Anna Hop

Choreographer

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“Hop is a revelation.”
Bachtrack, January 2023

Anna Hop graduated from The National Ballet School in Warsaw in 2009 with a Diploma in Professional Classical and Contemporary Dance. In 2014, she completed a Masters degree in Journalism and Social Communication at The University of Warsaw. Since 2009, she has been a dancer at the Polish National Ballet. Her awards include the Terpsichore Award of the Association of Polish Stage Artists for outstanding achievements in the field of dance and ballet in 2023, the Jan Kiepura Theater Music Award in the category of the best choreography for Exodus (2021), and O! Lśienia (2021) award nomination in the Classical music, ballet and jazz category of the Onet.pl, portal and the City of Krakow for the ballet performance Exodus.

Furthermore, she won the individual prize for creating stage movement in the drama performance Księżniczka na opak wywrócona (directed by Marcin Hycnar) during XXIIIrd Polish Nationwide Comedy Festival TALIA 2019, the Bronisława Niżynska award for best performance for her Carnival of Animals in the Perły Tańca 2019 Competition, a Premio Roma Danza 2018 nomination, 3^rd prize in the ZAiKS Competition for a ballet project for kids 2017, the XV Internationale Dance Competition in Gdańsk prize for best partnering, and the VI International Dance Competition for The Best Graduate of 2007 as well as Szczecin prize for best partnering.

Anna Hop’s debut as a choreographer was a piece called In a Raspberry Bush in 2010 for Polish National Ballet Choreographic Workshop Creations 2. Since then, she has presented her choreographies regularly: The Fear Theme (Creations 3, 2011), LAB V (Creations 4, 2012), Collars (Creations 5, 2013), Arctic (Creations 6, 2014), MUV (Creations 8, 2016), NoX (Creations 10, 2018), three pieces (Creations 11, 2019), Kądziel / Sliver (Creations 12, 2020), MI (Creations 13, 2021), Gnossienne No. 1 (Creations 14, 2022), La Gazza Ladra (Creations 15, 2023) performed in The Royal Opera House for International Draft Works (2023) London.

Anna Hop is the author of the Heartbeat project, many shorter choreographic forms and dance videos, including Boy & Girl for Olga and Vladimir Yaroshenko, Rollin’, rollin’ for Blackroll, Mexico for Alexandra Vadon, Tango, and What a Wonderful World for Symphonic Orchestra by Piotr Komorowski, music video clip The boy with pink T‑shirt for I don’t care album of NotSoScary group.

She has worked as a choreographer, movement director and director for operas, movies, drama performances, musicals, music videos, galas, and advertisements. She choreographed the 90^th Anniversary of Polish Radio, New Year’s Eve galas (2015, 2016, 2017), choreographed for The National Ballet School in Warsaw and Gdańsk and Trondheim Katerdaleskole. Hop also did projects for LEDA4ART for Il Balletto Castelfranco Veneto. She has cooperated with DansiT, PRODA Trondheim, Spin-Off Forstudium i Dans in Oslo and Den Norske Ballettskole, Theatre Academie in Warsaw, The Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and National Drama Theater in Warsaw.