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Zhan Xinlu

2025/08/19

中央芭蕾舞团

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

Graduated from Beijing Dance Academy in 2009 and joined the National Ballet of China in the same year.

She has danced the leading roles in John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, George Balanchine's Jewels, Natalia Makarova's La Bayadère, John Neumeier's The Little Mermaid, symphonic ballet Four Seasons, Inspiration and Glory, Ode to Joy, and Don Quixote, Raise the Red Lantern, The Crane Calling, Like Flowers, Hamlet and other Chinese and foreign repertoires of the Company. She also danced the major roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Le Corsaire, L'Arlesienne, Songs and Dances of the Earth, Onegin, Chinese New Year (The Nutcracker Chinese Version), The Light of Heart, A Dream of Red Mansions and other Chinese and foreign ballets.

She won the Gold medal in the 2nd Beijing International Ballet Invitational for Dance Schools in 2008; the Second Prize in 5th CCTV National Dance Competition in 2009; the Gold medal (Females Division) in the 1st Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition in 2011; the First prize at the 7th CCTV National Dance Competition in 2013; and the Gold Award (Senior Females Division) in the 8th Helsinki International Ballet Competition in 2016.

In June 2012, she was invited to the Gala of Kazakh Arts Festival and performed Don Quixote Pas de Deux and contemporary dance Farewell, My Love. In November 2015, she danced the Don Quixote pas de deux at the Variety Show for the Fourth Meeting of the Leaders of China and Central and Eastern European Countries, while she starred as the soloist of the “Bridesmaid” in the Don Quixote in the Variety Show for the 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in September, 2018.