ANNIE SAILER DANCE COMPANY
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Annie Sailer Dance Company Annie Sailer Dance Company Annie Sailer Dance Company members include: Susan Golub, Craig Hoke, Rod Rufo, Annie Sailer, Corinne Sarian, and Stephanie Schwartz. Annie Sailer Dance Company will present an evening-length performance in Speyer Hall at University Settlement on March 26 and 27, 2010, at 8:00 pm. Sailer is both a dancer/choreographer and a visual artist. Her choreography is a result of the last several years’ exploration into improvisation and the influence of her recent paintings. In addition to the choreography, costumes and sculptural installations are created by Sailer as well. “I intend my work to have an over-the-top, slightly absurd, irreverent sensibility while simultaneously evoking dream-like narratives that echo our deeper selves. I am equally influenced by nature, heightened states of consciousness, and contemporary, Japanese street fashion.” The performance will include the premiere of a new group work which is not yet titled, sister sister (2009), a duet performed by Sailer and Susan Golub, a continuation of Sailer’s image series which involves structured improvisations matched up with evolving sculptural installations, and habitat (2009), a group dance premiered in last year’s concert at University Settlement. Sailer’s primary dance training was with Nancy Meehan and members of Nancy Meehan and Erick Hawkins Dance Companies. She performed with Nancy Meehan Dance Company in 1984 and 1985. During the past thirty years Annie Sailer Dance Company has performed throughout the United States for which she has received grants and fellowships. In 2001 Sailer and her family relocated to New York City where she again established Annie Sailer Dance Company. ASDC has performed in venues including space@anthology, The Williamsburg Dance Festival, WAXworks at Williamsburg Arts Nexus and Triskelion Arts, Fielday at White Wave, HERE Arts Center, Abrons Art Center, and PS 122, Broome Corner Studio Choreographic Series, The Brooklyn Sampler at BRIC Studio, Fertile Ground at Green Space, Green Space Blooms Series, Movement Research Open Performance at Dance Theater Workshop, Erick Hawkins Centennial Symposium at the 92nd St. Y, and evening-length concerts at Williamsburg Arts Nexus (2004), and University Settlement (2009). Please go to www.anniesailer.com to view Sailer’s paintings. Subway directions: F or V to Second
Ave., B or D to Grand, or J/M/Z to Essex St. Click on the thumbnails for a larger image:
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Annie Sailer Dance Company (New York) was established in 2001. Through natural movement and spatial relationships, generated by imagery, Sailer creates dances that evoke the unconscious. Her choreography is influenced by her life experience, Japanese aesthetics, and Nancy Meehan. There is a direct physicality and sense of weight to Sailer's movement. Her choreography has an understated quality that implies emotional and psychological states of mind. Like a cartoon, she intends her work to have an "over-the-top", slightly absurd, irreverent sensibility while simultaneously evoking dream-like narratives. For the past two years ASDC has been performing structured improvisations that are directed by Sailer, but developed collectively by the company. The structures are non-frontal and bleed off the performing space in a way similar to her paintings. Movement sequences overlap, freeze in stillness, and are repeated or referred to in various groupings, facings, and locations. Costuming and occasional sculptural installations work as integral parts of each piece; sometimes generating content and sometimes, simply, providing an additional visual element to the choreography. The designs, colors, and forms refer to her paintings. Annie Sailer Dance Company has performed in venues including space@anthology; the Williamsburg Dance Festival; WAXworks; Fielday at White Wave, HERE Arts Center, and Abrons Arts Center; Broome Corner Studio Choreographic Series; the Brooklyn Sampler at BRIC Studio; Fertile Ground at Green Space; and an evening length concert at Williamsburg Arts Nexus. Annie Sailer is a dancer and a visual artist. She has been performing, choreographing, teaching dance, and painting since the mid-seventies. Sailer has a B.F.A. in Painting, an M.A. in Dance, and an M.A. in Studio Art. Her movement is based in the Hawkins technique. In 1974, following college, she moved to New York City to study dance with Nancy Meehan. From 1974 through 1985 she trained with Meehan and members of Erick Hawkins Dance Company. She performed with Nancy Meehan Dance Company in 1984 and 1985. The Annie Sailer Dance Company has been in existence since 1983. Due to her husband's academic career, she has relocated several times throughout the U.S., each time building a dance company, receiving funding, and creating a performing presence. Sailer has been teaching modern dance based in the Hawkins technique since 1978. She has taught and choreographed at George Washington University, Kenyon College, The University of Wyoming, the American Dance Festival, public schools, dance studios, including Annie Sailer Dance Studio in New Haven, CT and in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Her students have included professional dancers, non-dancers, college students, children, teens, psychiatric patients, and adults with Downs Syndrome. In addition to teaching dance technique Sailer teaches composition, improvisation, massage, body awareness and alignment. In 2001 Sailer and her family relocated
to New York City where she again established Annie Sailer Dance
Company. ASDC members include Susan Golub, Craig Hoke Zarah, Rod
Rufo, Annie Sailer, Corinne Sarian, and Stephanie Schwartz. DVDs and videos available upon request. Annie Sailer is available for classes and choreography. Annie Sailer Dance Company is available
for performance. Click here to download a complete dance resume (pdf format)
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