Hannah Wasielewski (she/her) is a dancer, performer, and healer based Portland, Maine, in the traditional territory of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

She has been engaged in choreographic practice as a soloist and in collaboration since 2011, working throughout North America and abroad in Europe.  She began her professional dance practice while living at Earthdance in Massachusetts training with some of the world's leading dance improvisors, and making performance work. Her practice today is centered around contact improvisation, experimental contemporary dance forms, and healing through radical performance.

Her current choreographic practice in Maine is rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration. She’s currently working on a interdisciplinary, collaborative project with local dance and multimedia artists. Her collaboration, (ii) Imaginary Island, with Kristen Stake (Portland, ME), is a Maine-based lifelong dance process centered around healing, grieving, and improvisation.  They have been presented by SPACE Gallery, NEFA’s New England Now’s Regional Dance Initiative at the ICA in Boston, TEMPOarts in collaboration with visual artist Pamela Moulton, and by Hewnoaks Artist Residency. She has a teaching practice and currently teaches a regular Thursday evening class in Portland, ME at Casco Bay Movers.

Formally, based in San Francisco, her work with Amy Wasielewski has been produced by SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (SF,CA), West Wave Dance Festival (SF,CA), FRESH Festival, James Graham Dance Theater(SF,CA), Finnish Hall (Berkeley, CA), and Joe Goode Annex (SF,CA).

As a performer, she has worked with Sara Shelton Mann (CA/Europe), FAKE Company/Kathleen Hermesdorf (CA/Europe), Daiane Lopes da Silva(CA), Sam Stone(CA), and Sara Kraft/ KraftyWorks(CA) and was a company member with Kinetech Arts(CA) for two years.

Her most notable influences come from her extensive study with Kathleen Hermesdorf, Sara Shelton Mann, Deborah Hay, and Lisa Nelson among many others in the field of experimental dance, improvisation, and performance.

She has been involved in all sides of dance including choreography, teaching, performance, production, and administration. As an administrator, she worked as a program director and development director at SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts where she worked directly with approximately 100 artists annually. For three years, she was the project manager for FRESH Festival, San Francisco’s largest experimental performance festival. She has also worked in development for smaller dance organizations.

She is dedicated to continuing the legacy of the late great Kathleen Hermesdorf through community organization- creating spaces for the alternative to exist and what otherwise may not seem possible. 

Hannah brings her attunement from her dance practices into her therapeutic work, which centers around biodynamic craniosacral therapy and trauma healing. She has over 2000 hours training in the healing arts, including trauma therapies, pre and perinatal somatics, and energy medicine. She has a clinical practice in South Portland, ME, and sees clients worldwide virtually- www.tidalbodytherapies.com.

Her work has been supported by the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Hewnoaks Artist Residency, Subcircle, TEMPOarts, and Center for Cultural Innovation.

Her work is a deep excavation and unification of her physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies.  The seeking never ends.

CURRENT WORK