ZONE RESIDENCY.

CHOREOGRAPHERS.

Zenon Dance School is delighted to announce the Zenon Dance Zone Choreographers for the Winter and Spring 2025 season. We are excited to work with Anna Pinault and Zoë Koenig, who will collaborate with the Zone dancers for the next twenty weeks to create exceptional works of art.

The Zone Dance program is designed to provide a shared dance experience for Zenon’s community of dancers with local choreographers. This season will culminate in a showcase, where Zenon Dance Zone works will be shared with guest artists on June 13 & 14 at 7:30 pm. The showcase will take place at the Luminary Arts Center.

We invite you to join us for an unforgettable experience, featuring some of the most talented dancers and choreographers in the field. We are confident that the showcase will be a testament to the creativity and dedication of the Zenon Zone artists, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Anna Pinault.

Anna Pinault is a Twin Cities native who works around the country as a dance artist and educator. Her most recent performance work includes projects with TU Dance, Black Label Movement, Rovaco Dance Company, and the Des Moines Metro Opera. Anna has performed works by Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Stephanie Batten Bland, Ronald K. Brown, Trebien Pollard, Alanna Morris, Isaac Martin Lerner, Rohan Bhargava, Joe Chvala, Dani Cole, Chafin Seymour, Gabe Katz, Kora Radella, Angelica Sitskin, and Catherine Cabeen, among others.

With a background in music, Anna’s choreographic creations are often soaked in rhythmic complexity and use movement as a musical voice. Her recent choreography includes works commissioned by TU Dance’s CULTIVATE Program, Black Label Movement: Movers Make, Zenon Dance School, Perpich Center for Arts Education, and The Walker Art Center’s Choreographer’s Evening.

Anna is also passionate about sharing the power of dance through education – her work as an educator has included The Dance Theatre of Harlem School, The Neighborhood Playhouse School, Zenon Dance School, Minnesota Dance Theatre & School, TU Dance Center, and the NYC Public School System, among others. She currently teaches local classes in contemporary floorwork and the Horton technique. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Human Movement Science from Concordia University Chicago and is invested in educating and empowering dancers with knowledge about their bodies.

Website: www.annapinault.com. Instagram: @anna_pinault.

Shannon Hartle Dolan; photo by William Cameron Photography

Zoë Koenig.

Zoë Koenig is a dance artist committed to producing surreal works that balance a search for emotional and physical extremes with humor and pop sensibilities. Her work has been presented in the Twin Cities at the Walker Art Center, the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, the Southern Theater, Praxis Gallery, the Off-Leash Art Box, among other theater and gallery spaces, and has been supported by commissions from the Walker Art Center’s Choreographers’ Evening, Alternative Motion Project, and Analog Dance Works; the Cowles Center’s Generating Room residency program; and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Raised in Madison, WI, Zoë received intensive training in Graham, ballet, and corporeal mime, among other techniques, before attending Beloit College, where she was awarded the Chavey Family Endowed Award in Dance for Outstanding Performance and the Theater, Dance, and Media Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production for her costume designs. She has danced in work by numerous choreographers, including Martha Graham, Kate Wallich, and Katy Pyle, and performed at many festivals, including DUMBO Dance Festival (NY), Queerly Contemporary Festival (NY), RADfest (MI), and World Dance Alliance Global Summit (St. John’s, Newfoundland). Her newest project, Physical Prizes, a collaboration with composer Nora Nygard, will premiere in October 2025 as part of the Southern Theater’s Performance Partnership Program.