis, and Anita Mullin. In 2017, Angie was awarded a “Bessie” for Outstanding Performer for their 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.
They hold 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.
Their choreographic work has been supported by New York State Council for the Arts, 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, they have danced in work by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Ralph Lemon, Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, Antonio Ramos, Kariamu and Company, and many others.
Angie is currently an Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Dance at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts.