INTERVIEW WITH SCHOOL OF EDD ALUM, KYRA HAUCK
Executive Director, Anne Bak Marine, sits down with School of EDD Alum, Kyra Hauck, to talk about the ways in which School of Eisenhower Dance Detroit prepared her for her career as a founder and artistic director of Danse Theatre Surreality.
ABOUT KYRA HAUCK
Kyra Hauck, Paris Artistic Director of Danse Theatre Surreality, is a pluri-disciplinary choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in Paris, where she has been creating since 2017. Her work is dynamic, challenging, and feminist. She has choreographed and performed in works in Paris, Lille, New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Kyra has trained in styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary and modern dance to contact improvisation with master teachers throughout the United States and Europe. A holistic healer and experienced teaching artist, she brings this rich blending of movement styles, a deep understanding of the body in motion, and an eye for energy to her work. The company's latest work, Shadowboxing in Blue (2024), was developed in residency at Haven Boxing Gym in Brooklyn, NY in October before touring to Paris in June 2025, hosted by VPunch Gym's VPunchline Festival on boxing and mental health.