Jessica BURROWS

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 and returned to HKB in 2019. She was named Soloist in 2021.

With HKB, Burrows has danced the principal and featured roles of Gamzatti in Vladimir Malakhov’s La Bayadere, Big Swan and Pas de Quatre in John Meehan’s Swan Lake, Lilac Fairy in Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty, Russian Doll, French Doll and Egyptian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Snow Queen and Dew Drop Fairy in Webre’s The Nutcracker, Kitri’s Friend in Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote, Olympe in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias, Bob Ladies in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Coco Chanel:The Life of a Fashion Icon, Fairy Godmother in Septime Webre’s Cinderella, First Twin in Webre’s Peter Pan and Webre’s Carmina Burana. She also performed in works by Marius Petipa, George Balanchine, Rudi van Dantzig, Jiří Kylián, Ronald Hynd, Alexei Ratmansky, Jorma Elo, Pär Isberg, Wang Xin Peng, Natalie Weir and Kinsun Chan, 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. Her choreographic works include Swan in the Abyss (2014, co-choreographed with Sarah Yeung), Variation (2018) and Variation in Sneakers (2019).

Burrows danced in Natalia Makarova's Giselle during exchange performances with The Royal Swedish Ballet in 2013.