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Zhao Yifei graduated from the Ballet Department of Beijing Dance Academy, and he is the National First-Class Artistic Director. Currently, he is the Deputy Head of Liaoning Ballet, Executive Principal of Liaoning Ballet affiliated Dance School, and Artistic Director of Liaoning Youth Ballet. He was awarded the honorary title of "Four (kinds of) 'First Batch'" talents recognized by the Publicity and Culture Department of Liaoning Province in 2012. In 2018, he was selected as one of the 100-Person Level Candidates for the Hundreds of Talents Project in Liaoning Province. He was selected into the leading talents in the area of Philosophy and Social Sciences for "Liaoning-Promoting Talent Project" of Liaoning Province in 2020, as well as the “Top-notch Youth Talent Support Project” launched by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of CPC in 2021.
Principal Zhao has always been persistently teaching at the front line of ballet performance since devoting to ballet education. He has cultivated a large number of outstanding ballet professionals with his rigorous attitude, unique teaching methods and rich teaching experience. He has led the school to be active in the forefront of world's ballet professional training base for many years. In 2018, he established the first youth ballet troupe in China. He has re-created and comprehensively upgraded the classic repertoires, providing a diversified path for realizing the complementarity of teaching and practice. He has initiated the rehearsal and creation of a number of modern repertoires so as to achieve a leapfrog progress in exploring the repertoire construction at the stage of dance education practice. He has successively organized the rehearsal and performance of “The Nutcracker”, “Four Seasons”, and “Role Models” etc. for Liaoning Youth Ballet. He has participated in various international ballet competitions and served as a panel member, hosted professional competitions and many academic exchange activities in ballet field. His students have won many awards in both international and domestic ballet competitions. They have won the gold award in Helsinki International Ballet Competition, Moscow International Ballet Competition and USA International Ballet Competition. Especially his students have won the Special Grand Prize and Gold Prize in the successive two Varna International Ballet Competitions. This has led Zhao Yifei to become the "Gold Medal Instructor" for having students win four major international ballet competitions in the world so far.