Eleanor Bauer

Eleanor Bauer (born Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1983) is an American choreographer and dancer.

Training and start as a choreographer / dancer

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).[1] She currently is a PhD candidate in Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts.

Work as a choreographer

Eleanor 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.[2] 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.[3]

Eleanor 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.[4][5][6] 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.[7][8] 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. Eleanor Bauer and Chris Peck are currently working on NEW JOY, a new musical theater production that will premiere in February–March 2019 at Schauspielhaus Bochum.[9]

Since 2007 the performances of Eleanor Bauer have been produced by Good Move vzw, an organization that she founded for this purpose in Brussels.

Work as a performer

As a performer Eleanor 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.

Work as an author and researcher

Eleanor 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-Chronicles[10] 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.

Work as a teacher and mentor

Eleanor 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),[11][12] Another Song (Eleanor Bauer and Sandy Williams, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2014),[13] Medium (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015),[14] Being Robert Plutchik (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015)[15] and OUROBORACULAR (Eleanor Bauer, with students of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, 2017)[16] Together with Vlad Ionescu, she coached the production of Slogan for Modern Times ,[17] 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 Business[18] 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.[19] In 2017 she also gives workshops at b12 (Berlin),[20] ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival[21] and the Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at The Ohio State University[22] in Columbus.

Other activities

Eleanor 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.[23] 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.[24] 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.[25][26][27] 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.[28]

Productions

Own productions:

  • ELEANOR! (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2005)[29]
  • Dig My Aura (Eleanor Bauer, 2006)[30]
  • AT LARGE (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2008)[31]
  • (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2010)[32]
  • A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2011)[33]
  • The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012)[34]
  • Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012)[35][36]
  • Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013)[37][38]
  • Prelude/Epilogue (Eleanor Bauer/Good Move, 2013)[39]
  • BAUER HOUR (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013)[40]
  • a v i g n o n s e n s e (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove and Veli Lehtovaara, 2015)[41][39]
  • PROTO TALKS (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2016)[42]
  • Meyoucycle (Eleanor Bauer en Chris Peck /GoodMove & Ictus, 2016) [43][44]

With Boris Charmatz:[45]

  • levée des conflits (Boris Charmatz/musée de la danse, 2010)
  • enfant (Boris Charmatz/musée de la danse, 2011)

Eleanor Bauer collaborated on the staging of the ‘living exhibition’ expo zero (Boris Charmatz/musée de la danse, 2011) as part of Performa 11 (New York, 2011)[46] and 20 Dancers for the 20th Century (Boris Charmatz/musée de la danse, 2011).

With Xavier Le Roy:[47]

  • Low Pieces (Xavier Le Roy, 2009–2011)
  • “Retrospective” (Xavier Le Roy, in: MoMA PS1, New York, October – December 2014)

With Matthew Barney:

  • River of Fundament (film) (Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, 2014)
  • REDOUBT (film) (Matthew Barney, 2017)

With others:

  • Portrait of The Family (Ivy Baldwin, 2003)
  • This is a tree dance (Karinne Keithley Syers, 2004)
  • UN ELEPHANT TERRIBLE (Chris Yon, 2004)[48]
  • Soul Project (David Zambrano, 2006)[49]
  • Why We Love Action (Mette Ingvartsen, 2007)[50]
  • Floor of the Forest (Trisha Brown, 1970 – performed at Documenta 12, 2007)[51]
  • Accumulation (Trisha Brown, 1971 – performed at Documenta 12, 2007)[51]
  • The Song (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, 2009)[52]
  • By any other name (Emily Roysdon, 2013–2014)[53][54][55]

