Choo Chiat Goh

Goh was born in Singapore, into a family of 10 children. His parents were Chinese, and spoke Mandarin. He joined the Royal Ballet School in England at the age of 14, and subsequently trained under dancer and choreographer Pyotr Gusev in China.^[1][2] In 1959, he graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy.^[3]

After training, he became a principal dancer at the National Ballet of China. The Cultural Revolution of 1966 - 1976 changed the way ballet was performed in China. He went to Canada to visit his sick mother and remained there, and started the Goh Ballet Academy.^[1][4][5][6]