Ruoyi He

Biography

Ruoyi He began her training at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China and the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, where she studied under the direction of Era Jouravlev and Stacy Caddell and performed works choreographed by George Balanchine, Earl Mosley, Robert Joffrey, and Gerald Arpino. In addition, Ruoyi participated in summer intensives and received scholarships from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow, the English National Ballet School, and the Juilliard School.

Ruoyi performed as a guest soloist with the Brighton Ballet Theater in its 2017 production of The Nutcracker. In 2018, she joined Nashville Ballet, where she performed numerous works choreographed by George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, and Paul Vasterling, Nick Mullikin including Serenade, Western Symphony, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet, as well as contemporary ballet works choreographed by Annabella Lopez Ochoa, Gina Patterson, and Charlotte Boye-Christensen.

Ruoyi received her B.F.A. in Dance from Montclair State University in 2025, where she worked with critically acclaimed choreographers such as Maxine Steinman, Leslie Kraus, and Cameron McKinney. She is currently a faculty member of the Trainee Program at the Joffrey Ballet School, as well as a faculty member for its summer intensive programs. Ruoyi is also an international guest teacher and choreographer, having been invited to teach master classes and create commissioned works for academies and conservatories in Beijing and Shenyang, China.

Ruoyi is an adjunct professor in Montclair State University's Department of Theatre and Dance, under the direction of Kathleen Kelley and Dr. Elizabeth McPherson. She is also a National Training Curriculum Fellow for American Ballet Theatre. In 2025, she debuted her original solo work, Ode of Yimeng, at Lincoln Center.