Hannah Martin
Born: Hove, Sussex
Trained: Elmhurst Ballet School
Joined: 2021
Awards: Bronze Award at the Royal Academy of Dance 2021, The Fonteyn Award 2021 (previously Genée). In 2021 I was awarded the Sir Peter Wright Award for Performance as I graduated from Elmhurst Ballet School. In 2020 I was a semi-finalist in the BBC hit television show The Greatest Dancer. I won the Barbara Geoghegan Cup for Musicality awarded by Sir David Bintley in the NYB Frank Freeman Choreographic Competition 2017, as well as placing first in the Senior Soloist Division.
Proudest off-stage achievement: I was on the national team of Great Britain as an elite rhythmic gymnast. I also competed as the youngest official athlete of Team England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Over my time as a gymnast I was awarded over 22 national titles, winning golds at both the British Championships and English Championships multiple times.
Favourite full-length ballets:Romeo and Juliet and Manon. As an artist who appreciates a passionate narrative, the storylines that drive these ballets resonate with me. I feel I can truly connect to the characters and therefore I can engage with them on a deeper level.
REPERTORY INCLUDES
Jorge Crecis: 24
Pontus Lidberg (Raúl Reinoso, Cassi Abranches): Black Sabbath – The Ballet
Kenneth MacMillan: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet's Friends)
Juliano Nunes: Interlinked
Peter Wright: The Nutcracker (Mirliton)