Cherie Hill (she/her)

Cherie Hill (she/her) creates art that explores human expression through the body in collaboration with nature, music, and visual imagery. Her pieces explore how dance, transcendence, and the body are vessels for metaphysical presence. With her dance company, IrieDance, Cherie has held artist residencies with Footloose Productions, Milk Bar Richmond, CounterPulse’s Performing Diaspora, and a community partnership with the David Brower Center. In 2020 she collaborated with several artists to create the Earth Echoes Virtual Gallery, an exhibition of local Bay Area/Ohlone Territory artists whose work speaks to the power of feminism, ecology, and identity. Cherie has published in Gender Forum, The Sacred Dance Journal, Dance Education in Practice, and In Dance. She has presented at multiple conferences, including Dance/USA, WAA, NDEO, and IABD. Cherie lives on Luiseño-speaking Payomkawichum land in the Temecula Valley, CA, with her lifelong partner and two children. She is the Director of Arts Leadership at Bridge Live Arts, and an Assistant Professor at CSUSM, specializing in equity, inclusion, dance, and wellness.