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Hannah Buckley was born in Stockport, studied at the Northern School School of Contemporary Dance and is currently based in Leeds. She works as a choreographer, performer and is close to completing a 4 year training as an Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) practitioner.
Since graduation in 2010 Hannah has been a freelance artist and she is interested in collaboration and co-creation with other people, participants and communities. Her work embodies personal stories and questions as a way to create space for shared experience and reflection.
Hannah has been supported and presented by organisations including Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Dance4, The Place, Transform, Leeds International Festival and Leeds Arts University. She has been part of national and international projects such as Performing Gender (pan European), International Choreographers Week (Dans Brabent / Holland), Yorkshire Dance’s Dance Partner Project and Choreodrome at The Place. She was awarded the Leeds Dance Partnership Fellowship at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (2019).
Currently, Hannah has a tour ready work called Blood Bone Breath made with performance artist Hollie Miller and musician and composer Craig Scott. She is also developing Learning To Fall, a project with visual artist Kevin Lycett that brings together mark making and movement.
Hannah has an ongoing collaboration with her twin sister Amy, a photographer based in the USA, which began in 2009. Their work has been shown at venues such as Manchester Art Gallery, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen and MILK Gallery NYC.
buckleyhello@gmail.com