Anthony Wills Jr.
Artistic Director of Artistic Pride Productions where he has choreographed several pieces including The Piano Has Been Drinking (not me), Mule Variations, and solo pieces The Man who Would Not… Live, The Happiness of Schizophrenia (solo), Theater; All of Me (Tanesha Ford at Duplex), Fishing in Brooklyn (LaTonia Phipps) Recent dance and performance pieces he’s performed in include The Gull Beach (Nellesa Walthour/The Round Table Benjamin Briones Ballet), With One Hand Between Us (Jonathan Vandyke/ Performa). Dance companies he has worked with include Dance<Detour, Annette Hawkins Dance Ensemble and Irreverance Dance Theater. He has served as an instructor for Brave Bright Theater Kids, First Stage Theater Academy, Chicago’s After School Matters Programs and Vermont High School Theater festival .
,Artistic Pride Productions is a collective of artists of all genres creating work that has a positive affluence on our world and society. Our mission is to teach the importance of art as a necessary tool in life and to find beauty in the overlooked realizing the value of that which is thought of as less than. We encourage those who face physical, mental, economical, social, and other challenges. We celebrate them whether or not they are victorious for being courageous. We’ve worked with over a hundred artists on dozens of musical, theatrical and dance performances, were the recipients of the Great Performances Art scholarship (4K) and recently completed a midwest tour performing at multiple venues in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Our work has addressed lgbtq, immigrants, survivors of abuse (parental, domestic sexual, etc.), mental illness, substance abuse, minorities, elderly, disabled homeless and those who suffer from life altering sickness or diseases such as HIV, Lupus, diabetes, etc. Lupus, diabetes, etc.
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