Laura Halm Hamilton is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and mother. Originally from Baltimore, she received a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School in 2002 and an MFA from Hollins University in 2024. Well-versed in Eurocentric forms of concert dance, including Classical, Modern, Contemporary, and Postmodern forms, she has performed as a company member with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Ballett des Saarländischen Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the Chamber Dance Company of The University of Washington. She has danced masterworks by choreographers Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Johan Inger, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, and Lucinda Childs, among many others. During the 2017-18 season, Halm Hamilton was the rehearsal director and choreography assistant for Dance Company Nanine Linning in Heidelberg, Germany, where she also performed as a guest soloist. From 2018 until 2022, she served as the Dance Department Head at the Baltimore School for the Arts. During that time, she became certified in the somatic practice of Functional Awareness®. Halm Hamilton joined the faculty of The Peabody Institute’s Dance Department as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2022 to teach Contemporary Ballet.