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Anna MacRae (AT/NZ)
Anna MacRae (* 1977 in Auckland, New Zealand) graduated with a diploma in Contemporary Dance and Choreography, in Auckland 1996.
In 1997 she was a founding member of Curve - an all women contemporary dance collective and has danced with New Zealand's most acclaimed choreographers such as Shona McCullagh, Michael Parmenter, and Douglas Wright. As a 2001 DanceWeb scholarship recipient, Anna travelled to Vienna for the ImpulsTanz Festival and there became a member of Cie. Willi Dorner. Beginning of 2005 Anna started working for Meg Stuart’s company Damaged Goods performing in “Replacement” and “It’s not funny”. From 2007 on she also started working with Boris Charmatz to perform in “Quintette Cercle” and “Aatt enen tionon”. Also she worked with Akemi Takeya for “31 shots” and performed in Milli Bitterli’s “Can You Feel My Hard Beat”. Most recently she worked with Laurent Chétouane for a theater piece “Dantons Tod” that premiered January 2010 in Schauspielhaus Köln. And she was responsible for the setup of Tino Sehgal’s (visual artist) performance-installation “Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and other things” for the 4th Auckland Triennale (12. März – 20. Juni 2010).
Anna’s own work continued with the solo project “shock body”, premiered in Festival imagetanz 06 of dietheater Künstlerhaus Wien. It was shown also in festival Repérages in Lille, at Gasteig München, Volksbühne Berlin, at festival Complicitats in Barcelona and at Festival Inequilibrio in Castiglioncello a.o. Following this Anna created a duet “Survival of a Solo” that premiered in Vienna in April 2008 and a trio “with subtitles” that premiered in Bucharest and in Vienna in October 2009. Anna is a regular contemporary dance teacher in Tanzquartier Wien, SEAD Salzburg, K3 Hamburg, Tanzhaus Zürich and independANCE Auckland.
In 1997 she was a founding member of Curve - an all women contemporary dance collective and has danced with New Zealand's most acclaimed choreographers such as Shona McCullagh, Michael Parmenter, and Douglas Wright. As a 2001 DanceWeb scholarship recipient, Anna travelled to Vienna for the ImpulsTanz Festival and there became a member of Cie. Willi Dorner. Beginning of 2005 Anna started working for Meg Stuart’s company Damaged Goods performing in “Replacement” and “It’s not funny”. From 2007 on she also started working with Boris Charmatz to perform in “Quintette Cercle” and “Aatt enen tionon”. Also she worked with Akemi Takeya for “31 shots” and performed in Milli Bitterli’s “Can You Feel My Hard Beat”. Most recently she worked with Laurent Chétouane for a theater piece “Dantons Tod” that premiered January 2010 in Schauspielhaus Köln. And she was responsible for the setup of Tino Sehgal’s (visual artist) performance-installation “Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and other things” for the 4th Auckland Triennale (12. März – 20. Juni 2010).
Anna’s own work continued with the solo project “shock body”, premiered in Festival imagetanz 06 of dietheater Künstlerhaus Wien. It was shown also in festival Repérages in Lille, at Gasteig München, Volksbühne Berlin, at festival Complicitats in Barcelona and at Festival Inequilibrio in Castiglioncello a.o. Following this Anna created a duet “Survival of a Solo” that premiered in Vienna in April 2008 and a trio “with subtitles” that premiered in Bucharest and in Vienna in October 2009. Anna is a regular contemporary dance teacher in Tanzquartier Wien, SEAD Salzburg, K3 Hamburg, Tanzhaus Zürich and independANCE Auckland.
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