Hannah Frances – The Space Between (ft. Daniel Rossen)

Hannah Frances closes out the previews for her album “Nested In Tangles” with “The Space Between,” a six-minute track featuring Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen. He contributes piano, cello, percussion, and backing harmonies to a song about navigating transitional states after moving on from someone.

Frances built the album around voices, acoustic guitars, and strings that cascade over each other in an ecstatic rush. The production shares some DNA with Grizzly Bear’s impressionistic approach, which makes sense given Rossen’s involvement. “The Space Between” serves as the album’s culmination point, exploring surrender without neat resolution or forgiveness.

Director Vanessa Castro collaborated with Frances again for the video, which features her performing a modern ballet choreographed by Emma Engel of the New York City Ballet. The piece blends ballet with free, abstract movement, pulling inspiration from Marcel Dzama’s plays and Leonora Carrington’s surrealist work. Frances dances with her younger self (also played by Engel), while a cast in animal masks moves through scenes that blur the line between childhood imagination and the discipline of performance training.

The choreography starts light and silly before transforming into something more powerful as the two characters connect. Engel describes it as reflecting connection, love, and the joy of moving in sync with yourself. “Nested In Tangles” drops October 10 via Fire Talk, following previous singles “Falling From And Further,” “Surviving You,” and “Life’s Work.”