Chi cao dancer biography books

The recently retired principal dancer talks to David Mead about 23 years in Birmingham, that partnership with Nao Sakuma, and plans for the future

“I think it’s the right time. I’ve been very lucky and I’m very grateful that I’ve been able to do everything that I wanted to do when I was a kid.

Chi Cao of the Birmingham Royal ballet is to star in Mao's Last dancer an autobiographical film of the book with the same name.

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The search for a dancer to play Li Cunxin was not an easy one and it was ultimately Li Cunxin himself who found the perfect person in Chi Cao. As Li tells it, “.

The recently retired principal dancer talks about 23 years in Birmingham, that partnership with Nao Sakuma, and plans for the future.

All the boxes have been ticked,” says Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer Chi Cao, reflecting on his stage career that closed at the end of June this year.

Chi joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1995. Twenty-three years is a long time with one company, he agrees, but says, “Every time I thought maybe it was time to move, something really good happened to me here.

And David Bintley gave me the freedom to guest around the world, to work with different people, different companies, always changing the scenery.”

It was always likely Chi would find a career in ballet given his father was a ballet teacher and director at the Beijing Dance Academy, China’s premier dance training school.

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