Dayna Hanson

About Dayna

Dayna Hanson is a Guggenheim fellow, a MacDowell fellow, a United States Artists Foundation fellow and Creative Capital awardee whose body of work spans three decades and multiple disciplines. Her dance and performance work has been presented by On the Boards, REDCAT, Noorderzon Festival, Fusebox Festival and others. Dayna’s narrative and experimental films have screened at South by Southwest, Woodstock Film Festival, New York Film Festival and many more. Her dance/narrative episode of HBO’s Room 104, “Voyeurs,” starring Sarah Hay, was named among the best television of 2017 by The New York Times and Vox. With Gaelen Hanson, Dayna co-directed dance theater company 33 Fainting Spells, whose work was presented by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center and many others; 33 Fainting Spells also produced several short dance films and New Dance Cinema, an international dance film festival. A self-trained choreographer, Dayna holds a B.A in English literature from the University of Washington, where she received the Milliman Prize for short fiction. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Base, a nonprofit dance and performance space in Seattle.

Qualifications

BA, English Literature
University of Washington