SHUT UP & LISTEN: HANNAH DOOGAN
My name is Hannah but my friends call me Han :)
If there was a film made about your life, what's the song that plays on its trailer?
Hmmm probably Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, a classic 🏃♀️🤠
I’m happiest when hanging out with my family and friends, outdoors, travelling (especially exploring our beautiful NZ backyard) and dancing of course.
I wanted to work with Shut Up & Dance because quite simply, I love dance and I love to see others loving dance! I adore the concept behind SH&D - that dance is for everyone and fitness can be very, very fun.
My favourite guilty pleasure track is anything ABBA 👢👢🇸🇪⭐️🎶👩🏼👩🏻👨🏻👨🏼 because I cannot control the excitement when I hear Mamma Mia or Dancing Queen (or Waterloo or Does Your Mother Know...you get the picture).
Something that has changed since my first Shut Up & Dance class is my ability to let go! I’m a very organised person so my life tends to be pretty ‘structured,’ but SU&D gives me the space and freedom to be a bit wild, be a bit random and be just totally in the moment.
Dance is fun, freeing, and the best form of expression and connection
The Shut Up & Dance routine that best describes me is…. It’s got to be Push It by Salt-N-Pepa because I love a challenge and this routine certainly gives you that.
My life motto is back yourself and back your mates - a wise and special person in my life recently taught me this one and I think it sums up ‘how to do life’ (if that’s even possible) very nicely.
The most important thing life has taught me so far is be kind to everyone, it’s as simple as that, everyone deserves kindness.
If money was no object, I would keep doing what I’m doing (law-related stuff) plus add in more theatre and more dance! I am passionate about helping people and I adore performing arts, so a mix of both is my ideal day-to-day.
My most dorky moment this week was wearing heels out to town when I know full well that I HATE wearing heels on a night out, as it always ends with blisters and a lot of complaining.
I wanted to be a dancer and actress when I grew up.
The world would be a better place with more chocolate lava cakes! 🍫There’s some goodies out there but I’d love it if the market really grew in this space.
The routine I want to learn the most is ‘This is Me’ I am a huge fan of musicals 🎶
If I was a cake I would be a gooey chocolate raspberry cake. A classic on the table (can’t go wrong with chocolate), but with that extra little something special!
— Thanks Hannah, we reckon you’re pretty special too. Book your kids in for our first-ever kids course with Hannah, starting term 3!