Faculty & Starbound Company Director

Annie began her training in Plano, TX, under Dance Industry’s owner and artistic director, Christy Wolverton-Ryzman, where she spent seven years as a member of the performing company. After graduating high school, Annie was chosen as one of twenty dancers to participate in the Edge Performing Arts Center’s scholarship program in Los Angeles. While on scholarship she trained extensively with some of the biggest names in the dance world.

Annie has performed with Rihanna at the MTV Video Music Awards, as well as in in the Academy of Television and Arts and Sciences TV MOVES! Live Show, Dancing Under the Stars Choreography Festival, Pasadena Dance Festival, and appeared in a season one episode of John Chu’s The LXD. 

Annie currently lives in the Denver area, where she is not only a teacher and mentor of the Starbound performance company at Dance Dimensions but is also an elementary school teacher. She is on faculty with the internationally recognized summer workshop Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop and is a member of Rogue Co. Dance Company.