The story goes that she danced as soon as she could stand. Any place that held her weight was game – countertops and kitchen sink included. Big fan of Italian weddings - perched on her father’s feet as he glided around the dancefloor; glued to TV reruns of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly hoofing it in old Hollywood musicals. But not until she enrolled as a dance major in college, did she burst into a territory of wondrous imagination, curiosity, discovery, and artistry.

With ardent devotion, Ann trained, taught, choreographed, and performed in Boston in the 70s. She moved to the Bay Area in the early '80s to do the same. There was a one-year period that Ann boosted her technique and challenged her resolve by moving to New York to train with the old masters (Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Luigi, to name a few). Upon graduating from Emerson with a BA in Dance & Theater, she co-founded and co-producer AfterImage Dance Co with Holly Whipple. After-Image toured, taught repertory, and performed throughout New England. The company was featured on WCVB TV (Good Morning Show), and enjoyed a residency at EBA in Albany, NY. In the late 70s, Ann worked as a teaching artist, choreographer, and Assistant to the AD of Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Program, Claire Mallardi, while also enjoying freelance teaching opportunities at Emerson & the Y.

On both coasts Ann has had the privilege and honor to dance and perform in works by Ina Hahn, Jack Moore, Sara Sugahara, Liz Rozner, Fred Matthews & Gary Masters, Takako Asakawa, Colette Bischer, Martin Kravitz, Lucas Hoving, Joan Lazarus, Mary Reid (Smaller than Life), Cid Pearlman, Randee Paufve, Mary Armentrout, Rogelio Lopez, Chingchi Yu, Kim Ip and others. She is an active member of USF’s Dance Generators under the creative & sublime direction of Liv Schaffer; and this past summer (2025), Ann had the honor of dancing in Eric Garcia’s, POMPEII, – a spectacular, fanciful, and brilliant 2-hr. Immersive dance, theatre, drag performance at Storek (4-story event space) in SF.

Ann has choreographed and performed solo and group work at dance and theater venues on both coasts; creating new works at Emerson College, on the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Co., After-Image Dance Co., Joy of Movement Center, Electronic Body Arts-Albany, NY; Dance Space-Advent Church, Commissioned to choreograph and stage “The Country Wife” - (Cambridge Community Theatre); Charles Street Meeting House w/ Music of The Spheres; Theater Yugen - Noh Space, Eighth Street Studio, Brady Street, Theatre Artaud-(Z-space), The Milkbar and others. In 2016, she was awarded The Dance Up Close series at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center to premiere two solo works - (reprieved again in 2018). For the past 2 years, Ann has been painstakingly creating an evening-length work (Blue Ruin) in collaboration with two other dance artists that she hopes to premiere in 2026.