Mare Hieronimus is Brooklyn-based multi-media dance artist, performer and teacher whose work weaves together her interests in movement, light, sound, and the visual image. Maré collaborates with visual, sound, lighting designers and performing artists to create abstract and psychic landscapes, using the body in motion as the primary impulse. These landscapes tell distinct, non-linear stories, mythic, sublime, and otherworldly in feel. These works become site-specific, changing shape and form as they integrate themselves into the indoor/outdoor environment in which they become a part. In these performance pieces, light is often used as a metaphor, where what goes unseen becomes as important as what is made visible. The exploration of the perception of the passage of time and the role of memory are ongoing themes, as well as the continued questioning of our constructions of reality from an historical, religious, and philosophical perspective.

In the Mid-Atlantic region her work has been presented by venues including Dance Place (DC), The 6th and 8th International Improvisation Festivals (DC), The Jack Guidone Theatre at Joy of Motion Dance Centre (DC), Capitol Hill Arts Exchange (DC), Joe's Movement Emporium (MD), The Goose Route Dance Festival (W.V.), Villa Julie College (MD), and Washington College (MD). Since moving to New York in 2003, she has been presented by Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Williamsburg Art Nexus, the DUMBO dance Festival, The CoolNY Dance Festival, Dance Conversations at The Flea, The American Dance Guild's 50th Anniversary Gala, The Solar One Powered Dance Festival, and at The 92nd St. Y.

Before moving to New York, she lived and worked in Washington DC, and performed extensively with D.C. choreographer Deborah Riley/Deborah Riley Dance Projects, and with choreographer, improviser and multi-media dance artist Sharon Mansur/mansurdance. She also had the opportunity to work with Daniel Burkholder/The Playground, Cyrus Khambatta and the PFFFT! Dance Theater Company, and Naoko Maeshiba/Tsunami Theatre Company. With these artists she expanded her skills not only as a contemporary dancer, but also as an improviser, dance theater artist and butoh performer. Maré was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performer in a Dance Piece/Production through the Metro DC Dance Awards for her work with both Sharon Mansur and Daniel Burkholder.

In 2003 she was a recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Choreography through the Maryland State Arts Council for her multimedia work surfacing, which included a slow motion installation of twenty bone-white plaster shells set by the performers, as well as her own video work. While in DC she also collaborated with site-specific dance artist Jane Jerardi to create her second multimedia piece, close, with video animation by Michael Wichita. These works appeared in their evening length collaborative show, in search of the places we inhabit at The Jack Guidone Theatre. She moved to New York in the fall of 2003 to attend graduate school in Dance/Choreography at Sarah Lawrence College. At Sarah Lawrence, she was mentored by Dancer/Choreographer Sara Rudner, as well as Performance Artist/Puppeteer Daniel Hurlin. She received her MFA in Dance/Choreography in May 2005.

While in New York she has also had the opportunity to collaborate with media artist Peter Kirn in April 2006, at Monkeytown/Eyewash Art Dialogues. In June, 2006, she began a new and ongoing collaboration with composer and electronic media artist Derek Morton at Les Petit Versailles gardens on the lower east side. In fall, 2006 she worked with Martha Williams the movement movement on her dance for film, Broken rose petal. Most recently she has been collaborating with Director/Playwright Kevin Doyle.

She is also beginning research for a new multi-media group project, TUNDRA, which will include site installation and video. Maré has taught dance, improvisation, yoga and body integration/awareness for the past 9 years to people of all ages, including as a Guest Artist at Bucknell University (PA), Washington College (MD), through various outreach programs to inner city public schools, and at Washington DC's hub of contemporary dance, Dance Place.

She received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Her background in the visual arts is integral to the foundation of her present performative vision. She is also a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.