Hannah McCarthy
Hannah McCarthy is a professional dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, and advocate based in Nashville, TN. In 2018, she received B.A. degrees in Dance and Journalism from Western Kentucky University, where she also completed an undergraduate thesis on feminism and intersectionality in modern dance history. McCarthy serves as Administrative Director and Instructor at SOMA Center for Dance.
Her passion for equity in the arts and fluency in Spanish led to her current position as Grants Manager for Nashville’s non-profit Hispanic Family Foundation and Baila Dance Studio. Her choreographic works have been funded in part by Nashville’s Metro Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She also dances with Numinous Flux Dance Company in Nashville, TN, and is currently working with the Dance Data Project as an Archivist/Social Media Manager (@dancedataproject | www.dancedataproject.com)
After training with Dance Theatre of Tennessee and performing as a Youth Cast member with the professional company, she continued her training at Western Kentucky University.
McCarthy has had the opportunity to take class from master teachers such as Denise Vale, Victor Alexander, Caterina Rago, Banning Bouldin, Keith Fitzpatrick and Erin Law. She has danced roles in the works of professional choreographers such as Jon Lehrer, Andrea Dawn Shelley, and Matthew Farmer. In the summer of 2017 she completed an internship at La Caldera in Barcelona, Spain, where she took class from well-known European contemporary artists such as Nadine Gerspacher, Guy Nader, Janet Novas, and Salva Sanchis.
Her improvisational exploration Knitty Gritty (co-directed with Bernadette Turnage) recently premiered in Nashville's Kindling Arts Festival 2019 at Track One.
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RECENT WORKS
The Velveteen Rabbit - 2020
Hannah performed as a guest artist with Glasgow Dance Theatre for The Velveteen Rabbit 2020. She played the role of the Skin Horse in the nursery pas de deux with the Velveteen Rabbit.
“She was so old that her brown coat was bald in patches… She was wise for she had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.”
— The Velveteen Rabbit
“Madison Moves”
Hannah recently debuted her dance film “Madison Moves” as part of a larger project of Metro Arts Nashville. From Metro Arts Nashville:
“Hannah McCarthy's dance film "Madison Moves" incorporates dancers performing a single phrase of choreography in different locations across Madison. Socially distanced and wearing masks, the dancers also incorporate their own improvisational choreography based on their emotions or physical reactions.”