Hannah Simmons

About Hannah

Hannah Simmons is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator, and educator based in Seattle. She holds a B.A. from Bennington College in dance and mathematics. 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. Hannah’s recent generative work has been supported by Base’s Residency, WET’s ReSET, Velocity Dance Center, NWFF’s Collective Power Fund, 4Culture, Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture, and the Freeway Park Association. Recent stage productions include performances with Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Verlaine & McCann, and YellaCatt. She is a co-founder and teaching artist with Ballet Rituals, alongside Alethea Alexander, where they offer contemporary ballet technique and host local and national guest teachers. Hannah is a current Resident Artist at Actualize, a multi-disciplinary arts incubator in Downtown Seattle. She is passionate about communal care, collaboration, and building sustainable and reciprocal systems of support for artists.

Pronouns

she/her/hers

Qualifications

BA, Dance and Mathematics
Bennington College