Helen Hale (she / her) is a dance maker, embodiment scholar, and plant enthusiast. She is the director of Helen Hale Dance, designer of HAVEN floral arts, one half of collaborative duo GINKGO, and founder/facilitator of the KUDZU NATION. Helen's work has been presented by the High Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Galleries at Moore, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Dance Truck, Dashboard, The Lucky Penny, Spark and Echo Arts, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Temple University, Alfred University, and WonderRoot, among others. 

Educated by a rogue mix of artists, activists, and cultural workers in inner-city Atlanta, GA., Helen migrated north to earn her BFA through study at Temple University (PA) and Hellenic International Studies in the Arts (Greece). Having since worked with both Philadelphia and Atlanta as home bases, she has been honored to collaborate and perform with a bounty of incredible artists in the States and abroad including Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, Carnival de Resistance, Tricia Hersey/The Nap Ministry, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, Dishman + Co., PushPush Theater, Tahni Holt, Afterculture Theatre, Santiago Páramo, Staibdance, Protect Awesome, Pedro Ramirez, La Banda de los Cienaños, Duende Dance Theater, Meg Foley/Moving Parts, Gathering Wild, Troupe Hellas, Ground Delivery Dance Theater, Room to Move Dance, and the Just Act Ensemble. 

Helen moves in and out of roles as a choreographer, performer, teacher, researcher, consultant, curator, administrator, gardener, daughter, sister, auntie, friend, collaborator, instigator, and party thrower. Her current focus is creating content to forward the work of decolonization and anti-racism, and building up the Kudzu Nation.

Helen is a part of the Dashboard family of artists and a member of Alternate Roots.

Areas of Specialty

• Theatre

• Dance

• Performing Arts

• Multimedia Arts