Bruna Andrade

The native Brazilian began her dance training in Rio before moving on to the Mannheim Academy of Dance, thanks to a scholarship of the Birgit Keil Dance Foundation. Birgit Keil, both head of the Academy and Artistic Director of Staatsballet Karlsruhe, saw her potential and made her a member of her company. Bruna danced her way up to the top, and was appointed First Soloist in the season 2012/13. She did not only shine in the title roles of MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew and Peter Wright's Giselle, but also in the highly virtuoso Forsythe piece The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. In 2014, Bruna was awarded The German Theatre Prize THE FAUST as Best Performer Dance. She has been a member of Gauthier Dance since the 2018/19 season, and her success story continues, with regular nominations as Dancer of the Year in the critics' surveys of the specialist press. The most recent can be found in the Yearbook tanz 2025, in recognition of her deeply moving interpretation of Marco Goecke's solo Infant Spirit in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart anniversary programme FireWorks.