Ann Biddle (B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University) is a leader in the field of dance education with over 35 years of experience as a dancer, choreographer, educator, professional developer, school administrator, and curriculum writer. She currently serves as the Professional Learning and Curriculum Senior Consultant for the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and DEL Founding Faculty. Ms. Biddle has designed and facilitated multiple courses for DEL including Foundations in Dance Education, DEL Essentials, Planet Dance-Multicultural Dance Education, Dancing in Early Childhood, Dance and Nature, Teaching from Transformation to Inspiration (Tina Curran), Dance and Literacy (Barbara Bashaw), Teaching Dance Technique, DEL: The Next Generation, Dance for Social Change, Tracing Footsteps, From Inspiration to Design- Curriculum Design, DELving into Embodied Dance History and the DEL Essentials OPDI course for NDEO. She currently oversees the DEL Institute Teacher Certificate Program and the DEL Facilitators in Training Program (DEL FIT).
Ms. Biddle is currently on faculty at UMASS/Amherst in the Dance Department and has been a Dance Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College, Ball State University, Kenyon College and Skidmore College. Ms. Biddle was a Fulbright Scholar in dance in Costa Rica, taught at the National University in Ghana and has led multiple teacher training intensives in China (2024 – present). She is a current Fulbright Specialist (2025 – 2028) and will travel to Guatemala in 2025 to lead dance education workshops at Universidad Rafael Landivar.
Well known as a staff developer and curriculum consultant, Ms. Biddle has partnered with numerous cultural organizations including Dorrance Dance, Urban Bush Women, Doug Varone, Flamenco Vivo, Jose Limon Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico, New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Movement Research, Jonah Bokaer, HT Chen Dance Center, and Robin Becker Dance Company. Additionally, she worked closely with the late Alan Lomax as a Choreometrics analyst. Ms. Biddle was an advisor and contributor to the NYC Department of Education’s Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance, PreK-12, and has been an NYCDOE Blueprint professional development facilitator since 2005. She was the Director of Arts Programs at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School (PVPA) in South Hadley, MA, Director of the Dance Department from 2011-2018 and Director of the DEL PVPA dance mentorship program featured in the documentary film, PS Dance! The Next Generation, Executive Producer, Jody Arnhold, filmmaker, Nel Shelby.
As a curriculum writer, Ms. Biddle’s dance teachers’ curricula and training manuals include The Essence of Cool: West Side Story, New York Export: Opus Jazz the Film (NYC Ballet), Dance Motion USA Doug Varone and Argentinian Brenda Angiel’s aerial collaboration, Richard Daniel’s Dances for iPhone film series, Wonderdance early childhood curriculum, Dance Making Inspired by Langston Hughes Poetry, Re-imagining D-Man in the Waters, the DEL Facilitators Training Manual and Robin Becker’s Into Sunlight Dance Curriculum. She is a frequent presenter at NDEO conferences and was selected to pilot the Model Cornerstone Assessments as part of NCCA. In addition, Ms. Biddle has published integrated curricular units though the NYC DOE such as Dance Units Inspired by Literary Works (2016), and The Essence of Pearl Primus through Photography and Poetry: The Negro Speaks of Rivers (2018). Ms. Biddle was the the Project Director of the DEL Tracing Footsteps: Honoring Diverse Voices in NYC Dance History curriculum project from 2021- 2024, and curriculum advisor for the DEL Dance and Literacy Curriculum project.
Ms. Biddle is currently completing her doctorate in the Dance Education EdD program at Teachers College, Columbia University and her research centers on transformative adult learning, multi-modal embodied reflective practice, and teacher education. Ms. Biddle’s teen dance mentoring program is featured in the 2022 documentary film, PS Dance! The Next Generation streaming on PBS. Ms. Biddle was awarded the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Outstanding Leadership in Dance Education Award in PK-12 in 2023.