Hannah Schillinger (she/they) is a choreographer, director and dance artist.
Born 1996 in the south of Munich/Germany, Hannah started her professional dance education at the IWANSON International School in Munich, studied BA Modern Theatre Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, danced in the dance company ICK Amsterdam and completed an MA in Choreography at HZT Berlin. During her master studies she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and premiered the works „vacuum“ (2021) and „runners“ (2022). In 2023 she premiered her solo “screen play” at Dock11 Berlin and assisted in the Opera department of Theater Bremen. She is part of “studio 2.2” with Meg Stuart, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Roger Sala Reyner, Mor Demer, Descha Daemgen and Louise Hojer. In June 2024, "spin off", a solo based on "runners", celebrated its premiere in the Kesselhaus of the KINDL Gallery in Berlin, and "resonant bodies" (WT, 2024), a collaboration with jazz drummer Nathan Ott, is currently being developed.
Hannah's works deal with themes of the present such as the climate crisis, virtuality and activism. Her movement language is rooted in modern and postmodern dance, with classical and pop cultural influences. In her practice, a metamodern body is the starting point for investigating the expression and materiality of attention, experience and imagination in relation to space and time. She works with choreographic arrangements that she calls "virtual sculptures" and develops compositions based on a quantum-physical principles. Schillinger's works are collaborative, interdisciplinary and move between genres such as dance, theater and visual art.