Mark Haim holds a BFA degree from The Juilliard School and an MFA from Hollins University. He was Artistic Director of Mark Haim & Dancers from 1984-1987, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa from 1987-1990. Mark has created new works for many dance companies in the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Jose Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, the Silesian Dance Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the TRANS Dance Co., and Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his works on companies such as The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex, and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. He has been on the faculties of the American Dance Festival and NYU- Tisch School of the Arts, and and was the Senior Artist in Residence at the UW Dance Program from 2002-2008.
He has also taught at the NC School of the Arts, University of Illinois, Ohio University, SMU, VCU, Cornell, JMU, and for schools and companies in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Argentina, Chile and Japan. He is a recipient of numerous grants, including a 1987 New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Choreographers Fellowship, and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund and ArtsLink, Inc. In 2000, he was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. His full evening solo project, "The Goldberg Variations," has been performed at the American Dance Festival, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, The John F. Kennedy Center, other venues in the U.S, Europe, Asia, and most recently at On The Boards in its 2006 Northwest Artist Series. He is a recipient of a 1987 NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Choreographers Fellowship and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink, Inc., the Harkness Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. In 2000, he was awarded the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-=Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography. Mark is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
