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Adi Hanan

Adi Hanan was born in Israel and received her education at Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts and Maslool in Tel Aviv, among others. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Tel Aviv University in the Marc Rich Honors Program in the Humanities and the Arts. From 2007 to 2010, she was a member of the Israeli Ballet and continued to work closely with the Israeli Opera after her permanent engagement. From 2012 to 2016, she danced at the Jerusalem Ballet among others in the productions »Otello« by Marina Kessler and »Coppélia« by Idan Cohen. As a freelance dancer, she performed at the 2016 Salzburg Festival in »Faust« and in Cyprus in 2017 in the opening ceremony of the European Capital of Culture Paphos. With the beginning of the 2017/18 season Adi Hanan joined the BallettCompagnie Oldenburg under the direction of Antoine Jully, where she performed in the director’s works and in choreographies by Félix Blaska, Jacopo Godani, Martha Graham, Raphael Hillebrand, Alwin Nikolais and Martin Schläpfer. Since the 2020/21 season she has been a member of the Vienna State Ballet and danced in world premieres by Martin Schläpfer – such as page in »The Sleeping Beauty« – and Marco Goecke's »Fly Paper Bird«, Nanina in John Neumeierʼs »Lady of the Camellias«, in Ohad Naharinʼs »Tabula Rasa«, Rudolf Nureyev's »Swan Lake« and »Don Quixote«, Elena Tschernischova's »Giselle«, John Cranko's »Onegin«, Paul Taylor's »Promethean Fire« as well as works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. With »Shadows« she presented her first own choreography at »Plattform Choreographie« of the Vienna State Ballet in December 2022.