Lauren Hale Biniaris is the founder and Artistic Director of modern dance company Lauren Hale Dance.  The company was formed in 2004 after Lauren graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  During her two years at Tisch, Lauren regularly presented original choreography, was an active member of the Second Avenue Dance Company, and studied with such teachers as Andrea E. Woods, Phyllis Lamhut, Cherylyn Lavagnino, and Gus Solomons, Jr. In 2002, Lauren graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, where she studied Comparative Literature along with modern and West African Dance and received the prestigious Weston Award for her contributions to the performing arts.  Before that, she was a corps de ballet member with the Chattanooga Ballet in Tennessee.

Since 2004, Lauren has acted as Guest Teaching Artist and Choreographer in Residence for the Chattanooga Ballet, Brown University’s Dance Extension, and the Mercersburg Academy. In New York City, Lauren has presented choreography at Dixon Place, The Museum of Biblical Art, the Flea Theater, The Solar 1 Arts Festival, The Cunningham Studio, Triskelion Arts, and the Cool New York Dance Festival to name a few. She has co-produced two evening length concerts with ThisThat Dance Collective, and in April of 2009, she self-produced an evening of dance with her company at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison, New York.  Most recently, she is engaged in producing an ongoing dance series at the Philipstown Depot Theatre called Depot Dances, whose mission is to bring high quality dance made by emerging and established choreographers to the Hudson Valley area.  Lauren has been the recipient of DanceNow’s Silo Project residency as well as The Field’s Emerging Artist Residency, and she has been a Sponsored Artist both through The Field and through Dance Theater Workshop. Lauren has participated numerous times in the Bessie Choreography Workshop for NYU graduates under the tutelage of Don Redlick, and she has also studied pedagogy and improvisation with Pilobolus founder, Jonathan Wolken.  As a performer, Lauren has danced with the Aimee Rials Dance Project, Noel MacDuffie Performance, The Second Avenue Dance Company, Brown University’s Dance Extension, and New Works/World Traditions.