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Stella Ho started to learn dancing at the age of six, and was trained in the basic techniques of classical Chinese dance and Chinese folk dance at the Cloud Dragon Dance Company of Macau, the Student Dance Troupe of Macao Education and Youth Affairs Bureau and the Macao Conservatory Dance School respectively. She has been trained as an instructor for Chinese Dance Graded Examination since 1995, and has obtained the certificates for teaching grade 1 to 13 issued by Beijing Dance Academy Graded Examination Committee. She finished the 3-year choreography course provided by the Macao Conservatory Dance School in 2004.

Stella has been a member of Violet Dance Company since 1992, taking part in choreographing, training, activities planning and coordinating for the company. She has performed in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Lisbon. In 2000, she was one of the Macao Conservatory Dance School's representatives to take part in Tao Li Bei Competition in Shanghai, participating in the Group Dance Section. In 2008, Stella who participated in the project "Dance to New York - Choreographer Exchange Program" organized by the Macao Cultural Centre, received intensive training at the Amy Marshall Dance Company in New York, and assisted in the choreography of Tides of Change, a new work about Macao with the company's artistic director - Amy Marshall. In 2012, Stella established a dance company “Stella & Artists”, aiming to contribute to the promotion and development of the arts of dance in Macao.

Major choreographic works of Stella include Mother-Daughter which was a co-choreographic work performed in the program “Modern Dance – A Gala of New Choreographies” of the 15th Macao Arts Festival, Mask, Along with You, as well as Lotus. In 2005, she was invited to be the choreographer for the musical theatre “Our Life”, which was one of the programs of the 16th Macao Arts Festival. She was one of the Associate Directors and Choreographers for the program "Have steps, will travel", produced by Macao Cultural Centre in 2009 with Hong Kong choreographer Yuri Ng as Director and Choreographer. Two of her dance pieces, Swinging, Turning and Fluttering and Sculpturesque Beauty were awarded with Adjudicators’ Panel Award in Bauhinia Cup International Dance Invitation Championships 2010 and 2012 in Hong Kong respectively. She also co-choreographed for the dance theatres “Waiting for What?”, “Women = Din!?”, “Did, Splendid” and “Image．Imagination．Exoticism” produced by Violet Dance Company and staged at the 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2010 Macau Fringe Festival respectively.