About Samuel Hanson
Bio
Samuel Bennett Hanson is a dance artist who has performed in the work of Hilary Carrier, Isabel Lewis, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mina Nishimura, Yve Laris Cohen, Yvonne Meier, Simone Forti, Alexandra Pirici and Alexandra Barbier. His research interests include improvisation, dance criticism and print media, experimental presenting and curation, dance on film and video, and public education. In his new role at Dance at Illinois, he is excited to be working on creating an online departmental journal and expanding our K-12 teaching curricula.
Samuel’s choreography tends toward the intimate, made for specific performers and smaller spaces. Before living in New York from 2015-19, he worked closely with Utah-based choreographer Ashley Anderson as a performer, curator, and editor through her platform loveDANCEmore, an incubator of experimental dance for the Western United States, which he now serves remotely as director. He has taught dance and special education in elementary, middle and high schools in Utah, Illinois, and New York City and has guest lectured on dance and education policy at Davidson College, Weber State University, the University of Utah, and the University of the Américas Puebla. He holds an undergraduate degree in performance and media from the University of Utah and an MFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.