Hannah Cullen

Background

About Hannah Cullen

Hannah Cullen was raised in New York City where she is now living and creating work that incorporates movement, writing, and social activism. She graduated in May 2015 with a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of The Arts. Before attending Tisch, Hannah studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the pre-professional program and was a founding member of the collaborative, choreographic company Young Dance Collective. At NYU/Tisch, Hannah has performed works by Pamela Pietro, Cora Bos Kroese, and Bill T. Jones, as well as being a part of the Cunningham Event set by Rashaun Mitchell. Hannah has also performed in works by Pascal Rioult, Johannes Wieland, Larry Kegwin, and Noémie Lafrance. Hannah has always created work and choreographed six pieces at Tisch, many of which led to the making of her first evening length work. Entitled Us, Me, They, She, the work tackled gendered inequality as it pertains to both women and men, how expectations associated with gender influence and affect our individual identity, and how that in turn affects the way we view women in our society. Currently, Hannah is rehearsing and writing a new piece that looks at fear and memory and how those root inequality in our minds. Her motivation is to make socially engaged work that uses the spoken word and highly physical movement to incite thinking in her audience and connect with communities. Hannah works for Gloria Steinem, as well as the collaborative choreographic company, Young Dance Collective. She writes for the online publication Culturebot.