Annie Heath

Heath in Progress

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Email   heath.in.progress@gmail.com
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Annie Heath | Heath in Progress is a choreographer and dancer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been presented at New York Live Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Chen Dance Center, Access Theater, Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, TADA! Youth Theater, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, West End Theater, and Alchemical Laboratory. She has performed original works by RoseAnne Spradlin, Doug LeCours, Gabriella Carmichael, and Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin. Heath is currently a 2019-2021 Fresh Tracks resident artist at New York Live Arts and is the recipient of the Jadin Wong Fellowship through Asian American Arts Alliance (2021).
       As a dance-maker, Heath wonders about capacity—a cavity in her archived mind that needs filling. She fumbles with identity as a portal to generate fabricated memories and dreamlike, meditative atmospheres. Maybe roots can flourish in detachment.

Press

“Heath possesses a rare sensitivity and alertness to the potential of the dance form. She is also, point-blank, a stunning powerhouse of a dancer” ... “Annie's body of work shows a mature and deep commitment to the choreographic process, bringing forth vital questions of identity, belonging, and intersectionality.” Broadway World 

“made me hopeful for the future of dance in New York City, exemplifying the bold, urgent spirit of the art today... Careful, expert gestures of wrapping a sarong contrast with desperate, helpless ones such as lifting a heavy pile of folded clothes, trying to secure this bundle high against the back wall with nothing but one’s tired arms.” Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody 

Mention in  “11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend” Brian Schaeffer, NYTimes 

“Annie pushed the cloth in circles around the floor, cycling into herself in the neverending chore, as Sok spoke against soft music: all layers of the performance prompting nostalgia and heartache.” Jean Lee, Culturebot 

“Heath shifts and morphs, from crawling to slowly rolling on the floor to vigorously undulating on all fours. The movement is frequently purposefully awkward, such as when she supports herself on the inside edge of her hand, her wrists splayed out like the pointed hooves of a sheep.” Glenna Yu, The Dance Enthusiast 

“Her very earthbound, yet intense rendering benefitted from her repetitive and nuanced approach.” Walter Rutledge, Out & About NYC Magazine 

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Your contribution will provide vital support to the creative process and projects of Annie Heath | Heath in Progress. Annie Heath is a Fiscally Sponsored Artist through New York Live Arts’ Live Core Program. All donations are fully tax-deductible.

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Upcoming Performances

Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric
Digital Takeover with VESSELS
Sun—Tue, Jan 10—12, 2021  Join Annie for an instagram takover, Laguardia Performing Arts Center   Revisiting Neutral Ground, Laguardia Performing Arts Center 

 Postponed — Date TBD
Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric
Fresh Tracks Studio Showings at New York Live Arts
Fri—Sat, May 29—30, 2020, 6pm

Past Performances

2019
Dec 13—14	New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Residency Performances (NYC)	This Mother/land Fabric
Nov 18	Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC)	Unidentified Sheep Scouting
Jul 26—28	Window Room (Philadelphia, PA), Performance and Residency	HOT WATER
Jun 21	ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), very peak summer solstice	This Mother/land Fabric
Jun 18	Asian American Writers’ Workshop (NYC), very peak summer solstice	Craft Talk & Reading
Apr 11—13	Chen Dance Center (NYC), newsstepsSeries	Unidentified Sheep Scouting
Mar 31	Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY), WAXworks	“Sweet, without”
Feb 16	Spoke the Hub (Brooklyn, NY)	“as the crow flies”
2018
Nov 18	Secret Dungeon (Brooklyn, NY)	Dana Buhl’s “Technical Comfort” closing exhibition event
Nov 10	Access Theater (NYC), Embodied Spaces: A Choreographic Festival II	“Sweet, without”
Oct 18—20	University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)	Seminar & Beginner Contact Improvisation Class
Aug 24	Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA), One More Than Four	“as the crow flies”
Apr 13	Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn NY), Spring Movement Festival	“as the crow flies”
Feb 23	Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn, NY)	Playing with spoons
Jan 28	Triskelion Arts, Never Before, Never Again Festival (Brooklyn, NY)	Playing with spoons (working title: Score, Meet Space No. 2)
2017
Dec 30	Dixon Place (NYC), 30-30-30 Year-End Celebration	"as the crow flies" (working title: Duo in Progress
Dec 16	Arts on Site (NYC), Performance Party	"as the crow flies" (working title: Duo in Progress
Jul 24—29	DanceBarn Festival (Battle Lake, MN)	BodyWork &  Mechanics Workshop
Jul 13—15	Southern Vermont Dance Festival (Brattleboro, VT)	"as the crow flies" (working title: Duo in Progress)
Apr 29	Arts on Site (NYC), "100 Days"	The Stable Edge
Mar 25	Fine Arts Center at University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA), MoveMeant	REV
Mar 15	TADA! Youth Theater (NYC), New Work Series	REV
2016
Oct—Nov	Mazatlán Professional School of Dance (Mazatlán, Mexico)	Residency and workshop
Jul 14—16	Southern Vermont Dance Festival (Brattleboro, VT)	STAIN
Jul 29—31	Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY), Suite Summer Festival	Undertow
Apr 17	Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY), WAXworks	STAIN
Mar 20	West End Theater (NYC), Biomorphic Dance Festival	STAIN
Jan 24	Alchemical Theater (NYC), sift	STAIN
2015
Oct 24	Massachusetts Dance Festival (Holyoke, MA)	STAIN
Nov 21	Tel Aviv Bus Station Terminal, Next Station (Tel Aviv, Israel)	Radioponics (in collaboration with Bertwin D'souza and Jenn Shinn, installation by Shmulik Twig)