{"id":14937,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/yang-yuntao\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","slug":"yang-yuntao","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/team\/yang-yuntao\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Yuntao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A member of the Bai ethnic minority in Yunnan, Yang Yuntao was a graduate of the Minzu University of China\u2019s Faculty of Dance. A former member of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company and the Beijing Modern Dance Company, he won the Bronze Prize at the inaugural Central Modern Dance Competition and the Gold Prize and Outstanding Male Performer at the 2nd National Lotus Awards Competition for his performance as principal dancer in\u00a0Ma and Le Visiting the Sky. Later at the 6th China Arts Festival, he received the Outstanding Performance Award. He also won the Gold Award in Solo Dance in\u00a0South of the Cloud\u00a0at the 7th National Dance Competition for Ethnic Minorities.Yang joined the Hong Kong Dance Company in 2002 as Principal Dancer. A year later, he received the Hong Kong Dance Award from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance for his performance in\u00a0<em>Water Margin<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Song of the Earth<\/em>. He joined the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2005, winning the Hong Kong Dance Award the following year for his performance in\u00a0<em>The Conqueror.<\/em>\u00a0Yang returned to the Hong Kong Dance Company in 2007 as Assistant Artistic Director and received the Award for Best Artist (Dance) at the 2009 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Production for his choreography\u00a0<em>Spring Ritual<\/em>\uff0e<em>Eulogy\u00a0<\/em>at the 2013 Hong Kong Dance Awards, and Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance for\u00a0<em>The Legend of Mulan<\/em>\u00a0at the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards. Most recently,\u00a0<em>Storm Clouds<\/em>\u00a0was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Production at the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards. Yang has choreographed for the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Beijing Modern Dance Company and City Contemporary Dance Company. His works for the Hong Kong Dance Company include\u00a0<em>Border Town<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Smiling<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Proud Wanderer,\u00a0Everlasting Love,\u00a0Romance of the Three Kingdoms,\u00a0Joseph Koo\u2019s Classic Melodies,\u00a0Spring Ritual<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Eulogy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Legend of Mulan,\u00a0The Butterfly Lovers<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Storm Clouds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Acknowledgement:\u00a0Hong Kong Dance Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14937","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}