Ansje Burdick
MANCC Director
Specialized Faculty
School of Dance
Ansje Burdick serves as the Director of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), assuming the leadership role in January 2025 after 14 years of dedicated service as the Center’s Managing Director. Burdick is an artist-centered administrator who has supported creative residencies of over 200 nationally significant choreographers and their collaborators since joining MANCC in 2010.
In her tenure at MANCC, Burdick has overseen all operational facets—ranging from strategic planning and institutional evaluation to fiscal management, development, and advocacy. As Director, she guides MANCC’s core residency programs, national partnerships, and initiatives. Aligning with MANCC’s recent 20th anniversary, she is currently spearheading the redevelopment of the Center’s archival infrastructure, developing a process-based archive to serve both residency artists and the broader arts community.
Prior to her time at MANCC, Burdick built a diverse portfolio of leadership positions both within and outside the arts. Her past experience includes serving as the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the FSU School of Theatre and as the Assistant Director for Web Services for the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specialized in multimedia project management and web infrastructure development.
Burdick holds a M.S. in Arts Management and a B.A. in Psychology with a Minor in Dance from the University of Oregon. Throughout her career, she has acted as a primary or co-principal investigator on major grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, remaining an advocate for sustainable, equitable support for contemporary movement-based artists.
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Education
B.A. in Psychology w/ Dance Minor, University of Oregon
M.S. in Arts Management, University of Oregon
Teaching
Direct and manage the MANCC Internship Program, mentoring 5–7 undergraduate and graduate students annually; provide hands-on training in arts administration and creative media, including professional development in grant writing, social media and direct engagement with national artists.
Areas of Responsibility
Lead the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in alignment with its core mission to raise the value of the creative process in dance; ensure the Center remains a leading national model for choreographic support within a university environment.
Direct the curation, implementation, and smooth functioning of MANCC’s foundational multi-week residency programs, supporting nationally significant contemporary choreographers and their collaborators annually.
Direct the financial health of the Center, lead grant writing efforts, budget development, as well as oversight of university and grant-funded accounts – while managing comprehensive multi-year residency budgets and expenditures.
Spearhead the redevelopment of MANCC’s digital archival infrastructure following its 20th anniversary; develop a process-based archive that preserves the creative process and serves as a generative research tool for future artists and scholars.
Selected Grant Awards
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — Choreographic Fellows Residency Program | Co-PI (with Carla Peterson), 2021–2023.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) — MANCC Forward Dialogues 2 | Co-PI (with Carla Peterson), 2018–2019.
The Sustainable Arts Foundation — Parent Artist Support | PI, 2018–2019.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — Returning Choreographic Fellows Residency Program | Co-PI (with Carla Peterson), 2015–2018.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) — MANCC Development Residencies for Contemporary Dance Artists | Co-PI (with Carla Peterson), 2016.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) — MANCC Forward Dialogues | Co-PI (with Carla Peterson), 2015–2016.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) — Choreographic Lab with AXIS Dance Company | Co-PI (with Jennifer Calienes), 2014–2015.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — Returning Choreographic Fellows Residency Program | Co-PI (with Jennifer Calienes), 2012–2015.