“Entangled in the Tall Grass”
(performed as “Render” - working title)
work-in-progress performed at Performance Primers - Nov 2023
Finnish Hall, Berkeley
Choreography & Performance: Hannah Westbrook
Poetry by Natalie Myers-Guzman
Photos: Miguel Angel
“the sky is bigger from here” by Kim Epifano / Epiphany Dance Theater for SF Trolley Dances 2022. Portsmouth Bridge, Chinatown
Choreography: Kim Epifano
Performance: Ciarra D’Onofrio, KJ Dahlow, Nico Maimon, Kauveri Suresh, Erin Yen, Hannah Westbrook
Music by Cello Joe
Photos by Kyle Adler
“Piece of Cake”
performed at NOSTALGIA! - March 2023
a show by Hannah Westbrook + Friends at PianoFight, SF
Restaged at Sapphic Valentine’s Soiree - Feb 2024
produced by Sarah Bush Dance Project at Parker Electric Mfg.
Choreography & Performance: Abigail Hinson & Hannah Westbrook
Photos: Henrik Meng
“the sky is bigger from here” by Kim Epifano / Epiphany Dance Theater for SF Trolley Dances 2022. Portsmouth Bridge, Chinatown
Creative Direction: Kim Epifano
Choreography: Kim Epifano & Dancers
Performance: Ciarra D’Onofrio, KJ Dahlow, Hein Huynh, Jessica DeFranco, Derek DiMartini, Roel Seeber, Hannah Westbrook.
Music by Jonah’s Lift
Photos by Kyle Adler (courtesy of Epiphany Dance Theater), Kim Epifano, & Stanley Ng
animi motus premiered n-e-t-w-o-r-k-i-n-g at Uferstudios, Berlin on October 1, 2021.
Choreography: Elisabeth Kindler-Abali
Performance: Gianna DiGirolamo, Felipe Fizkal, György Jellinek, Po-Nien Wang, Hannah Westbrook
Costumes: Julia von Leliwa
Lighting: Maxx Kurzunski
West End Arts District / Tara Pilbrow Dance
Photos: Maurice Ramirez
Dancers: Tara Pilbrow, Hannah Westbrook, Stacey Yuen
Tim Rubel Human Shakes premiered I Want This Instead at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco in June 2021.
Choreography: Tim Rubel
Performance: Dalton Alexander, Derek DiMartini, Hannah Westbrook
Lighting: Maxx Kurzunski
Costume: Brooke Jennings (top photo only) & Tim Rubel
Photos: Henrik Meng
Rebecca Morris Dance
excerpts performed at PianoFight, SF in February 2020. Full production postponed due to Covid-19.
Performers: Olivia Holston, Rebecca Morris, Becky Robinson-Leviton, Hannah Westbrook
Photos: Sara LaValley
all she holds was created in residence at Art Farm, Nebraska. Highly influenced by the surreal experience of living and working in “Victoria”, a 100+ year old house on the farm, this film is a visual collage investigating memory, lived history, sensation, and spirit of place.
Created August 2021
Duration: 3:43
concept, choreography, editing: Hannah Westbrook
Presented December 2021 in RAWdance Concept Series: Digital Edition 3
A collaboration between photographer Henrik Meng & Hannah Westbrook to recreate of a photograph from the 1930s.
The original photograph by Dr. Krohn has been featured on the album cover for “Lullabies” by the Cocteau Twins and in a photography exhibition alongside a photograph of a lily, highlighting the similarities between the two images.
music video
a protest prayer and call to action written by musician Willa Moore after the police murder of George Floyd.
Action Steps for Racial Justice
Anti-Racism reading list
Songwriter: Willa Moore
Choral Director: Kym Franklin
Movement Director: Hannah Westbrook
Collaborating Dancers: Nick Brentley, Lydia Clinton, Hannah Pierce, Piper Thomasson, & Nathan Forster.
Lead Editor: Maxx Kurzunski
beyond . still . life is a site-specific dance film created in residence at Art Farm, Nebraska. Inspired by the whimsical landscape, this dance comes to life as a snapshot of magical realism. Immerse yourself in the heavy heat of a midwestern summer and the gentle rhythms of the prairie.
August 2021
Duration: 5:22
concept, choreography, editing: Hannah Westbrook
Presented March 2022 in the Constructed Sight dance film festival
Portal is a dance film born of isolation, loneliness, soul searching, and desire during the 2020 Covid-19 quarantine. This piece toys with and investigates the sense of self, looking to joy and play to bridge divides, seek closeness, and find ways to thrive together through barriers.
This film is for my twin.
A Phenomenal Anomalies film.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Hannah Westbrook
Creative Collaborator: Becky Robinson-Leviton
Editor: Maxx Kurzunski
Music: Bryan Teoh
A collaboration between Tim Rubel Human Shakes (San Francisco, USA) & Elisabeth Kindler-Abali/animi motus. (Berlin, Germany)
Presented in San Francisco as a Co-Production with CounterPulse, & in Berlin at the Pfefferberg Theater.
Choreography by Tim Rubel & Elisabeth Kindler-Abali
Original Score by David Molina
Lighting Design: Maxx Kurzunski
Costume Design: Vanessa Freeman
Dancers: Clarissa Dyas, Tayler Kinner, Sam Mitchell, Becky Robinson-Leviton, Svetlana Pivchik, Hannah Westbrook
Photos: Lily Roggemann
A Wait is a site-specific piece by The Phenomenal Anomalies (Becky Robinson-Leviton & Hannah Westbrook).
Commissioned for the 2018 Animate Dance Festival in Alameda, CA
Photography: Henrik Meng, Maurice Ramirez, & Chelsea Hill
