Projects
Forms of Flesh (2025)
Excerpt from August 1st at Chicago Grand Gallery
Hyde Park Art Center | December 13th, 2025
Performance for Center Day, organized by Mariela Acuña.
Chicago Grand Gallery | August 1st, 2025
Presented for the opening reception of Forms of Flesh curated by Alicja Seledec at Chicago Grand Gallery. The exhibition, on view from August 1st through 29th, featured the work of Jeremy Plotkin Wong, George Mosher, and Kat Bawden.
Forms of Flesh is an improvised performance work (30 minutes) by Hannah Marcus, Maya Nguyen, and Kat Bawden merging their practices in movement, sound, and video. The piece considers flesh as a site of memory, contemplating how the body reacts to its shifting surroundings. It explores identities of flesh—as comfort, as armor, as emotional repository—to effort towards understanding the body's capacity for transformation.
Costume by Zachary Sun
Photos by Sasha Kovalchuk
bones fragile, bones fractured (2024 & 2025)
Photos by Drew Lewis, Lua Borges, and Rachel Fernandez
Co-Prosperity Sphere | June 13th, 2025
Performance work created & performed in collaboration with Milo Sachse-Hofheimer (30 minutes). Third iteration developed through Hyde Park Art Center's Bridge Performance Incubator facilitated by Rosé Hernandez and Sofía Gabriel. Additional live sound design by Kim Nucci.
DePaul Art Museum | July 27 & 28th, 2024
Self-produced performance installation (60 minutes). Expanded from the first iteration of bones fragile (March 2024).
Thanks to Eli Schmitt, DPAM, Lua Borges, Sophie Allen, HPAC, and the Old Town School of Folk Music for supporting the continued growth of this piece.
Who taught you how to take care of me? Where does your memory end and mine begin? How did you learn to take care of yourself?
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​bones fragile, bones fractured is a performance work by Hannah Marcus and Milo Sachse-Hofheimer that considers objects/bodies as infrastructures of support. The project explores themes of care, lineage, and physical memory, probing what it means to tend to someone else and to one’s own self. Marcus & Sachse-Hofheimer build their environment with movement partnerwork, vocal looping, improvisational scores, text, installation and objects
Graphic by Eli Schmitt
Photo by Amaya Peña
Graphic courtesy of Hyde Park Art Center
Experiments in Violin & Voice (2024 & 2025)
Graphics by
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Image captured from video footage by Helen Lee
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bim bom studios | July 27th, 2025
20-minute set of violin & voice looping with movement for Appendages. Abode. organized by Helen Lee. Shared evening of dance, music, and video with performances from Cristal Sabbagh & Najee-Zaid, Scott Rubin, Thorne Brandt, Haruhi Kobayashi & Helen Lee.
The Capsule | November 9th, 2024
20-minute improvisation of violin looping & movement for the opening of Orange Noise, a group exhibition curated by Chris Reeves. Everyone was assigned a historical artist, chosen for the ways in which they "retuned what a voice could be." I responded to the work of intermedia artist Dick Higgins (1938-1998).
Graphics by Chris Reeves
bones fragile (2024)
Photos by Ricardo E. Adame
Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre | March 28-30th, 2024
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30-minute work presented by the LookOut Series in a shared bill with Mitsu Salmon. The weekend was part of MERGE: Program One, curated by Helen Lee.
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Created & Performed by Hannah Marcus and Milo Sachse-Hofheimer
Dramaturgical support by Sophie Allen
Lighting design & technical support by Matthew Chapman
Produced by Lauren Steinberg and Patrick Zakem
​Costuming courtesy of Fever Dream Vintage
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Materials: pedal (1), microphone (2), cable (4), amplifier (2), body (2)​​​​​​ ​​
Since I was a child, I’ve been told that brittle bones run in my family, that my body is fragile and can easily be broken. I hug my grandma and notice how my body makes space around her; I could crush her in an instant, so I hug with the softness of a feather.​
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bones fragile is a gift for my living and deceased family members. Over the process of developing this work, Milo and I thought about our grandparents and their deteriorating bodies, our own experiences with injury, a tree wrapped in bubble wrap, and collisions beyond the physical that reverberate within us. ​​
Graphics courtesy of Steppenwolf Theatre; Headshot by William Frederking
Blanket of my future skin (2022)
Photos by Ricardo E. Adame
Elastic Arts | November 4th, 2022
Presented through J e l l o Performance Series
Created and performed by Hannah Marcus
Images by Chang-Ching Su
Music: Excerpts from "My Life" and "My Lady" by Patricia Taxxon
Technical support by Sarah Stearn and Tuli Bera
View work here
Collapse of an Anchor (2021)
Photos by Kimberly Baker
​Expand Community Arts Works in Progress Showing | August 28th, 2021 | Glenview, IL
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Summer Shorts presented by The Rooted Space & Lawson Dance Theatre | September 3rd, 2021 | Northcenter Town Square
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Duet produced through Dovetail's 3for3 Creative Residency.
