Emma Hawes

Birthplace
Delaware, Ohio, USA

Training
BalletMet Dance Academy, Columbus Ohio; Canada’s National Ballet School

Current company
Joined English National Ballet as First Soloist in 2018. Promoted to Principal in 2022.
Title roles with the Company have included Manon and Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Cinderella in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Gulnare in Le Corsaire, Clara/Sugar Plum Fairy in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker and Raymonda in Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda.

Favourite role
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake

Roles would love to dance
Tatiana in Onegin; Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and any works created by Crystal Pite, Akram Khan and Jiří Kylián

Other info
In 2012 she represented The National Ballet of Canada in The Tenth International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize and received the Audience Choice Award for Favourite Female Competitor. Created roles include corps de ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s Romeo and Juliet, 2011; original cast of Robert Binet’s Unearth, 2012; pas de deux of Guillaume Côté’s Enkeli, 2012; original cast of Robert Binet’s Terra Incognita, 2016; original cast of James Kudelka’s Dark Night’s Bright Day, 2013; original cast of Robert Binet’s The Dreamers Ever Leave You, 2016 and the Pas De Trois in Nikolaj Hubbe’s Swan Lake, 2015. Previously Emma was a competitive swimmer until age 12 and is a certified lifeguard.