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Qiu Yunting

2025/08/19

Prima Ballerina of National Ballet of China, and the National First-class Dancer.

Graduated from the Affiliated Secondary School of Beijing Dance Academy in 2013 and joined the National Ballet of China in the same year, Qiu Yunting become the Principal Dancer in 2017. In 2022, Qiu Yunting was promoted to the Prima Ballerina.

Since entering NBC, she has danced the leading roles in the classic ballets like Giselle, La Sylphide, Don Quixote, and many ballet works of famous choreographers, such as Natalia Makrova's La Bayadère and Swan Lake, Roland Petit's Carmen and John Cranko's Onegin, as well as George Balanchine's Jewels, etc. and in many Chinese ballets of the Company such as The Red Detachment of Women, The Yellow River, Chinese New Year (The Nutcracker Chinese Version), The Light of Heart, Like Flowers, A Dream of Red Mansions, and the original symphonic ballet The Yellow River, Inspiration and Glory and Ode to Joy. She has also danced the major roles in the modern and contemporary ballets of the Company such as Raise the Red Lantern, The Crane Calling and Like Flowers as well as modern ballet works like Permanent Yesterday, Sad Birds and The White Snake-The Mortal World.

She won the Gold Medal in the Beijing International Ballet Invitational for Dance Schools; the Gold Medal of Ballet Group in the 10th National Dance Competition (Taoli Cup) and the Gold Medal (junior group) in the 2nd Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition. In 2018, Qiu Yunting won the Gold Medal of the female senior group in the 11th American International Ballet Competition. In 2023, she won the title of "Best Female Dancer" in the 31st Benois de la Dans.

As a guest artist, Qiu Yunting participated in the "Benois de la Danse Nominees Gala Concert" hold by The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in Moscow and the ballet season of Cuba in 2014. On behalf of the Company, she went to Germany to participate in the Nijinsky Gala with Hamburg Ballet in July, 2015, 2019 and 2023.