Eleanor Bauer is an American choreographer and dancer.
Early life and education Eleanor Bauer studied at the Idyllwild Arts Academy (1997–2000) in California and subsequently the NYU School of the Arts (2000–2003).
After completing her bachelor's degree in dance, she choreographed and danced in different places in New York, including Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, LaMaMa ETC, Joe's Pub, Judson Church, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, OfficeOps, and Ur, The Dance Palace. In 2004, she went to Brussels to study at the dance school P.A.R.T.S., where she completed the Research Cycle (2004–2006).Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of P.A.R.T.S. She currently is a PhD candidate in Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts.
Career Choreography Bauer's work is at the intersection of choreography, dance, text, music and performance. Her productions vary in size and used media, and focus on questioning categories, production methods and ways of thinking performance.Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts In her work, she utilizes the strict codes and concepts of contemporary dance in a shrewd and subtle way, with an expressive directness that tends toward cabaret and vaudeville.Page about Meyoucycle (Eleanor Bauer and Chris Peck /GoodMove & Ictus, 2016) on the website of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Bauer created her first solo production, ELEANOR! (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2005) while still studying at P.A.R.T.S.. Afterwards, a wide range of productions followed, including a trilogy consisting of A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2011), Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) and Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013). This trilogy utilizes three-fold paradigms such as past-present-future and nature-society-spirituality to approach the holistic nature of dance and choreography. From 2013 to 2016, Eleanor Bauer was an artist-in-residence in the Brussels Kaaitheater. In 2013, she launched BAUER HOUR (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013), an episodic variété show that ran monthly at the Kaaistudios, toured regularly and is featured on Vimeo.The BAUER HOUR channel on VimeoPage about BAUER HOUR on the website of the KaaitheaterMarin Media Lab, Eleanor Bauer: Bauer Hour. Eleanor Bauer discusses her show Bauer Hour at AMERICAN REALNESS 2014, 2014 In the autumn of 2015, she developed two PROTO TALKS (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2016) with artists in the Kaaitheater: one with choreographer / dancer Michiel Vandevelde and one with choreographer / dancer Mette Ingvartsen.Page about PROTO TALKS on the website of the KaaitheaterThe PROTO TALKS channel on Vimeo In the spring of 2016, she premiered Meyoucycle , a concert performance in collaboration with composer / musician Chris Peck and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus. Both Meyoucycle and Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) were featured at the Brussels Kunstenfestivaldesarts. NEW JOY, a musical theater production, premiered in February–March 2019 at Schauspielhaus Bochum.Page about NEW JOY on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
Since 2007 the performances of Bauer have been produced by Good Move vzw, an organization that she founded for this purpose in Brussels.
Performance As a performer Bauer has collaborated with the choreographers Trisha Brown, Boris Charmatz, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Rosas, Mette Ingvartsen, Xavier Le Roy en David Zambrano; the visual artists Matthew Barney en Emily Roysdon; the music ensemble Ictus and the electronic music duo The Knife.
Writing and research Bauer also writes about dance. She published in Off Off Off, New York's Movement Research Performance Journal, Maska (Ljubjana), and NDT of Contredanse (Brussels), as well as in various publications of Sarma, Everybody's, Nadine, and P.A.R.T.S.. For the Sarma project B-ChroniclesB-Chronicles website Eleanor Bauer took a series of 46 interviews with artists, critics, producers and dramatic advisers from the Brussels dance community, including herself. The interviews formed an inspiration for events and publications by other project staff, were processed into online records containing a photo, bio, abstract, audio and cartographic drawings. In 2008, she participated in 6M1L (6 Months 1 Location), a collective research residence initiated by Xavier Le Roy and Bojana Cvejic at CCNM Center Choréographique National Montpellier.
Teaching Bauer is also active as a lecturer. In that context she created some performances with students: Parliament Without Words (Eleanor Bauer, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2011),Page about Parliament Without Words (Eleanor Bauer, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2011) on the website of the KaaitheaterGeorgio Valentino, The power of speech in: The Bulletin, 24/11/2011 Another Song (Eleanor Bauer and Sandy Williams, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2014),Page about Another Song (Eleanor Bauer and Sandy Williams, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2014) on the website of the Kaaitheater Medium (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015),Page about Medium (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015) on the website of KASK Being Robert Plutchik (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015)Page about Being Robert Plutchik (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015) on the website of the Kaaitheater and OUROBORACULAR (Eleanor Bauer, with students of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, 2017)Page about OUROBORACULAR (Eleanor Bauer, with students of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, 2017) on the website of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus Together with Vlad Ionescu, she coached the production of Slogan for Modern Times ,Page about Slogan for Modern Times (Kathryn Vickers and Inga Huld Hakonardottir, 2015) on the website of Kosmonaut a duet made by Kathryn Vickers and Inga Huld Hákonardóttir in 2015 at wpZimmer, a residency space for the performing arts in Antwerp, Belgium.
