Writer.
Dancer.
Choreographer.
About
Anneliese Kappey is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Berlin. A New Yorker born into a German-Brazilian family, she began her career as a ballerina and built a life in the arts — performing in concert and theater while earning a degree in Linguistics at Columbia University.
Her path expanded to include work as a master teacher, choreographer, competition adjudicator, and arts administrator. She founded MixTape Dance, a New York-based company that ran for three acclaimed seasons. During the pandemic, Anneliese pivoted into software development, bringing her precision and creativity to the tech industry.
Throughout, writing remained her constant. Her fiction has appeared in Canadian literary journals, and her essays have been published in Samizdat, 440 Hz, and Scarlet Leaf. She’s been shortlisted by The Toronto Journal, encouraged and praised by One Story, and received interest from Granta, The Common, and The Missouri Review.
She is currently editing her debut novel, Building a Parachute on the Way Down, and drafting her second, My August Father.
Dance and
Choreography
Anneliese has danced in musicals, with New York-based contemporary choreographers, and as part of her own company, MixTape Dance. She has taught ballet, lyrical jazz, musical theater and contemporary throughout the New York Metropolitan area. She has traveled the continental United States as a master teacher, guest choreographer, and competition judge.
Writing and
Publications
Anneliese has written and published poems, essays, fiction, and reviews. She also writes short stories, most of which have received editorial attention at major literary magazines around the world. Anneliese's themes include visibility, queerness, immigrant experiences, belonging, authenticity and performance.