The company’s talented dancers surprise and delight passers-by in Beijing, captured in a series of stunning images.

Last year, Australian Ballet stunned onlookers on the streets of Hollywood. This year the company are turning heads overseas once again, but this time on the busy streets of Beijing, China.

Brisbane-born dancer Jessica Fyfe

The company, which is currently in the Chinese capital city for the National Centre for Performing Arts Dance Festival before touring to Shanghai for the city’s International Arts Festival, wowed passers-by, captured in a series of stunning photographs.

Chengwu Guo, Ako Kondo and Brett Chynoweth

This is the eighth time the Australian Ballet have toured to China, with the company’s first visit dating back to 1980.  On this occasion Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella, which Australian audiences can see during the 2016 season, and a mixed programme featuring choreography by Serge Lifar, Twyla Tharp and Stephen Baynes will be on offer to Chinese balletomanes.

Daniel Gaudiello

The company...