Angie Amra Anderson – Artistic Director of AMRA Productions
The core strength of AMRA is its highly experienced and dedicated committed professional artists.
The inspiration and guiding force is Angie Amra Anderson BA (hons). Trained at the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS), University of London, she has pioneered African arts in the UK forover 40 years. As a dancer, choreographer, singer, actress and percussionist, she has acquired a vast performing experience and is one of the UK’s top African arts.
In 1976, she co-founded the award-winning Ekome National Dance Company, which took England and Europe by storm for over a decade. She has been an invited guest/teacher/performer in Europe, Scandinavia, Jamaica, Haiti, Ghana and Nigeria is known to thousands of students as a very charismatic teacher and has created a stimulating way of communicating this rich and diverse art-form.
Her research in African Caribbean and especially African-Cuban art forms left a tremendous emotional and aesthetic experience. As a principal dancer with numerous dance companies, her work gained a new strength and authority from it. Her TV and Film appearances includes ‘The South Bank Show’,‘Highway’, ‘A Sailor’s Return’, ‘Rwendo – The Journey’, ‘Bacchanal’, ‘Ebony’, ‘Only Fools & Horses’ and for BBC Education `Music Makers’ among others.
Her innumerable records of performances had been with artistes such as Peter Gabriel at WOMAD (World Of Music & Dance), Fela Kuti, Musical Director of The Sounds of Blackness, Osibisa and the infamous Zairean guitarist Franco.
Her love for African Play Production Styles will continue to emphasize the strength, dignity, pride and virtuosity inherent in the various forms
Training & Development
• Nigerian Performing Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,
Nigeria, W, Africa, and extensive field research 2000
• Haitian Ritual Theatre, Madame Gautier School of Performing
• Afro-Cuban Music & Dance, National Folklorica, Cuba, West
Indies, 2001
• Traditional Ghanaian Dance & Music, Institute of African
Studies, Legon (1983) and field research 1983, 1990, 1994
• Traditional dance & music, Jamaica School of Dance, Jamaica,
West Indies (1995, 1998 & 2003)
Awards & Accolades
• ‘Award for Teaching Young People’ Oxfordshire county Council
• MTV’s Green Room – Nominee for percussion with AKALA
• Digital Dance Award for Best Black Dance-Drama (1992)
• BAFTA Award for contribution to music score for the film
‘Rwendo – The Journey – Directed by Farai Sevenzo (1990)
• Black Dance Development Award (1985)
• Time Out Award for Best Dance Company (1983 & 1984)
• Cultural Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to African Arts,
presented at Buckingham Palace (1984)
Contact details: AMRA Productions
Angie Amra Anderson
Artistic Director
M: 07402 953 987
E: amraproductions@gmail.com
TONY TOKUNBO ETEKA FERNANDEZ 