“Human Resources/HR Department” is a highly collaborative dance collective established by Halie Bahr, Jessica Boone, and Virginia Broyles. “Human Resources/HR Department” values fluid leadership and reimagining how dances 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 question our current times and find a more livable way to make work today. Halie Bahr is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Southern Utah University. She researches the socio-political implications of trauma in the creative process, and has presented work and performed nationally in venues such as The Walker Art Center, Milwaukee Art Museum, 12 Minutes Max, and The Soap Factory. Texas-based artist Jessica Boone is a Lecturer of Dance at Texas A&M University and explores how choreographic processes can develop autonomy, intuition, and empowerment in performers. She performed professionally with Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company and has presented work at Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance, and more. Virginia Broyles is a film and dance maker currently based in Salt Lake City, UT. Her screendance work has been presented internationally and she’s performed with Kathleen Hermesdorf, Simpson/Stulberg, Scott Wells, and BANDALOOP.
