https://www.hannahlittman.com/about daily 0.75 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/d7aae84e-d2c5-42b6-971c-e87c1479b8e3/DSC06540-Edit.jpg About - Hannah Littman (they/them) is a choreographer, educator, performer, and producer passionate about building inclusive and enriching movement spaces. Originally from Los Angeles, Hannah is based in both Western Massachusetts and New York City. Hannah’s choreographic and scholarly research draws on their longtime fascination with American media institutions to question modes of dance archive. Their work digs into queer aesthetics, ordinary movement, surrealism, audience participation ethics and practices, body archive/memory, and more. They have performed choreography by Gabby Carmichael, Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones, and Adam Weinert, and they have presented their choreographic work at Movement Research, Green Space, BAAD!, and ESTIA Day Fest. Additionally, they have presented their scholarly research at conferences held by the Dance Studies Association and the American College Dance Association. Beyond their independent work, Hannah is a co-founder and the lead producer of the 46 Minutes Collective through which they have developed work in-residence at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and presented at IndyFringe Theater Festival, The Tank, and the Brick Aux. Hannah earned their BA in Film and English from Vassar College, and they are currently an MFA candidate and Teaching Fellow in Dance at Smith College. © Stephanie Croussilat https://www.hannahlittman.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-04 https://www.hannahlittman.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1660589153490-UIVD2X7WOJIX2TBAKDJT/YKT07205.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1660589816321-B561XISU6BES007F0E6Q/YKT00378.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/cbf46259-699c-42e0-a7d3-9161d2890259/DSC06202-Edit.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/d2339991-4baf-4bbb-9869-07ab87052121/IMG_8039.jpeg Home https://www.hannahlittman.com/work daily 0.75 2025-07-04 https://www.hannahlittman.com/work/choreography monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/462ba75d-6e1a-4993-a0ea-2fc4a150c867/IMG_1031.jpeg Work - Choreography - not only/but also Choreographer and Performer: Hannah Littman Dramaturg: Avi Klipfel Music: “Beautiful Girl Montage” & “Beautiful Girl” by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, performed by Jimmy Thompson; “Beautiful Girl - Alternate Version/Tempo Track” performed by Gene Kelly and Lennie Hayton Premiere: February 25th, 2023 at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance for Dance Compilation: Queer Movie Movers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1396bfb9-a722-4381-9ec0-4fec8824c515/IMG_4989.jpeg Work - Choreography - The DECAGON Project The DECAGON Project is an ongoing dance-theater project that explores interpersonal relationships through community storytelling. Via methods of chance that (hopefully) bring about moments of real connection beyond the supposed "fourth wall," we beg the question of whether it's chance, fate, or a little of both that bring us together. The DECAGON Project premiered at the IndyFringe Theater Festival in Indianapolis, IN, and it was most recently presented at Brick Aux in Brooklyn, NY as a workshop. Choreography: Hannah Littman Dramaturgy and Script: Avi Klipfel Script: Gabby Kimbrough Original Lighting Design: Lev Goldman & Erin Mee Musical Director and Composer: Aaron Zanabria (IndyFringe) Text Director: Emlyn Doolittle (Brick Aux) Production Stage Manager: Ara Tandon (IndyFringe); D Henry Hanson (Brick Aux) Lead Producer: Hannah Littman Associate Producer: Jacob Ettkin (IndyFringe) Production Manager: Avi Klipfel Performer-Collaborators to date: Sloane Burling, Emlyn Doolittle, Lily Summer Gee, D Henry Hanson, Elliot Hoke, Gabby Kimbrough, Avi Klipfel, Hannah Littman, Abigail Lo, Mackenzie Nye, Kana Seiki, Kayla Spalding, Ara Tandon, Aaron Zanabira Photo by Nicole Stern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/2d1846b1-f27a-4ea6-80b1-eae6ae437e81/12-08-24_SKBeanPhotography_200950-2.jpeg Work - Choreography - Dream Loops "How is it possible, with all that is possible, that the same form is repeated again and again? How does the openness of the future get closed down into so little in the