A Mexican-American Video choreographer living in the USA, her work encompasses a variety of dance for camera work and interdisciplinary performances and choreography.
Internationally active since 1990, Ana Baer has been commissioned to make video installations, multimedia work and/or choreography by the John Cage Foundation, Stadttheather Giessen and Tanz Compagnie Giessen in Germany, Universidad Michoacana de Morelia and Contra Danza in Mexico, Performance Inventions in France, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Michelle Ellsworth, Syzigy Butoh, and Sweet Edge in the USA, among others.
Her work has been presented in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
She is currently teaching at Texas State University. Additionally, she has taught master classes and/or workshops at Centro Nacional de las Artes and Universidad Michoacana in Morelia, Mexico, Justus Liebig University in Germany, Teesside University in the UK, and Stanford, CU Boulder, and Trinity University in the USA, among other Institutions.
Mrs. Baer is a founding member of Avant Media and Merge Dance Company. Additionally, she has been Artistic Co-Director of the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema since 2004. In 2014, she co-founded WE Create Productions with Artist Heike Salzer and ALEBRIJE with Rocio Luna in 2018.
She holds a teacher certificate from the Royal Academy of Dance, a BFA in Choreography from Centro Nacional de las Artes, and an MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Video from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONORS:
2025
Wilson Latin American Research Fellow, TXST
Fulbright Scholar Alternate
London Vignettes
Award Winner, Festival of the Moving Image, London, UK
TerraMontes
Honorable Mention, Greece International Film Festival, Athens
Sympoiesis
Award Winner, Concurso de Videodanza Derrumbes, Oaxaca, MX
2024
Fulbright Scholar Alternate
Angeles de Tierra
Quarter Finalist at Women, Life, Freedom Festival, Queensland, Australia
Sympoiesis
Best photography by Make Art Not Fear, Porto, Portugal Quarter Finalist at Hungry Minds Film Festival, Bra, Italy Best experimental short at the Festival de Cine y Multimedia FECIMU, Buenos Aires, Argentina
UrbáTerra
Semi Finalist Best Short Film, Versuvius International Film Awards, Campania, Italy
HinterTerra
Nominee Best Music Video, Film Olympiad, Athens, Greece
2023
Wilson Latin American Research Fellow, TXST
HinterTerra
Best Short Film Environment and Sustainability, One Earth Awards, Bangalore, India
Honorable Mention by The Huntington Beach Cultural Film Fest, USA
Nominee Festival del Cinema di Cefalú, Palermo, Italy
IXCHEL
Best Experimental Film by Bizarrya Short Film Fest, Porto, Portugal
Sympoiesis
Best Experimental Film by Bizarrya Short Film Fest, Porto, Portugal
2022
Dancing LA: Stay Behind the Yellow Line
Finalist for Best Experimental Film, ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: BLISS, El Segundo, CA
Imágenes de una Realidad
Semi-finalist for Best Experimental Film at the Sweden Film Award, Stockholm
Semi-finalist for Best Film at We Make Films International Film Festival, Wallington, UK
Received IMDb nomination by COUCH Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Honorable Mention by The London International Film Festival, UK
THULE
Best Original Music by the Tulum World Environment Film Festival
Being Together
Best Experimental film by Austin Spotlight, Austin, TX
Best micro short SCREEN ATX, Austin, TX
IXCHEL
Best video installation at FilmArte Festival, Madrid, Spain
Honorable Mention -Best Experimental Film, Tokyo International Monthly Film Fest
Received IMDb nomination by COUCH Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Best Experimental film in February by The London International Film Festival, UK
Honorable Mention- Best Editing by Athens Monthly Art Festival, Athens, Greece
Best Experimental short film in February by The Gothamine Film Festival, NYC
2021
SMArts Advocacy Award Recipient, City of San Marcos, TX
THULE
Best Original Music award by Retro Avant Garde Film Fest, Venezia, Italy
WECreate Spaces-Limerick
Finalist URBAN Visions. Beyond the Ideal City Festival, Bologna, Italy
2020
THULE
Best Short Documentary by Athens International Digital Film Festival
Mención Honorífica by Festival Internacional de Videodanza, Mexico City
Best Original Sound of February by Frosbite Film Festival
La Sabina
Programmers’ Selection Award by Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema, CA
Best Experimental Film Oct/Nov Dumbo Film Festival, NYC
Imágenes de una Realidad
Best experimental film award by Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema, CA
WECreate Spaces: InBetweenness
Selected video of the month of January by Dance Magazine
Best Original Sound of April by Frosbite Film Festival
2019
Wilson Latin American Research Fellow, TXST
La Sabina
Best Experimental Film Oct/Nov Dumbo Film Festival, NYC
Best Editing by Global Shorts, Los Angeles, CA
Best Film-August by Short to the Point Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Wild-er-ness
Innovation Award by Jeju Drone Film Festival, Jeju, South Korea
Award winner by Screen.Dance Festival, Perth, Scotland
Parakata
Best Dance Film by Mediawave On The Road Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary
2018
Wilson Latin American Research Fellow, TXST
Selected Artist in Residency at Dance Limerick, Ireland
Presidential Seminar Award Recipient for Scholarly/Creative TXST
Valero Award of Excellence, TXST
2017 Excellence in Diversity Award Recipient, TXST
2017 Nominated for the Austin Table Media Award for video collage Las 4 Estaciones
2016 Selected best woman filmmaker- June by Barcelona Planet Film Fest
2013 Dean’s Seminar Award
2010 ATLAS innovator by The Atlas Institute, CU Boulder
2010 Dean’s nominee for the Presidential Award – second place
2004 Boulder County Arts Alliance Film/Video Fellowship
2003 University of Colorado’s Graduate Student Research and Creative Work
2002 University of Colorado’s Creative Arts Subsidy funding
2001 Creative Arts Subsidy funding
2001 Colorado Dance Festival (CDF), Student Scholarship
2000 Colorado Dance Festival (CDF), Student Scholarship
1997 Escuela Nacional de Danza Clasica y Contemporanea, CDMX, Merit Scholarship
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