Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Andrew Sanger is a London-based lecturer, researcher, artist, and activist working across dance and anthropology. He received his PhD in Anthropology from University College London studying under Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach and Jerome Lewis. Alongside teaching and research, he has been a company dancer with Jody Oberfelder Projects and Vatic Theatre touring in the USA, UK, and Germany. Before joining The Place, London Contemporary Dance School in 2023, he taught dance history, contemporary technique and improvisation at Roehampton University as well delivered guest lectures at Winchester University, Schumacher College, Université de Lille, UCL, and Kings College London.

Andrew is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and secretary of the Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology Committee. His research explores the relationship between environmental ethics and dance practice, performance, and protest among UK-based artists and activists. His professional practice includes the delivery of workshops on enchantment, nature connection, and embodied practice in academic and artistic contexts combining ethnography, performance, queer theory, and ecology. An amateur herbalist in his spare time, he is an avid forager, rambler, and producer of various herbal remedies.