Choreography 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
NEW JOY, a musical theater production, premiered in February–March 2019 at Schauspielhaus Bochum. Since 2007 the performances of Bauer have been produced by Good Move vzw, an organization that she founded for this purpose in Brussels.
Performance As a performer 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.
Writing and research 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 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.
Teaching 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),
Another Song (Eleanor Bauer and Sandy Williams, with students of P.A.R.T.S., 2014),
Medium (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015),
Being Robert Plutchik (Eleanor Bauer, with students of KASK, 2015) and
OUROBORACULAR (Eleanor Bauer, with students of DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, 2017) Together with Vlad Ionescu, she coached the production of
Slogan for Modern Times , 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
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. In 2017 she also gives workshops at b12 (Berlin),
ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and the Practicing Performance – International Dance Festival at The Ohio State University in Columbus. ==Other activities==