2nd Best Dance Company creates, performs, and teaches physically rigorous, sometimes virtuosic, almost always slapstick dance-plays. We connect to audiences, students, and professionals alike as we share emotionally accessible work that is relatable, honest, and resonant.

Hannah Garner, named a 2025 Princess Grace Award recipient in Choreography and ‘25 to Watch’ by Dance Magazine, is a NYC based dancer/choreographer making work that “tackles topics like death and queer identity through rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine). Having graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Performance and Composition and a minor in Arts Management, Hannah has gone on to work with Doug Varone, Raja Feather Kelly, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, and Megan Williams Dance, in venues such as The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Park Avenue Armory, and New York Live Arts. Her work as 2nd Best Dance Company has been commissioned nationally by leading contemporary dance companies and schools, such as Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance, GroundWorks DanceTheater, GALLIM x CreateArt, Kizuna Dance, SUNY Purchase, the Hartt School, Bard College, among others. 2nd Best was the Resident Artist of Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (2022), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2021), GALLIM’s Moving Women Residency (2021), and Triskelion Arts (2019), among others. Hannah’s choreography has also been presented through Triskelion Arts, Mark Morris Dance Group, Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival, The Wassaic Project, and appears in music videos for artists like Snail Mail, Half Waif and Frankie Cosmos. 2nd Best works in person in NYC and lives online at 2ndbestdance.com.