Anne's first ArModa (short for "Art Music Meets Modern Dance") project, Making Cello, was a collaboration with Vancouver-based choreographer Jill Henis. Written for violist, cellist, male dancer, and female dancer, the piece whet her appetite for more interdisciplinary creation. Subsequently, after months in the studio, Anne and Jill premiered their second work, Interstice, at Vancouver's The Dance Centre Theatre in August, 2004. Then followed Six Moving Concepts, a six movement improv that was showcased at both the contemporary music series Parallela Tuesdays and the B.C. Buds festival at Vancouver's Firehall Theatre. In Ottawa, Anne performed ArModa in living breathing with Natasha Royka (2005), Life Forces with Elizabeth Claire Barratt (2006, 2007), and Ko-Tha (2006, 2007) choreographed by Saveeta Sharma. Ko-Tha was also invited to contemporary dance festival Dans/ce Kapital in August 2007. In May and June 2007, Anne worked as a dancing electric cellist/actor/singer on a mounting of Euripides' Medea by Ottawa theatre company Deluxe Hot Sauce. Medea, nominated for five Rideau Awards including "Best New Creation," was performed in both the Ottawa Fringe and Magnetic North theatre festivals. Anne's largest set of interdisciplinary creations coalesce to form a one-woman show entitled Outside the Music Box. Produced by Ottawa-based Schema Productions, Outside the Music Box included two world-premieres: So Often Drawn, a piece she created for dancing acoustic cellist and soundtrack, and Merging, a piece she commissioned composer Evan Ware and choreographer Kate Hilliard for dancing electric cellist. Following the Ottawa premiere of Merging, Anne was invited to perform in New York, NY as part of the Stella Adler School's MAD AIR program. She performed Merging as part of a sold-out, two-night showcase of Kate Hilliard's work. She is currently working on a new ArModa piece for solo dancing electric cellist to be premiered in the fall of 2008. ### |