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Body + Site
August 6, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
BODY + SITE
A site-specific workshop built around the history and architecture of Freeway Park. Will meet at the NOD theater, then make our way down to the park. We will explore the body in relationship to the site and look at the way landscapes, including our own bodies, change over time.
HANNAH SIMMONS
Hannah Simmons is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator, and educator living and working in Seattle. She holds a B.A. from Bennington College in dance and mathematics. As a performer, she has oscillated between highly experimental contemporary works, performance art, classical ballet, opera, and burlesque, most recently dancing in Seattle Opera’s La Traviata and back-up dancing for electro-pop diva YellaCatt.
Her choreographies and installations are centered around queering forms and hybridizing reality and fiction, in service of giving viewers a dynamic and unusual perspective on their own bodies. Her recent work has been supported by Velocity Dance Center, NWFF’s Collective Power Fund, MAP Fund’s inaugural microgrant initiative, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Freeway Park Association.
Recent projects include: Ballet Rituals, an ongoing class series built alongside Alethea Alexander and Maya Tacon; Field Guides, place-based audio pieces that help you to think differently about body and environment, in collaboration with Leah Crosby; and Futurememory, a collection of zines that ask if something can live indefinitely in the realm of possibility, in collaboration with Maria Manness.
She is passionate about communal care, collaboration, and building sustainable and reciprocal systems of support for artists.
Photo by AJ Ragasa