Hannah Havrilla

Hannah Havrilla is a contemporary dance artist and choreographer. She is from Elkridge, Maryland and trained at Johns Hopkins Peabody Preparatory Dance in Baltimore, MD. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance with a Modern concentration and a Dance Medicine and Science (DMS) Certificate in 2025 under the direction of Michael Foley, Jeanne Travers, Bliss Kohlmeyer, Merry Lynn Morris and others. Hannah researched the benefits of somatic education in the dance technique classroom on a dancer’s body awareness for her DMS certificate. Her research was presented at the IADMS conference in Las Vegas in September 2025. Hannah dances professionally in the DMV area and has performed with companies Deviated Theatre and Freedom Dance Collective. In addition to her performance work, she is on the dance faculty at The John Carroll School in Bel Air, MD where she teaches middle and high school students. She is interested in integrating dance education, performance and dance medicine.