Inspired by all kinds of open source initiatives, she has set up the project Nobody's BusinessWebsite of Nobody’s Business together with the choreographer / dancer Ellen Söderhult and the choreographer / dancer Alice Chauchat. Its purpose is to facilitate the collective production and dissemination of knowledge in the performing arts by sharing practices and documentation about it. In the course of 2015 and 2016, Nobody's Business organized nine meetings of approximately five days each in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, the United States and Sweden. Eleanor Bauer was involved as a facilitator in four of these meetings: Nobody's Dance Stockholm December 2015, Nobody's Dance Brussels January 2016, Nobody's Dance Milan April 2016 and Nobody's Indiscipline Brussels November 2016. For the period 2017–2022, Eleanor Bauer is a PhD candidate in Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts, where she also lectures.Page about the lecture of words :: body of worlds on the website of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus In 2017 she also gives workshops at b12 (Berlin),Announcement of 4-day-research DANCING, NOT THE DANCER with Eleanor Bauer at b12 on au-di-tions.com ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance FestivalPage about the workshops Choreopoetry and Dancing, Not The Dancer on the website Of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and the Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at The Ohio State UniversityPage about the Choreo-graphy workshop on the website of the Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
Other activities Bauer has also created or contributed to a number of special projects. In 2011, she participated together with choreographer / dancer Daniel Linehan in the Kaaitheater in Walk + Talk, a programme series by choreographer / dancer Philipp Gehmacher in which choreographers talk about their movement language.Page about Walk + Talk on the website of the Kaaitheater She participated in Hannah Hurtzig's Black Market for Useful and Non-Useful Knowledge at the In-Presentable Festival in Madrid in 2012. In 2014, she collaborated with composer Chris Peck on This is Not a Pop Song (II), for which the music ensemble Ictus asked five composers to write a new work for instruments that are typically for pop music and that has the length of a pop song, but without the pop music.Page about This is Not a Pop Song (II) (Ictus, 2014) on the website of Ictus Together with Chris Peck, she is also involved in heart the band/hear the bend, a performance collective including Beth Gill, Jon Moniaci and Chase Granoff, that has been active since 2004. Under the title Untitled, Untempered, Untamed, Eleanor Bauer creates solo performances / lectures involving speaking, dancing, singing, hanging out with the audience, relationships with things that belong to the time and place of the performance, and relationships with things that don’t belong to the time and place of the performance.Announcement of Untitled, Untempered, Untamed on the website of MARIASAnnouncement of Untitled, Untempered, Untamed on the website of Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at The Ohio State University (2017)]Excerpt of a video recording of Eleanor Bauer’s Untitled, Untempered, Untamed at Movement Research in the Judson Church on 24/11/2014 She was also host of the release of the book Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance by the Belgian cultural sociologist Rudi Laermans at the Kaaistudios in Brussels in 2015.Announcement of the release of the book Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance
Productions Own productions: ELEANOR! (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2005)Page about ELEANOR! (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2005) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove Dig My Aura (Eleanor Bauer, 2006)Page about Dig My Aura (Eleanor Bauer, 2006) on the website of Monty AT LARGE (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2008)Page about AT LARGE (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2008) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2010)Page about (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2010) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2011)Page about A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2011) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012)Page about The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012)Page about Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMovePage about Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of the Kaaitheater Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013)Page about Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMovePage about Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of the Kaaitheater Prelude/Epilogue (Eleanor Bauer/Good Move, 2013)Page about other projects by Eleanor Bauer on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove BAUER HOUR (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013)Page about BAUER HOUR (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove a v i g n o n s e n s e (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove and Veli Lehtovaara, 2015)Page about a v i g n o n s e n s e (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove and Veli Lehtovaara, 2015) on the website of Caravan Production PROTO TALKS (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2016)Page about PROTO TALKS (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2016) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove