Ann-Kathrin Adam did her ballet training at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart. From 2005, she danced for fourteen years at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, only for four seasons under the direction of Youri Vámos and from 2009, in the newly formed Ballett am Rhein under Martin Schläpfer. With Youri Vámos, she got the opportunity to play leading roles in his works Erda, Spartacus, and Julien Sorel. Martin Schläpfer created numerous great games for her, including “Verwundert seyn-zu sehn”, 7, Roses of Shadow, Deep Field and Forellenquintett. She took on other leading roles in choreographies by George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, Mats Ek and Antony Tudor. Also, she danced in works by Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp and Paul Taylor. Choreographers such as Nils Christ, Martin Chaix, Regina van Berkel, Johan Greben, Uri Ivgi, Natalia Horecna, Fernando Melo, Anna Vita, Young-Soon Hue, Antoine Jully and So Yeon Kim created roles for her in her works. In 2014, Martin Chaix created the ballet Eine Winterreise for her, in which she was seen in Bonn and Krefeld. In 2017, she received the Prize for Performing Arts from the city of Düsseldorf. From 2019 to 2023, Ann-Kathrin Adam was a member of the Ballet of the Graz Opera and is now a freelance dancer and Gyrotonic instructor.

Source Oper Graz