Guo Chengwu (), also known as Chengwu Guo, is a Chinese ballet dancer, and a principal artist with

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Dance career

Guo was born in China. At the age of 11 he joined the

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. After he won a scholarship in the 2006 Prix de Lausanne ballet competition he joined The Australian Ballet School at the age of 17. While at the school Guo toured with The Dancers Company (the graduate year touring programme). He joined The Australian Ballet in 2008. In 2011 he was promoted to coryphée and to soloist in 2012. In April 2013 Guo was promoted to Senior Artist, and on 25 November 2013 Guo was promoted to Principal Artist. Guo won both the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and Telstra People's Choice Award for 2011. He was the first male dancer to win both awards.

Selected repertoire

* Mercutio and Tybalt in

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's ''Romeo & Juliet'' 2011 (Guo received the Telstra awards at the end of the Sydney first night of this production) * First Red Knight in Dame

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' ''Checkmate'' 2011

Other activities

Guo was invited back to China in 2009 to compete in a Chinese television show, ''So You Think You Can Dance'', which he won, with an audience of 80 million people. Guo played the young

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in the 2009 film '' Mao's Last Dancer''.

Awards

* Tao Li Bei of China Competition (, the Tao Li Cup), gold medal * Prix de Lausanne 2006, scholarship * Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and Telstra People's Choice Award 2011

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guo, Chengwu Chinese male ballet dancers Dancers of the Australian Ballet Living people Prix de Lausanne winners Telstra Ballet Dancer Award winners Telstra People's Choice Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) People from Jiangxi Artists from Jiangxi People from Jiujiang