Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. Raised in Taichung city, Taiwan, Hanna started her career as a hip-hop dancer. Having the eastern cultural background and the 80’s-00’s hip hop technique training, as well as western contemporary techniques, Tai Chi, and the Hollywood industry street dance training later on in LA, Hanna was drawn to the infinite possibility of genre & cultural fusions when it comes to dancing and all art-making. The dance language that lies between western contemporary, hip hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works to reflect on phenomena that occur around humanity and human interactions. She believes that arts are the definitions of a society’s reflection, and aims to continue to expand her vision and lenses on the intertwinement between arts, culture, society, human and self.

Hanna Wu presented her work at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Wisconsin, RedCat theater, MOCA, Center of the Arts at Marsee Auditorium, Sharon Disney Lund theater, Irvine Claire Trevor theater and more in California . Over the years, working as a dancer, Hanna has worked with Dimitri Chamblas, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Rosie Herrera, Rosanna Gamson | World Wide, Danielle Agami, Genevive Carson, John Pennington and more; she has performed in MOCA, RedCat Theater, Brockus Project Studio, Center of the Arts at Marsee Auditorium, in dance film festivals in Sydney and Istanbul, and many more in Taiwan. During the pandemic, Hanna began making films and became a filmmaker. Wu’s film Before the Sentence: The Film was selected as the finalist film at Inspired Dance Film Festival in Sydney, Australia & semi-finalist film at DANCE CAMERA PANDEMANIA/ DANCE CAMERA ISTANBUL in Turkey. Her other film, titled 1, was invited by curator Madeline Falcone to be presented at RedCat CalArts GALA 2022.

Hanna holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography both from California Institute of the Arts.