Chase Hanson

Joined KCB in 2023

Chase Hanson began his dance training at the age of 8 in Stamford, Connecticut, at the Connecticut Ballet Center and Greenwich Ballet Academy. In 2019, he received a full scholarship to attend the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, where he trained for 3 years. While at the JKO school, Chase was chosen by Twyla Tharp to be part of the original creation of Twyla Now at New York City Center, and in his final year, he was selected to compete at the 2022 Prix de Lausanne in Montreux, Switzerland, where he was a semi-finalist. Chase’s training was also supplemented by private coaching from Jessica Saund, Maxim Beloserkovsky, and Aran Bell.

Upon graduation, Chase joined the San Francisco Ballet Trainee program under the direction of Patrick Armand. As a Trainee, he performed works by Val Caniparoli, Miles Thatcher, Davide Occipinti, and Dana Genshaft. He also performed with the corps de ballet in The Nutcracker, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella.

Now in his second season with the Kansas City Ballet, Chase has performed in Val Caniparoli’s Jekyll and Hyde, Devon Carney’s The Nutcracker and Peter Pan, George Balanchine’s Jewels, and a new work by Cameron Thomas in New Moves.