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Lindy Annis
Inspired by a childhood in front of the television in Boston, Annis became interested in new performance forms at an early age. In New York she studied role-playing at an acting studio, and movement, time and space at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing. Lindy Annis lives in Berlin, Germany producing performance and theater works, working as Dramaturge and writing texts for the stage. Her current series of works investigates the iconography of body gestures (pathos formulas) and their after-life in modern art and life.
She has worked with such people as Tim Miller, The Wooster Group, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Anne Bogart, Detektor, Xavier Le Roy, Antonia Baehr, Dr. Motte, Kurt Palm, Frieder Butzmann, Marie Goyette, Hans Peter Kuhn, Nicholas Bussmann, amoung others.
Since January 2009 she sits on the board of the Milchhof Artist’s Working Collective.
2010
Dramaturgy: "Barnes dance"
Concept: Nicholas Bussmann
Premier: September 2010 Berlin
Dramaturgy: "For Faces"
Concept: Antonia Baehr
Premier: October 2010 Kortrjik, Belgium
"Walden 22"
A short-performance for the finissage of the exhibition "Ultrahocherhitzt"
Milchhof, Berlin
Artist in Residence
"The Iconography of Body Gestures"
Fabrik Potsdam
2009
Curator/Mentor
DasArts Masters of Theater program
Block: Learning by Teaching
Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Walden" (Short-Performance)
after Henry Thoreau, Milchhof Berlin
Curator of “Ultrahocherhitzt”
An exhibition series, Milchhof Berlin (Sept. 2009 - April 2010)
2008
“Warburgs Memo”
Music: Nicholas Bussmann, Draturgy: Antonia Baehr, Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin
Dramaturgy for "Laugh"
by Antonia Baehr - Les Laboratoire d'Aubervilliers, France
2007
music: Frieder Bussmann, dramaturgy: Antonia Baehr,
"Nom D’une Pipe" a duet with Antonia Baehr - Les Subsistances,
"Mosquito Park" a play for young people - Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin
2006
an interactive video installation
2005
"SEX" ("Play") Music: Nicholas Bussmann HAU 2, Berlin
2004
"An American Tragedy" - HAU 1, Berlin
"Lady Hamilton"s Attitudes" - HAU 3, Berlin
2003
"Big Eden" (spoken word) - Big Eden, Berlin
2002
"Lady Hamilton"s Attitudes, stage 1" - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"SHORTS, 5 Melancholische bis Tragische Stücke" - Podewil Berlin:
- Encyclopedia of Tragic Attitudes (with Xavier Le Roy)
- Death of a Salesman
- Lazy Legs
- Auerbachs Keller
- The Cherry Orchard
2000
"BLOW UP FAUST 2000:" the Jungle, CNN and Tele-Tubbie versions (with Frieder Butzmann, Rudie Ewals, Katrin Schoof) - Podewil Berlin
1998
"Frequent Flyer" (with Dr. Motte) - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
"Salomé 7" (with Butzmann, Ewals, Schoof) - Podewil Berlin"
"The Cherry Orchard" - Theater of the former Russian Headquarters of the GDR
1996
"My Life as a Circus" - Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin
"HAMLET.TXT" - Stükke Theater Berlin
1995
"A Missing Person & Some Objèts Trouvés" (with Marie Goyette) - Hebbel Theater Berlin
1994
"30 Reasons why I’m not a child anymore" - Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1992
"Three Sisters" - Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow
"All About me - English in 6 Steps" - Künstlerhaus Wien
The Paternoster Triology
1992
"America: Columbus in the Elevator" - Schöneberg City Hall, Berlin
1991
"Dante in the Elevator" - Senat für Bau- und Wohnungswesen Berlin
1990
"Alice in the Elevator" - The Headquarters of the Socialist Party, East Berlin
Scholarships, etc.
2003
Award for "experimental work in the theater" for SHORTS Thespis festival, Kiel
1998
Artist in Residence Podewil, Berlin
1996
Work scholarship, from the City of Berlin, Künstlerinnenprogramm
1993 + 1994
"Bjelka" Symposien, Petrovski Blvd, Moskau
1992
"Salon", Work stipend from the City of Berlin for Moscow
Plays for young people
1996
"On the Run", with Platypus Theater, Berlin
1994
"Play To Win", with Platypus Theater, Berlin
1993
"Kisses and Cokes", 1998 published by Cornelsen Publishing House
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