Hana van der Kolk

and we keep (2025)

And we keep is a song, a dance, and a ceremony performed/officiated by Ashley Shey, Hilary Kennedy, Paris Cullen, Helena Zhao, Azuré Kauikeolani Iversen-Keahi, Mara Poliak, Anna Muselmann, and Hana van der Kolk. And we keep invites audience participants into intimacy with the vibrations and ghosts of place and moment through a care-fully crafted tapestry of sound, words, movement, touch, and visual elements. The performance is a prayer for the resuscitation of imaginations, a recognition of interconnectivity, and a ritual for grieving and persisting.  It was created during a residency at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. Stay tuned for future iterations of and we keep.

a remnant, an alien, a wave (2023)

Featuring stories, dances, objects, sounds, texts, video, audience participation, and hacked strategies for personal and collective transformation, a remnant, an alien, a wave is an assemblage of presences and absences, a prayer for otherwise in a fake religion performed/officiated by Hana van der Kolk.

the stamina of utopia (ongoing)

the stamina of utopia is an ongoing collaboration between Erica Dawn Lyle and Hana van der Kolk since 2020. It encompasses movement, singing, percussion, witnessing, writing, psychic communication, and private and public performances.

Withnessing (2022)

Withnessing is a video poem/letter to Erin Sickler in response to the video that she made as part of our ongoing friendship/withnessing practice and our virtual "In Motion" residency with the Interior Beauty Salon. it is a collage that comes together from my video/audio/text/affect archives connected to my wider, ongoing, meandering friendship/withnessing practices. Contributors of materials include Erin Sickler, Jonah Moberg, Julia Handschuh, Van Tran Nguyen, the Panorama Jazz Band, and radial diamond kinetics participants. the song at the end is by me and Jonah Moberg.

grief points (2020) is an experimental documentary about sensing, intimacy, submission/surrender, and care. The 17-minute video aims to invite reflection on how bodies (both human and more-than-human) might touch, infiltrate, and even transmute one another, destabilizing each other’s very boundaries and identities towards more mutually attentive and generative realities. To view grief points please reach out to hana (at) landerkolk (dot) com.

Somewhere (2015) is an 18-minute experimental documentary created in collaboration with Asher Woodworth and Layard Thompson after more than three months of Hana and Layard engaging in near-daily movement practice together in the woods near their then-shared home outside Liberty, Tennessee. The film has been screened at N/A Gallery (Oakland, CA) and HOME LA (Los Angeles, CA). 

nothingnessXXX (2016)

nothingness is a practice and collaborative field of research by Tomislav Feller and Hana van der Kolk. This dance-adjacent work focuses on the eroticism of waiting, the possibility in “stillness,” and the inherent paradox of fullness/emptiness in the void/nothing. In 2018 this research resulted in nothingnessXXX, an hour-long live performance with sound by Steve Martin Snider and advisement from Nikola Knezevic. It was presented at Jacuzzi, Amsterdam (NL) and Zagreb Dance Center, Zagreb (Croatia).