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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 holds a Diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy (IBMT).
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 artistic and therapeutic practice is a commitment to the body - her body, your body, the collective body - as a resource and as a place for processing, political resistance and knowledge generation. Her work embodies personal stories and questions as a way to create space for shared experience and reflection. Threads that have been a constant presence in her work are community, intergenerationality and the natural world.
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 is developing Learning To Fall, a project with visual artist Kevin Lycett that brings together mark making, movement and lived experience of chronic illness.
Hannah also 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. They are currently in the early stages of developing Gemini, a large scale twin performance.