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HATTIE JEAN HOUSER 


EDUCATION

  • BFA in Dance, summa cum laude, University of Colorado Boulder                       2020

  • BA in Geography, summa cum laude, University of Colorado Boulder                  2020

  • Welding and Fabrication Certificate, Pima Community College                         Present

  • Community Leadership Certificate, INVST Community Studies                             2019

AWARDS

  • A. David Hill Endowed Scholarship in Geography - University of Colorado           2019
    Boulder Geography Department,     for academic performance

  • James and Anne DeCastro Scholarship - University of Colorado Boulder           2020
    Department of Theater and Dance    , for talent in performance and choreography

  • Jacob Van Ek Scholarship - University of Colorado Boulder College of                2019 Arts & Sciences, awarded to 16 students annually for outstanding academic achievement and public service.

  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship- U.S. Department of State’s         2018
    Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs

GRANTS

  • People, Communities, and Homes Investment Plan (50,000) - City of Tucson     2021
    for work trade and community tools program at BICAS.

  • Community Grant (7,500) - Quality Bicycle Products, for essential services        2021
    programming at BICAS 

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Grant (3,000) -                        2019
    University of Colorado Boulder, for honors thesis research on contact
    improvisation as a methodology for studying neoliberalism’s effects on care networks

FELLOWSHIPS

  • See Chicago Dance Critical Writing Fellow - See Chicago Dance                         2020

  • Von Dreden Stacey Fellow - University of Colorado Boulder Department             2019
    of Geography, for honors thesis research on performance art responses to
    femicide in     Mexico.


ACADEMIC RESEARCH

  • “Contact Improvisation: A Poetic and Methodological Approach for Unpacking The Role of Caregivers in Relation to Neoliberal Power Structures” - recipient of CU Boulder Undergraduate Research grant to conduct research as the PI. I researched contact improvisation as a poetic and metaphorical methodology for unpacking the effects of neoliberalism on networks of care. (2020)

  • “Activist Responses to Femicide in Oaxaca, Mexico: Visibilization Techniques and Embodied Practices Against a Landscape of Missing Corporealities” - recipient of Von Dreden Stacey Fellowship to conduct research as the PI. Iresearched activist responses and structural causes of femicide in Oaxaca and Mexico more broadly. (2019) 

  • Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative - Undergraduate Research Assistant. I conducted and transcribed interviews with RA’s on the CU Boulder campus about their experience with housing through the university, conducted preliminary interviews with Denver Homeless Out Loud about their research needs and goals.


CHOREOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
  • “nothing really convincingly settles the separation” - CU Boulder, 2020
  • “Reality” - with Attiyya Fortuné - CU Boulder, 2019
  • “A battle without honor or humanity” - with Attiyya Fortuné, Sami Scovel, Olivia Sander, Emma Randall
  • CU Boulder, 2018
  • “Desert Monsoon” - Fresh, CU Boulder, 2018
  • “Sonder” - Fresh, CU Boulder, 2017


PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
  • “Nothing really convincingly settles the separation” - Hattie Houser, CU Theater & Dance, 2020
  • “Cathexis” - Attiyya Fortuné, CU Theater & Dance, 2020
  • “Radius of Transmission” - Ondine Geary, Boulder CO, 2019
  • “Reality” - with Attiyya Fortuné - CU Boulder, 2019
  • “In the backyard” - Chrissy Nelson, CU Theater & Dance, 2019
  • “an embodied facilitation of Questioning Contact Improv by Keith Hennessey” - CU Boulder, 2019
  • “Rite to Remain” - Keith Haynes, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “Slippage” - Laura Malpass, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “A Bon Coeur” - Helanius J. Wilkins, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “A battle without honor or humanity” - with Attiyya Fortuné, Sami Scovel, Olivia Sander, Emma Randall
  • CU Boulder, 2018
  • “Prow” - Claudia LaVista, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “Aviatsya” - Devan Herbert, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “When I was Zero” - Kaitlyn Lawrence, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “Come to the Table” - Olivia DeMoulin, CU Theater & Dance, 2018
  • “Sit.Stay.Down.” Vivian Kim, CU Theater & Dance, ACDA, 2017
  • “Bringing Them Back” - Aaron Allen Jr., CU Theater & Dance, 2017
  • “House of Hope”- Esperanza Dance Company, Beth Braun, 2014-2016


PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
  • Sans Souci Dance Cinema Festival - CU Boulder - Stage Manager - 2019
  • Undocumonologues - Motus Theater - Arts Hub Lafayette - Light Board Operator - 2019
  • Catapult - CU Theater and Dance - Sound Board Operator - 2019
  • American College Dance Festival Curated Concerts - StageHand - 2018


PRESENTATIONS
  • Fieldwork - CU Boulder, 2019: Presented a work in progress dance piece over the course of six weeks and participated in feedback exchanges with a group of 10 other artists.

  • Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Encuentro: The World Inside Out: Performance, Humor, and Politics, 2019: Mexico City, Mexico: “Contact Improvisation: A Poetic and Methodological Approach for Unpacking The Role of Caregivers in Relation to Neoliberal Power Structures”

  • American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference, 2019: Performed in “Prow”
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