present?" (Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology) Titled after Shirley Clarke and D.A. Pennebaker's short films "Brussels Loops," which showed looped scenes of typical, primarily suburban, American life in the late 1950s, "Dream Loops" imagines a similar mundanity and ordinariness in repetitive action inside a queerly extraplanar dreamscape. This work explores the idea that queer reality operates as deviation from the expected, allowing anything and everything to be possible without grandeur. Choreography: Hannah Littman Performers: Addie Bowen, Claire Dana, Ian Diez, Ma'ayan Rider-Shacham Music: original composition by Aaron Zanabria Dramaturgy: Avi Klipfel Design Concept: Celeste Samson Premiere: December 10, 2025, at Smith College as part of the MFA Fall Grad Event Photo by Samantha Bean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1620071159513-N9WI6T7HKN2SEKMQ3W3B/7C874809-34F7-4E05-95EF-98964FB3B687_1_201_a.jpeg Work - Choreography - we found each other in the rubble Where do you feel safe? Where do you feel unsafe? What does it feel like to be alone? What does it feel like to be one in a crowd? How do you experience the inevitable? How do you create yourself daily? Who do you forgive? How do you change? What breaks you? Who comforts you? Where is home? Where do you belong? An independent study in choreographing an evening-length work supported by the Vassar College Dance Department. Choreographer and Producer: Hannah Littman Dancers: Sloane Burling, Lisette Fischer, Lily Summer Gee, Olivia Gotsch, Elliot Hoke, Emily Lesorogol, Jalene Medina, Yoshi Sanders, Talia Sheinkopf, David Shively-Ertas, Nerissa Tunnessen, Genevieve Waller-Whelan, Weipeng Xie Dramaturg: Avi Klipfel Advisor: Leslie I.P. Sachs Music: “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 1" by Max Richter; “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Shadow 2" by Max Richter; “Flora and Fauna / Gleise 581d” by Brian Eno; “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 2” by Max Richter; “When I Am Alone (Arr. J. Elff for Solo Voice)” by David Lang, Caroline Shaw; “Hot Knife - Live at Saint Mark’s Cathedral” by Mountain Man; “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 3" by Max Richter Live Premiere: April 24th, 2021 at Vassar College Live-Stream Premiere: May 7th, 2021 Photo by Yesmina Townsley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/83e07feb-d613-449e-9dfd-f77434d6c071/YKT00169.jpg Work - Choreography - A DECAGON “There is no stage, there is no audience.” A DECAGON was a senior project in Choreography, Performance, and Production created over ten months and presented alongside two other works in a self-produced evening. Choreographer, Director, Producer: Hannah Littman Dramaturg: Avi Klipfel Performers: Jalene Medina, Sophie Wang, Sloane Burling, Cassidy Barrata, Lily Summer Gee, Yoshi Sanders, Olivia Gotsch, Courtney Spero, David Shivley-Ertas, and Elliot Hoke Advisor: Leslie I.P. Sachs Lighting Designer: Lev Goldman Stage Manager: Olivia Salva Music: “Aheym” by Bryce Dessner, the Kronos Quartet; Excerpts of Echolocations: River by Andrew Bird; “Vowel//Consonant” by Loraine James; “A Place Where Strangers Gather To Watch The Sunrise” by Bing Satellites Premiere: April 23rd, 2022 at Vassar College as part of here, sincerely: a collective evening of dance produced by Hannah Littman, Lily Summer Gee, and Nerissa Tunnessen. Photo by Yesmina Townsley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/41dfe239-2d21-40f8-8c5e-6f98a97833ab/IMG_0255.jpeg Work - Choreography - Milk Carton Kid The space between gender panic and gender euphoria. Originally created for Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s Spring 2022 season, presented at ESTIA Day Fest in September 2022 Choreographers: Hannah Littman and Sloane Burling Performers: Hannah Littman and Sloane Burling Music: “Choir and Crickets” by Jeff Russo, “FACESHOPPING” by SOPHIE Premiere: April 14th, 2022 at Vassar College Photo by Ziru Wang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1620507725338-T3UW7A113PX8S371LI3F/750CE9C3-88CF-4C87-980D-F555A0634422_1_201_a.jpeg Work - Choreography - Final, Finally A reworking and translation of the “Final Girl” horror trope to dance. Choreography: Hannah Littman in collaboration with the dancers Dancers: Lily Summer Gee, Yoshi Sanders, Talia Sheinkopf, Allison Wan Music: “Fearfully in Danger” by The Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith, and Patti Smith Premiere: April 30th, 2021, as part of the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s 2020-21 season Photo by Yesmina Townsley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1eb0c4d0-97c5-411e-a7e1-d024fd3d2959/Screen+Shot+2022-07-17+at+2.50.53+PM.png Work - Choreography - Circa Choreographer: Hannah Littman Performer: Julia Dawson Music: “Just Before Dawn” by Sonnymoon, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Premiere: May 2nd, 2022 at Vassar College as part of the Dance Department’s 2022 Spring Showings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/2b366747-ea3a-4859-9315-771da574c495/IMG_7092.jpeg Work - Choreography - room tone On bedrot, isolation, and obsessive hobbyism. Choreography, video design, and performance: Hannah Littman Costume concept: Hannah Littman & Avi Klipfel Lighting Design: Amber Tanudjaja Premiere: May 2, 2025, at Smith College as part of the MFA Spring Grad Concert NYC Premiere May 6, 2025, at Movement Research as part of Open Performance Photo by Stephen Texeira https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1610089315032-LPLFC8VT3FXBBLX0DNAV/IMG_4173.jpg Work - Choreography - RIKUD Based on experiences in toxically heteronormative spaces, RIKUD explores gender panic, chaos, and subversion in social dance scenes. Choreography: Hannah Littman Dancers: Lisette Fischer, Lily Summer Gee, Henry Gilbert, Elliot Hoke, Emily Lesorogol, Danielle Lomi, Sydney Majka, Jalene Medina, Zoe Mueller, Nerissa Tunnessen Music: “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 1" by Max Richter; “Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Shadow 2" by Max Richter Premiere: November 2019 at Vassar College as part of Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s 2019-20 season Photo by Yesmina Townsley https://www.hannahlittman.com/work/performance monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://www.hannahlittman.com/work/theatre-movement-direction monthly 0.5 2021-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1624470940050-OMI6DN7SH3ETAP0ADT6D/Pericles.jpg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - PERICLES by William Shakespeare Choreographer: Hannah Littman Director: Max Elliot Produced & performed by Shakespeare Troupe Premiered May 20th, 2021 at Vassar College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/6d3a03b3-b40c-4b05-b535-303c4d6bc45a/in+the+green.jpeg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - In the Green Music and Lyrics by Grace McLean Choreography and Movement Direction: Hannah Littman Director: Keira DiGaetano Music Directors: Eden Bartholomew & Avery Duer Producer: The Philaletheis Society Premiered on October 28th, 2021 at Vassar College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1378710f-044c-421e-b838-46d2167bcd9e/METAMORPHOSES+final+poster.jpg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman Choreography and Movement Direction: Hannah Littman Director: Avi Klipfel Advisor: Kenisha Kelly Produced by the Experimental Theater of Vassar College Premiered November 11th, 2021 at Vassar College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1624468791412-BGFR2UO6GHWC8T6N9UJK/everybody.jpg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - EVERYBODY by Brendan Jacob Jenkins Choreographer: Hannah Littman Directed, produced, and performed by Woodshed Theatre Ensemble Premiered May 7, 2021 at Vassar College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1610230641502-PA0PZ8DS6IS8W199MUJ3/NINA-poster+copy.jpeg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - NINA by Jenny Rachel Weiner Movement Director: Hannah Littman Directors: Abigail Klipfel, Adina Ornstein-Luks Producer: The Philaletheis Society Premiered on November 21, 2019 at Vassar College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1610093564110-BN0LCULYDAWRDAB64HG6/spelling-b-e1519757414607.jpg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Choreographer: Hannah Littman Director: Delaney Sears Producer: Future Waitstaff of America (Vassar College) *canceled due to COVID-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff789c7cafb790da4d811a4/1610229595910-XXOD88AVQ4430F7XOZZ5/unnamed.jpg Work - Theatre & Movement Direction - Bad King Lear Choreographer: Hannah Littman Director: Elliot Hoke Producer: Merely Players Premiered on November 8th, 2019 at Vassar College