Improvement Club in Post-Production

November 23rd, 2011
Improvement Club

Shooting Improvement Club on the Key Peninsula Highway

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. Editor Sean Donavan is hard at work editing the film and cut this trailer.

Fundraising Goal Surpassed at USA Projects

January 1st, 2011

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…

IMPROVEMENT CLUB

May 13th, 2010

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

DIESEL ENGINE

May 10th, 2010
Diesel Engine

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

RAINBOW

May 10th, 2010

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…