Halie Bahr

Email: hbahr01@hamline.edu

Halie Bahr (she/hers) is an active choreographer, performer, educator, and scholar who researches the socio-political implications of trauma in the creative process. She loves creating both performances and educational communities that are playful, sincere, candy-colored-bright, visceral, over-the-top spectacles that pull at our heartstrings or make us rethink our world.

She has presented work and performed nationally in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York, NY), Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI), Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Salt Lake City, UT), Midwest RAD Dance Festival (Kalamazoo, MI), Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival (Chicago, IL), The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), and Links Hall (Chicago, IL). Halie has served as a Rehearsal Director for world-renowned artists such as Anouk van Dijk, creator of CounterTechnique© and former Artistic Director of Chunky Move, Darrell Grand Moultrie, and Lauren Edson. She has performed for a variety of artists, including works by Leyya Mona Tawil (2019 Bessie), Stephan Koplowitz, Merce Cunningham, and Trisha Brown, among many others.

Halie is a professor of dance within the Department of Performance, Production, and Community at Hamline University. She is also the associate director and editor of loveDANCEmore, a dance publication committed to forwarding the professional work of experimental dance artists. She has held professorships within a variety of academic institutions, including Davidson College, University of Kentucky, Southern Utah University, and the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which provides higher education to students currently incarcerated in the Utah State Prison.

Halie recently published scholarship with Dance Studies Association (2025, vol. 43), and was awarded the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Performing Arts Fellowship (2024) for her distinguished professional career advancement within the State of Utah. Halie holds her MFA from the University of Utah School of Dance and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. She is a graduate-level Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysts (CLMA) and is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Educator (RSME). For more information, visit www.haliebahr.org.