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Hank Bamberger is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist, educator, and researcher whose work operates at the intersections of conceptual art, experimental dance, and queer performance. His movement-based explorations investigate identity, ritual, and rebellion through studio practice and site-responsive experimentation. Bamberger holds a BFA in Modern Dance from Marymount Manhattan College and an MFA in Dance and Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College. From 2010 to 2015, he toured internationally with the Paul Taylor II Dance Company, teaching Taylor technique under the mentorship of Paul Taylor and Ruth Andrien, and also taught at the Martha Graham School. His career has since included directing the West End Academy of Dance in Richmond, VA, founding Bamberger Dance Projects, and creating performance collaborations with organizations such as the United Nations Peace Boat, Design Pavilion NYC, and Azimut Yachts.

From 2024 to 2025, Bamberger served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Akron, where he taught heels, contemporary/modern technique, choreography, jazz, Dance Philosophy & Criticism, and Dance Theory. His choreographic work Rook (2024) was selected for the ACDA conference in Grand Rapids, MI, earning critical acclaim for its sweeping use of space and textured nuance. He also led six ACDA masterclasses in heels, commercial jazz, somatic modern practice, and contemporary dance. Internationally, he has taught at DanceXchange (now FABRIC) in the UK, served as Associate Lecturer at Performers College in Essex and Birmingham, and completed residencies with Metal Culture UK, Steven Cohen Company in Brussels, and ImPulsTanz in Vienna—developing works such as Trash Dress, swinemule, and lad’r/mother.

Currently completing his PhD at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Bamberger investigates queer rebellion through killer heels, avant-garde performance, and confessional movement. His works Illumiboy and Killer Heel Confessionals—presented at Université de Lille and Coventry University—interrogate gender, power, and the performative body as a site of rupture and resistance. In 2024, as Artist-in-Residence at Akron Soul Train, he created his first gallery installation, weaving video, performance, and choreographic artifacts into an immersive landscape. Now serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï, he is ecstatic to work alongside world-class students and faculty while championing dance as a transformative social force.