Baby Pink (2022-2025)

8 Minutes

This dance is an an ever-changing solo built on bodily trust and belief in our changing bodies. Halie tethers between two colliding memoirs that serve as memorial to Intimate Partner Violence. We unlock, slip, and slice through story to arrive at a slow and steady ‘bright’. This sweet yet strident performance unearths violence through sincerity. ‘Baby Pink” is the second solo in a triptych about womanhood, questioning systems of power, violence, pleasure, and belief. The personal narrative from this work was initially created through Bahr’s thesis publication “Plotting Dissonance: Paradoxes of Trauma and Imagination in the Creative Process”, and was inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of My Non-Existence, Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and The Argonaunts.

Bahr is currently working with dance students at Southern Utah University, in collaboration with SUU’s Counseling and Psychological Services, to re-stage this work in Faculty Dance Concert, November 1-4, 2024.

Choreography, Performance & Projection: Halie Bahr

Sound: Script written and read by Halie Bahr, Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo

Dramaturgy: Virginia Broyles

***This work was made possible by Davidson College’s Faculty Research Support.

Public Performances:

— November 1-4, Faculty Dance Concert, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

— September 15, 2024, 12 Minutes Max, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT

— November 20, 2022, Commissioned by loveDANCEmore, Spyhop, Salt Lake City, UT

Photos by Ashley Deran