Where do we go from here? (2024-2025)

18 Minutes

The third and final solo in a triptych about womanhood, questioning systems of power, violence, pleasure, and belief. In this work, Bahr forefronts stories that often go unseen and untold. Inspired by Solnit’s Recollections of My Non-Existence, Cecelia Condit’s “I’ve Been Afraid”, and the work of Kathleen Hanna/Bikini Kill, Bahr transforms her performing body into a multiplicity of women — spanning over hundreds of years — to radiate questions: how do you know when you feel something? How do we make networks of survivance more visible? How do we buoy ourselves out of affliction to become larger than our worst experiences? In other words, “Where do we go from here?”

This experimental dance turned playwright premiered in August in 2024 as part of University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee’s Alumni Incubator Residency. 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 and Performance: Halie Bahr

Sound: Script written and read by Halie Bahr, Excerpt of Shallow by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

Dramaturgy: Alexandra Barbier

Collaboration: Dr. Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld in reference to Levin-Richardson’s work in “The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society”

***This work was made possible by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee’s Alumni Incubation Residency Program and the fiscal support of Southern Utah University’s Faculty Development Support Funds

Public Performances:

— November 1-4, 2024, Faculty Dance Concert, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

— August 23, 2024, End-of-Residency Public Showing, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Photos by Ashley Deran