Aneka McMullen

Teaching Artist

Dancer and Choreographer Aneka McMullen is an independent performing and teaching artist who lives to dance through life, inspire & connect with all people through her passion for movement of all types.  She hails from Minneapolis and holds a BFA in dance from The Ohio State University.  Her extensive dance experience spans more than two decades and includes dynamic skills in performance and instruction in the genres of West African, Afro Modern, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical & Liturgical.

Aneka is a co- founder and artistic director of Epitome-No Question, an open Old Skool Hip Hop dance ensemble dedicated to celebrating the community conscious roots of Hip Hop culture through dance theater.   

She is also a member of  BLAQ, an Afro Modern observance based dance company in the twin cities as well as a former teaching artist with the Ordway’s Dance to Learn program.  

Additional company work includes Minneapolis based Maria, Colleen & Kids (Young Dance), Black Pearl, Threads Dance Project, Brkfst Dance Company (In New Company), Ananya Dance Theater (Women in Motion) and C Dance Company in Columbus, OH.Her work has been featured in Lori Carlos’s Late Nite Series, Minnesota Mosaic (Pantages Theater), Black Choreographer’s Evening (Intermedia Arts), the ground-breaking B Girl Be-Women In Hip Hop festival, the 2019 Special Edition of the award-winning Rooted Hip Hop Choreographer’s Evening & Sistah Solo, the 2018 16 Feet: Splashes of Dance Choreographer’s evening, and most recently, Body Prayers 2021 Choreographer’s Evening for Walker Art Center.

Aneka has been awarded the Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board & the Momentum New Dance Works grant from the Jerome Foundation.

Currently, she is happy to have come full circle to be teaching Company class & Afro Modern with Young Dance for the 2022-23 season.

2023–24 Session Teaching Roster: Afro-Modern

Photo by Anthony Harlin