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Instructor

Hannah Rice

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Hannah Rice is a movement-based performance artist and body-based educator living in Seattle, Washington. Her creative practice pays close attention to the body in relationship to space both architecturally and sonically. Her current practice utilizes field recordings, sound design and movement scores to research memory and time.

Hannah has collaborated with choreographer and mentor Alia Swersky since 2018, producing, improvising, and engaging in ritual performance. Their work has been shown at Base: Experimental Arts + Space, 12th Ave Arts, CO-, The University of Washington, The Good Shepherd Center, Cornish Playhouse and MadArt, among other Seattle performance venues. As a performer, she has also worked with Coriolis Dance Collective, Wade Madsen, Pat Hon, Jody Kuehner, Bruce McCormick, Alice Gosti and Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Hannah is also a core member of Dangerous Women, an activist theater company based in central Washington. Additionally, Hannah continues to produce her own work in both rural and urban parts of Washington State. In 2021, her interactive and sculptural film Yellow House was displayed for a two month showing at the MAC Gallery in central Washington. She graduated cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts, where she earned a BFA in Dance and Pilates Mat certification. Before her journey as a Pilates instructor began, Hannah taught and directed the ballet program for The Next Step Dance Studio and had been working with children and adults in dance for 10 years. Her approach to the Pilates technique comes from a love of ballet- discovering length in the body while maintaining alignment, strength and pushing the edges of expansion. Her teaching is largely inspired by the work of those who came before her: Irene Dowd's soft and abstract sensibilities, Michele Miller's rigor and attention to isolation, Hali Fiano's approach to rehabilitation and physical therapy.

In the outside world, Hannah is engaged in creative writing, running in the mountains and biking through the city.

Qualifications

BFA, Dance
Cornish College of the Arts