Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work is rooted in the poetic potency of choreography and its capacity for perceptual transformation. Grounded in presence and viscerality, her work grapples with the exhilarations and constraints of living in a body and embraces aggression often denied within the feminine. Through an exploration of collective attention and action, her performances draw audiences into heightened states of noticing, revealing how bodies and environments transform one another and how sound and light can alter our sense of time.

Sperber was named a 2026–27 Princeton Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts. She received the 2026 Ellis Beauregard Choreographer Award, and a 2022 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer for Bow Echo. Her work has been presented and commissioned by venues including Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, The Chocolate Factory, Roulette, Kaatsbaan Cultural Center, Dance Theater Workshop, and the American Dance Festival. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, Ucross, Loghaven, The Marble House Project, The Yard, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Movement Research, among others.

Sperber has collaborated extensively with experimental composers, live musicians, and visual designers. These ongoing collaborations are central to her practice, allowing choreography to emerge through sustained dialogue across disciplines. As a performer, she has worked with many New York-based choreographers, including luciana achugar and Juliette Mapp.

Sperber was a co-founder of classclassclass, an initiative designed to nurture new dance teachers while offering reduced-cost classes, and has taught as a guest artist at the American Dance Festival, Movement Research, Freeskewl, Gibney Dance, Hunter College, George Washington University, and Wayne State University. Sperber founded and ran BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, from 2004 to 2014, and Sunset Space from 2018 to 2020.