Videos
Choreography / Performance / Improvisation
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
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)
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
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
All Dressed up
(to walk the dog)
A dance video in the time of Covid-19.
Created for and presented by "Bouge d'ici" for "This is Not a Fringe," June 2020.
Concept and performance: Allison Elizabeth Burns
Music: Erica Lee Martin
Featuring: Hekate
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
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
Do You Want to Live Forever?
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A story told through dance, poetry, and magic, at the 2017 Ottawa Fringe Festival.
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