Hannah Nicole Marr, from Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated in May 2017 from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) with a BFA in Contemporary Dance under the direction of Susan Jaffe. At the age of two, Hannah had already begun developing a strong interest for movement and art. This interest turned into a great love, and led her through her Junior year of High School, training in Raleigh at CC & Co. Dance Complex under the direction of Christy Curtis. In High School, Hannah's interest for Professional Modern/Contemporary dance sparked even more, while she was also being taught by Glenda Mackie at Enloe High School. Heading into her Senior year of High School, Hannah auditioned and was accepted as one of four students into the UNCSA High School program. She then continued on at UNCSA for college, and graduated three years later.
Hannah is a Principal Dancer with OM Grown Dancers in Durham, NC under the direction of Courtney OM. With OM Grown, Hannah has performed in locations including Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Oklahoma, and Virginia. OM Grown Dancers premiered their first full length show, 'The EVOL//you//TION inFULL' in June 2017. In 2018, they premiered 'Alkhawf,' followed by '6 Forms Of Fear' in 2019.
Their newest piece 'A(VOI D)ANCE' premiered in May of 2022.
Hannah is a Principal Dancer as well as the Rehearsal Director with ShaLeigh Dance Works in Durham, NC.
In December 2017, ShaLeigh Dance Works premiered 'I Promise.' In early 2018, they traveled to perform in NYC at APAP and Dixon Place. In June 2018 they performed 'E Pluribus Unum,' a collaboration with Elizabeth Corbett in Durham, NC. In January 2019 SDW premiered 'Bamboo Wind,' a collaborative project working with dancers, a musician, actors, poetry, and visual design. SDW attended APAP again in January 2020. In 2020 they premiered 'The In Between,' and most recently in 2022, 'enVISION,' a collaborative piece created for and with people with low vision and blindness. 'enVISION' was presented by ADF, the American Dance Festival, as the season opener.
Hannah has a strong passion for teaching and choreographing.
She is currently on faculty for TRAIN Pre-Professional Training Program, Threehouse Studios, Ninth Street Dance, and OM grown dancers intensives. She also guest teaches and choreographs for many schools and studios. Through her teaching, Hannah teaches students ages 2 through adult. She teaches styles including Contemporary, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Tap, Musical Theatre, and Acro.
Hannah has also previously been a teacher and choreographer for OM still growing training program, satellite program dance director at Voyager Academy Elementary, and a guest substitute for many studios.
While at UNCSA Hannah received 4 years of professional training in performance, composition/choreography, pedagogy/teaching, acting, and dance on film. She took technique classes in ballet, contemporary, and different styles of modern such as Cunningham, Limon, Release Technique, Countertechnique, Horton, Graham, and more.
Hannah has been privileged to have been selected and perform works by Paul Taylor, Doug Varone, Martha Graham, Kira Blazek, Juel D. Lane, Netta Yerushalmy, T. Lang, Wayne McGregor, Ming- Lung Yang,
and many others.
For a setting of a Doug Varone piece titled "Democracy", Hannah was selected to perform as the lead role. In a setting of a Paul Taylor original work "Esplanade", she was chosen to perform the solo originally done by Ruthie Andrien, the current director of the Taylor 2 company. In addition, while at the American Dance Festival, Hannah was chosen by Netta Yerushalmy to perform and be in the original cast of a work titled "Pictograms". She was also asked by T. Lang to perform in her piece in the ADF faculty concert
2 years in a row.
Hannah has been chosen to attend audition-based summer intensives including Body Traffic and Movement Invention Project. She has also attended the American Dance Festival; twice for the 6 week school and once for the Dance Professional's Workshop in 2017.
At CC & Co Dance Complex she received training in contemporary, lyrical, jazz, ballet, musical theater, and hip-hop. While there, she had the honor of being selected to perform pieces by Sonya Tayeh, Travis Wall, Teddy Forence, Lauren Adams, Mandy Moore, Stacey Tookey, and others. In her years at CC & Co. Hannah attended The Collective intensive in L.A. with Mandy Moore. She received numerous "VIP dancer" awards from many different conventions including Jump, NUVO, NYCDA, 24/7, and The Pulse. She also attended The Dance Awards where she performed in The Beacon Theater in NYC.
In addition, through summer intensives, residencies, and master classes, Hannah has trained with other notable dancers such as Ashley Lindsey, Jesse Zaritt, Helen Simoneau, Dawn Bazemore, and Daniel Charon.
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