Photo by Shelby Taylor

Joey Anderson (he/they) is a dance artist and educator based in New York City and his hometown, Salt Lake City. 

Since arriving in New York in January 2024, Joey has premiered a new duet, “Helaman Halls,” which was created in collaboration with Myles Woolstenhulme. It was presented at the TADA! Youth Theater through Verbal Animal’s festival, “Queer Noise” and Emerging Artists Theater’s “Spark Theatre Festival NYC.” Joey has also performed in Selah Dance Collective’s “Sound and Smoke” created by Meredith Ventura and Chloé Roberts, which was presented at Gibney’s Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center through Gibney’s Performance Opportunity Project.

Joey is also a collaborator with FLEET Co-Op, directed by Shelby Taylor, in Salt Lake City.  With FLEET, Joey contributed in building and performing their immersive show, “Monomyth,” as well as their work shown at 801 Salon.  He also presented his solo show, “Where Love Lived First,” at Burnswood Studio, which explored Dr. Kübler-Ross’ “Stages of Grief" and how they manifest in the body.

Before his time with FLEET, Joey apprenticed with SALT Contemporary Dance for their 2021-2022 season. During this time, he had the pleasure of performing in SALT’s Fall and Spring shows as well as facilitating lecture demonstrations at elementary schools in Salt Lake County.

As a freelance artist, Joey has performed both internationally and across the US. He has performed at Dock 11, New Prague Dance Festival, RAD Dance Festival, and Breaking Ground. In Salt Lake, Joey performed in “reBloom,” which was choreographed by Jessica Baynes and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also performed in multiple shows sponsored by Repertory Dance Theatre, 801 Salon (his own work), and the LDS Arts Festival.

Joey graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2021, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in dance. As a student, he was a member of their touring company, Contemporary Dance Theater (CDT), under the direction of Nathan Balser (2018-2019) and then Keely Song (2019-2021). Before CDT, he also was a member of their outreach company, Kinnect, under the direction of Marilyn Berrett and Heather Francis, which integrated movement to teach Utah’s K-6 core curriculum in schools. Joey’s education at BYU took him beyond its campus and in 2018, he performed at Dance and the Child International’s (daCi) conference in Adelaide, Australia with Kinnect. Then, in 2019, he toured with CDT in Germany and the Czech Republic. In addition to his degree, Joey has received technical training through b12, Impulstanz, FLOCK, NVA & Guests, and more.

Between his education and career, Joey has had the honor of performing work by Martha Graham, Antonin Rioche, FLOCK, LAJAMARTIN, Jesse Obremski, Jenn Freeman, Olivier Wevers, Garrett Smith, Shane Urton, Francisco Gella, Meredith Ventura, and Joni McDonald.