Nadia Hannan

Nadia Hannan (they/them) is a dancer, choreographer, arts administrator, and educator from New York City. Situated at the intersection of movement and text, their research is focused on the relationship between art, trauma, and the body. They graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in performance studies and hold an MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. They are the current School Administrator at the Paul Taylor Dance Company and a creative collaborator with The Institute of Queer Ecology, This Body, and Dancing Legacy.

Title of Project:

Grief-Time: Moving Out of Step, A Different Way of Being.

Project Description:

In this paper, “Grief-Time: Moving Out of Step, a Different Way of Being,” I will be looking at the ways in which grief and mourning trouble the notion of a linear progression of time and how staying with grief can lead us away from a pathological/medical model of being. How does grief move, how are we moved by grief? Can grief be, drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, a way of becoming-minoritarian? How does this new temporality shift the way we move in the world, both on an individual and global scale?

Areas of Academic Interest/Research:

DANCE STUDIES, TRAUMA STUDIES, QUEER THEORY, AUTOTHEORY