Larry the Musical
San Francisco, CA
Jan - March 2024
The story of Larry Itliong is told in a new musical embodying the heart, spirit, and history of Filipino Americans with an all Filipino American cast, crew, and creative team. Hannah joined on as an Associate Director and Associate Choreographer in this beautiful love letter to Filipino American history and those left out of American history.
“But what really makes this ‘Summer Stock’ pop is its cast, which appears. to be having a blast”
Goodspeed Opera House Summer 2023
Hello, Dolly! at Pioneer Theatre Company May 2022
“Balagot does an admirable job keeping Ermengarde’s crying in check, salvaging a character who can often come across as grating.” - Utah Arts Review
Fragments - a live audio story
New York City May 2021
“[a] Richly introspective experience...
Hannah Balagot dances the role of 10 year old Herta with captivating emotional clarity”
“Let’s not leave each other unknown”
Based on a true story, Fragments is the story of Herta, an elderly woman struggling with Alzheimer’s in a British Care Home. As the disease ravages her mind and spirit, Herta is asked to confront painful memories of her childhood in Nazi occupied Austria, whilst trying to reconnect with her estranged daughter Lynn. It’s a journey of a search to belong, and questions how much of ourselves we must give to the ones we love the most.
Adapted for COVID - the story is played in an immersive audio form as the audience observes on the stage in front of them Herta’s younger selves reliving her memories through dance. Projections of Herta in the present day reveal the interaction of memory, dementia, and processing her past.