Peggy Lai
Born in Hong Kong, Lai Pui Ki Peggy trained at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and joined Hong Kong Ballet as a Corps de Ballet member in 2012, becoming a Coryphée in 2020. She is also a passionate teacher and places importance on nurturing home-grown talent and helping her students reach their full potential.
With Hong Kong Ballet, Peggy has danced featured roles like Clara and Italian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Sincerity Fairy in Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty and Odalesques in Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire. She has also performed classics Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, as well as more modern works including Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland), Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, Alexei Ratmansky’s Le Carnaval des Animaux, to name a few.
Peggy won a gold medal at the 39th Open Dance Contest in Hong Kong in 2011, a silver medal at the 7th Young Ballet Stars Award hosted by Hong Kong Ballet Group in 2010, gold medals and Outstanding Awards at Open Dance Contest in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2007 and gold medals at Young Ballet Stars Award hosted by Hong Kong Ballet Group between 2003 and 2005.
Peggy graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Dance with distinction from HKAPA in 2022 on scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and has been teaching our teenager Level 1 and 2 students for the past 2 years.
With Hong Kong Ballet, Peggy has danced featured roles like Clara and Italian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Sincerity Fairy in Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty and Odalesques in Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire. She has also performed classics Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, as well as more modern works including Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland), Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, Alexei Ratmansky’s Le Carnaval des Animaux, to name a few.
Peggy won a gold medal at the 39th Open Dance Contest in Hong Kong in 2011, a silver medal at the 7th Young Ballet Stars Award hosted by Hong Kong Ballet Group in 2010, gold medals and Outstanding Awards at Open Dance Contest in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2007 and gold medals at Young Ballet Stars Award hosted by Hong Kong Ballet Group between 2003 and 2005.
Peggy graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Dance with distinction from HKAPA in 2022 on scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and has been teaching our teenager Level 1 and 2 students for the past 2 years.