Originally from New York City, Mark Haim has been making dances and teaching dance for 35 years. He is creating a new work for NEXT STEP: OUTSIDE/IN on June 14, featuring PNB Principal dancer Noelani Pantastico and six PNB School students.
In April 2019, Mark presented a new 70-minute solo work, Parts to a Sum, in which he recreated “movements with good intentions” sent to him by 370 friends around the world; KCTS produced an excellent documentary short about the process leading up to this performance at Velocity Dance Center.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A tree.
What is your most treasured possession?
My body.
Mark Haim in his solo work Parts to a Sum, 2019. © Jim Coleman. 
Mark Haim’s Buoyant Despite Slump, 2010. © Jazzy Photo.
What is your favorite occupation?
Being in water.
How would you like to die?
Put to sleep like a dog with my loved ones around.
What is your current state of mind?
Recuperating.
© Tim Summers”This Land Is Your Land”Choreographed by Mark Haim 
Mark Haim’s This Land is Your Land, 2014. © Grant Halvorson.
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Questions excerpted from The Proust Questionnaire.
Featured photo: Mark Haim in his solo work Parts to a Sum, 2019. © Jim Coleman.
