ANIMAL Dance Residency Fall 2024
ANIMAL Dance is in residency at the Flynn from September to December. The residency provides studio space and time for the company to develop an evening-length contemporary dance work for the stage. This work will premiere January 4th and 5th 2025 at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, as the opening weekend to the second-ever INSTINCT Experimental Dance Festival.
ANIMAL Dance is a performance and production company created in 2022 and directed by Hanna Satterlee, based in Burlington Vermont. Their artistic work highlights the sentience shared between species, honoring the ephemeral language of the body in motion.
INSTINCT Festival brings together experimental and interdisciplinary makers working between movement and other artistic fields for a week of workshops, showcases, and exchange. Experimental dance celebrates the weird, the wild, with an ever-changing definition of style and form. Experimental dance creates space for all types of expression, ranging from conceptual and abstract, to mythical story telling and poetic spirituality. It is a vehicle for investigation, understanding, and re-imagining the complexities of each moment. Through media, music, movement and mystery, experimental artists bring the human experience into an imaginative reality, to help us all remember to ask “What else is possible?”
Hanna Satterlee
Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, experimental curator and event producer.
Hanna holds a double BA in Dance/Psychology with a concentration in Dance Therapy from Goucher College, and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Since 2006 Hanna has been a dancer in many US companies and collaborative performance groups, has worked internationally as an independent artist, choreographer, and movement and mindfulness teacher, and has received many grants and awards to support her performance, dance film and curatorial work. From 2010-15 Hanna served as the Director of Professional Programming & Director of Teen Jazz at the Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier Vermont, and has been a guest lecturer at Johnson State College and Middlebury College, and adjunct faculty at Vermont Law School, the University of Vermont, Northern Vermont University and currently at Saint Michael's College.
