Carol Anderson has pursued a diverse career as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, and dance writer. Her writing includes numerous articles on Canadian dance, the biography Judy Jarvice Dance Artist: A Portrait (1993), a look at Canadian dance near the millenium entitled Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance (1999), and This Passion: For the Love of Dance (1998), an anthology of original Canadian dance writing that she compiled and edited. Anderson is a former artistic director of Toronto's Dancemakers, of which she was a founding member. She was a dancer for twenty years and continues to teach and choreograph.