Eleanor Bauer
Eleanor Bauer, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied at Idyllwild Arts Academy and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. After receiving her BFA from Tisch she worked as a choreographer and performer in several shows in venues throughout New York including Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, LaMaMa E.T.C., Joe's Pub, Judson Church, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, OfficeOps, and Ur, The Dance Palace. She was a dance critic for Off Off Off, an assistant to the editors of the Movement Research Performance Journal, and Program Assistant at Arts International.
Bauer moved to Brussels in 2004 for the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S.. During her studies, she premiered the solo ELEANOR! in January 2005 at Danspace Project at St.Mark's Church in NYC and toured Europe with it as a part of the International Young Maker's Marathon, organized by the Bâtard and ITs Festivals in Spain, Belgium, Holland, The Czech Republic. ELEANOR! has also been independently presented in the Movement Research Benefit Gala 2005 in New York, and by the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, at The Place in London, and the Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier (CCNM). In the American Dance Festival 2005, [heart] The Band, a collaboration between Bauer and New York musicians and performers Chris Peck, Jon Moniaci, Beth Gill, and Chase Granoff performed Reality Reality, the "most intriguing work we've seen to date this season on any stage at the American Dance Festival" (Byron Woods, Independent Weekly). Bauer completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in 2006, performing ELEANOR! and her quartet entitled E-M-P-A-T-H-Y in the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour at Festival de Marseille, Alkantara Festival, ITs Festival, Monty, Vooruit, Kaaistudios, Tanz Im August, and ImPulsTanz, where Bauer was also a DanceWEB scholarship recipient in 2006.
In the autumn of 2006, Bauer participated in a sociological and artistic research project on transnational mobility and community in the performing arts entitled B-Chronicles, produced by Sarma (BE) and Damaged Goods (BE/DE). Conducting interviews with Brussels-based dance professionals, Bauer's research culminated in an essay entitled Becoming Room, Becoming Mac, New Artistic Identities in the Brussels Transnational Dance Community, presented in lecture form at Kaaistudios in January 2007. The essay has since been published in Maska (SI), by the Movement Research Performance Journal, and on I Theatron where you can also read Method Monster, a text originally written also in 2006 for The Making Of The Making Of, a publication initiated by Mette Ingvartsen through her reserach at Nadine. Bauer's other writings on performance have appeared on papa-razzi.be, in P.A.R.T.S. - Documenting ten years of contemporary dance education, and New York's Movement Research Performance Journal for which she is now a contributing editor.
In 2007, Bauer performed in Soul Project by David Zambrano, and Why We Love Action by Mette Ingvartsen, both of which are still touring, and created a solo entitled Dig My Aura that is visible as a performative rehearsal notebook on Youtube.
June-September 2007, Bauer performed Accumulation and Floor of the Forest by Trisha Brown at the international visual arts exhibition documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. In October 2007, Bauer began the creation of At Large in New York with Manon Santkin, Femke Gyselinck and Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, through the support of Dance Theater Workshop and the Tisch Dance Department at NYU, performing works-in-progress in Movement Research at Judson Church and AUNTS. At Large premiered in March 2008 at The Game Is Up festival in Vooriut.
From July to December 2008, Bauer participated in 6M1L (Six Months One Location), a collaborative residency project in Centre Choreographique Nationale Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillion (CCNM) initiated by Xavier Le Roy and Bojana Cvejic with Juan Dominguez, Mette Ingvartsen, Chrysa Parkinson, Eszter Salamon, Jefta Van Dinther, Gerald Kurdian and Bauer, whereby participating in each other's research over an extended period of time, a laboratory for experiments in artistic and knowledge production was co-created and self-organized. The 6M1L project was linked with e.x.e.r.ce, the educational program of CCNM, participating in each other's projects and contributing to the productive economy of exchange. Bauer's project in 6M1L was on practice as a double activity of artistic research and skill development in dance and performance.
In 2009 Eleanor joined Rosas for the creation of The Song by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, for premiere June 2009. In August 2009, Eleanor premiered the double one-woman show with Heather Lang entitled The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa at Tanz Im August / sommer.bar 2009.
In March of 2010 Eleanor premiered a new solo entitled (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) at Vooruit.
Based on a work-in-progress showing in the Working Title Festival #3 of Workspace Brussels, this solo was nominated for a Prix Jardin d'Europe. (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) will continue to tour through 2011. Read reviews here.
Later in 2010, Bauer continues to work on Xavier Le Roy on the project started in Montpellier entitled "Floor Pieces". After a research residency and performances at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge Massachussetts, Floor Pieces will continue with performances throughout Europe. Bauer will also participate in "Levée des Conflits." the new creation by choreographer Boris Charmatz, for premiere in Paris' Festival D'Automne. Bauer will also continue to tour The Song with Rosas, and will start a new project of her own entitled The Newest Age, for premiere in February 2011 at Kaaitheater in Brussels, Belgium.