The National Ballet of China, founded in December 1959, have top-notch artistic personnel trained at professional art institutes. With the care and support of people from all walks of life, the National Ballet of China keeps drawing on the strengths of different art genres with Russian skills as its core. In addition to ushering in a high number of world classics, including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, Carmen, Onegin, The Firebird, The Little Mermaid, La Bayadere, Cinderella, and The Jewels, the National Ballet of China has independently produced a great many masterworks with distinct national characteristics, such as The Red Detachment of Women, The Blessing, The Yellow River, Raise the Red Lantern, Peony Pavilion, Celebrating the New Year, The Crane Whisperer, Dunhuang, The Nine-Coloured Deer, etc., opening up a road of development and creation for the Chinese ballet art that features an amazing fusion of the classical with the modern and the national with the international.

Over the past 60 years, the National Ballet of China has made remarkable achievements in personnel training, repertoire expansion, ballet popularisation and education, etc. Many of its members, including ballet dancers, musicians and stage artists, have stood out conspicuously in various international professional competitions and among global superstars. In its repertoire are more than 200 Chinese and foreign ballets, some of which have been listed as Chinese art classics and international cultural brands.

As a famous ballet troupe with wide international influence, the National Ballet of China, on the one hand, plays an important role in promoting international cultural exchanges and Chinese humanistic feelings. On the other hand, it strives to give high-level performances for the Chinese audience and popularise art on campus, in communities and among children. Adhering to the spirit of “solidarity, pragmatism, self-improvement and hard struggle”, the Ballet is taking big strides forward with high morale along the older generation of dedicators’ footsteps to realise its century-old dream. FENG Ying is the presiding managing director and artistic director of the National Ballet of China.