Hannah Loewenthal is a socially engaged artist based in Cape Town, South Africa.Hannah originally studied design and worked as an architectural glass artist in the UK. Whilst in London she discovered dance and on returning to Cape Town in 2004, she went on to train and work with Remix Dance Company for two years, performing as well as developing many of the schools' programmes , including design aspects of Remix performance works, contributing to the development of  integrated movement work in Africa.In 2008 Hannah completed her dance training with Gabrielle Roth, USA & then went on to run the education programme for Cape Africa Platform as well as working closely with artist Mamela Nyanza from 2008 - 2012 as assistant director and design assistant, focusing on the deconstruction of female identity. Subesquently Hannah has co-founded an ongoing collaborative exchange South Africa/Norway platform,The Body Draws Circles with Hege Gabrielsen (NO).She continues to work on a number of projects in South Africa with women & girls- Princess_V & Embodied Stories (Scalabrini Womens' Platform) with Anne- Marie Hanna. Hannah considers her core interest, research and work as an investigation into bringing unlooked at and unnoticed moments of human interaction into focus; Exploring meeting places between pedagogy & performance; dance & design as vital for social artistic practice.

Contact: hannah.loewenthal@gmail.com