Annie Loui

Biography

Annie Loui works as a director/choreographer and creator of inter-media theater works. She trained with dancer Carolyn Carlson (at the Paris Opera), and studied with Etienne Decroux, Ella Jarosivitcz and Jerzy Grotowski. Original dance/theater pieces have been seen in France, Monaco, West Germany, and in the United States at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, among other venues. She has choreographed for the American Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Theater, and off-Broadway for the Signature Theater. Longtime member of the Brandeis Theater Arts Department; she also taught extensively for the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard before coming to the University of California, Irvine, where she runs the Movement Program for the MFA Actor Training.She has received several Massachusetts Council Awards, a Massachusetts Choreographer's Fellowship, a Belgium Artist's Abroad Award, and an NEA New Forms Grant.

Favorite directing projects include the world premiere of Chuck Mee/Nathan Birnbaum's play/opera WAR TO END WAR, and her adaptation of Sartre's LES JEUX SONT FAITES. Intermedia performance creations include READING FRANKENSTEIN at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, IN THE GRACE OF THE WORLD commissioned by the Orchestra of St Lukes , NYC, and her FALLING GIRL inter-active video installation with Scott Snibbe exhibited at the Berkely Art Museum June- Aug 2008, and at the ARtRock Festival St Brieuc FRANCE in 2010.   Her book, THE PHYSICAL ACTOR was published by Routledge in 2009.

Find out more about Annie:

:: Biography
:: Philosophy of Teaching
:: Choreography and Directing 
:: Original Creation
:: Annie Loui in the Press
:: Reading Frankenstein Original media project website
:: Blue Light Original media project website
:: Falling Girl Original media project website
:: The Physical Actor