Occupation ballet dancer Employer The Australian Ballet Education Beijing Dance Academy | Role Ballet Dancer Name Chengwu Guo Movies Mao's Last Dancer | |
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Meet principal artist chengwu guo
Guo Chengwu (Chinese: 郭承武; pinyin: Guō Chéngwǔ), also known as Chengwu Guo, is a Chinese ballet dancer, Principal Artist with The Australian Ballet.
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- Meet principal artist chengwu guo
- Chengwu guo
- Dance career
- Selected repertoire
- Other activities
- Awards
- References
Chengwu guo
Dance career
Guo was born in China. At the age of 11 he joined the Beijing Dance Academy. After he won a scholarship in the 2006 Prix de Lausanne ballet competition he joined The Australian Ballet School aged 17. While at the school Guo toured with The Dancers Company (the graduate year touring programme). He joined The Australian Ballet in 2008. In 2011 he was promoted to coryphée and to soloist in 2012. In April 2013 Guo was promoted to Senior Artist, and on 25 November 2013 Guo was promoted to Principal Artist.
Guo won both the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and Telstra People's Choice Award for 2011. He was the first male dancer to win both awards.
Selected repertoire
Other activities
Guo was invited back to China in 2009 to compete in a Chinese television show, So You Think You Can Dance, which he won, with an audience of 80 million people.
Guo played the young Li Cunxin in the 2009 film Mao's Last Dancer.
Awards
