Biography
Annie
Loui works as a director and choreographer. 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,
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
the premiere of David Grae's Moose Mating at H.E.R.E.
in NYC (receiving a "Best Picks of the Year" commendation
from Backstage).
Recent
intermedia creations include Alice's Adventures
performed at the Monaco Danses Dance Forum, FRANCE after
its premiere at the Irvine Barclay Theater and Reading
Frankenstein at the Beall Center for Art and Technology,
digital presentation Freie University, Berlin GERMANY. Absence/Presence
her recent video collaboration with New Media artist Mark
Zaki has been shown at the Not Still Art Festival NYC, and
the UCR/California Museum of Photography.
Find out more about Annie:
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::
Biography
:: Philosophy of Teaching
:: Choreography and Directing
:: Original Creation
:: Annie Loui in the Press
:: Reading
Frankenstein Original
media project website
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