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​Created & Performed by Hannah Marcus and Sophie Allen
​​​Music: "Retaliation" by Nazar; "Notjustmoreidlechatter" by Paul Lansky & Hannah MacKay
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View excerpt here​​​​​
Rupt (2021)
Photos by Rowan Janusiak & Aislinn Bailie
​Dance film produced in collaboration with Aislinn Bailie
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Direction, choreography, and editing by Hannah Marcus
​Videography by Rowan Janusiak and Aislinn Bailie
Performed by Alana Packo and Hannah Marcus
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​​​Music: "Duo Sonata" by Sofia Gubaidulina (1977)
Performed by Aislinn Bailie and Bryce Richardson, bassoon
​Sound recording, mixing, and mastering by SlyPup Productions
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View work here​​​​​​​
bits of self, at once, in fragments (2021)
A live performance and digital media work presented on Zoom between a bedroom in Ann Arbor, MI and a basement in Chicago, IL. ​
Created for Liminal Beings, a digital exhibition through the Socially Distant Artist Residency program. The exhibition investigates introspection, loneliness, solitude, and social (dis)connection experienced by the Artists in Residence.​
​"When we are neither here nor there, we are in the ambiguity of liminal space. Liminality is a window between presence and absence, past and future, visible and unseen, call and response. Changes have come thick and fast over the past year, drastically shifting perspectives, routines and social roles. Physical isolation has closed many doors and connections, while virtual communities have created and opened up others. Our self-awareness and collective conscience hangs in between expansion and contraction. How do we navigate the threshold between what falls away and what we move towards?"​
Created by Akari Komura (sound editing, performance) and Hannah Marcus (movement, text, performance).​
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Two performers, three cameras, one handheld mirror.
Video | 7 min. 14 sec.
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Staging Place (2020)
Photos by Christine Darragh
​Staging Place is a live-feed performance project between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor aiming to protect the placeness of live performance while using a digital platform to amplify the analog. We used the digital as a tool to visualize space, broadcast live pop-up performances, and build connections between neighbors. This project took shape over the span of three months with a team of four architectural designers, three musicians/composers, and one dancer/choreographer.
​​August 13th, 2020​​
August 19th, 2020​​
August 27th, 2020​​
Performance in Riverside Park (Ypsilanti) | Projection in Depot Town alleyway (Ypsilanti)
Performance in Graffiti Alley (Ann Arbor) | Projection on Ypsilanti District Library
Performance in Depot Town (Ypsilanti) | Projection in Kerrytown Farmer's Market (Ann Arbor)
Interdisciplinary Team Members: Aislinn Bailie, Christine Darragh, Sheena Hui, Hannah Kirkpatrick, Akari Komura, Hannah Marcus, Waylon Richmond, Karina Tirado
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Mentorship by Charli Brissey, Dawn Gilpin, Rebecca Smith
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Performers: Hannah Marcus, Alana Packo, Elisandra Rosario, Bryce Richardson, Jane Koelsch, Danielle Gonzalez, Nyci Ask, Megan Bascom, Melissa Brading, Chandler Lach
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Made possible by a grant through Sonic Scenographies, a team challenge created by the Alfred A Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and ArtsEngine
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Full Throttle (2020)
Choreography, filming, and editing by Hannah Marcus
​Original music by Joey Fortino
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Supported in part by Arts at Michigan and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund
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View work here​​​​​​​​
It All Made Sense 'Til We Dug To The Bottom (2020)
​Betty Pease Studio Theater
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Choreography and Text by Hannah Marcus
Performed by Sally Butin, Olivia Johnson, Alana Packo, Ari Stadler, Ariel Vidrio
Sound and Scenic Design by Matias Vilaplana
​Music: "Melancholia II" by William Basinski; "Always On My Mind" by Ane Brun
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Supported in part by Arts at Michigan and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund
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View work here​​​​​​​​
Petrochemical Paradise (2020)
Ann Arbor, MI
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Choreography, Filming, and Editing by Hannah Marcus
Original music by Tessa Fornari, Maya Johnson, and Christopher Walker
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View work here​​​​​​​​​
The Very Thought of You (2019)
Ann Arbor, MI
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Created and Performed by Sofia Carbonara and Hannah Marcus
Music: "The Very Thought of You" by Nat King Cole; Edited by Sofia Carbonara
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off frame (2019)
The Place, London
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Created and Performed by Hannah Marcus and Veera Vanhanen
Music: "Johnny And Luther" by The Boy Lucas
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View excerpts here​​​​​​​​​