Anna and The Annadroids: Clone Zone

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Anna and The Annadroids are on a mission to escape the Clone Zone. Smart, funny, and surreal, this computer animation-enhanced dance and aerial theater production places a small band of quirky robot girls in a video game-like world designed to structurally parallel Carl Jung's multi-layered psychoanalytic model of the human psyche. There, Anna has five lives (The Annadroids) with which to battle and evade the weird and wonderfully whacked-out forces that reside in the deepest regions of her programmed mind.

"Through the integration of film, dance, and technology-generated graphics the show succeeds in making bold statements about humanity and its dysfunctions....the show is extremely entertaining.."
- Taylor Gordon, offoffonline.com New York

Anna and The Annadroids are quirky robot girls who perform athletic dance and aerial theater shows enhanced with innovative video technologies. The company was founded in 2005 in Columbus, Ohio by Artistic Director and Choreographer Anna Sullivan. Between the years 2005 and 2011, Sullivan has produced eleven original full length dance theater concerts; performed for countless community events; received multiple project grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council; been invited to perform at the New York International Fringe Festival three times (2006, 2007, and 2011); and won the 2008 Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Artistic Excellence Award of $10,000 for her production Anna and The Annadroids: Clone Zone.

Since relocating to San Francisco in 2011, Sullivan’s work has been seen at the Garage, Dance Mission Theater, SpectorDance, MixMatch Dance Festival, and most recently was presented by ODC as part of their House Special residency program. Anna has also recently received partial funding from the Zellerbach Foundation for her upcoming presentation of Clone Zone.

Sullivan’s mission as a dance artist is to create a marriage between unique movement, provocative concepts, edgy costuming, and innovative multi-media technologies. Anna’s work stands apart from the norm with her quirky gestures and symbolic movement vocabulary that invites a give-and-take exploration of the human condition--vulnerability, susceptibility, desire, mortality, relationships, motives, and the terror of the unknown. Like a funhouse mirror, Anna and The Annadroids reflect a playfully exaggerated image of early 21st century social conventions that psychopathically promote robotic conformity and mindless overindulgence.

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http://www.annadroids.com

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