This year's Meet in Beijing Arts Festival will open with Natalia Makarova's Swan Lake on Thursday. Isabella Boylston, principal of the American Ballet Theatre, will cooperate with Ma Xiaodong, principal of the National Ballet of China, on the show.

Here is China Daily's exclusive interview with Isabella Boylston.

Videographer: Lou Yi & Cong Ruiting

Photographer: Wu Chuanjing

Video: Zhang Xiao

Producer: Flora Yue