T A R A   H E M M E R

Tara Hemmer is a Brooklyn based artist and performer. She has been presented by Green Lung Studio, Women in Motion, WaxWorks, Dance Chance, AUX Festival Athens, Skwhirlhaus, The Field, and a commissioned and exhibited artist for Art on the Atlanta Beltline. Tara was a 2023 space grant recipient at MOtiVE Brooklyn, and most recently a 2025 Hambidge Residency Fellow.

She was a co-founder of Skwhirlhaus, a sustainable performance co- operative in Atlanta, GA, that aimed to create space for all makers and performers. Tara has taught at institutions such as Gibney Dance, The University of Georgia, Atlanta Ballet Center for Dance Education, and Core Decatur.

Outside of her own work, she has performed and collaborated with artists such as Erik Thurmond, Nattie Trogdon, Hollis Bartlett, Kristin O'neal, Greg Catellier, and Maryn Whitmore. Tara holds a BA in Dance and minor in English from the University of Georgia.

I am an artist situated at the intersection of movement, writing, and making things with my hands. My practice is grounded in score based improvisations, the body's relation to environment, and the inherent poetics of space, time, light, and sound. Growing up in the south, my first memories of performance were among the trees. I coexisted with the foothills of mountain ranges, shallow creeks, deep lakes, and dark forests. Movement enables me to create and traverse the landscapes of my imagination, emotions, and memory. Grounded in the visual, somatic, and psychological, my work physically constructs a spacial and temporal layering. I am interested in the possibilities of the body, and its ability to explore the effect of light, time, and sound to reconstruct and bring attention to the architecture of space. In performance, I aim to create moments of transformation, autonomy, and agency.