Biography
Ana Baer Carrillo is a Mexican-American video-choreographer living in the US since 2000. The international scope of her presentations, the diversity of the forms in which she works, and her frequent practice of collaboration are evidence of her twenty-first century, transitional, interdisciplinary contributions to the Arts. Baer Carrillo works across several discrete fields and genres, maintaining a clear dance-centric conceptual line in her research agenda.
Her dance and video work has been produced around the globe by Festivals, Galleries, Museums and Institutions of Higher Education.
Baer Carrillo is a founding member of Merge Dance Company and has been Artistic co-director of Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema since 2004. In 2014 she co-founded WECreate Productions with Heike Salzer to further explore, themes of identity, the body and site- specificity through artistic collaboration. She is currently on Faculty at Texas State University.
She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Choreography at Centro Nacional de las Artes, CDMX, Mexico and a Master’s in Dance with an emphasis in video at The University of Colorado at Boulder, US.
Her dance and video work has been produced around the globe by Festivals, Galleries, Museums and Institutions of Higher Education.
Baer Carrillo is a founding member of Merge Dance Company and has been Artistic co-director of Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema since 2004. In 2014 she co-founded WECreate Productions with Heike Salzer to further explore, themes of identity, the body and site- specificity through artistic collaboration. She is currently on Faculty at Texas State University.
She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Choreography at Centro Nacional de las Artes, CDMX, Mexico and a Master’s in Dance with an emphasis in video at The University of Colorado at Boulder, US.
Research Interests
Collaborative Arts Production
Screendance
Identity/Roots
Post-Colonial Theories
Embodied Research
Screendance
Identity/Roots
Post-Colonial Theories
Embodied Research
Teaching Interests
dance
video
multidiscipline
video
multidiscipline