Hana van der Kolk makes dance-centric performances, events, videos,and writing that investigate consciousness, community, collaboration, and how thought shapes moving, how moving shapes thought, and how being thoughtful movers might positively destabilize our notions of gender, sexuality, work, nature, and politics. Based in Los Angeles from 2005-10, working between Amsterdam, rural Tennessee and Western Massachusetts from 2010-15, Hana now lives in Troy, NY, co-facilitating communityLAB, co-organizing Polly, a quarterly queer dance party/fundraiser, and maintaining a private practice in psycho-sexual exploration and healing. Van der Kolk has performed and taught internationally, collaborates with many artists and humans, and holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA.