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Qianping Guo  Associate  Professor of UA,  His ballet training with one of the most famous ballet schools in China Liaoning Ballet School.  He has danced with two of the top ballet companies in China and America,  Liaoning Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Guo has performed many principal and solo roles in ballet: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Giselle, Le Corsaire, and George Balanchine’s ballet Jewels Rubies, Stars and Stripes, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.  He participated in many national and international ballet competitions including China’s 1st National Ballet Competition in 1985, in which he won the silver medal; the 2nd International Ballet Competition in New York in 1987; the 13th International Ballet Competition in Varna Bulgaria in 1988; and the 7th International Ballet Competition in France in 1988, in which he won the gold medal. He has been a valuable liaison in international studies and teachings, developing a ballet teaching program. He has used his diverse background to his advantage, teaching  China, Japan, and America and combining methods to develop students’ artistic careers. The Chinese and American students Jolie Rose Lombardo, Jiao Yang, and Lumeng he’s mentored and coached have gone on to win gold and silver medals at international and national ballet competitions.

He has been awarded certified teacher for  “methods of teaching classic dance” from Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow and Ballet Heritage/Vaganova Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg, Russia. The teachers he studied from Vaganova Ballet Academy and Bolshoi Ballet Academy with Ludmilla Safronova, Irina Kolpakova, Elena Poryvkina, Eldar Aliev, Georgii Gusev, and Vera Kulikova.