Jeremy Hale is a professional dancer, movement analyst, and teacher specializing in body mechanics.
From an early age I have been endlessly fascinated by anatomy and body mechanics and have studied them voraciously, formally and informally, via countless disciplines, for over 35 years. In 2001 I began professional dance performance training, initially as a way to ground my understanding of the body in tangible experience and overcome my own physical limitations, and graduated with a degree in World Arts & Cultures: Dance from UCLA in 2006. I spent the next decade of my life as a professional performer and teacher. I performed throughout the U.S. and internationally, and I’ve taught dance, anatomy, body mechanics, composition, and performance principles, in communities and at universities, to students of all levels of ability and experience, from casual movers to aspiring university students to professionals and other teachers.
In the course of my life and career I have studied numerous dance styles, martial arts, somatic practice disciplines, and body mechanics methodologies from around the world (including: Contemporary Modern, Contact Improv, Butoh, Skinner release, Lewitsky, Cunningham, Limon, Gaga, Ballet, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Ba Gua Zhang, Capoeira, Alexander, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Yoga, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and many more). I also studied and practiced bodywork and massage and have continued to learn and deepen my knowledge and understanding of body mechanics and the physics of dance.
I created the Anatomy of Comfort methodology, a genre-agnostic system for identifying what makes things comfortable and how we can make all our movements more comfortable, regardless of style or intensity.
I now primarily teach in the Brazilian Zouk community and I am excited and honored to contribute to the MAC project to help even more people find more ease, efficiency, comfort, and longevity in their dance.