Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based dance artist approaching the body and performance as sites of ritual porosity, enlivened by flesh, blood, and attention to activate states of dimensional liminality. They started off in competition dance in a small-town studio in Mississippi, and continued on to study contemporary dance under Alysia Ramos at Oberlin College.

They have freelanced in both Cleveland, OH (Catherine Meredith, Megan Young, Madi Jackson, Rebecca Burcher, and more) and New York City (Kinesis Project, Boy Friday, Hivewild, Hard/Femme Dances, God Complex x Aeon Andreas, Nick Brooke, Chaesong Kim, Glenn Potter-Takata, and more). Commercial credits include Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive), Carolina Oliveros (Combo Chimbita), Tom Petty, and Sam Smith. Since 2023, they have been a core member of the Bessie-nominated LEIMAY Ensemble under the direction of Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya.

They approach each production as an altar, set with uncanny objects and activated by the choreographic disciplines of Western contemporary dance, ballet, drag, lip sync, Bible Belt competition dance, and LUDUS, a movement technique in the lineage of Butoh. Their work is concerned with ritualized attention and porous experiences that aid with remembering, pondering, and witnessing mythic worlds as answers to the riddles of existentialism, absurdity, contradiction, beauty, and the abject. Their altars ring with hyper-specific sonic references that tether the work to conscious realities, and hold tender narrative arcs that are dimensionally deepened by the slippage between humor and horror. Their work has been described as “viscerally tender and incisive" by The Dance Enthusiast and "raging with sincerity and longing" by Culturebot. They were an inaugural Exponential Festival Self-Producing Fellow (2025-2026), and their work has been presented by Triskelion Arts (SPLIT BILL #46, 2025), CAVE Home of LEIMAY (LEIMAY Constellation Salon 2025), Brick Aux (Exponential Festival 2026), Dixon Place (Concrete BOOM! 2025), and The Tank (Pridefest 2025).