photo: Jim Kent
Mark Haim has been making dances and teaching dance for 35 years.
Born in New York City, he began studying classical piano at age 6, and eventually attended the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, where, in addition to studying piano with Rosetta Goodkind, he studied theory, composition and chamber music. He was accepted to the Dance Division of The Juilliard School on an honorary scholarship, graduating with a BFA degree. There, he performed in works by Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow, and began choreographing. He received his MFA in Dance in 2006, in the first graduating class of the Hollins/ADF MFA program.
From 1984 -1987, he directed Mark Haim & Dancers, which performed at the Riverside Dance Festival in NYC, and at various theaters and venues in the US, Luxembourg, and Holland. From 1987-1990, he was Artistic Director of the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, one of Portugal’s first publicly-funded modern dance companies. There, he created 8 dances for the company, and commissioned 10 premieres, extensively touring Portugal, along with performances in Spain, and Italy.
Mark has been commissioned to create new works for many dance companies in the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, the Silesian Dance Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the TRANS Dance Co., and Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his works on companies such as The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. He has also created works for numerous university dance departments throughout the US.
His 80-minute solo, "The Goldberg Variations," created between 1994 and 1997, was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival and the Danspace Project. With pianist Andre Gribou, The Goldberg Variations has been presented at the ADF, the Danspace Project in St. Mark's Church in New York, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, On The Boards in Seattle, the Munye Theater in Seoul, S. Korea, the First Progressive Dance Festival in Prague, the Theater for the Young Spectator in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and at over 25 theaters around the U.S. It was also on the performance roster of the Lincoln Center Institute from 2000-2002 and has been on the roster of sister educational institutes in Albany, Rochester and Utica, NY.
Since 2002, he has been a guest choreographer at The Wooden Floor, an after-school organization in Santa Ana, CA that has promised hope and opportunity to nearly 400 low-income youth annually. He has created four new works there, from Los Angelitos, a 20-minute work for 25 dancers to What Is Too Strong For Breaking, a 30-minute work for over 80 dancers.
Mark was Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle (2002-2008), Visiting Associate Professor at Reed College, and has been on the faculties of the American Dance Festival and NYU-Tisch School of the Arts He has also guest-taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Ohio University, University of Illinois, the New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, Cornell University, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, Dance Space and Peridance in New York City, and has been guest-teacher at schools and companies in Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Holland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Russia, and Japan.
He is a recipient of a 1987 NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Choreographers Fellowship and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink, Inc., the Harkness Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and The Seattle Office for Arts and Cultural Affairs. He was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. Mark is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Born in New York City, he began studying classical piano at age 6, and eventually attended the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, where, in addition to studying piano with Rosetta Goodkind, he studied theory, composition and chamber music. He was accepted to the Dance Division of The Juilliard School on an honorary scholarship, graduating with a BFA degree. There, he performed in works by Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow, and began choreographing. He received his MFA in Dance in 2006, in the first graduating class of the Hollins/ADF MFA program.
From 1984 -1987, he directed Mark Haim & Dancers, which performed at the Riverside Dance Festival in NYC, and at various theaters and venues in the US, Luxembourg, and Holland. From 1987-1990, he was Artistic Director of the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, one of Portugal’s first publicly-funded modern dance companies. There, he created 8 dances for the company, and commissioned 10 premieres, extensively touring Portugal, along with performances in Spain, and Italy.
Mark has been commissioned to create new works for many dance companies in the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, the Silesian Dance Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the TRANS Dance Co., and Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his works on companies such as The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. He has also created works for numerous university dance departments throughout the US.
His 80-minute solo, "The Goldberg Variations," created between 1994 and 1997, was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival and the Danspace Project. With pianist Andre Gribou, The Goldberg Variations has been presented at the ADF, the Danspace Project in St. Mark's Church in New York, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, On The Boards in Seattle, the Munye Theater in Seoul, S. Korea, the First Progressive Dance Festival in Prague, the Theater for the Young Spectator in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and at over 25 theaters around the U.S. It was also on the performance roster of the Lincoln Center Institute from 2000-2002 and has been on the roster of sister educational institutes in Albany, Rochester and Utica, NY.
Since 2002, he has been a guest choreographer at The Wooden Floor, an after-school organization in Santa Ana, CA that has promised hope and opportunity to nearly 400 low-income youth annually. He has created four new works there, from Los Angelitos, a 20-minute work for 25 dancers to What Is Too Strong For Breaking, a 30-minute work for over 80 dancers.
Mark was Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle (2002-2008), Visiting Associate Professor at Reed College, and has been on the faculties of the American Dance Festival and NYU-Tisch School of the Arts He has also guest-taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Ohio University, University of Illinois, the New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, Cornell University, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, Dance Space and Peridance in New York City, and has been guest-teacher at schools and companies in Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Holland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Russia, and Japan.
He is a recipient of a 1987 NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Choreographers Fellowship and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink, Inc., the Harkness Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and The Seattle Office for Arts and Cultural Affairs. He was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. Mark is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.