Annie Heath

Heath in Progress

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Choreography / Writing
 Current work in progress

This Mother/land Fabric
And at what point do we abandon the mother, the fabric, that which gave us our bodies and the land?

Presented at New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Performances (2019); Issue Project Room (2019)

Conceived and performed by Annie Heath and Sokunthary Svay

This work is supported in part by Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2019-2020). The collaboration was brought together by Benedict Nguyen’s platform soft bodies in hard places, supported by the 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship at ISSUE Project Room and co-presented by the Asian American Writers Workshop.

 Read Soft Landing 
 Craft Talk and Reading with Benedict Nguyen 
 Video 

Photos by Maria Baranova

Virtual Offerings
 Current work in progress

Thoughts on creative processing while in isolation.

Part of New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival #34: Remotely Yours

Artist Talk and Discussion

Part of J CHEN PROJECT CORE Choreography Competition #C3 Episode 6

Choreography
 Current work in progress

Unidentified Sheep Scouting
To the loss of roots and identity.

Presented at Movement Research at the Judson Church (2019); Chen Dance Center (2019)

Conceived and performed by Annie Heath

This work is supported in part by Chen Dance Center’s newstepsSeries through produced performances and mini space grant.

 Video 

Photos by Iki Nakagawa

Choreography

“Sweet, without”

Presented installments at WAXworks at Triskelion Theater (2019), Embodied Spaces II: A Choreography Festival at Access Theater (2018)

Conceived and performed by Annie Heath, Niki Farahani, and Tommy Seibold

 Video 

Photos by Robert Uehlin and Rosie Yerke, Peter Peregrine

Choreography

“as the crow flies”
A celebration of unions and offerings.

Presented at Spoke the Hub (2019); Berkshire Museum (2018); Center for Performance Research (2018); Dixon Place (2017); Arts on Site (2017)

Conceived and performed by Annie Heath and Niki Farahani

Music by Angel & Hildur Gudnadottir, Daejeon Pansori, and Federico Durand

Lighting Design by Lillie DeArmon

 Video 

Photos by Tommy Seibold

Choreography

STAIN
A first taste of another.

Presented at Alchemical Theater Laboratory (2016); Triskelion Arts (2016); West End Theater (2016); Southern Vermont Dance Festival (2016); Massachusetts Dance Festival (2015)

Directed and choreographed by Annie Heath

Performed by Niki Farahani and Tommy Seibold

Music byHungry Ghosts, The 1975, AceMo, and Machinefabriek

Lighting Design by Andy Dickerson

 Video 

Photos by Scott Shaw

Movement
 Ongoing laboratory

Heath in Progress  shannon lynn brooks
 

Participants Shannon Brooks, Gabriella Carmichael, Bridget Cronin, Sarah Elaz, Niki Farahani, Annie Heath, Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin and Tommy Seibold

Video and editing by shannon lynn brooks

 Full project 

Choreography

Playing with spoons
An accumulative research study encompassing 2 years of group collaboration.

Presented installments at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2018); Triskelion Arts (2018)

Conceived and directed by Annie Heath

Performed by Bridget Cronin, Sarah Elaz, Niki Farahani, Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin, and Tommy Seibold

Music by Federico Durand, Chihei Hatakeyama, and Loscil

Lighting consulting by Anna Wotring

 Video 

Photos by Annie Heath

Choreography

REV
Do you see the tear in the fabric?
Watch the bubbles spew upward.

Presented installments at TADA Youth Theater (2017); Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2017)

Conceived and directed by Annie Heath

Performed by Gabriella Carmichael, Bridget Cronin, Sarah Elaz, Niki Farahani, Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin, and Tommy Seibold

Music by composition by Zohar Argaman

Additional music by William Basinski

 Video 

Photos by Andres Villeta Astacio