Choreography

 

Hannah, wearing a crocheted romper and thigh-high leg warmers, stands on their head with their back to the camera. They face a laptop on which they're watching an episode of "Jeopardy!"

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

Four dancers strike poses around a square table.

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

A hand reaches into a round, glass fishbowl filled with folded white paper.

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 white man holding a microphone weaves through pairs of dancers embracing one another. They all wear clothes that are different shades of blue.

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

Four dancers jump towards a blue backdrop.

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

Three dancers in white cower facing away from the camera.

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

A group of dancers in black costumes scream in a circle.

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

 
 
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