Anna Martine Whitehead does performance from the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations; as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Meskwaki; the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and the Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) Nations. Martine’s solo and collaborative work have been presented by MCA Chicago, REDCAT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, MoMA, San José Museum of Art, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has developed her craft working closely with Takahiro Yamamoto, Onye Ozuzu, Jefferson Pinder, taisha paggett, Every house has a door, Keith Hennessy, BodyCartography Project, Julien Prévieux, and the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, among others. Martine and her work have been recognized by the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, the Graham Foundation, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, MAP Fund, Dance/USA, 3Arts, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action and contributed chapters to a range of publications including In the Horizontal Plane: taisha paggett performance works (Soberscove, forthcoming), Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017), and Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances (2016). Martine is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016).