Ann Carlson

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is an award winning choreographic artist whose work takes the form of solo performance, large-scale site-specific projects, ensemble-stage based dances and performance video. Carlson works from a “ world as studio” aesthetic, cultivating and curating the elements of everyday life as a way of exploring how to be together, how to be alone, in a world bound by and blended with the more than human. Ann’s work is engaged with flattening traditional hierarchies and throwing off the guardrails of who gets access to participate and be immersed in the contemporary dance/art experience. Carlson builds choreographic frameworks that adapt and tour to multiple sites over a period of years, resulting in numerous iterations of a central strategy that culminates in a live performance.

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Carlson’s work has been seen across the US and in Europe, Russia, and Mexico. She is the recipient of numerous awards that include a Creative Capital Award, a Doris Duke Award for Performing Artists, a National Dance Project Award, two American Masters awards, a USA Artist Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, she is the recent recipient of a Fellowship from the Santa Monica Arts Council, multiple MapFund awards, numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Ann was the first recipient of the Cal /Arts Alpert Award in dance.

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Carlson has been a visiting faculty member at numerous universities, among them, Wesleyan, Stanford, and Princeton University and currently is an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Dept. of World, Arts, Culture and Dance.

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