Quick Facts

Born: Hong Kong, China
Trained: The New Zealand School of Dance
Joined: 2018
Second Soloist Since: 2022

Five Things to Know

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2. Tirion began dancing in Hong Kong at the age of four. Her successful participation in ballet competitions motivated her to pursue a career in dance and she went on to be a member of Hong Kong Ballet.
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5. She fell in love with The National Ballet of Canada while watching videos of the company as a young girl and joined the Corps de Ballet in 2018.
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9. Tirion’s repertoire with Hong Kong Ballet includes Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Pinocchio, Coppèlia, Don Quixote, Lady of the Camellias, Le Corsaire, Sechs Tanze and Serenade.
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12. At the National Ballet, she has danced in The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Anna Karenina, The Dream, Paquita, The Second Detail, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Angels’ Atlas, among other works. In 2021, she made her debut in the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.
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15. In 2021, Tirion appeared in two commissioned films for the company’s virtual season: Robert Binet’s The Dreamer’s Ever Leave You and The Sleeping Beauty Variations, in which she dances the role of Fourth Fairy, choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev.