Agora Artists Residency with Anna Bauer

About the Residency

Our friends from ATX are coming to town!
This July, Anna Bauer and collaborators, Jairus Carr and Celeste Camfield, will be in Dallas developing a new work and engaging with the Dallas dance community, including a pop-up class (see more below).

The informal showing is a chance to see what they’ve been working on — raw, in-progress movement research shared in an open studio setting. No lights, no stage, just artists in process. Come get a glimpse of the questions and discoveries shaping their current work.

Sunday | July 6th | 2 PM - 3 PM

FREE to attend with donations encouraged

Pop-up Class w/ Anna Bauer

My class is a series of anatomical puzzles in the form of choreographed and improvisational exercises. These exercises challenge us to access our authentic weight, momentum, and specific initiation points within our anatomy in order to achieve the intended movement pathways. We put all of these pieces together in a final (fun!) phrase. Through this idea of anatomical puzzles, I hope to give people a chance to access both their physicality and their ability to remain mentally present. Together, we use our problem-solving brains to feel and focus on the current movement and the current moment.

July 2nd | 10:30am-12pm | Arts Mission Oak Cliff

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Meet Anna Bauer and Collaborators

  • Anna is a person living in Austin, Texas, and wearing the hats of choreographer and dancer. She holds a BFA in Dance from Sam Houston State University and currently dances for the KDH Dance Company and Allysen Hooks Projects while maintaining a personal focus on choreography. She often collaborates with fellow artist Jairus Carr. Right now, her work investigates things like details, clothing, and puzzles. Events across Texas have been kind enough to include her pieces in their lineup: ARCOS Presents Short Form, Austin Dance Festival, BLiPSWiTCH’s Offbeat X, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, and local concerts produced by Austin artists such as ZATERO Dance, Emily Rushing, Carissa Topham Fisher, and Jahna Bobolia. She has also brought her work to national festivals, most recently White Wave Soloduo Dance Festival and RAD Fest Midwest Dance Festival. She has attended residencies with Keshet Makers Space Experience, WhirlWind Dance Company, Homeport Art House, and Bellingham Repertory Dance. Anna also does other non-dance-related things, but you can ask her about those in person.

    Instagram: @anna_bauer151 

    Website: annabauerdance.com

  • Dancer/choreographer Jairus Carr has been in and made work in Austin since 2018. He has worked with several Austin-based artists, like BLiPSWiTCH, Early Era Collective, Jennifer Sherburn, and KDH Dance Company. Frequently collaborating with Anna Bauer, he showcases work across the US—events like Barnstorm Dance Festival, RAD Fest, and Austin Dance Festival. Looking to the future, he’s perpetually unsure.

    Instagram: @jairuscarr

    Website: jairuscarr.carrd.co

  • Celeste Camfield is an artist living on the settled land of the Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, and Jumanos peoples, currently known as Austin, TX. She grew up dancing in the Texas Hill Country and studied at Marymount Manhattan College, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s P.A.R.T.S summer school in Brussels, and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. Since moving to Austin in 2019, Celeste has danced with ARCOS, BLiPSWiTCH, Anna Bauer, Alexa Capareda, and Jairus Carr, among others. She has been creating experimental dance films since 2019, with screenings in Austin, Camden, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, and Portland. In 2022, Celeste co-founded Preheat Fest, a screendance film festival in Austin.

    Instagram: @egg.t.h.o.t