Jingyi Feng
Corps de ballet member of The Czech National BalletBiography
Jingyi Feng was born in China, she completed her seven-year professional dance training at the Beijing Dance Academy under the Vaganova method. During her studies, she was awarded the Chinese National Government Scholarship and recognized as an Outstanding Graduate of the Vaganova Summer Intensive in Saint Petersburg in 2016.
At the age of 19, she enrolled in the BFA Dance Program at The Juilliard School in New York. There, she studied a wide range of modern and contemporary techniques, including Martha Graham, Limón, and Gaga. She worked with renowned teachers and choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Bobby Smith, Mario Zambrano, Alicia Graf Mack, Jeff Edwards, Risa Steinberg, and Terese Capucilli.
She later continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Dance.
Feng began her professional career with the Guangzhou Ballet in China, performing as a coryphée from 2018 to 2019. She has been a company member of Hong Kong Ballet since 2021. With the company, she has appeared in numerous classical and contemporary productions, including Serenade (George Balanchine), In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (William Forsythe), Coco Chanel (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa), Strange Love (Andonis Foniadakis), Sleepless (Jiří Kylián), La Bayadère (Vladimir Malakhov), The Sleeping Beauty (Cynthia Harvey), Swan Lake (Yuri Possokhov), and Butterfly Lovers (Ricky Hu). She has also performed in Septime Webre’s works: Cinderella, Carmina Burana, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland, and The Nutcracker.
Alongside her performing career, Feng is also an active choreographer. Her works have been staged in Hong Kong, with several entering the repertoires of Hong Kong Ballet and Guangzhou Ballet. Her choreographic pieces include Invisible Echo (2021) and Still I Rise (2022), whose copyright was acquired by Cartier. This work shared the stage with the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company at the Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong in 2023 and was exhibited in the "Cartier and Women" exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. It has also been presented at the Hong Kong Dance Awards, TEDx Hong Kong, the M+ Museum, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Her recent work, A Healthy Dose of Madness (2025), was created for the National Theatre Brno with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Additionally, The Stone of Sisyphus (2023) is a piece for six dancers set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Feng has received multiple accolades and advanced to the finals of major competitions, including the Beijing National Ballet Competition (2018) and the International Ballet & Choreography Competition (Beijing, 2017).