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 your heartstrings or make us re-think our world. 

She has presented work and performed nationally in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee), 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 has danced and acted in experimental films by Kym McDaniel that have screened internationally at the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles), Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), R.E.D. International Dance Film Festival (Norway), and the FIVC International Videodance Festival (Chile).

Halie is currently an Assistant Professor within the Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts Administration at Southern Utah University. She recently published a publication with the Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison and is a Lecturer for the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which provides higher education to students currently incarcerated in the Utah State Prison. Halie holds her MFA from the University of Utah School of Dance, is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysts (CLMA) and Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME).

Image Credits from top to bottom: E’lise Jumes “Saudade”, Hannah White, Kym Mcdaniel “Splinter”, Tori Duhaime