my name is anna bauer (she/her), and I'm a dance artist in Austin, Texas.
cover photo by cassie fuller
choreography
(i have a thing for duets)
Breakfast
Coffee meets pastry, biscuit meets jam, stranger meets stranger.
Places this piece has been:
Bellingham Repertory Dance Fall 2022 Season, Bellingham, Washington (November 2022)
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (July 2022)
MADCO Dare to Dance Choreographic Opportunity Finalist, St. Louis, Missouri (January 2022)
Houston Fringe Festival, Houston, Texas (October 2021)
Moving Forward Winter Fest, Dallas, Texas (January 2021)
Senior Studio, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas (November 2020)
Photos by Aidan Rodgers
Filmed for Austin Dance Festival 2022
Poetry Collection
Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr
a collection of movement poems about our week in maine.
Places this piece has been:
Homeport Art House Residency Informal performance, South Thomaston, Maine (July 2024)
Photos by us
Created for Homeport Art House Residency in 2024
Filmed by Dale Andree
This Thing That We're Doing/Sorry About All Of The Music/Sorry About All Of The Words
Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr
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Places this piece has been:
Bellingham Repertory Dance at Vytal Movement Dance’s Spring Show In Parallel, Spokane, Washington (April 2024)
RAD Fest Dance Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan (March 2024)
Bellingham Repertory Dance Fall 2023 Season, Bellingham, Washington (Fall 2023)
Aimed Dance Summer Fest, Beaumont, Texas (July 2023)
Barnstorm Dance Festival, Houston, Texas (June 2023)
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2023)
Houston Fringe Festival Anything Goes, Houston, Texas (November 2022)
Photos by Lynn Lane
Filmed for Austin Dance Festival 2023
Guests
Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr
A gradual countdown spans 5 minutes (and some change). In the meantime, a symphony crests, an egg boils, and a car passes. 3, 2, 1... and what happens after 0?
Places this piece has been:
Jahna Bobolia’s COMMUNITY, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (November 2023)
Our Hearts (Always)
Filmed in rehearsal at cafe dance in austin, texas
Laundry Day
a series of brief duets about clothes (and quarters). Shirt, Turtleneck, Buttondown, Tanktop, Pants, Shorts, Shirt. "Do you like my outfit?"
Places this piece has been:
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2024)
ZATERO Dance’s Handle With Care, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (July 2023)
filmed for austin dance festival 2024
bedroom
Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr
(in which we dance with a lamp and tea kettle.)
Places this piece has been:
Austin Community College Informance, Austin, Texas (June 2023)
Carissa Topham's and Emily Rushing's SMORG, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (April 2023)
Filmed for Carissa Topham's and Emily Rushing's SMORG in 2023
You've caught us with our pants down
Choreographed in collaboration with dancers
this is a dance about pants.
Places this piece has been:
WhirlWind Dance Company’s Residency Showcase, The Well Center, Columbus, Ohio (June 2024)
created for whirlwind dance company's residency week 2024
Photos and video by auriana carrington
fish dish snare
Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr and celeste camfield
bait and switch: a trio that feels more like a puzzle than a dance. "there's something fishy about this dish."
Places this piece has been:
ZATERO Dance’s Bon Voyage, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (May 2024)
Keshet Makers Space Experience Choreographic Showing, Albuquerque, New Mexico (April 2024)
Photos by Sarah Annie Navarette
created during the keshet makers space experience 2024
filmed by Reinhard Lorenz
DINNER
Are we ever really in control of ourselves and our surroundings? Four characters navigate a three-course progression of micro-managing, obsession, and self-awareness.
Places this piece has been:
Mashup Dance Company International Women’s Day Dance Festival Showcase, Los Angeles, California (March 2022)
Agora Artists’ SEEDS Concert, Dallas, Texas (March 2021)
This piece was presented as part of MashUp Contemporary Dance Company’s 2022 International Women’s Day Festival. Footage provided by MashUp Contemporary Dance Company.
Photography: Kelly Mustapha Kellett
Venue: LA Dance Project
Lighting design: Joey Guthman
Videography: Alex Laya
Produced by: MashUp Contemporary Dance Company
special thanks to Agora Artists for the support in creating this piece for SEEDS 2021
In Medias Res
Choreographed and improvised in collaboration with jairus carr, alyson dolan, and kelsey oliver
A jazz quartet capturing the joy and spontaneity of an improv jam.
Places this piece has been:
Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Denton, Texas (October 2023)
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2023)
Jahna Bobolia’s At The Table, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (September 2022)
Filmed for Austin Dance Festival
screenshot from texas dance improvisation festival
Something Else
A whole is the sum of its parts. Or is it? miniature, mysterious narratives unfold in and out of their contexts
Places this piece has been:
Aimed Dance Summer Fest, Beaumont, Texas (August 2021)
photos by lynn lane
created in fullfillment of Aimed Dance Company's Emerging Choreographer Fellowship 2021
Pendleton
show, not tell.
Places this piece has been:
White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival, New York City, New York (February 2023)
5x7 Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2022)
Filmed by Alexander Sargent for White Wave Solo Duo Dance Festival
the figure is losing its features
Inspired by the surrounding architecture, a soloist struggles with identity and form.
Places this piece has been:
Blipswitch’s Offbeat X, The Curtain Theater, Austin, Texas (October 2021)
photos by Elysia Perkins
created as a site-specific work at the curtain theatre in austin, texas, for Blipswitch's offbeat x
RENEE
a study in character and surreal pants.
