Spencer Hack

Spencer Hack was born in Toledo, Ohio and trained at Canada's National Ballet School. Spencer joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2014 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in March 2023. 

A versatile dancer who approaches the classical and contemporary repertoire with equal accomplishment, most recently, Spencer made his debut as Count Alexei Vronsky in the North American premiere of Christian Spuck’s Anna Karenina and in the North American premiere of Sol Léon and Paul Lightfoot’s Silent Screen. Spencer has excelled in such roles as Siegfried and Rothbart in Swan Lake, Hilarion in Giselle, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Peter/The Nutcracker and Uncle Nikolai in The Nutcracker, Espada in Don Quixote, Lewis Carroll/The White Rabbit and Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Allan Gray in A Streetcar Named Desire, Bottom in The Dream, Norman McLaren in Frame by Frame and Monsieur Lheureux Emma Bovary. His repertoire includes roles in MADDADDAM, The Sleeping Beauty, Onegin, The Winter’s Tale, Nijinsky, The Merry Widow, Rubies, Emeralds, The Second Detail, Approximate Sonata 2016,  Genus, Angels’ Atlas, Emergence, Chroma, Anima Animus, The Four Seasons, Suite en Blanc, Cacti, Paz de la Jolla, The Four Temperaments, Elite Syncopations, Morpheus’ Dream, The Collective Agreement, Concerto, Being and Nothingness, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, Orpheus Alive, Skyward, Self and Soul, Reverence, King’s Fall and Desperate Drama of Red.  

Spencer was awarded the Patron Award of Merit in 2017.