Ana Isabel Keilson is an independent performer and choreographer. At the forefront of a new movement of New York City-based emerging artists, Ana’s work embodies the spirit and power of the Do-It-Yourself generation. Through an investigative, collaborative creative process that uses body rhythms, text, and visual maps, Ana’s work features an ensemble of six stunning performers and is often performed in silence—highlighting the musical, the kinetic, the sustainable, and the adaptable underlying her choreographic vision. Ana’s dances are a unique blend of the physical and the intellectual, embodying a youthful intensity and female intimacy probing the line between the playful and the terrible, between childhood innocence and adult experience.

Ana’s work has been shown throughout New York City and New England at such venues including Danspace Project's Food for Thought series, the Movement Research Festival, Dixon Place and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. In 2009, she was awarded the Jacob's Pillow Dr. Erna Linder Gilber/American Dance Guild Scholarship. She has been a resident artist with Daghdha Dance Company (Ireland), the Yard, and she is a 2010 Choreographic Fellow at Summer Stages Dance.

Ana's collaborators, past and present, include the Moscow-based Liquid Theater Company, Neofuturist Adam Smith, and composer Joshua Hudelson.

Ana considers teaching an integral part to her creative practice: she has been as a guest lecturer at Bowdoin College and Barnard College/Columbia University. In 2009, Ana directed the Putney School Summer Dance Program. In 2010 she co-directed CLASSCLASSCLASS, a NYC-based teaching initiative that nurtures a continued future of dance pedagogy by engaging a new generation of dance and performance artists to teach their craft. As a performer, she has worked with companies including Luciana Achugar, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Nugent + Matteson Dance, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, and Daniel McCusker Dance Projects.

In addition to her work as a choreographer and performer, she is the founder and organizer of 'the zine,' a free, DIY publication promoting the art and ideas of the NYC-based dance community. The zine features the work of its contributor-base of over 40 writers and has been featured on a monthly radio show on Washington Heights Free Radio.

Ana is a graduate of Barnard College/Columbia University with honors in English and Russian. From 2008 to 2009 she was the film and video archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia University in Modern European History.