Premier Danseur of National Ballet of China

Graduated from Beijing Dance Academy in 2009, Ma Xiaodong joined the National Ballet of China in the same year and become the youngest Principal Dancer of the Company in 2012. In 2018, Ma Xiaodong was promoted to the Première Danseur.

He won the First Prize in the 8th National Dance Competition (Taoli Cup) and the Gold Medal in the 1st Beijing International Ballet Invitational for Dance Schools in 2006, and the Bronze Medal (Junior Group) in the 23rd Varna International Ballet Competition in 2008, the First Prize in the 9th National Dance Competition (Taoli Cup) in 2009 as well as the Silver Medal (Senior Group) in the Varna International Ballet Competition in 2010. He also won the Ballet Arts Foundation Award, the Noble Prize in the 1st Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition in 2011.

Since entering NBC, he has danced the major roles in Don Quixote, La Chauve-souris, Giselle, Le Sacre du Printemps, Roland Petit's Carmen and L'Arlesienne, John Neumeier's The Little Mermaid and Songs and Dances of the Earth, and Natalia Makarova's Swan Lake and La Bayadère, George Balanchine’s Jewels, John Cranko’s Onegin, etc. as well as Chinese ballets such as The Red Detachment of Women, The Nutcracker (Chinese Version), The Peony Pavilion, Raise the Red Lantern, The Crane Calling, The Light of Heart and Like Flowers. He also starred in the anti-epidemic ballet work Against the Wind, the original symphonic ballet Inspiration and Glory and Ode to Joy as well as many classical pas de deux and modern ballet works. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Dancer Award in the Showcase of the Excellent Repertoire by the Ministry of Culture in 2012 and the Outstanding Dancer Award 2013.

As the representative of Chinese artists, Ma Xiaodong has made several visits together with the country's leaders and performed at many major foreign events at home. In July, 2014, he had a visit to France to make performance in the show to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between China and France and then to Cuba with President Xi Jinping and danced Don Quixote pas de deux at the Ballet Evening Gala in July. In 2015, he danced Don Quixote pas de deux at the Variety Show for the Fourth Meeting of the Leaders of China and Central and Eastern European Countries, while visited Egypt with President Xi Jinping in January 2016 and performed the Don Quixote pas de deux at the theme performance of the Dialogue Between the Two Great Civilizations.

As a guest artist, Ma Xiaodong perform in the celebration show for the President of Kazakhstan in 2012. In 2013, he starred in Swan Lake at the invitation of the Finnish National Ballet, starred in Don Quixote at the invitation of Richmond Ballet in 2015 and starred in Le Corsaire at the invitation of The Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2017.