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ABOUTBachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) with Distinction – (QUT) Bachelor of Arts (Dance) Honours – (WAAPA/LINK Dance Company)
Certified RYS 200 Hours Yoga Teacher - (Mudralina Mindful Living) Certified RYS Yin Yoga Teacher - (Human.Kind Studios) Hannah Timbrell is an independent dancer from Adelaide, Australia and currently based in Vienna, Austria. She has performed nationally and internationally including at the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival (China), ACT Festival (Spain), Adelaide Fringe Festival (Australia), 17th European Contemporary Dance Festival (Cyprus), International Bühnenwerkstatt Tanztheaterfestival (Austria), ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival (Austria), Laboratory of movement ESK 2016: Let the Artists (not)die.EXCHANGE (Poland), Lange Nacht des Tanzes (Austria), Festival International de Danza Contemporánea de la Cuidad de México (Mexico), Tanz ist (Austria), Travellings Festival (France), Donaufestival (Austria), ProArt Festival (Czech Republic), CODA Festival (Norway) and Modafe (South Korea). |
Hannah was involved in Collision Course – a slow motion video shoot choreographed by Garry Stewart (2010), and has performed independent works by Aidan Munn and Adrianne Semmens for Ausdance S.A’s Choreolab season (2011), and Fiona Gardner’s promenade dance theatre work Cultural Isolation (2013).
With the support of Ausdance S.A’s Outlet Dance Award (2011), Arts S.A. (2012), Burnside Rotary (2013), and the Ian Potter Cultural Foundation (2015), Hannah has attended workshops and festivals including Juli Dans Festival (Amsterdam), ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival (Vienna), classes at The Place (London) and Tanzquartier (Vienna), and a secondment with Danish Dance Theatre (Copenhagen).
Hannah performed with Vienna based Tanz Company Gervasi between 2012 and 2018. Notable works include The White Horn (2014) performed as part of the ImPulsTanz Specials and What Kind of Animal is?(2015), which was re-performed in Poland, Mexico and Austria (2016). In 2017 she developed and toured a solo performance called Enklave in collaboration with Elio Gervasi.
Hannah has also performed a dance theatre piece with the Tanz.coop collective You’re sexy, you’re cute – take off your riot suit (2015), choreographed by Gisela Elisa Heredia, and danced as a hair model for the Klipp Hair Trends with Cie. Tauschfühlung, choreographed and directed by Bianca Braunesberger. She danced in FLICKER (2016) - a short film directed by Siegmund Skalar and for Ich und die Anderen (2020) - a TV series directed by David Schalko. In 2019 Hannah worked with Leonie Wahl and das.bernhard ensemble to create and perform a dance theatre piece called This is What Happened in the Telephone Booth.
Since 2017 Hannah has been working and performing with the Chris Haring/Liquid Loft Collective. She was involved in the creative process for work including the Foreign Tongues series, Models of Reality (2018), Stand-Alones (Polyphony) (2019), Blue Moon you saw... (2020), the film Stranger than Paradise (2021), the live theatre prequel Still/Stranger than Paradise (2021) and Modern Chimeras (2022). In 2022 Hannah performed and toured the repertoire piece Grace Note with Liquid Loft in collaboration with the PHACE Ensemble. In 2023 she premiered two new works as part of the L.I.F.E. series - Living in Funny Eternity - L.I.F.E., and lost in freaky evolution_L.I.F.E. Hannah performed and toured the duet In Medeas Res (2024) and most recently she performed the latest Liquid Loft piece in collaboration with PHACE called Seid umschlungen, Millionen! (2025).
Hannah also enjoys regularly teaching ballet, contemporary, choreography, improvisation and bodywork classes at the Weiterbildungsinstitut Tanzlehrgang course in Vienna. She completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training course at Mudralina Mindful Living as well as a 50 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training course at Human.Kind Studios and teaches Yoga Dance Fusion classes. She is currently undertaking a comprehensive pilates teacher training course through BASI Pilates. Check out her News page for any upcoming performances, workshops or classes.
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