weareeasilydistractedbyshinythings (2025)

14 Minutes

Human Resources/HR Department is a highly collaborative dance collective established by Halie Bahr, Jessica Boone, and Virginia Broyles. Our process explores shared, fluid leadership, with each member directing, choreographing, and performing. We are experimenting with a project-based model, where we come together for condensed periods of creation in residency-format to develop new work. We value both the intricate creation of innovative choreography and reimagining how our work can rub against systemic oppression. By contemplating the impacts of late-stage capitalism on bodies and dancemaking practices, we ask ourselves how imagination and choreography can transform how we make sense of our world. As a collective, we love to play with absurdity, vulnerability, and fragmentation in both vision and physicality to design dreamscapes and highlight humanness in our creative work. Human Resources/HR Department is actively developing a new dance work to premiere and tour in 2024-2026.

Choreography and Performance: Halie Bahr, Jessica Boone, Virginia Broyles

Sound: Daniel Clifton

***This work was made possible by Westminster University, Dance Class for Humans, and the fiscal support of Texas A&M University and Southern Utah University.

Residency + Public Performances:

— May 12, 2025 Movement Research at the Judson Church, New York, NY

— July 15 - 19, 2024, Westminster University, Salt Lake City, UT

— January 2-7, 2024, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

— July 21-23, 2023, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT