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About

Maré Hieronimus is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher whose work weaves together her interests in movement, light, sound, poetry/story, and human perceptual awareness. Often working as a solo performer, and drawing from her interests in the human energy field, archetype, memory and dreams, she creates abstract and psychic landscapes, using the body in motion as the primary impulse.

Maré Hieronimus creates on a project to project basis while simultaneously performing in other choreographers works. In her own process, she generates much of her material (movement/sound/text/imagery/costume) naturally through a solo approach that is fueled by cross-fertilization and overlay of the different mediums that she uses. She also invites collaborators in for specific projects, opening the piece up to be influenced by artists of different disciplines.

Her work is closely linked to her somatic practice and her exploration of the relationship between body, mind and imagination. Working from this ground, her choreography and teaching in some way inevitably reflect these investigations. Along side these interests lies her genuine love and fascination for the power of myth and storytelling; specifically as it relates to becoming a catalyst in the process of re-imagining the way that we live our lives day to day. Her work becomes a blend of these sources of inspiration, in which multiple layers of interpretation and meaning can evolve. Through her work she aspires to awaken in the viewer a childlike wonder and curiosity while releasing creative potential and energy, with an eye towards synthesis, elegance and simplicity.

She believes the meaning and the experience of her work to be subjective and personal, found in the eye of the beholder, and open to as many interpretations. Image, movement, poetry/story and sound are meant to inspire and ignite the inner life of the viewer, without pointing to a singular explanation. To this end, it is the interactive space between the imagination of the performer and the imagination of the viewer, in live performance that becomes the most evocative for her.

Biography

Maré Hieronimus was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She returned to the Baltimore/Washington area after having graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting. She danced in Washington DC from 1999-2003, and then moved to New York to attend graduate school in Dance at Sarah Lawrence College in 2003. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Her choreog

raphic and improvisational performance experiments have been presented both indoor and outdoor, in proscenium, gallery and site-specific settings, in NYC and along the east coast. Venues in NYC have included Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Monkeytown, White Wave Rising, COOLNY and DUMBO Dance Festivals, Solar One Powered Festival, The 92nd Street Y, Dance Conversations at The Flea, Reverb Festival, The American Dance Guild Festivals and Les Petit Versailles Gardens. Outside of NYC her work has been presented in Washington DC, Virginia and West Virginia, Maryland and Rhode Island.

As a performer, she has worked with many experimental and cross-disciplinary artists, touring internationally to Russia, Siberia, Canada, and Brazil. These artists currently include site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance/Sensproduction, interdisciplinary dance artist Sharon Mansur/mansurdance and Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects. She has also performed in the work of butoh artist Naoko Maeshiba, Martha Williams/the movementmovement, Deborah Riley Dance Projects, Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, and Cyrus Khambatta/The pffft! Dance Theater Company, among many other wonderful artists.

Maré received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and a certified Yoga Teacher. She teaches Dance, Yoga and Movement integration in the New York City area.

Collaborating Artists have Included

Jen Kosky

Elyse Sparkes

Lori Yuill