BIOGRAPHY

Erin Hanafin is a Boston-based dancer and emerging physical therapist whose movement is rooted in storytelling, connection, and curiosity. She is thrilled to join Afmohip as a guest company performer, drawn to the company’s powerful integration of modern, hip-hop, and African diasporic dance traditions.

Erin’s training spans over two decades and includes contemporary, modern, ballet, hip-hop, and improvisation, with formative experiences at Salem State University, The Ballet Academy, Aurora Borealis Dance Company, and The Boston Ballet School. She has performed at the American College Dance Association national conference, the Brooklyn Dance Festival, and the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, and has created original choreography for Simmons University with Colleges of the Fenway Dance Project.

She draws inspiration from the movement style of Malpaso Dance Company, striving to embody their physicality and emotional depth in her own performance practice. Erin is currently in her final year of graduate school at Simmons University, earning her Doctorate of Physical Therapy, and is passionate about integrating dance and wellness in both clinical and creative spaces.