Emma Hawes
Birthplace
Delaware, Ohio, USA
Training
BalletMet Dance Academy, Columbus Ohio; Canada’s National Ballet School
Current company
Joined English National Ballet in 2018, 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 and Clara/Sugar Plum Fairy in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker. Also First Soloist with The National Ballet of Canada
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.
Explore
Stepsisters Edwina and Clementine (danced in-the-round by Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova) in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella.
Alina Cojocaru as Cinderella meeting stepsisters, performed by Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova, in rehearsals for Cinderella in-the-round.
A romantic moment during the photoshoot for Cinderella in-the-round with dancers Emma Hawes and Francesco Gabriele Frola.
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Cinderella: Stepsisters (extract)
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Cinderella in-the-round: Production Images
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Cinderella in rehearsals: meet the stepsisters
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Cinderella in-the-round: Teaser
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Manon rehearsal images
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Manon rehearsal images
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