Hannah Marcus

Hannah Marcus is a movement-based artist from Chicago whose practice weaves together dance, improvisation, sound, language, and space to explore the delicate interplay between form and feeling, structure and spontaneity. Her performances unfold as dynamic investigations into memory, intimacy, and the physical architecture of the body. This practice reveals its strength, fragility, and capacity to hold and transmit emotional experience. Inspired by elements of dance theater and physical performance, her process is grounded in improvisation, allowing choreography to emerge fluidly in conversation with the moment. Pattern and disruption coexist in her work: structures are built only to be dismantled, leaving space for transformation. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of everyday life, her practice is deeply grounded in the world around her. Collaborations with sound artists are also a part of her performances’ development, like with Maya Nguyen during the Forms of Flesh opening ceremony. Ultimately, her work seeks not only to be seen, but to be felt—activating viewers through a spectrum of human sensation, and offering a site for connection, contemplation, and shared vulnerability.