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Meg Anderson

Chicago, IL

510-414-8780 • kineticdust@gmail.com • kineticdust.com
 

 

 

Objective

 

To help students of all ages unearth and express their stories through the time-honored, transformational languages of theater, dance, and music.

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Collaborative Devising & Directing

 

Directed and created over fifteen original dance-theater productions, collaborating with performers to generate work that integrates movement, music, storytelling, and ritual. Projects such as B for Butterfly Powder, Red Delicious, and Big Gay Debutante Ball highlight an ability to build original works that both challenge and empower performers and audience alike.

 

“Meg holds a charge that opens my energy centers — she embraces expression in a way that helps me feel safe, loved and brave enough to lean into an unfamiliar beauty.”

— Jote L., performer and co-writer, Red Delicious

 

“You brought things out of me that I didn’t know were there.”

— Phoebe S., actor, musician, co-writer, House of Humans

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Highlights

 

• 500 hours of Meisner Method acting training with Martha Jacobs (Sanford Meisner lineage)

• Invited to Vagina Monologues Directors Workshop with Eve Ensler

• Selected for impromptu dance with Laurent Bourgeois of Les Twins (San Francisco)

• Directed and collaboratively devised 20 + original productions integrating movement, music, and storytelling

• Taught and facilitated transformational somatic and dance workshops at three empowerment retreats for participants of Lorna Vaughn’s Business Unschool

 “I have been changed on a cellular level.” — A.M., Creative Business Coach

• Performed, directed, and composed for works presented at national festivals including Indy Fringe, Rochester, and San Francisco Queer Solo Fest

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Current Projects

 

• Gospel Album Commission — interpreting historic Christian hymns in a fresh, soulful voice. Release expected Christmas 2025.

• Work Songs — get-moving jingles for the Neuromagicals.

• Kinetic Dust Kids Pilot Program — a developing story-, dance-, and music-based laboratory helping children discover and share their stories through movement and performance.

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Original Works

 

Visionary, Devised Director, Production Manager, Performer & Host — Immersive Performance Parties

A funded community project in Bloomington, IN (2021–2022). Hosted in my backyard during the isolation of COVID, these evenings offered a wonderland of art installations, firelight, chai, singing circles, and performance for the local community.

 

Writer, Composer, Actor, Dancer — Big Gay Debutante Ball

An unapologetic coming-out musical.

San Francisco Queer Solo Fest (2019); Bloomington Academy of Film and Theater (Oct 2019); Providence & Rochester Fringe (2020); Indy Fringe Festival (Indianapolis 2021)

 

Director, Composer, Performer — Back To The

La Quinta, CA (2018)

 

Choreographer, Director, Composer, Performer — Red Delicious

An immersive journey through volcanic terrain exploring witch consciousness, internalized misogyny, and the restoration of sisterhood through physical theater and installation.

Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Oakland, CA (2016)

 

Director, Composer, Performer — Birdsong

San Francisco, CA (2015)

 

Choreographer, Composer, Performer — Not There Yet

San Francisco, CA (2015)

 

Director, Composer, Improviser — Red

Berkeley, CA (2015)

 

Choreographer, Director, Composer, Performer — Garden

Berkeley, CA (2013)

 

Composer, Writer, Dancer, Singer, Drummer — Prism

Chicago, IL (2012)

 

Co-Creator, Director, Composer, Performer — Dreambody

Evanston, IL (2010)

 

Choreographer — Self

Chicago, IL (2009)

 

Creator, Co-Director, Composer — B for Butterfly Powder

An immersive dance-theater adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.

“Beautiful — and moving. ‘B for Butterfly Powder’ captures and translates into movement and music something at the heart of this lyrical book — the stark being that we glimpse, but rarely, behind seemingly solid shapes and appearances.” — Christine Froula, Ph.D., Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde (Columbia UP, 2005)

George-Schipporeit Mansion, Evanston, IL (2009)

 

Co-Producer, Choreographer, Performer — Gathering of the Embers

Chicago, IL (2009)

 

Co-Choreographer, Composer, Performer — All-One

Knoxville, TN (2007)

 

Creator, Choreographer, Performer — Like Om Like Weight

Evanston, IL (2007)

 

Director, Choreographer, Writer — Beta Rhythms

Evanston, IL (2006)

 

Director, Choreographer, Dancer — Eros Ball

Bloomington, IN (2005)

 

Director — Waves

Bloomington, IN (2004)

 

Creator, Director, Performer — House of Humans

Bloomington, IN (2004)

 

Co-Creator, Director, Performer — Imaginary Solutions

Bloomington, IN (2003)

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Training / Teaching Experience

 

• Shuffle Dance Instructor | Private Clients | Bloomington, IN | 2023–2024

 – Tailored fundamentals and choreography to each student’s skill level

 – Designed videos for at-home training between sessions

 “I look forward to my lesson with Meg every week. I’m starting to master steps and tricks that always felt untouchable!” — Dave Walter

• Contact Improvisation Instructor | Touchstone Wellness Center | Bloomington, IN | 2023

• Contact Improvisation & Object-Based Work (Utam Moses & Jote Lamar) | Bloomington, IN | 2018–2022

• Contemporary & Hip Hop Instructor | Windfall Dance Studio | Bloomington, IN | 2018–2019

• Countertechnique Dance Technique | Virtual with CT instructors | 2020–2021

• Axis Dance Technique (Bay Area Axis Community) | San Francisco, CA | 2014–2018

• Hip Hop & Urban Contemporary Dance (Alicia Langlais) | Oakland, CA | 2016–2017

• Hip Hop Workshops (Les Twins) | San Francisco, CA

• West African Drumming (Craig Miller) | Oakland, CA | 2014–2016

• Modern Dance (Kathleen Hermesdorf, Joe Goode Annex & ODC) | San Francisco, CA | 2015–2017

• Contemporary Dance & Improvisation (Molly Shanahan) | Chicago, IL | 2005–2007

• American Dance Festival – Contemporary Dance | Duke University, Durham, NC | 2005

• Voice Technique (Jeff Horvath) | Chicago, IL | 2012–2013

• Scholarship Student – Be The Groove, Professional Drumming/Dancing Troupe | Chicago, IL | 2009

• Butoh Dance (Blushing Poppy Studio) | Chicago, IL | 2007

• Countertechnique Dance Technique (Joy Davis) | Knoxville, TN; Chicago, IL; New York, NY | 2005–2009

• Jazz Piano (Bloom School of Jazz) | Chicago, IL | 2006

• Meisner Acting Method (Martha Jacobs, Kathy Scambiatterra, Monica Payne) | Bloomington, IN; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA | 1999–2008

• Modern Dance | Windfall Dance Studio | Bloomington, IN | 2004–2005

• Ballet | Windfall Dance Studios | Bloomington, IN | 2004–2005

• Authentic Movement | Bloomington, IN | 2002–2005

• Physical Theater & Mime (Nell Weatherwax) | Bloomington, IN | 2000–2005

• Physical Theater | Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | 1999–2000

• Acting (Meisner Method) (Patricia McKee) | Bloomington, IN | 2004–2005

• Acting (Anne Woodworth) | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | 2004

• Choral & Vocal Foundations – Church Choirs & High School Madrigals | Clarendon Hills, IL

 – Grew up singing in church choirs, absorbing harmony and blend from the age of ten; went on to train and perform in madrigals and chamber choirs through high school.

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Education

 

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Theater — Expected 2026

 

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