Who is hART?
hART is the umbrella of creative projects by Martha Hart.
Martha Hart is a freelance dance artist, choreographer and educator based in Toronto. She graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School, and has also received training at the Palucca Schule Dresden, L’ecole Superieure du Ballet de Quebec, and Arts Umbrella Dance in Vancouver. After an engagement with the Dresden Semperoper Ballet in Germany, she returned to Canada and has since worked with Mascall Dance, Project20 (Donald Sales), The Garage, Hit & Run Dance Productions, Ace Dance Theatre, Human Body Expression (Hanna Kiel) and TranscenDance Project (Julia Cratchley) in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. From 2015-2016 she toured Mexico, Spain and Italy as a member of the Metamorphosis Dance Collective directed by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich. She also has an ongoing short film collaboration with filmmaker David Phu called Panic Attack. Instalments of this project have been selected and screened at film festivals across Canada and the United States. She continues to teach across the GTA and is passionate about sharing dance as a human experience to a wide variety of audiences.