Cherie Hill

Cherie Hill (she/her) is a dancer, performer, scholar, and choreographer whose art explores human expression through the body in collaboration with nature, music, and visual imagery. She has published articles on dance in Gender Forum, the Sacred Dance Guild Journal, Dance Education in Practice, and In Dance. She has presented at local, national, and international conferences, including Dance USA, the National Dance Education Association, the International Association of Black Dance Conference, and the International Conference on Arts and Humanities. An advocate for inclusion, community, and dance, Cherie has presented work on integrating dance and equity into practice at NDEO, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, and the Alameda County Office of Education conferences. As a choreographer, she has held artist residencies with Footloose Productions (San Francisco), Milk Bar Richmond, the David Brower Center , CounterPulse's Performing Diaspora Residency Program (San Francisco), NCCAkron (Ohio), and ArtZmosphere (Belize).

In 2020, Cherie became a co-director of Bridge Live Arts and collaborated with colleagues to restructure the organization from a hierarchical to a Distributed Leadership Model. Their work has been highlighted in Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography and the Work Shouldn't Suck Podcast episode 79. Cherie is a former Co-President of the CA Dance Education Association. She holds a BA in Dance and Performance Studies and African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder with graduate certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Somatics.

Research & Teaching Interests:

• Contemporary & African Diaspora Dance
• Somatics & Wellness
• Improvisation
• Multi-Media & Interdisciplinary Art
• Dance & Community