KU News Release

LAWRENCE — Nathaniel Beau Hancock, a 2005 University of Kansas alumnus from Hugoton, has won a nationally competitive Cleveland Art Prize.

Hancock is using his prize, the 2009 Kathryn Karipides Modern Dance Scholarship, to study this summer with the New York City-based Limón Dance Company.

Hancock is a University Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is pursuing a master of fine arts in dance. He earned bachelor’s in dance and American studies from KU.

While at KU, Hancock helped found the Bowery Dancers, a Lawrence-based movement collective, and performed with 940 Dance Company, Cohan/Suzeau Dance Company and KU’s University Dance Company. He is a graduate of Hugoton High School. His parents, Steve and Jennifer Hancock, moved to La Grange, Texas, from Hugoton.

Hancock’s choreography has been presented at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth Art Gallery, Movement Research at Dance Theater Workshop and Flea Theater, all in New York City, as well as at the Lied Center, Lawrence Arts Center and Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre in Lawrence.

In New York since 2005, he has performed with Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, Cornfield Dance and Douglas Dunn and Dancers.