Eleanor Bauer, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied at Idyllwild Arts Academy and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. After receiving her BFA from Tisch she worked as a choreographer and performer in several shows in venues throughout New York including Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, LaMaMa E.T.C., Joe's Pub, Judson Church, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, OfficeOps, and Ur, The Dance Palace. She was a dance critic for Off Off Off, an assistant to the editors of the Movement Research Performance Journal, and Program Assistant at Arts International.Bauer moved to Brussels in 2004 for the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S.. During her studies, she premiered the solo ELEANOR!
Bauer completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in 2006, performing ELEANOR! and her quartet entitled E-M-P-A-T-H-Y in the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour at Festival de Marseille, Alkantara Festival, ITs Festival, Monty, Vooruit, Kaaistudios, Tanz Im August, and ImPulsTanz, where Bauer was also a DanceWEB scholarship recipient in 2006.

In 2009 Eleanor joined Rosas for the creation of The Song by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, for premiere June 2009. In March of 2010 Eleanor premiered a new solo entitled (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) at Vooruit. ?Based on a work-in-progress showing in the Working Title Festival #3 of Workspace Brussels, this solo was nominated for a Prix Jardin d'Europe. (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) will continue to tour through 2011.