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:

:: Biography
:: Philosophy of Teaching
:: Choreography and Directing
:: Original Creation
:: Annie Loui in the Press
:: Reading Frankenstein Original media project website