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Premier Danseur
Sun Jie joined the National Ballet of China in 1991, after graduating from the Beijing Dance Academy. His repertoire includes principal roles in full-length ballets: The Red Detachment of Women, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, Giselle, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, The Nutcracker, Raise the Red Lantern,Coppelia, La Sylphide, the new version of Fountain of Tears, Sylvia and Act II of The New-Year Sacrifice. He has also danced leading roles in many Balanchine ballets as Allegro Brilliant, Serenade and other ballet works such as Rite of Spring, Butterfly Lovers, Etudes, The Yellow River, Heliotrope, and Variations for Four.
In 1992, he was invited to perform at the 3rd Macao International Arts Festival. In 1994, 1998 and 2000, he was invited as Guest Artist to dance in Japan. In June 2002, the Royal New Zealand Ballet invited him as Guest Artist, to dance the Prince in Swan Lake.
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