Anna-Lise Marie Hearn is a British-Norwegian dance artist and choreographer living in Oslo. Since graduating from London Studio Centre in in 2013, with a specialisation in contemporary dance, her work has spanned collaborative projects, commissioned work, commercial productions, and self-produced work within both live performance and film. Working with dance and movement, she creates experiences and spaces that allow for transformation, vulnerability, and connection.
Anna-Lise’s artistic practice explores the intertwining of physical and emotional expressions of being, seeing the body as a vessel for our lived experience. As a choreographer, she works with dance and movement to express felt sensations, landscapes, and connections that are personal, societal, or metaphorical. Movement improvisation is an important element within Anna-Lise’s creative process as it fosters an approach to creating work that promotes generosity, spontaneity and visceral, bodily reactions to the material she is working with.
Image 1: LAND, a site-responsive performance project by Anna-Lise Marie Hearn, performed at Moster Amfi in Bømlo, Norway (2022), photographed by Eduardo Scaramuzza
Image 2: LAND, a site-responsive performance project by Anna-Lise Marie Hearn, in rehearsal at Moster Amfi in Bømlo, Norway (2022), photographed by Eduardo Scaramuzza
Image 3: Workshopping “TOOLBOX”; a resource for movement improvisation and composition, photographed by Zahra BanziImage 4: Hands for “fold & unfold”; a workshop in collaboration with Inês Neto dos Santos
