Hannah Lieberman is a writer based in New York who spends a lot of time inside her own head and takes sarcasm very seriously. She is researching traditionally feminized athletic forms and the interaction between physical rigor, aesthetic presentation, and elaborate institutional systems of rules and governance. She is also at work on a novel.
Hannah is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at New York University. Her dance criticism and features have appeared in Culturebot and the Dance Enthusiast.
photo by Ethan Bick
Interviews
THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE: A Conversation with Hallie Chametzky on Gertrude Stein and Nuanced Reckonings
Culturebot, May 2025
On Formulating a Dance Ecosystem: A Conversation Taylor Schmuelgen and Kayla White, producers of THAT SHOW
Culturebot, May 2025
GREYZONE & Emily Kessler/POGO On Their Evening of New Works
The Dance Enthusiast, September 2024
Adriana Pierce, Founder & Artistic Director of Queer the Ballet on "Dream of a Common Language"
The Dance Enthusiast, May 2024
Features
651 Arts Finds a Permanent Home to Uphold Black History
The Dance Enthusiast, January 2025
Julia Antinozzi presents "The Suite" at Triskelion Arts
The Dance Enthusiast, April 2024
On forging a career in New York
The Dance Enthusiast, January 2024
Reviews
Arriving at The Place Where Healing Can Happen: Stuart B Meyers & Blaze Ferrer in Out-FRONT! Fest.
Culturebot, January 2025
PAGEANT Presents "Cavity" by Amelia Heintzelman with Dorothy Carlos
The Dance Enthusiast, December 2024
“while I was homegrowing” presented by Lucia Gagliardone in association with The Tank
The Dance Enthusiast, December 2024
SOULSKIN Dance Presents BEAUTY at Mark Morris Dance Center
The Dance Enthusiast, October 2024
"THAT SHOW" presented in Collaboration with Index Space
The Dance Enthusiast, September 2024
"THAT SHOW," a Celebratory Evening Showcasing Emerging New York Performance Artists
The Dance Enthusiast, May 2024
Ballet Hispánico at New York City Center
The Dance Enthusiast, April 2024
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at The Joyce Theater
The Dance Enthusiast, March 2024
Dance
THROWING STUDY (2023)
In collaboration with Stephanie Schramm
Presented at Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, and TADA Theater, New York, NY
THROWING STUDY consists of improvisational and constantly changing set material. It explores feminine bodily existence, physicality, and spaciality, citing Iris Young’s 1980 essay “Throwing like a Girl,” girlhood sports, and ballet training.
Vestige (2022)
photo by Peter Raper
In collaboration with the dancers: Caroline Ball, Samantha Boyle, Carson Kelly, Niamh Rollins, and Stephanie Schramm
Presented at Mount Holyoke College, Hadley, MA
How can risk, weight, and momentum disrupt the architecture of ballet’s prescribed gender expression? Vestige utilizes ballet as a secret metaphor for embodied femininity. It contains references to archetypical femininity challenged by movement that unapologetically takes risks and engages with weight and momentum in conversation with shapes and weight-shifts that allude to ballet.
"our way" (2021)
In collaboration with the dancers: Nell Mancini, Sara LaPadula, and Stephanie Schramm
Presented at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
“our way” is a physical distillation of Adrienne Rich’s poem “Diving into the Wreck.” By researching the intersection between the prosodies of dance and language, the work reflects the way Rich engages the body of her reader through descriptive language, sensory imagery, and other literary devices.