ANIMAL Dance
ANIMAL Dance is a performance and production company, directed by Hanna Satterlee, based in Burlington Vermont. Our artistic work highlights the sentience shared between species, honoring the ephemeral language of the body in motion. Our curations and productions are designed to support independent artists, through informal and formal performances, artists' exchange groups, and classes and workshops.
Dance Nights @ The Flynn!
Dance Nights is an 8-week workshop series curated by ANIMAL Dance, Hosted by the Flynn and Supported by the Vermont Arts Council. A different Vermont dance teacher each week will offer back to back workshops in their specialty: first an open level workshop for curious movers and community members, followed by an advanced level workshop for experienced/professional practitioners and creators each week.
("Advanced" does not require formal dance training, but each participant should have a developed awareness of your body in space, and a mature understanding of the etiquette of collective dancing.)
Each workshop will give a sneak peek into skills and processes, with choreographic tools, devising mechanisms, improvisational games and scores, unique training techniques and avenues for somatic inquiry.
Come join the dance!
Tuition for a single workshop is $20.
All 8 workshops can be purchased together for $144.
Must pre-register!
Space is limited to 10 people per workshop.
All workshops will be held in Chase Studio at the Flynn in downtown Burlington. The Flynn’s facility is fully ADA-accessible.
Dance Night Series Calendar Schedule:
All open level workshops: 5:45- 7pm
All advanced workshops: 7:15-8:45pm
Thursday October 16
“Butoh Foundations: Something Comes From Nothing” with Meshi Chavez
Wednesday October 22
“The Language of Dancing” with Hanna Satterlee
Monday October 27
“House Dance Fusion” with Millie Heckler”
Wednesday Nov 5
“You, Me, Us” with Julian Barnett
Wednesday Nov 12
“Relational Composition: Practices for the Collaborative Emergence of Dance” with Jessie Owens
Thursday Nov 20
“Moving Text” with Michael Bodel
Monday Dec 8
“Finding Flow: Presence and Momentum” with Caitlin Morgan
Thursday Dec 18
“Engaging Space” with Laurel Jenkins
More Info
ANIMAL Dance Services
ANIMAL Dance is available for Production & Consulting services as well as for performance projects. Please find more info here.
Follow ANIMAL Dance on Instagram @animaldancevt
History
In 2015 an evening length piece titled “ANIMAL” was premiered, after a two year developmental process that included 15 public performance drafts in various locations with varying casts, costumes, and technical elements. When the show wrapped, I imagined the piece would transform into a company, and the animal-body-dance-language work could continue in new iterations, to tell new stories. After grad school, nonprofit management, lots of travel and various zigs and zags, that has finally become a realization instead of a dream!
Hanna Satterlee Productions
Past productions, by formerly known "Hanna Satterlee Productions" Co. can be found here.
Image: Video capture from "Forget Me Not" by Andreas John
Archive
Major past productions, by ANIMAL Dance can be found here.
Others are listed below:
This Is Also Possible
Our world and our lives constantly rearrange and change, yet we are always adjusting and finding a way; our shifts to the changes have become louder, more intense, and with more certainty and determination. What else is possible? An evening length work with a moveable set, original sound composition and dynamic choreography for three dancers.
More info here.
INSTINCT DANCE FESTIVAL
Tender Hearts
An evening length dance performance that weaves together personal and mythical story. A tour of the human emotional experience through an abstract movement journey. Premiered in 2023.
More info here.
Gaga/People Class
Taught by Maree ReMalia
Produced by ANIMAL Dance
This class teaches the Gaga movement language which originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic and ever-changing power of movement, developed by choreographer, Ohad Naharin.
Wednesday Sept 20, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
North Star Community Hall, Burlington, VT
More information on Vermont Dance Alliance.
Press release can be found here.
Art in the Garden Performance Tour
A collective of Vermont artists join together to offer an interdisciplinary immersive performance tour throughout the beautiful Horsford Gardens and Nursery grounds. A live theater and dance performance. An annual summer happening produced by Hanna Satterlee/ANIMAL Dance as part of the Horsford Art in the Garden series. Come delight! This performance was presented on Sunday, August 6, 2023.
LOOM Ensemble "Tell Me How You Breathe"
Hanna Satterlee of ANIMAL Dance, directed a Vermont Dance Ensemble, that toured with Loom Ensemble during July 2023! Loom Ensemble, directed by Neva Cockrell and Raphael Sacks, created a musical about climate change: "Tell Me How You Breathe" for outdoor parks in MA, VT and NY this summer. ANIMAL Dance produced their Montpelier and Burlington performances.
More info here.
Concentric Creatives
“Concentric Creatives” was a monthly showcase of new works by an interdisciplinary cohort of six professional Vermont artists of varying disciplines, produced by Jen Berger of At the Root and Hanna Satterlee of ANIMAL Dance. From February through May of 2023, the public was invited to see new projects, listen while the Creative Cohort publicly discussed the work, and then join in the public conversation to ask questions and offer feedback.
