Eleanor Bauer - complete biography
For a short (program/publicity) biography, click here
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 choreographed and performed 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 also a freelance dance critic for Off Off Off and assisted with the Movement Research Performance Journal.
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, 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, initiated and produced by Sarma (BE) and Damaged Goods (BE/DE). Conducting interviews with Brussels-based dance professionals, Bauer's research culminated in A Mac of One's Own, an essay presented in lecture form at Kaaistudios in January 2007, and since 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 since appeared in New York's Movement Research Performance Journal, for which she has since been a contributing editor, P.A.R.T.S. - Documenting ten years of contemporary dance education, the Contredanse quarterly publication NDD, on papa-razzi.be, and in the following everybodys publications: 6 months 1 location, everybodys self interviews, everybodys group self interviews, and everybodys performance scores.
In 2007, Bauer performed in Soul Project by David Zambrano, Why We Love Action by Mette Ingvartsen, 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 mid-process interventions and experiments via 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 projects over an extended period of time, a laboratory for artistic exchange, education, and knowledge production was co-created and self-organized. 6M1L was linked with e.x.e.r.ce, the educational program of CCNM.
In 2009 Eleanor joined Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas for The Song, a piece danced by nine men and Bauer that continues to tour internationally. In August 2009, Eleanor created a double one-woman show with New York actress and dancer Heather Lang entitled The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa which premiered in the 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) continues to tour widely. Read reviews here.
Also in 2010, Bauer worked and performed with Xavier Le Roy for the premiere of low pieces and with Boris Charmatz for the premiere and performances of levée des conflits, both of which are still touring.
In February of 2011, Bauer premiered her new sextet entitled A Dance for The Newest Age (the triangle piece), at Kaaitheater in Brussels, Belgium. In March she performed a unique lecture-performance of her artistic practice in Philipp Gehmacher's Walk and Talk series at Kaaistudios, Brussels. She also worked for Eszter Salamon on tales of the bodiless, premiering in May at Kunstenfestivaldesarts '11. Also in 2011, Bauer joined Boris Charmatz for a new creation entitled enfant, premiered in Festival d'Avignon where she will also performed in Charmatz' levée des conflits, LeRoy's floor pieces, and in a curated "bataille" between Bauer and dancer/choreographer François Chaignaud for the 25me heure improvisation series. In November 2011, Bauer participated in the fifth edition of expo zero by musée de la danse in the Performa festival in New York, which also presented her solo (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) in partnership with New York Live Arts. Also in November, Bauer presented a study entitled parliament without words in the Spoken World festival at Kaaitheater, created with and performed by the P.A.R.T.S. Research Cycle students.
In January 2012, Eleanor Bauer and Heather Lang premiered their second episode of The Heather Lang Show By Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versus in the American Realness Festival in New York City, alongside (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS).
In May 2012, Bauer's new group piece entitled Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) will open the Kunstenfestivaldesarts with performances at Kaaitheater 4-7 May 2012. The piece is the second and middle part of a past-present-future trilogy, following A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) and preceding Midday (the mirror piece).
In January 2013, Bauer will begin four years as an Artist in Residence of Kaaitheater in Brussels.
For Eleanor Bauer's complete performance schedule, including the works of other choreographers with whom she performs as well as her own pieces, click here.