ANNA BAUER & JAIRUS CARR

choreographers, dancers, and other things in austin, texas.

Love you, moon

Guests

Poetry Collection

bedroom

Clarity Study

Everything We've Done So Far

This Thing That We're Doing/Sorry About All Of The Music/Sorry About All Of The Words

In Medias Res

I can hardly see myself through all of this green

Spring 2025 Class Series

Love you, moon

“When I look at the moon, I feel that I’m seeing something important. Staring up at this vast, impersonal rock in the sky (more of a concept than a physical object if I’m being honest), I feel that I might love it, and it might even love me in return. There’s a sort of unreal, fantastical relationship between us, the moon and I. You might even say it’s romance.Our first evening-length work, Love you, moon, is not really about the moon, but it is about the feeling it gives us. The fantasy, the specter, the socialized ideal of romance and what it looks like. Being loved, cared for, held by soft and beautiful light in the night. It’s also about honesty, or an attempt at it– how awkward it is to actually love people platonically, intimately, domestically, and yes, romantically. And Love you, moon is also just a 50 minute dance that explores intimacy in partnering, in gesture, in eye contact, in big physical phrasework, in slow gentle leanings-on-each-other. Ultimately, this work is about whatever you want it to be about, as most things are. As the moon is. It’s so far away anyways, what’s the harm in fantasy?”

place this piece has been:
El Cosmico Contained, Austin, Texas (November 2025)
Produced by BLiPSWiTCH
Created for BLiPSWiTCH's Site Specific Sponsorship Program

photos by Jade Skye Hammer
poster design and photos by Taryn Lavery and Jairus Carr

Everything We've Done So Far

30-minute duet dance show
(and fundraiser)
We threw a fundraiser to raise money for our evening-length show in November 2025, produced by BLiPSWiTCH!This event included:
- 30-minute duet dance performance by us, culminating ALL past duet work together
- mini lamp store
- t-shirt sale
- mocktail hour directly following each show
ALL of the proceeds from this event went directly to the artists we hired for this fundraiser and for our evening-length work, Love you, moon.

place this piece has been:
Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)

photos and poster design by Iris Goetsch

Guests

a gradual countdown spans 5 minutes (and some change). in the meantime, a symphony crests, an egg boils, and a car passes. 3, 2, 1... and what happens after 0?

places this piece has been:
The Barefoot Ball, East Side Performing Arts, Austin, Texas (January 2026)
Everything We've Done So Far, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)
St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival, St. Louis, Missouri (June 2025)
Jahna Bobolia’s COMMUNITY, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (November 2023)
Our Hearts (Always)

photos by us and Lumosco Photo

This Thing That We're Doing/Sorry About All Of The Music/Sorry About All Of The Words

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places this piece has been:
Everything We've Done So Far, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)
Bellingham Repertory Dance at Vytal Movement Dance’s Spring Show In Parallel, Spokane, Washington (April 2024)
RAD Fest Dance Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan (March 2024)
Bellingham Repertory Dance Fall 2023 Season, Bellingham, Washington (Fall 2023)
Aimed Dance Summer Fest, Beaumont, Texas (July 2023)
Barnstorm Dance Festival, Houston, Texas (June 2023)
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2023)
Houston Fringe Festival Anything Goes, Houston, Texas (November 2022)

photos by Fluid Frames Dance Photography

Poetry Collection

a collection of movement poems inspired by our week in maine and created in residence at Homeport Art House.

places this piece has been:
Everything We've Done So Far, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)
Homeport Art House Residency Informal Performance, South Thomaston, Maine (July 2024)

In Medias Res

a jazz quartet capturing the joy and spontaneity of an improv jam.

places this piece has been:
Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Denton, Texas (October 2023)
Austin Dance Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2023)
Jahna Bobolia’s At The Table, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (September 2022)

photo courtesy of Texas Dance Improvisation Festival 2023

bedroom

(in which we dance with a lamp and tea kettle.)

places this piece has been:
Everything We've Done So Far, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)
Austin Community College Informance, Austin, Texas (June 2023)
SMORG, Café Dance, Austin, Texas (April 2023)

photo by us

I can hardly see myself through all of this green

places this piece has been
Texas Dance Improvisation Festival (October 2025)
Commissioned for KDH Dance Company and created in collaboration with dancers
photo courtesy of Texas Dance Improvisation Festival 2025

Clarity Study

duet with a box. a short study on clarity, and lack thereof. alternative title: I think I want to be taller.

places this piece has been
Everything We've Done So Far, Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (August 2025)
5x7 Dance Festival, First Street Studio, Austin, Texas (June 2024)

Spring 2025 Class Series

We taught a monthly class!Dates: January 26, February 23, March 23, April 20, June 22
Time: Sundays 5:30pm-7pm
Location: Cafe Dance
Price: Donation based! Suggested donation of $15-$20, but no one turned away for lack of funds. All donations went to support the creation of our future work :) We’re not doing any sort or pre-registration- pay at the door!Class Description: This spring, we want to improvise A LOT and find as many interesting prompts and ideas as we can. We plan to develop exercises to explore and expand our favorite ideas from each month of research. This class will be an offering of those exercises. This may lead to phrase work, but it may not. Who knows? We’re thinking the level will be intermediate to advanced.
YIPPEE!

place this series took place:
Cafe Dance, Austin, Texas (Spring 2025)

photo courtesy of Texas Dance Improvisation Festival 2023