Born in Napa, CA, US, Ethan Jiahao Chudnow trained at San Francisco Ballet School. He danced with Boston Ballet II and San Francisco Ballet before joining Hong Kong Ballet in 2019 as a Corps de Ballet member.
With HKB, his featured roles include Don Quixote in Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote and Nana the Dog, Crocodile and Gentleman Starkey in Septime Webre’s Peter Pan. Chudnow also performed in John Meehan’s Swan Lake, Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland) and Ballet Classics for Children: Cinderella as well as George Balanchine’s Jewels. Prior to joining the Company, he performed in Helgi Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker, Harald Lander’s Etudes, Trey McIntrye’s Your Flesh Shall Be A Great Poem, Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein, John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid, Tomasson/Possokohv’s Don Quixote and Justin Peck’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, among