HANNAH HELLER

Hannah began her career in Seattle, as a pot-bellied, outie-buttoned, polka-dotted, dreadlocked, five year-old, crumb-snatcher onstage with the clown Avner the Eccentric, wearing the same shirt she had slumbered in the night before. At 16, she began tap dancing with Savion Glover and at 18 became a founding member of his ensemble Ti Dii with whom she toured nationally and internationally. Simultaneously, Hannah attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' Experimental Theater Wing. Then she moved to India for a while.
She returned and choreographed MC Lars' music video 'Ahab', directed the 'Ritmico' by Cintia Chamecki for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, did voices for Playboy.com's animated shorts, and participated in and created dance-theater work all over New York. She has performed with luminaries such as Taylor Mac, Janicza Bravo, Rachel Chavkin, Bobby McFerrin, Abby Lincoln, Wayne Shorter, Gregory Hines, Peter Flaherty, Nellie Tinder, Lia Ices, Katie Workum, and Heather Christian.
Hannah is currently completing her second year at L'École Philippe Gaulier in Paris, where she is expanding on her themes of light creepiness, dark freedoms, and tactical pursuits of play. This past summer, she completed her first short film entitled 'Herma's Question No. 151', which premiered in the online fashion and art magazine Tales and at Shortcutz Festival in Lisbon. She is working on her next film project based on the poems of Charles Bukowski.
Hannah first collaborated with Jennie MaryTai Liu on 'Learning in Lower Animals' at DTW. That performance earned her the New York Times to say "Hannah Heller was especially good..." Since 2006 they have worked together on a handful of projects both in New York and Hong Kong, and will continue to collaborate upon her return from Paris.
Hannah plays violin. She dances proper good. Her characters are provocative and anomalous. And, she can be very funny.