Videos

Life Cycle of a Malignant Debate (work in process)

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This duet is the result of the first creation period for an ORez project (August 2019), generously offered by the Ottawa Dance Directive. 

Choreographer: Allison Elizabeth Burns
Collaborating Performers: Sarah Hopkin and Geoffrey Dollar
Music: suite for 50 strings by Tristan Henry

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We Three

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Created for and presented at the 37th Alberta Dance Festival at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. September 13-15, 2018. Video courtesy of Dancers’ Studio West.

Choreographer: Allison Elizabeth Burns
Collaborating performers: Sarah Curts, Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, and Heather Thomson
Outside eyes: Sasha Ivanochko and Deanne Walsh
Composer: Nicole Lizée (Ouijist)

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You're Never Fully Dressed

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Created for and presented at the first edition of the Uproar Arts Festival in August 2019.

Choreographer: Allison Elizabeth Burns
Collaborating performer: Alya Graham
Composer: Nicole Lizée, music: Son of the Man with the Golden Arms
Special Thanks to Amelia Griffin and Travis Martin

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Love Locks

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A sequel to The Key to Time Travel created thanks to funding from The City of Ottawa, and presented for the first time at the 2019 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Choreographer: Allison Elizabeth Burns
Collaborating Performers: Amanda Bon, Chelsea Passmore, and Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson 
Composer and Creator of Original Score: Tristan Henry  
Story Consultant: Travis Martin

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The Key to Time Travel

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Created for and presented at the 2017 Dark Horse Dance Projects in Ottawa, ON.

Project Instigator & Choreographer: Allison Elizabeth Burns

Collaborating Performers: Amanda Bon & Chelsea Passmore

Composer and Creator of Original Score: Tristan Henry

Writer: Travis Martin 

Choreographic Consultant: Keir Knight 

Mentor: Yvonne Coutts

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Do You Want to Live Forever?

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A story told through dance, poetry, and magic, at the 2017 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

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Project Instigator, Choreographer & Performer:

Allison Elizabeth Burns

Co-Creator, Writer & Performer: Travis Martin

Collaborator & Performer: Alya Graham

Music: Tristan Henry and Stroboscopica

Performers: Mary Wiggin, Cleo and Tessa

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Sacristy

Improvisation with For Body and Light/pour corps et lumière

Created in 2016 by for body and light & jaymez
Words and Music: Ian Ferrier
Shot and Edited: jaymez
Dancers: Allison Burns & Linnea Gwiazda
special thanks to Stéphanie Morin-Robert

Kramer - Lamentation

Classical Music Video

noncerto 105.3 Russell & Kramer 
Trombone: Matthew Russell
Piano: Eliazer Kramer
Dancer: Allison Burns
Site: Parc du Portugal, Montréal, Québec, 15 août 2016.
Cinéaste/Filmmaker: Marie C. Dietlin
Vidéographe: Waël Chanab
Audio: Jack Kelly