Dayna Hanson

Improvement Club will have its world premiere in March 2013 at South by Southwest! The film is one of eight features to be selected for SXSW’s Narrative Competition! Like any really independent  film, the road to making Improvement Club …

Improvement Club Teaser from Dayna Hanson on Vimeo.

Fueled by the support of more than 200 individuals who made Improvement Club’s completion campaign a success on United States Artists Projects, Improvement Club is nearly finished! Currently in the …

Improvement Club, Dayna’s first feature film and a semi-fictionalized adaptation of the making of Gloria’s Cause, is in post-production! The film was shot by Benjamin Kasulke in August and September in Seattle and on the Key Peninsula of Puget Sound. …

As well as naming her a 2010 USA Oliver Fellow in Dance, United States Artists invited Dayna to be part of USA Projects, the organization’s exciting new micro-philanthropy project. Through USA Projects, you can discover and support work by …

A feature film by Dayna Hanson, currently in development.

Improvement Club is part of an integrated suite of new work by Dayna Hanson that includes her live, dance-driven rock musical inspired by the American Revolution, Gloria’s Cause. Improvement Club…

A woman masquerading as Gena Rowlands scrounges for dumpster oil to run her Mercedes

2006
DV
running time 6:48
directed & performed by Dayna Hanson
camera by Linas Phillips
music & choreography by Dayna Hanson
edited by Dayna Hanson & …

Rainbow (short version) from Dayna Hanson on Vimeo.

A single evening in the life of three people sees them each reacting in their own way to the mysteries that disturb the air around them.

Commissioned by Seattle International Film …