About this Artist

Hannah 하연 Joo (she/they) is an artist, program builder, and educator rooted in decolonial praxis. Most recently, she has been a creative and producing partner for Body as a Crossroads, a movement methodology and performance platform honoring the body’s ancestral wisdom for change-making led by dance-maker Marina Magalhães, and Heal Her Retreats, a women of color space practicing healing as collective liberation led by healer and performance artist Tatiana Zamir. Hannah has previously worked in research, convening, and archiving with arts organizations and collectives including the National BITOC Coalition/Commons housed at the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA), the May 19th Project in partnership with SEE US UNITE and PBS, Collective Memories at UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, and Dance/NYC. As a dance artist, Hannah has performed with Courtyard Dancers, Agora Dance, Donna Sternberg & Dancers, BrockusRED, Mia Moraru, and Alice Lousen & Co. She is currently focusing her performance work with 고은춤 무용단 Goeun Traditional Korean Dance Company, and is in the process of developing a movement practice that explores the transmutation of grieving rituals in the Korean diaspora. Hannah also serves as an adjunct professor of ethnic studies at Glendale Community College, teaching courses in Asian American history, women of color feminisms, and introductory concepts in race and ethnicity, and she is a volunteer at GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals generating and sharing progressive, critical, intersectional and intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational programs.