Jiang Qi

 
Director · Choreographer ·Teacher

balletqi@aol.com

Jiang Qi is an award-winning teacher, dancer, and choreographer . . .
 
He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Utah. After graduating from the Yinchuan Dance School and Beijing Dance Academy in China, Mr. Jiang performed with the Yinchuan Song and Dance Ensemble, the Beijing National Song and Dance Ensemble, and the National Ballet of China. In 1980 Mr. Jiang was awarded the top prize in China’s National Dance Competition, and he received the title of Première Artist from the Chinese Government in 1985.

After his arrival in the U.S., Mr. Jiang danced with the Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, Twyla Tharp Dancers, and the New York Chinese Cultural Center, then joined Ballet West in 1986 as a Soloist and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 1988.

He has performed almost every leading role in the classical ballet repertoire, and has also danced a full range of contemporary ballets created by world-renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Glen Tetley, Birgit Culberg, Choo-san Goh, William Forsythe, Ben Stevenson, and Hans Van Manen.

Mr. Jiang has also served as guest dancer, teacher, and choreographer for companies and schools around the world, including the Hong Kong Ballet, Guangzhou Ballet of China, Singapore Dance Theater, Toshiko Sato of Japan, Cincinnati Ballet, Balletmet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Beijing Dance academy, Hong Kong Jean M. Wong Ballet School, Shanghai Dance Academy, Joffrey Ballet School, Alaska Dance Theater, Metropolitan Ballet of Dallas, Utah Ballet, Utah Regional Ballet, Mount Holyoke Dance Ensemble, and the Joffrey Midwest Workshop.

Mr. Jiang was Ballet Master of Ballet West from 1999 to 2001, and joined the College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati Dance Division as an Assistant Professor and Artistic Director of Ballet in 2001; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005.

Mr. Jiang has served as a Dance Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as having received an award from them for Artistic Excellence. He also served as an Adjudicator for the Ohio Choreography Competition and the Guangzhou Ballet Dancers’ Competition.

In 2005, Jiang Qi was appointed Artistic Director of Dance China NY in New York City.

 

Choregraphy Photos

Soaring Mountain / Flowing Water

Life and Death
Pleasing Pirouettes (11/29/04)

Move On

Spring
Lighthearted, cheerful and in the neo-classical style.
Challenging choreography . . . filled with innovative lifts
and quick, playful steps that made the piece a delight to watch.”

— Red Magazine

Unfinished

Morning Song
announcement

When the Leaves Turn

Goodbye is Hard to Say

Pink is the New Red

Some Seasons / CCM


Choreographed for Dance China NY September 2006:

Some Seasons
“ . . . a charming evocation of the life cycle”
— Jennifer Dunning, NY Times (9/22/06)


The Reverie of Baoyu
“ . . . a clearly told story of love and treachery
drawn from ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ ”

— Jennifer Dunning, NY Times (9/22/06)
 
2007 Performance


Moonlight


Wu.Wu
World Première, NYC 9/7/07
 
“Dance China NY, whose artistic director is CCM’s Qi Jiang, performed WuWu,
a celebration for the 2008 Olympics choreographed by Jiang. This was Yin and Yang
— a masterful and astonishing blend of classic dance, with all its grace, combined with martial arts.
The dancers showed spectacular form, control and characterization, as they journeyed through Jiang’s
inventive choreography with athleticism and power. The Adagio was like a pas de deux in Tai Chi.”

— Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati Enquirer, February 2008

 

 

Jiang Qi’s Résumé