Jessica Burrows - Guest Teacher
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. Jessica is a certified mat Pilates instructor, and loves teaching ballet. She is also currently doing a Bachelor in Health Science at Northeastern University to help promote wellness of athletes and dancers.
With HKB, Burrows has danced the featured roles of Big Swan and Pas de Quatre in John Meehan’s Swan Lake, Beauty Fairy in Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty, Russian Doll, French Doll and Egyptian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Kitri’s Friend in Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote. 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).
With HKB, Burrows has danced the featured roles of Big Swan and Pas de Quatre in John Meehan’s Swan Lake, Beauty Fairy in Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty, Russian Doll, French Doll and Egyptian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Kitri’s Friend in Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote. 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).
