Born in Hong Kong, Michelle Cheng trained at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and graduated from Australian Conservatoire of Ballet in Melbourne. She joined Hong Kong Ballet as an Apprentice in 2017.

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Cheng has danced in John Meehan’s Swan Lake, Septime Webre and Charla Genn’s Giselle, Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote, Anna-Marie Holmes' Le Corsaire, Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland), Peter Pan and The Great Gatsby, Alexei Ratmansky’s Le Carnaval des Animaux, Yuri Ng’s Ballet Classics for Children: Swan Lake and Yuh Egami and Hu Song Wei Ricky’s The Rite of Spring. She also performed Yuri Ng’s The Sleeping Princess in Hong Kong Ballet Group's 50th Anniversary Performance, Verdi’s Rigoletto with Musica Viva and phase 7’s Nobody but a princess.