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Dance Related Biography (338 words)
Anne Bourne is a composer/ improviser, and interdisciplinary artist who creates emergent streams of cello and voice. Seasoned in electroacoustic performance and song, Anne collaborates with artists Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly CA; Silvia Tarozzi IT; IONE US; Dubmorphology UK; tUkU CA; Stephen Vitiello US; and Kara-Lis Coverdale CA. A composer for dance Anne has created work with choreographer/dancers Robert Desrosiers; Andrea Nann, with author Michael Ondaatje and director Veronica Tennant; Peter Chin; Kathleen Rea; Karen Kaeja; Alutiq artist Tanya Lukin-Linklater; Laura Colomban, IT; Kim de Jong with live filmmaker Philippe Léonard; and for esteemed choreographer Peggy Baker, CA in a choreographers trust performance with Natasha Bakht 2017 and as composer with Ganavya Doraiswamy, for her body as words, 2020-21. Anne has performed the works of living composers Karen Tanaka, James Tenney, Nicholas Collins, Alvin Lucier, and Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016. After a performance in telepresence with Oliveros in New York 1994, Anne spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico with Oliveros, cultivating a listening practice. Anne improvised the premier of Oliveros’ composition 'Primordial/Lift,' NY 1998, and the TAIGA release recorded at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, 2013; and finally, as an homage to Oliveros, with IONE, ICE, Distraktfold and Mauricio Pauly, at the Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, 2017. A Deep Listening® certificate holder since1998, Anne imparts Oliveros’ Text Scores through the intersection of sound and gesture, initiates community sound choirs and facilitates collective creative experience ; at Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy 2019; Acts of Listening Lab, Montreal, 2019; and as MMM_MM/ Ensemble Vide artist in resident, Geneve, CH, 2020, and on faculty at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Collective Composition Lab, under the artistic direction of Claire Chase US, and Emily Molnar CA, Danse Nederland. Anne was the recipient of Paul D. Fleck Leighton Writer’s Colony Fellowship, 2017; and Chalmers Fellowship, 2019-21 for which she researches the geopoetics of shoreline. Anne believes each creative expression is an opportunity for the beauty of difference to emerge, through interference and listening.
Dance & Film Related Biography (372 words)
Anne Bourne is a composer/ improviser, and interdisciplinary artist who creates emergent streams of cello and voice. Seasoned in intermedia performance and song Anne collaborates with artists Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly CA; Silvia Tarozzi IT; IONE US; tUkU CA; Peter Mettler CH/CA, and Kara-Lis Coverdale CA. As composer Anne has created work for stage and film with composer Mychael Danna, CA for director Atom Egoyan, CA ‘The Sweetheareafter’, Gran Prix Cannes, 1997; with choreographer/ dancer Caroline Richardson US’ Horses Never Lie’, American Choreographer Award, LA, 2003; for choreographer /dancer Andrea Nann’s meditation suite, with author Michael Ondaatje and director Veronica Tennant, Best Original Music Award, Yorkton Film Festival, 2005; choreographer/ dancer/ director Karen Kaeja CA, short film titled ‘Linoleum’, 2008; live performance and installation ‘grain(s)’ with Alutiq artist/ choreographer Tanya Lukin-Linklater, MOCA 2013; ‘Cassini’s Dreams’ installation/ performance, China Blue CH/US, Andrea Nann, CA, Laura Colomban, IT, Bienale Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2019; performance creation with choreographer/ dancer Kim de Jong, filmmaker Philippe Léonard Montreal 2019; and as composer for Peggy Baker Dance Projects, CA new work ‘her body as words’, 2020-21.
After a significant performance in telepresence with composer Pauline Oliveros NY, 1994, Anne spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo mountains studying composition with Oliveros, cultivating a deep listening practice, and developing her experience of distance performance. Anne improvised the premier of Oliveros’ composition 'Primordial/Lift,' NY 1998, and the TAIGA release recorded at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, 2013; and as homage to Oliveros (1932-2016), with IONE, International Conetmporary Ensemble, and Mauricio Pauly, at the Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, 2017. A Deep Listening® certificate holder since1998, Anne imparts Oliveros’ Text Scores through the intersection of sound and gesture and facilitates collective creative experience; at Kilowat, Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy 2019; Acts of Listening Lab, Concordia, Montreal, 2019; and as MMM_MM/ Ensemble Vide artist in residence, Geneve, CH, 2020. Anne is on faculty at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Collective Composition Lab, for choreographers and composers, positioned under AD Emily Molnar, CA, Ballet BC/Danse Nederland, den Hague. Anne was the recipient of Paul D. Fleck Leighton Writer’s Colony Fellowship, 2017; and Chalmers Fellowship, 2019-21 for which she researches the geopoetics of shoreline, interference tones, voice, and listening.
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