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Bio
Photo taken by: Rachel Marie Photography
Haas is a multidisciplinary movement artist and facilitator whose practice is rooted in embodied research. Their work spans performance, film, and other visual media, exploring the body as a site of inquiry and connection. They earned a B.A. in Dance from Columbia College Chicago and an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
After finishing graduate school, Haas built a tiny mobile house/stage and began a three-year art/work traveling experiment. From Chicago to Huntsville to Albuquerque to Tucson, Haas partnered with art centers, city agencies, universities and individuals, offering their house/stage as a free platform for discussions, workshops and performances. In August 2014 Haas stopped their travels to homestead on unincorporated land in northern Arizona. There they opened Rosie’s Ranch, which served as an informal art residency and retreat space that included alternative building practices, from December 2015 to January 2021.
Haas has received multiple grants through Arizona Commission on the Arts, Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, the City of Chicago and the Illinois Arts Council. They have also been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence Fellowship, the Judith Dawn Memorial Fund Grant, the Verdell Frazier Young Award, and multiple Creative and Performing Arts Fellowships. A partial list of residencies include: Ragdale, CATALYST Creative Collective, Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, Shared Space, and LinkUp at Links Hall. Haas's work has been written about in the Phoenix New Times and Chicago Tribune. They were a featured guest on KJZZ's Culture Cap segment and were broadcast on Channel 23 by New Chinese Media. They have been honored, multiple times, as Chicago Reader Critic's Choice.
Currently, Haas lives within the traditional territory of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the O'odham peoples, today known as the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community and the Tohono O'odham Nation.
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