Born in Harbin, China, Yang Ruiqi started her training at Shanghai Dance School and graduated from the John Cranko School in Stuttgart in 2012. She joined Stuttgart Ballet as an Apprentice the same year and was promoted to a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2013. She came to Hong Kong Ballet as a Coryphée in 2016.
With Hong Kong Ballet, Yang has performed featured role of Olympe in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias and also performed in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Ronald Hynd’s Coppélia, Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze, as well as Jorma Elo’s Shape of Glow. Yang was a finalist at Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland in 2009 and 2010, and at the Taoli Cup Dance Competition in 2008.