Ann Robideaux
annmakesdances
choreography-dance on film-dance education
acrobideaux@gmail.com
to see Ann's student work, please visit www.pdsdances.com
Current Projects
Social Fabric: In the Public Square
"Social Fabric: In the Public Square," is a collaboration with choreographer and dance filmmaker Ann Robideaux, multi-media artist Andrea Cote and musician Chris Jones. The immersive video installation with live sound score premiered at Guild Hall in East Hampton on October 2, 2021. We invited professional and recreational dancers to explore movement inside six-foot square sheets delineated with geometric and cosmological patterns. After a year of the Covid Pandemic, the event created an intimate and communal space for visitors to experience. Event videography by Joe Brondo. Original preview article here.
Subsequent renditions have been developed and screened at MOCALights (2022), Zero Foot Hills Residency (CT, 2022), The Outlet Dance Project Film Festival at Ground for Sculpture (NJ, 2023), Festival Internacional de VideoDanza Cuerpo Mediadio (Argentina, 2023), Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery (NJ, 2024), ADF's Movies by Movers (NC, 2024) and Moovy, Tanzfilmfestival (2024, Germany).
Bichos:Site-specific dance, natural surroundings film series
BICHOS
Created during a Screen Dance Residency with Rosa María Torres, filmed in the Sourland Mountains (NJ/USA), BICHOS plays with the dichotomies of the Natural and Manufactured, Superiority and Inferiority, Environment and Ego through site-specific improvisation, historic research and dance. As the region is host to migratory birds, insects, wildlife as well as ghost stories, BICHOS refers to both the bugs encountered there as well as it's alternate Spanish translation of Beast and the similar derogatory term used to refer to women in America. A PanAmerican collaboration. Screenings: Festival Internacional de VideoDanza Cuerpo Mediadio 2023 (Argentina); Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery 2024;
for coming forth into the day
Filmed on site at Grounds For Sculpture, this film draws from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (the book of coming forth into day), translations of Sappho, memory, sculpture, and place.
Direction and Editing by Ann Robideaux. Performance and poetry by donia salem harhoor.
Screened at The Outlet Dance Project Film Festival (2022) and the Breaking Walls Film Festival, Egypt (2023).
a transit of venus
A dance film installation at Tyler Spring Arts & Culture Festival At Tyler State Park, May 2022, featuring a tryptic in nature in collaboration with performer donia salem harhoor and Duniya Collective.
works in progress...2025...
Currently editing nature films taken in Princeton, NJ and the Sourland Mountains with Alexx Shilling and Rosa María Torres.
