Sanem Ergüler Hiçyılmaz enrolled in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in 1988 and graduated as the top student of the Performing Arts Department in 1997. In the same year, she joined the Ankara State Opera and Ballet.
Throughout her ongoing artistic career, she has worked with many esteemed choreographers and ballet masters from both Turkey and abroad. She has participated as a soloist, principal dancer, piece supervisor, and répétiteur in numerous national and international tours, including the International Aspendos Ballet Festival and the Bodrum Ballet Festival, organized by the State Opera and Ballet General Directorate. Between November 2014 and March 2016, she served as the Principal Ballet Teacher of the Ankara Ballet and completed her master's degree in Ballet Dance at Hacettepe University's Ankara State Conservatory during the same period. In 2013, she was awarded the 'Female Dancer of the Year' at the Donizetti Classical Music Awards. She currently continues her role as a piece supervisor, répétiteur, and instructor at the Ankara State Opera and Ballet.
Classical works in which she has performed as a principal dancer include:
The Nutcracker, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Taming of the Shrew, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, The Idiot (Aglaya), Paquita, Swan Lake (Black Swan), Anna Karenina, Carmen, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Three Musketeers, Spartacus, Harem (Kösem Sultan), and Amazons.
Her neo-classical works include:
7th Symphony (Uwe Scholz), The Chairman Dancers (Xin Peng Wang), Blue (James Sutherland), Who Cares & Concerto (Balanchine), Return to a Strange Land (Kylian), 5 Tangos (Hans Van Manen), Tango Plus & Carmina Burana (Mauricio Wainrot), Medea (Marcia Haydée), Cazimir's Colors & Turnpike & Mozart Sinfonietta (Bigonzetti), Sync (Nils Christe), Light and Shadow (Krzysztof Pastor), Entre Dos Aguas (Robert North), This is Your Life & Backstage (Young Soon Hue-Simon), Unfinished Symphony (Binnaz Dorkip), As if Flying & I Want My Balloon Back & Steppe (Uğur Seyrek), My Friend Mediterranean & Bach Oriental & Rachmaninoff (Mehmet Balkan).
