Ao Dingwen

First Principal Dancer of Liaoning Ballet

National First-Class Dancer

Ao Dingwen graduated from Liaoning Ballet affiliated Ballet Dance School in 2011, and joined in Liaoning Ballet in the same year.

She has led many Chinese and western classic repertoires and contemporary works. World classic ballets include “Spartacus”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Swan Lake”, “Le Corsaire”, and “The Nutcracker” etc.; Original Chinese ballets include “The Moon Shadow in Er Quan”, “Eight Woman Fighters”, “Mulan” etc.; Contemporary ballets “Butterfly Lovers”, “Terracotta”, “Blood Colour” etc. She has also choreographed and directed her own original ballet capriccio “Roles”.     

In 2010, she has won the Grand Jury Prize in the 3^rd Tokyo International Ballet Competition (Japan); In 2011, she has won the Bronze Prize of Junior Group in the 8^th Seoul International Ballet Competition (South Korea), and Gold Prize of Ballet Group in the 4^th CPAA Silicon Valley International Dance Competition; In 2012, she has won the Silver Prize of Junior Group in the 7^th Helsinki International Ballet Competition. In 2016, the ballet “Eight Woman Fighters” led by her was awarded the highest prize of Chinese government in culture and arts “Wenhua Grand Prize”; She won the Bronze Prize of Adults in the 13^th Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2017; The ballet “Eight Woman Fighters” led by her was awarded the Best Works Award in the 14^th Construction of Spiritual Civilization; In 2018, she won the Gold Prize of Female Adults in the 6^th Shanghai International Ballet Competition. In 2019, she won the Third Prize in the First Season of TV Program “Dance Storm”.

She has visited many countries for performing as a cultural exchange ambassador. She participated in the opening ceremony of World Economic Forum in 2017. She has also collaborated with the well-known global and domestic ballet companies many times as a guest artist, e.g. Johannesburg Ballet’s “Swan Lake” (The Republic of South Africa), National Centre for the Performing Arts’ opera “La Gioconda” in 2016 etc.