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, Adi Hanan has been a member of the Vienna State Ballet, where this versatile artist has been able to showcase herself in a wide repertoire and continue to inspire choreographers. Martin Schläpfer created for her the role of a Pagegirl in his Sleeping Beauty, as well as other prominent roles in his ballets Die Jahreszeiten and Marsch, Walzer, Polka. She worked with Marco Goecke on the world premiere of Fly Paper Bird, danced in Ohad Naharin’s Tabula Rasa and Paul Taylor’s Promethean Fire and appeared as Nanina in John Neumeier’s The Lady of the Camellias. As a member of the Corps de ballet in Vienna, her repertoire includes Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake and Don Quixote, Elena Tschernischova’s Giselle, Pierre Lacotte’s Coppélia, John Cranko’s Onegin and works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. 

In 2022, Adi Hanan presented herself for the first time as a choreographer at the Vienna State Ballet’s Plattform Choreographie at the Vienna Volksoper with the world premiere of Shadows – a work that was followed in 2024 by the new dance piece Eden as part of the Vienna State Ballet’s premiere Les Sylphides.