Ms. Alice Liu grew up in an intellectual elite family. The intense artistic family atmosphere influenced her tireless pursuit of ballet career and eventually leading her to become a world- renowned dancer and modern reformer.
She came to the United States to take over her grandparents’ family business. Because of her hard work and outstanding performance she won the trust of the family. As the influence of education of the family, she has an innate preference for education. She is the head of the New York Ballet Group, has served as a director of the Asian Cultural Festival, and made a great contribution to international art and cultural exchanges of the world.
Through “Bridge of Friendship” International Arts Festival cultural and art exchanges, Ms. Alice Liu promotes the friendship peoples between the United States and China, and communications of traditional arts and culture of these two countries.
Alice began to learn ballet at the early age of seven. She exhibited a particular and unique talent of performing arts, and became fascinated and intoxicated by it. With a great deal of enthusiasm, boundless energy and tremendous efforts, she began to devote her entire life to the art of ballet.
At the age of 13, she was allowed to join to a government ballet troupe with a national reputation, since which she begins to her career as a professional ballet dancer.
At the age of 18, she had the honor of became a member of the top artists group in China, and began to play leading roles on the stages.
In the 1980’s, she appeared in several well-known national dance troupes, such as Ode to Yimeng and Red Detachment of Women, which won her personal reputation and established her position as one of the nation’s greatest and most important ballet dancers.
In 1993, she won the Golden Rooster Award bestowed by the United States – Canadian International Ballet Contest. Following that, she got the opportunity to the United States with the support of the Maria Delaifusi Foundation. She took advantage of numerous opportunities to learn a lot of body movements and international exchange programs. Thus inspired her the innovative ideas of combining the forms and skills of Chinese traditional dance and Western ballet, opening up an entirely new dimension of performance art form.
After 1993, she was eventually able to build a modern ballet center on Broadway in New York, which has enabled her to train a number of ballet dancers of diversified ethnic backgrounds. This Ballet Center has developed into a midsized New York City Ballet Troupe. She and her ballet troupe has played in several shows throughout the United States and Canada, has since be named as “The Flower of The East” the first time by the US medias.