Hong Kong Ballet’s Yeh Fife on the adventures of The Nutcracker, a rough introduction to dance in northern China, and a break-up

I was born in 1988 in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, in the north of China, near the border with North Korea. I’m an only child. My mother is a very strong woman. She wanted to give me a good life, so she worked hard in designing and making clothes. When I was little, he made all my clothes. She loved dancing, especially disco dancing, and even danced when she was pregnant with me. She encouraged me to dance from a very young age and when I was two years old, I started learning traditional….