Performer: Max Hanic

Max Hanic is a queer actor, dancer, singer and instructor who graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain for the 2021/2022 period and at Modus Operandi in Vancouver from 2024-2025. Max has been given training scholarships by EDAM (Vancouver), The Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton) and Circuit-Est (Montréal) as well as trained at Tic Tac Art Centre (Brussels), Espacio Tiempo (Madrid) and at the One Body One Career Countertechnique intensive in Amsterdam. He has performed with the Edmonton Opera, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Amoris Projects, Catch the Keys Productions and in his own choreographies; as well as worked with choreographers Susanna Hood, Lin Snelling, Molly McDermott, Francesca Frewer, Minggao Zhang, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis and more. He has been nominated for a Sterling award and is the recipient of the 2025 Gerda Hnatyshyn award for contemporary dance.