Eleanor Bauer

Eleanor Bauer, A lot of moving parts VII, photo by Matthew Sundin, 2020.

Eleanor Bauer is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of dance, writing, choreography, music, and moving image. Her work is a synthesis of embodied intelligences, a practice of making sense with the senses. From solos and talk shows to large ensemble pieces and films, her versatile works range in scale, media, and genre.
Bauer has been commissioned as a choreographer by, among others, Cullberg in Stockholm, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Corpus at the Royal Danish Theater, and the London-based collective Nora. As an insatiable researcher, Bauer teaches, writes, lectures, and co-creates contexts for exchange of knowledge in the arts.
Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bauer holds a BFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2003), is a graduate of the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels (2006), and completed her PhD in Performative and Media-Based Practices with a Specialization in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts (2022).

Read more about Eleanor Bauer on her website www.eleanorbauer.info

Title: Notes from a Milk Bar; a postpartum litany
Duration ca 60 min

Text and performance: Eleanor Bauer
Scenography installation: Melina Bigale

Sound editing: Alice MacKenzie
Rehearsal director: Will Balthazar Ocean Bauer Johnson
Assistant to the rehearsal director: Marc Johnson

Notes from a Milk Bar: a postpartum litany is a collection of insights, reflections, anecdotes, revelations, revaluations, jokes, joys, and minor discontents from the profound transformations of spacetime and modybind in early motherhood, written and performed by dancer and choreographer Eleanor Bauer.

About Notes from a Milk Bar: a postpartum litany, Bauer explains, “My body is by far no longer mine, as I am now a host, pillow, and lifeline for another body. As a dancer I’m familiar with a kind of devotion to others moving in and through me. Now I’m mostly at the service of an other on me. As someone whose joys in life have been marked by movement, my physical world suddenly become very small and sedentary after giving birth. I spent my summer yearning to be outside, learning to be still, moving my breastfeeding chair progressively closer to the window, and producing not much more than milk and fragmentary thoughts. Noticing new relations to time, space, movement, selfhood, creativity, and otherness emerging, I took notes in the ‘Notes’ app on my phone while breastfeeding, tracking what seemed noteworthy. This was the starting point for Notes from a Milk Bar.”