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Updated 12/2/2024

Hanna Satterlee

  • V

    VT

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Hanna Satterlee is a NEST-elligible choreographer, dancer, performer and director currently based in Vermont. 

Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, experimental curator and event producer.

Hanna holds a double BA in Dance/Psychology with a concentration in Dance Therapy from Goucher College, and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Since 2006 Hanna has been a dancer in many US companies and collaborative performance groups, has worked internationally as an independent artist, choreographer, and movement and mindfulness teacher, and has received many grants and awards to support her performance, dance film and curatorial work. From 2010-15 Hanna served as the Director of Professional Programming & Director of Teen Jazz at the Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier Vermont, and has been a guest lecturer at Johnson State College and Middlebury College, adjunct faculty at Vermont Law School, the University of Vermont and Northern Vermont University, and currently at Saint Michael's College.

In May ’17 Hanna founded the Vermont Dance Alliance, and served as the Executive Director through June 2021.

Hanna launched ANIMAL Dance Performance and Production Company in 2022.

ANIMAL Dance Company's artistic work highlights the sentience shared between species, honoring the ephemeral language of the body in motion. Following the success of  our premiere "Tender Hearts" performance, the company will continue to create and perform a new work to tour on a yearly basis.

ANIMAL Dance's curations and productions are designed to support independent artists, through informal and formal performances, artists' exchange groups, and classes and workshops. In January 2024, ANIMAL Dance produced the first ever INSTINCT Experimental Dance Festival in Burlington Vermont, and is continuing to expand the festival into a yearly event this January 2025.

In continuous conversation as a curator, an educator, a choreographer and a performer, Hanna is as passionate for the form of dance as she is in connecting people to it.

Find Me

Hanna Satterlee
Job Title: Director, Choreographer, Performer, Educator
Phone: 410-458-3672
Address:
92 North Avenue
#7
Burlington, VT 05401

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Other
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
  • Exhibitions
  • Curriculum Development
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Film Showings
  • Professional Network Gatherings / Events
  • Wedding / Parties / Private Gatherings
  • Community Arts
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 10

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-County Region
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • ANIMAL Dance
  • Northern Vermont University
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
  • St Michael's College
  • Vermont Dance Alliance

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • ANIMAL Dance
  • Northern Vermont University
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
  • St Michael's College
  • Vermont Dance Alliance

Awards

Awards:

  • New Arts Space Assistant Grant, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington Vermont. 2009
  • Project Grant, through fiscal sponsor "Montpelier Alive" Vermont Arts Council, 2012-13
  • Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council, 2013-14, 2016
  • Artist Development Grant, Vermont Arts Council 2014, 2018, 2022
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Goucher College, 2006
  • ATLAS participant, Impulstanz international dance festival, Vienna Austria, 2015
  • Artist in Residence, Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio, Montpelier Vermont, 2010-present
  • Artist in Residence, The Garage, San Francisco CA, 2007-2010
  • New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • NEFA Public Arts Fund Grantee

Education

Education:

  • Vinyasa Yoga Certification, Laughing Lotus Yoga School, San Francisco CA
  • BA in Dance & Psychology with a concentration in Dance Therapy, Goucher College
  • MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Designated Arts Community:

  • Vermont Arts Council - VAC Creation Grant Applicants

Artist Info

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • I am an interdisciplinary performance maker. I can create with various technical possibilities...from nothing to many options!

Fee Range:

$3,000 - $20,000

State of Residence:

Vermont

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

10

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • I am an interdisciplinary performance maker. I can create with various technical possibilities...from nothing to many options!

Fee Range:

$3,000 - $20,000

State of Residence:

Vermont

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

10