Zhang Haidong

First Principal Dancer of Liaoning Ballet

National First-Class Dancer

Zhang Haidong graduated from Liaoning Ballet affiliated Ballet Dance School in 2010, and joined in Liaoning Ballet in the same year.  

He has led many Chinese and western classic repertoires and contemporary works. World classic repertoires  include “Swan Lake”, “The Nutcracker”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Spartacus”, “Giselle”, “Le Corsaire” etc. ; Original Chinese repertoires include “The Moon Shadow in Er Quan”, “Eight Woman Fighters”, “Mulan”, “Iron Man Wang” etc.; Contemporary repertoires include “The Song Without Words”, “Thread”, “Elegy” etc.

In 2008, he won the Silver Prize of Junior Group in Tokyo International Ballet Competition; In 2014, the Special Grand Prize of the 7^th Ballet Grand Prix Vienna, and the Wenhua Prize in Performance for the Culture and Arts Government Award in Liaoning 9^th Art Festival; In 2016, the ballet “Eight Woman Fighters” led by him was awarded the highest prize of Chinese government in culture and arts “Wenhua Grand Prize”; In 2017, the ballet “Eight Woman Fighters” led by him was awarded the Best Works Award in the 14^th Construction of Spiritual Civilization.

He has visited many countries for performing as a cultural exchange ambassador. He has also collaborated with the well-known global and domestic ballet companies many times as a guest artist, e.g. National Ballet of Canada’s “The Nutcracker” in 2014, Johannesburg Ballet’s “Swan Lake” in 2015, Tianjin Ballet’s “Giselle” in 2016, and Mariinsky Theater’s “Giselle” in 2017 etc.