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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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