Performer

Yi Zhang

Yi Zhang graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005 with a Bachelor of Dance. In her first year at VCA Yi received the Encourgment Award from the Friends of the VCA and was awarded most improved ballet dancer in her second year. Currently she is studying a Diploma of Classical Ballet Teaching, a postgraduate course at the VCA. During Yi's study at the VCA she worked with many different choreographers such as Tracie Mitchell, Brett Daffy, Rochelle Carmichael, Sandra Parker, Leigh Warren, Paulina Quinteros, Neil Adams and Becky Hilton. Before moving to Melbourne in 2002, Yi studied at the Shanghai Dancing School in China. After graduating she worked with the Shanghai Dance Company, performing and touring nationally and internationally from 1995 to 2002. Xing is the first piece Yi has worked with Feng Feng Wang.