Annie Loui | Artistic Statement & Original Creations
My central artistic interest is the creation of new theater works, both my own movement theater adaptations and working directly with playwrights on new projects. Since 2012, Counter-Balance Theater has been an umbrella for my new devised physical theater creations (please see website).
The following productions are either original movement theater works that I have created and staged, often in collaboration with a visual artist or composer, or premieres of new plays that I have directed.
| 2014 | A Christmas Carol | director/adapter of the Dicken’s classic, Winifred Smith Hall, November 2014 |
| 2013 | The Dwarf | director/adapter of the Nobel Prize winning novel by Pars Lagerkvist, (Counter-Balance Theater) workshop productions Grotowski Barn (January & May 2013); Clark Memorial Library, September 2013. |
| 2012 |
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaules) |
director/adapter of the classic French novel by Alain Fournier, xMPL May 2012 "Best Ensemble 2012" LA Arts Examiner |
| 2012
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Jane Eyre
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director/adapter of the classic novel, (Counter-Balance Theater) Edison Theater, St Louis September 2012; Claire Trevor Theater, August, 2012; workshop Part 1, Grotowski Barn, June 2011; workshop Part 2, xMPL Theater December 2011 |
| 2010
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Cafe le Monde
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director/choreographer world premiere of a dance/theater script by Chuck Mee, May 2010 ARK Theater, LA |
| 2009/2010 | Blue Light | creator/director intermedia performance with writer, Michelle Latiolais video designer, Greg Pacificar projection designer, Adam Levine workshop performance, June 2009 full production, January 22-30, 2010, UCI Studio Theatre |
| 2008/2010 | Falling Girl | co-creator/choreographer media installation with Scott Snibbe, ArtRock Festival 2010, St Briac FRANCE Berkeley Art Museum, June - September, 2008 |
| 2007 | In the Grace of the World | co-creator/director inter-media production for the Orchestra of St Lukes NYC, premiere Kaiser Theater, Monclair, NJ |
| 2005 | Dans L'Ombre De Soi-Meme | co-creator/performer intermedia video collaboration with Mark Zaki, SEAMUS, Oregon, UCI Dance Film Festival |
| 2004 | War To End War | director/choreographer world premiere of a play/opera by Chuck Mee/Nathan Birnbaum, Claire Trevor Theater, UCI |
| 2004 | Absence/Presence | choreographer and performer intermedia video collaboration with Mark Zaki, Not Still Art Festival, NYC October; and the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Digital Media, May- July |
| 2002, 2003
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Reading Frankenstein
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co-creator and director multi-media production with digital artist Antoinette LaFarge and neurobiologist, Dr James Fallon; Beall Center for Art and Technology, CA Digital presentation at the Freie Universitat, Berlin Germany November 2002 |
| 2000 | Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland | adapter and director multi media production with animator John Chi and composer Ben Israel; Irvine Barclay Theater CA, and Grimaldi Forum, Monaco |
| 1999 | Vivaldi – The Red Priest | director premiere workshop production of a new play by Lee Kalcheim; Barrington Theater Company, MA |
| 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995
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Sympathetic Magic
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choreographer and performer solo movement theater concert with animator Karen Aqua performed at K-9 Kultur Laden, Konstanz, Germany; Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center, MA; Huntington 1996 Beach Arts Center, CA; Boston University, MA; Blue Screen Video presentation at Decroux Symposium, Centre for Performance Research, (CPR) 1992 Wales; Bodies in Question Australasian Drama Studies Association (ADSA) 1991 New Zealand, and at the International Dance and Technology Festival (IDAT) |
| 1997 | Transformations | adapter and director original movement theater work based on the poetry of Ann Sexton, Working Group, Home Front Theater, NYC |
| 1995 | Moose Mating | director premiere of a new play by David Grae; HERE Theater, NYC (“Best Bets of 1995” Backstage, NYC) |
| 1995 | Another Day In Paradise; The California Project |
director and co-creator multi media performance work with writer Klaus Lintzinger: performed at the UCI Art Gallery, the Durham Studio Theater at UC Berkeley, and UCSB College for Creative Studies |
| 1993 | Nosferatu | adapter and director movement theater/film performance with Murnau’s 1926 film, original score by Caleb Sampson , UCI Concert Hall |
| 1991 | The West Wing | adapter and director new music theater work created in collaboration with composer David Eggar based on the stories and drawings of Edward Gorey, produced in workshop by the Boston Music Theater Project (BMTP), C. Walsh Theater, MA |
| 1990 | Parzival | adapter and director new music/theater work created in collaboration with composer Robert Kyr and the Project Ars Nova (PAN), Newton Arts Center, MA |
| 1988 | Vintage Alice | creator original movement theater work based on the score by David del Tredici; Newton Arts Center and Radcliffe College, MA |
| 1986 | The Dybbuk | director and co-creator movement theater/music work created with composer, Alan Bern, based on the Jewish folktale, Laurie Theater, Brandeis University, MA |
| 1984 | Shoes Trilogy | choreographer and performer movement theater work for dancer, saxaphone and thirty pairs of shoes, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, MA; Boston Film and Video Foundation (BFVF), Sanders Theater, Harvard University, MA (recipient of Massachusetts Choreographer’s Award) |
| 1983 | Night Spent Flying And Falling | Annie Loui and Company Solo and Group Works performances include: Sanders Theater at Harvard University; S.U.N.Y. Brockport; Boston Film and Video Foundation (BFVF); Angus Whyte Fine Arts, NYC; Connecticut Dance Festival; North Carolina Theater Conference; Eventworks Festival at the Massachusetts College of Art; Roanoke College, VA; Elaine Sommers Studio, NYC; and the Hasty Pudding Theater, MA |