HK Ballet
Chrysalis
Choreographer: Jessica Burrows
Dancers: Wang Yueh Erica
Music: Bach- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Variation 25 a 2 Clavier
In dialogue with Writer Barbie Liu
Jessica Burrows
Coryphée
Joined 2019
Born in Stouffville, Canada, Jessica Burrows graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School and danced with The National Ballet of Canada before joining Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) in 2010. She was promoted to Coryphée in 2015, joined Boston Ballet in 2017 as an Artist and returned to HKB in 2019.
With HKB, Burrows has been featured in works by Jorma Elo, Val Caniparoli, Alexei Ratmansky, Terence Kohler, Wang Xin Peng, Kinsun Chan, George Balanchine and Marius Petipa, among others. With Boston Ballet, she performed principal and soloist roles in Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker, William Forsythe’s Pas Parts and Sage Humphries’ YOU, to name a few.
Burrows danced in Natalia Makarova’s Giselle during exchange performances with The Royal Swedish Ballet in 2013.
Wang Yueh Erica
Corps de Ballet
Joined 2017
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wang Yueh Erica trained at The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia in the US. She joined Hong Kong Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2017.
With Hong Kong Ballet, she has danced in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote, Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire, Justin Peck’s Year of the Rabbit and Yuh Egami and Hu Song Wei Ricky’s The Rite of Spring, among others. Wang was in the Top 12 senior pision classical semi-finals at the 2016 and 2017 Youth American Grand Prix.
