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Li Siyi

2025/08/19

Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of China, and the National Second-class Dancer. 

Graduated from the Affiliated Dance School of Liaoning Ballet in 2018, Li Siyi entered Liaoning Ballet in the same year. And she joined the National Ballet of China in 2023.

She has performed leading roles in numerous ballet productions including Swan Lake, The Red Detachment of Women, Serenade, The Yellow River, The Nutcracker, Spartacus, Eight Heroines, Chinese Mulan, and Iron Man, as well as modern ballet works such as Love of Mulan. Additionally, she has danced the major roles in ballets like Cinderella and La Chauve-Souris.

In 2015, she won the gold medal in the junior group of the 11th Fukuoka International Ballet Competition in Japan; In 2016, the ballet Eight Heroines, in which she danced the leading role won the highest government award for Chinese culture and art -“Wenhua Award”; In 2017, she won the gold medal in the junior group of the 1st Ballet Grand Prix Vienna, the silver medal in the junior group of the 13th Moscow International Ballet Competition and the gold medal in the junior group of 10th Korea International Ballet Competition. The ballet Eight Heroines, in which she danced the leading role won the Best Works Award in the 14th Spiritual Civilization Construction; In 2018, she won the gold medal in the junior group of the 28th Varna International Ballet Competition and the best youth award, and the gold medal in the junior group of the 6th Shanghai International Ballet Competition.