References
  1. Biography of Eleanor Bauer Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine on the website of P.A.R.T.S.
  2. Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts
  3. Page about Meyoucycle (Eleanor Bauer and Chris Peck /GoodMove & Ictus, 2016) on the website of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts
  4. The BAUER HOUR channel on Vimeo
  5. Page about BAUER HOUR on the website of the Kaaitheater
  6. Marin Media Lab, Eleanor Bauer: Bauer Hour. Eleanor Bauer discusses her show Bauer Hour at AMERICAN REALNESS 2014, 2014
  7. Page about PROTO TALKS on the website of the Kaaitheater
  8. The PROTO TALKS channel on Vimeo
  9. Page about NEW JOY on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  10. B-Chronicles website
  11. Page about Parliament Without Words (Eleanor Bauer, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2011) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  12. Georgio Valentino, The power of speech in: The Bulletin, 24/11/2011
  13. Page about Another Song (Eleanor Bauer and Sandy Williams, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2014) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  14. Page about Medium (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015) on the website of KASK
  15. Page about Being Robert Plutchik (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  16. 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
  17. Page about Slogan for Modern Times (Kathryn Vickers and Inga Huld Hakonardottir, 2015) on the website of Kosmonaut
  18. Website of Nobody’s Business
  19. Page about the lecture of words :: body of worlds on the website of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus
  20. Announcement of 4-day-research DANCING, NOT THE DANCER with Eleanor Bauer at b12 on au-di-tions.com
  21. Page about the workshops Choreopoetry and Dancing, Not The Dancer on the website Of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
  22. Page about the Choreo-graphy workshop on the website of the Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at the Ohio State University
  23. Page about Walk + Talk on the website of the Kaaitheater
  24. Page about This is Not a Pop Song (II) (Ictus, 2014) on the website of Ictus
  25. Announcement of Untitled, Untempered, Untamed on the website of MARIAS
  26. Announcement of Untitled, Untempered, Untamed on the website of Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at The Ohio State University (2017)]
  27. Excerpt of a video recording of Eleanor Bauer’s Untitled, Untempered, Untamed at Movement Research in the Judson Church on 24/11/2014
  28. Announcement of the release of the book Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance
  29. Page about ELEANOR! (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2005) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  30. Page about Dig My Aura (Eleanor Bauer, 2006) on the website of Monty
  31. Page about AT LARGE (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2008) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  32. Page about (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2010) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  33. Page about A Dance for the Newest Age (the triangle piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2011) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  34. Page about The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  35. Page about Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  36. Page about Tentative Assembly (the tent piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2012) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  37. Page about Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  38. Page about Midday and Eternity (the time piece) (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  39. Page about other projects by Eleanor Bauer on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  40. Page about BAUER HOUR (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2013) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  41. 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
  42. Page about PROTO TALKS (Eleanor Bauer/GoodMove, 2016) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  43. Page about Meyoucycle (Eleanor Bauer and Chris Peck /GoodMove & Ictus, 2016) on the website of Eleanor Bauer / GoodMove
  44. Page about Meyoucycle (Eleanor Bauer and Chris Peck /GoodMove & Ictus, 2016) on the website of the Kaaitheater
  45. Overview of productions on the website of Boris Charmatz
  46. Page about expo zero (Boris Charmatz/musée de la danse, 2011) on the website of Performa
  47. Overview of productions on the website of Xavier Le Roy
  48. Page about UN ELEPHANT TERRIBLE on the website of La MaMa
  49. Page about Soul Project (David Zambrano, 2006) on the website of David Zambrano
  50. Page about Why We Love Action (Mette Ingvartsen, 2007) on the website of Mette Ingvartsen
  51. Page about Trisha Brown at Documenta 12 – history, media, performance on the website of Documenta 12
  52. Page about The Song (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, 2009) on the website of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
  53. Page about By any other name (Emily Roysdon, 2013–2014) on the website of Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy
  54. Page about By any other name (Emily Roysdon, 2013–2014) on the website of STUK
  55. Page about By any other name (Emily Roysdon, 2013–2014) on the website of the Stedelijk Museum

Sources

Further reading
  • Lars Kwakkenbos, Denken aan Amerika – Bespiegelingen naar aanleiding van Eleanor Bauers A Dance For The Newest Age (the triangle piece), in: Etcetera, Issue 126, September 2011
  • Lars Kwakkebos, Eleanor Bauer – Choreographing the labour of innovation, in: Theo Van Rompay (ed.), P.A.R.T.S. 20 years – 50 portraits, P.A.R.T.S., 2016, p. 195 – 200, ISBN 978-90-902-9748-4
  • Heidi Lenaerts and Pieter T'Jonck, Dans die doet duizelen, in: Babel/Cobra.be, 11/02/2011
  • Ive Stevenheydens, Eleanor Bauer: dansen in the big picture, in: Brussel Deze Week, 16/09/2013
  • Pieter T'Jonck, De bespiegelende bui van Eleanor Bauer, in: De Morgen, 23/04/2014
  • Pieter T'Jonck, Van wiskunde naar wilde verbeelding, in: De Morgen, 14/02/2011
  • Pieter T'Jonck, Buitenmaats – Eleanor Bauer (Big Girls Do Big Things), in: De Morgen, 11/03/2010
  • Pieter T'Jonck, Eleanor Bauer in Grote Vorm, in: Staalkaart, nr. 4, March – April 2010
  • Pieter T'Jonck, Het raadsel van de dans: Eleanor Bauer > At Large, in: De Morgen, 21/05/2008
  • Karel Van der Auwera, Eleanor Bauer: ‘Vragen, antwoorden, nieuwe vragen’, in: Brussel Deze Week, 5/05/2012
  • Els Van Steenberghe, Dans: Eleanor Bauer hangt in de touwen, in: Knack Focus, 05/05/12
  • Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of New York Live Arts
  • Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of the Ruhrtriennale
  • Biography of Eleanor Bauer on the website of Boris Charmatz
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