Hao Bin
Hao Bin is Artistic Director of Queensland Dance Centre. He was Principal Dancer at Queensland Ballet from 2011 until 2016. Before that he was a principal dancer of The National Ballet of China and is a National First-Class Performer in China.
Hao is the recipient of numerous international accolades for ballet, including a Jury Special Award at the Third Shanghai International Ballet Competition and a nomination for Best Male Dancer of the Year in the Prix Benois La Danse in Moscow. He was named Most Outstanding Dancer in Dance Australia’s Critics Survey of 2011.
He has led many performances and has appeared at many international ballet galas including John Cranko’s Dance Festival Celebration in Stuttgart Germany in 2007, the 17th International Ballet Gala in Budapest in 2009, The Nijinsky Gala in Hamburg and the German Dance Award 2010 in Essen, The Dance Salad Festival at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater in Houston in 2015. Hao has also performed in many world-standard theatres such as The Royal Opera House, Opéra Garnier, The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hamburg State Opera, and the Arts Centre Melbourne.
Hao has danced many leading rôles in story ballets such as Le Corsaire, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Giselle, Raymonda, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Coppélia, and Romeo and Juliet. He has performed leading roles in new classic ballet repertoire including Carman, Pink Floyd, Who Cares, The Four Temperaments, and Serenade.
He was invited to be an adjudicator in Alana Haines Australasian Awards in New Zealand in 2019.
Hao is currently a sessional academic at Queensland University of Technology.