A former coryphée of Hong Kong Ballet who has performed numerous lead roles, Irene Lo has been working closely with HKB for over a decade. Currently, she is the Associate Director of Training for HKB’s Classical Ballet Training Programme and the part-time faculty member at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). In 2022, she obtained her Master of Fine Arts in Dance with distinction at HKAPA with a full scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund.

During 2021-2023, Lo was a Rehearsal Mistress for the children who danced in HKB’s Peter Pan, Cinderella, ALICE (in wonderland) and The Nutcracker. In 2018, she was a project coordinator for Scottish Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel. As a certified yoga and aerial yoga instructor, Lo also teaches ballet and yoga at City Contemporary Dance Company and Hong Kong Dance Company. In the past decade, she has been a guest teacher in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Malaysia, Indonesia and Macau.

Her choreographic work includes the TV ad of a Cheung Kong/ Sun Hung Kai Property Grand Jeté, Hello Hong Kong with Hong Kong Tourism Board featuring celebrities Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chan and Sammi Cheng, True Light College’s 150^th anniversary musical and Three As One Theatre’s drama No Name.

Lo’s accolades include ‘Most Promising Dancer’ from Friends of Hong Kong Ballet and ‘Outstanding Performance of the Year’ from Hong Kong Dance Alliance. Additionally, Lo was Chief Executive Manager of the Asian Grand Prix (AGP) in 2013-2015 and served as a jury member in the Manila, Malaysia, AGP, Canaan International Competitions and Dance World Cup.

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.