Hannah Garner (she/her), named a 2025 Princess Grace Award recipient in Choreography and ‘25 to Watch’ by Dance Magazine, is a NYC based dancer/choreographer making work that “tackles topics like death and queer identity through rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine). Since graduating from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Performance and Composition and a minor in Arts Management, Hannah has gone on to work with Doug Varone, Raja Feather Kelly, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, and Megan Williams Dance, in venues such as The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Park Avenue Armory, and New York Live Arts.

Her work as 2nd Best Dance Company has been commissioned nationally by leading contemporary dance companies and schools, such as Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance, GroundWorks DanceTheater, GALLIM x CreateArt, SUNY Purchase, NYU, Bard College, among others. 2nd Best was the Resident Artist of Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (2022), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2021), GALLIM’s Moving Women Residency (2021), and Triskelion Arts (2019), among others. Hannah's choreography has also been presented through Triskelion Arts, Mark Morris Dance Group, Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival, The Wassaic Project, and appears in music videos for artists like Snail Mail, Half Waif and Frankie Cosmos.

In addition to her performing work, Hannah finds a creative home in teaching: she is currently on faculty at SUNY Purchase and Gibney Dance Center. She previously served on faculty at Bard College, Gibney PRO, Friends Seminary, and The Dalton School. Recent credits include national tours of RED (OK, TX, CT, MT, and WA) and Slumber (CA, CO), New Works Lab at Playwrights Horizons, residencies at American Dance Festival (NC) and Green Box Arts (CO), and movement direction for a new Off-Broadway play Calf Scramble. Through her work, she seeks beauty in failure, explores limits of the body, and finds solace in the humor of being human. Hannah is deeply affected by the weather and how the trains are running.