HALEY TARLING
Haley Tarling, founder and director of WDP, is a choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Chicago, IL. From Point Park University with a BFA in dance and a dual degree in psychology. She is also a licensed counselor with a masters in counseling psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has presented work in spaces including Dance Chance, Brighton Dance Festival, Common Ground, Trifecta Dance Festival, Dance City Festival (Chicago and Detroit) and ATLAS (Puerto Rico). Her work has been commissioned by companies including Hot Crowd and Simantikos Dance Chicago.
She has danced as a company member with Hot Crowd and as a guest artist with Bodies of Water. She has had the opportunity to train at Orsolina 28 with Humanhood, and B12 with Glenda Gheller/KOMOCO. As a dancer, she has had the joy of working with individuals including Jessica Miller Tomlinson, Jackie Nowiki, Jessi Stegall, Celine Spinka O’brien and Gianna Burright.
Through her work, she strives to embody expansion, authenticity and grit, while telling stories that reflect human experience through
the metaphor of intellectual ideas.
Photo Credit: Michelle Reid