Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with April Sellers Season 1 Episode 10

April Sellers is an independent choreographer, dancer and
performance curator who has created


over 60 works over the past 18 years. She is the Founder and
Artistic Director of April Sellers


Dance Collective which is renowned for its complex expressions of
identity in highly crafted


performances. She uses movement, humor, and a mix of scripted and
improvised content to


explore gender, politics and pop culture. Her works have been
commissioned by The Right Here


Showcase, Candy Box Festival, Intermedia Arts, Southern Theater
and Red Eye Theater in


Minneapolis, as well as Dancing Queerly in Boston. Her most
recent and transgressive


performance, Animal Corridor prompted the award “Best Artist of
the Year” by City Pages in


2017. Other awards include the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist
Initiative Grants (2015, 2002),


the McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2011) and the Sage
Award (2006). Over the past


decade, Sellers has been invited to participate in a number of
residencies, including the Djerassi


Resident Artists Program (Santa Cruz, California) and the Maggie
Allesee National Center for


Choreography (Tallahassee, Florida). Sellers holds an MFA in
Dance from the University of


Wisconsin, Milwaukee.