Ann Glaviano, Known Mass No.3, “St. Maurice.” Directed and produced by Ann Glaviano. minicine?, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2019. Photograph by Shannon Palmer.
Other Plans is pleased to welcome Ann Glaviano for a dance residency this spring!
Throughout the spring, Glaviano will be developing an animal dance, an hour-long dance performance inquiring into the vernacular of the human animal. At Other Plans, Glaviano will generate new studies for this solo work, alone and with collaborators and community members, in a site-responsive physical research process.
As Glaviano shares:
an animal dance is an absurdist meditation on dread, ephemerality, and connection. It’s for the people of Louisiana; it’s for people getting acquainted with existential uncertainty. The work engages universal concerns about the things we can’t control, explores the grace and optimism of how people move forward together and what space can open up in the wake of disaster, and interrogates how we might face the future with a sense of humor, purpose, humility, and adventure.
Ann Glaviano is a writer, dance-maker, DJ, and born-and-raised New Orleanian. For more than a decade, Glaviano has run a friendly neighborhood dive-bar dance party called HEATWAVE! spinning dance jams on vinyl from 1957-1974; she has been featured in Elle and nominated by Offbeat as Best DJ in New Orleans. Her prose has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Tin House, and Slate, among other publications. As a dance artist she maintains a wide-ranging practice: she’s danced with the New Orleans Ballet Theatre, executed a lecture/demonstration alongside Deborah Hay, choreographed for Hulu, engaged in incendiary national dance advocacy and institutional protest work with the re:FRAME collective, improvised the “ballerina rap” bit on stage with Hannibal Buress, written on commission for the National Performance Network, and performed in a dystopic durational art installation in Dresden. Glaviano received a BA in English from Louisiana State University and an MFA in Fiction with an interdisciplinary minor concentrating in dance from The Ohio State University.