Places this piece has been:
Senior Showcase, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas (May 2021)
photos by tori nunn
filmed for Senior Showcase 2021 at Sam Houston State University
I'm a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and arts administrator living in Austin, Texas. that's a lot of hats, i know. sometimes i wear them well, sometimes i don't. so it goes.Since graduating from Sam Houston State University with my BFA in Dance in 2021, I’ve danced for the kdh dance company while maintaining a personal focus on choreography. my work uses mundane aspects of life as sources for movement generation: coffee, laundry, dinner, pants, and so on. I like to draw attention to the nuance, strangeness, and humor that exists within the activities we do every day. Art imitates life, life imitates art, and round and round we go.Events across Texas have been kind enough to include my pieces in their lineup: Austin Dance Festival, Blipswitch’s Offbeat X, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Houston Fringe Fest, Agora Artists’ SEEDS, and local concerts produced by Austin artists such as Zatero Dance, Emily Rushing, Carissa Topham, and Jahna Bobolia. I’ve also brought my work to national festivals, including Mashup’s International Women’s Day Dance Festival (Los Angeles), MADCO's Dare to Dance (St. Louis, Missouri), White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival (New York City, New York), and RAD Fest Midwest Dance Festival (Kalamazoo, Michigan).Along with my own choreography, I've danced on a variety of stages, both proscenium and nontraditional, and i hope to dance on more. During my time at Sam Houston State University, I had the chance to work with faculty members and guest choreographers Adele Nickel, Donald C. Shorter Jr., Evelyn Toh, Dionne Noble, and Rohan Bhargava. While living in Austin, in addition to training and performing with Kathy Dunn Hamrick, I have danced for dance company Blipswitch, filmmaker Oddalys Salcido, and multimedia artist Justo Cisnero.I've completed residencies with whirlwind dance company (columbus, ohio), Bellingham repertory dance (Bellingham, washington), and Aimed Dance Company (Beaumont, texas). Jairus Carr and I were resident artists together at both Homeport Art House (South Thomaston, Maine) and Bellingham Repertory Dance (bellingham, Washington). I brought Jairus and our friend and collaborator Celeste Camfield to Keshet Makers Space Experience (albuquerque, New mexico). I've made some fun and hopefully nice pieces at these places- you can check them out in my portfolio.Occasionally, I teach professional-level contemporary masterclasses around Austin. recently, Jairus Carr and i co-taught a class for the university of Houston's fall guest artist series. I'd love to say more about my teaching philosophy, but, really, it varies from day to day. ask me in person, if you're interested, and i'll give you the answer of the moment.i serve as the communications director for austin dance festival, where i handle email communications and social media.i also do other things.
photos in this series by Elysia Perkins
Nothing to see here. Yet. [ ? ] [ ! ]
haiku about coffee:
buying anyone
a cup of coffee makes you
feel closer to them
archive
residency at with jairus carr Homeport art house in South thomaston, Maine
july 22-29 2024
Photo by me
collaborative multimedia performance Bodybuilder with artist Justo Cisneros, Jairus Carr, and Shea McGilvray at Ranch apocalypse in Austin, texas
june 29 2024
photo by erica EG gionfriddo
solo clarity study in collaboration with jairus carr and a box at 5x7 Dance festival at first street studio in Austin, Texas
june 22 2024
Photo by me
"i think i want to be taller"
residency with whirlwind dance company creating you've caught us with our pants down in columbus, ohio
may 22-31 2024
Photo by Auriana Carrington
kathy dunn hamrick dance company's evening length work smoke at cafe dance in austin, texas
may 18-19 2024
Photo by Sarah Annie Navarette
fish dish snare at zatero dance company's bon voyage at cafe dance in Austin, texas
may 4-5 2024
Photo by Sarah Annie Navarette
keshet makers space experience with collaborators jairus carr and celeste camfield in albuquerque, new mexico
april 5-15 2024
Photo by Pat Berrett courtesy of the keshet makers space experience
Laundry Day at austin dance festival 2024 in austin, texas
march 23 2024
Photo by Elysia Perkins
This Thing That We’re Doing with jairus Carr at RAD fest 2024 in Kalamazoo, michigan
March 1 2024
Photo by Fluid frames dance photography
Blipswitch's Unstill Life at the Wolf House in Austin, Texas
February 21-24 2024
Photos and design by Blipswitch
microwave on the students of Mccallum fine arts theatre for its spring show progressions in austin, texas
February 9-10 2024
kathy dunn hamrick dance company's season 25 at rollins theatre at the long center in austin, texas
December 1-3 2023
Photo by Kevin Gliner
guests choreographed in collaboration with Jairus Carr at Jahna Bobolia's COMMUNITY at cafe dance in austin, texas
November 11-12 2023
1, 2, 3, sometimes dance feels very dramatic and ironic to me by Jairus Carr at Dance Carousel at ground floor theatre in austin, texas
October 19 & 21 2023
Photo by Matt Bradford
In Medias Res choreographed in collaboration with Jairus Carr at TDIF in denton, texas
October 5-7 2023
a guide to: delusion by filmmaker Oddalys Salcido at their film festival preheat fest in austin, texas
September 16 2023
Design by Oddalys Salcido
The silk flower and the honey bee by artist Justo Cisneros at Wild Ruins Wild Orientations pop-up sculpture park in adkins, texas
September 13 2023
photo by cleopatra diwata
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's these events are fortunate at the rollins theatre at the long center in austin, texas
June 3-4 2023
design by taryn lavery