What Babe?

This David Bowie inspired dance was a little more of my fun side of dancing coming out. I don't think a whole lot of people understood it exactly, but you have to see the movie the Labrynth after watching this video. I used to LOVE that movie growing up for some odd reason. My Mom and brother Jordan would have to hide the vhs at Premiere Video in Willmar, MN so that we wouldn't have to rent it again. They would crush my heart when they said "Oh, looks like they don't have it Haylee..." I now understand why they did that, but it's pretty funny that years later I had to tribute a dance to that movie. I literally made a lot of this dance up on the spot and it could be better, but it was fun nonetheless and I need to share my love of The Labrynth with the world.

Fosse

Choreographed by Craig Ellingson

Boom Boom

It's Britney B*** There's nothing more I can say about this one. It was just fun to perform a dance to Britney Spears, haha. I will forever love her.

Tint it Blue

This is my first "Ballet." I was given this music by my close friend Jenny Peterson's Mom, Denise. I fell in love with the it. Denise said she pictured dancing to it and thought I could use it and well...I did! It turned out pretty cute too.

Can't Help It

This dance was actually our Nationals Hip Hop routine for the Minnesota State University Moorhead Dance Team. Kaitlin, Lisa, and I wanted to perform it at the dance show so we put a trio together. This past year Lisa actually past away so It's really bittersweet watching it now. It wasn't too long after this that she found out that she had a brain tumor. She fought for her life long and hard. She surprised everyone with her courage and strength in her battle against cancer. Dance meant the world to her and so did the dance team. Thank you for being so inspiring, Lisa.

Movie Scene

Billie Jean

I choreographed this dance freshman year with help from Craig Ellingson, Brianna Lucas, and Ruthie. As a freshman I was still a little insecure with both myself and my choreography. It was nice to have some help when I got stuck, but I can't take 100% of the credit for this dance because it was a team effort. Thanks guys!

The Season Turns

I look back at this dance and I'm happy I performed a solo my sophomore year of college. That takes some guts and I guess at the time I was going through some interesting life changes and dance was the only place I felt at home. It was my only constant. The song Enough to Change a Thing is by Scattered Trees, the band I have mentioned before. Dancing to their music is what inspired me with the show "Flurry" last spring with Craig Ellingson. What I love about this dance is watching how I recycled movements and where now I like to try to come up with different ones. I was still growing as a choreographer and a dancer at this point (and still am) but I was still pretty fresh out of High School. After our dance show we talked about all the different pieces and critiqued them. Craig congratulated me after this dance which made me feel like I had made some sort of leap in my dancing. He said that this was very different than anything I had done before. It was more "raw" was the word he used. This made me proud because it was. It was more revealing to who I was etc.

Half Alive

Zeke Hess and Haylee Thompson performing to Jar of Hearts

This dance is by far my favorite dance I have ever performed. I felt that my partner Zeke and I danced "As one." I couldn't have asked for a better partner in crime. I miss you Zeke! Right now I'm trying to think of everything that I feel and think about this dance, but I can't even explain it all. It was like this breakthrough in a journey of finding myself as a person and as a dancer. It was one of the most amazing experiences so far in my life. This dance brought my sister and Mom to tears. I liked that for the fact that movement I created could evoke that strong of an emotion for an audience. And maybe a part of it all is they know my life story. They have been there since I first danced. They have seen me grow as a person and as a dancer, but I hope this dance moves you in the way it did for my family. I loved performing it and would give anything to do it again!

ENJOY :)