Eleanor Bauer är en erfaren dansare, koreograf, danslärare och konstnärlig forskare, ursprungligen från USA, som arbetar med dans i utbildningen.
Eleanor Bauer is an interdisciplinary dance artist, researcher, and teacher. Her work is a synthesis of embodied intelligences, a practice of creating meaning with the senses in movement.
Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bauer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2003), and is a graduate of the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios' Research Cycle (Brussels, 2004-2006). Bauer also holds a PhD in Performative and Media-Based Practices with a focus on Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (2022) and is currently working on a postdoctoral research project on dance in education called Learning through Dancing, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
From solos and talk shows to large ensemble works and films, her diverse works, varying in scale, media and genre, have toured internationally and received critical acclaim. She has been commissioned as a choreographer by dance companies, music festivals, theatres and universities. She founded and was artistic director of GoodMove vzw in Brussels from 2007-2020, during which she was artist in residence at Kaaitheater from 2013-2016.
Bauer has extensive teaching experience in both academic and public/professional contexts. As an insatiable researcher, Bauer teaches, writes, lectures and creates contexts for knowledge exchange in the arts. Together with Ellen Söderhult and Alice Chauchat, she co-founded the open source format for the exchange of performing arts practitioners called Nobody's Business in 2015, which has since been adapted by practitioners and organizers worldwide. Other past and ongoing educational, performative and discursive projects include BAUER HOUR, PROTO TALKS, Doctor Dance and A class for a cause, as well as two podcasts: How Dance Thinks (2018) and Sleeping Giant Dreams (2020). She is currently an assistant professor of contemporary dance and choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts, and is conducting a three-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council on dance in/as education called Learning through Dancing.
Bauer has collaborated and performed with, among others, Matthew Barney, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Tino Sehgal, Trisha Brown, Every Ocean Hughes, David Zambrano, Mette Ingvartsen, Ictus music ensemble, The Knife and Fever Ray.
