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Hannah Wasielewski (she/her) is a dancer, performer, educator, and biodynamic craniosacral therapist based in Portland, Maine, the traditional territory of the Wabanaki Confederacy. She has been engaged in choreographic practice as a soloist and in collaboration since 2012, working throughout North America and abroad in Europe. Her practice today is centered around contact improvisation, experimental contemporary dance forms, and healing through radical performance.
Formally, based in San Francisco, her work with Amy Wasielewski has been produced by SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (SF,CA), West Wave Dance Festival (SF,CA), FRESH Festival, James Graham Dance Theater(SF,CA), Finnish Hall (Berkeley, CA), and Joe Goode Annex (SF,CA).
As a performer, she has worked with Sara Shelton Mann (CA/Europe), FAKE Company/Kathleen Hermesdorf (CA/Europe), Daiane Lopes da Silva(CA), Sam Stone(CA), and Sara Kraft/ KraftyWorks(CA) and was a company member with Kinetech Arts(CA) for two years.
Her current collaboration, (ii) Imaginary Island, with Kristen Stake (Portland, ME), is a Maine-based lifelong dance process centered around healing, grieving, and improvisation. They performed at NEFA’s New England Now’s Regional Dance Initiative at the ICA in Boston in March 2022 and various engagements throughout Maine and New England.
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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2011
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
2011
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