Hannah Galway

First Soloist

Hannah Galway is sponsored through Dancers First by Alison & Alan Schwartz.

Quick Facts

Born: Comox, British Columbia
Trained: Canada's National Ballet School
Joined: 2017
First Soloist Since: 2024

Hannah Galway was born in Comox, British Columbia and trained at Canada’s National Ballet School. Hannah joined The National Ballet of Canada as a RBC Apprentice in 2017 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2024.

Most recently, Hannah debuted as the Other Stepsister and Blossom in Cinderella, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Evelyn Lambart in Frame by Frame and performed in the world premiere of MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor. Hannah’s repertoire includes Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Karenina, The Merry Widow, The Dream, The Second Detail, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Emergence, Angels’ Atlas, Serenade, Elite Syncopations, Paz de la Jolla, Paquita, The Dreamers Ever Leave You and Skyward.

Hannah was awarded the Patron Award of Merit in 2019 and the RBC Emerging Artist Award in 2018.
1. Onegin
2. La Sylphide
3. Serenade
4. Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián)
5. Angels' Atlas
Patron Award of Merit (2020, 2019)

RBC Emerging Artist Award (2018)

Peter Dwyer Scholarship (2017)

Christopher Ondaatje Ballet Prize (2017)

Women’s Art Association of Canada Scholarship, The Josephine Harper Award (2012)

Reviews

“Hannah Galway is dynamite with the details of the quick allegro.”

The Globe and Mail

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
“As Emma, Hannah Galway is a revelation. In a deeply empathetic performance, she deftly conveys both Emma’s despair at her circumstances and her continuing spirit and imagination. This is a star-making turn for the soloist.”

My Entertainment World

Emma Bovary