Candoco

Annie Hanauer

Black-and-white photograph of dancer Annie Hanauer in rehearsal, gesturing with her hands. She wears a black vest top and loose black trousers, with her prosthetic arm visible. Two other dancers are blurred in the foreground.

Annie Hanauer is an award-winning contemporary dance artist who choreographs, performs extensively, and facilitates dancing in many different settings. Based between the UK and France, originally from the USA, she has worked across countries and contexts for 18 years, with an established presence on international stages as a performer and increasingly, as a choreographer. She is the 2024-25 recipient of the prestigious Clore Leadership Dance Fellowship.

Her choreographic works have toured internationally to venues like Jacob’s Pillow Festival (USA), Sadlers Wells (UK), STEPS Dance Festival (Switzerland) and Bolzano Danza (Italy). She has choreographed her own projects A space for all our tomorrows and UPDRAFT, as well as Starting With the Limbs in collaboration with L’Autre Maison (Marseille), and commissions including FOREST with Cie. Beweggrund (Bern), Madrigale and Books and Bodies for Theatre Münster (Münster), soft shell for Candoco (London), and Off Centre for Ramped (Leeds). Annie’s choreographic work has been supported by Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse (Paris), Bolzano Danza (Bolzano), Siobhan Davies dance (London), The Place (London), Festival de Marseille (Marseille), Ballet National de Marseille (Marseille), and by the Europe-wide production & touring network Europe Beyond Access.

As a performer she appears in her own work and has worked with long-time collaborator Rachid Ouramdane since 2013, as well as in projects with the Paris Chamber Orchestra, Deborah Lennie/Cie. For Want of a Better, Emanuel Gat Dance, Lea Anderson, Wendy Houstoun, Nic Conibere/Normal Conditions, Boris Charmatz, Fearghus O’Conchuir, and many other artists, and was a member of Candoco Dance Company from 2008-2014.

She leads workshops and classes for dance professionals and in degree-level dance courses, as well as in community settings and with first-time movers. Her teaching and facilitation holds accessibility as an open question, and Annie is passionate about supporting other disabled artists to study dance towards a professional practice.

As a disabled artist often working with other disabled/crip collaborators, Annie is interested in how bodies in motion can joyfully disrupt ideas of normativity, and how dancing can be a space to challenge societal assumptions connected to the body. In addition to her love of movement and how it connects people, she brings rigour, warmth and humour to her work, as well as a collaborative and responsive approach.

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