AMANDA HANKES

Featured Roles Since Joining NYCB

George Balanchine
  • Agon
  • Ballo Della Regina
  • Chaconne
  • Cortège Hongrois
  • The Four Temperaments
  • George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (Hot Chocolate and Flowers, and Hostess)
  • Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Peter Martins
  • Romeo + Juliet (The Nurse)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy and Tenderness Fairy)
  • Swan Lake (Princesses and Spanish)
Alexei Ratmansky
  • Russian Seasons
Jerome Robbins
  • The Concert
  • Dances at a Gathering
  • Fancy Free
  • Fanfare (Harp)
  • Glass Pieces
christopher wheeldon
Carousel (A Dance)

Originated corps roles in

  • Melissa Barak: Call Me Ben
  • Eliot Feld: Organon
  • Peter Martins: Burleske and Ocean's Kingdom
  • Benjamin Millepied: Quasi Una Fantasia and Two Hearts
  • Alexei Ratmansky: Namouna, A Grand Divertissement
  • Susan Stroman: Double Feature (Peggy)
  • Christopher Wheeldon: Carnival of the Animals, Estancia, and Evenfall

Amanda Hankes was born in Denver, Colorado. At age nine, she began her dance training at the Irine Fokine School of Ballet in Ridgewood, NJ. She joined the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, full-time in the fall of 1989 and five years later joined Miami City Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet. After dancing in Miami for six years, Ms. Hankes joined New York City Ballet in June 2000 as a member of the corps de ballet.
 

Portrait © Paul Kolnik