Meet Aleta Hayes

Aleta Hayes, lecturer in the Stanford University Department of Theater and Performance Studies, is first and foremost a master choreographer, contemporary dancer, and performer.

She the founder and artistic director of the Chocolate Heads Movement Band. The Chocolate Heads is an interdisciplinary, multi-genre movement-driven dance and performance troupe based on the Stanford University campus. Notable performances include the first Stanford TEDX, the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Djerassi Artist Residency. Add in Bing Concert Hall

Hayes has taught extensively at Princeton University in both the Program in Theater and Dance and the Program in African American Studies, as well as at Swarthmore College, Wesleyan and Rutgers Universities and has guest taught at The Sorbonne in Paris, France, and at the Air University at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a former Ford Foundation Resident Dialogues Fellow and Stanford Humanities Lab Grant Fellow and holds an M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from New York’s Tisch School of the Arts.