Korea National Ballet

The Korea National Ballet is a South Korean ballet company. It was founded in 1962 in Seoul as the National Ballet Company. It was one of the affiliates of the National Theater of Korea until 1999, when it separated to independently reestablish itself in the Seoul Arts Center in the following year.

It has sixty-five dancers, chosen annually through open audition. There are currently 80 members in the company, including regular members, associate members, and trainees. Equipped with the nation's top dancers and diverse repertoires, the Korea National Ballet has taken the lead in developing the field of performance. Welcoming artistic director Tae-ji Choi who was reappointed in 2011, the Korea National Ballet reflects on its past achievements done under the slogan of Globalization, Refinement and Popularization of ballet for the past half century. Overseas tours have included performances in Egypt and Israel in 1997, China in 2000 and 2001, Japan in 2002, and more recent trips to Russia.

One of the prima ballerinas of the company, Joo-won Kim was the winner of the BENOIS de la DANSE prize 2006. In 2007, the company disciplined her for having appeared topless in a Korean fashion magazine. The company said she had engaged in employment outside of her contract.,^[1] ^[2]

Artistic Directors

Lim Sung-nam (1962~1992)
Kim Hae-sik (1993~1995)
Choi Tae-ji (1996~2001)
Kim Gueng-soo (2002~2004)
Park In-ja (2005~2007)
Choi Tae-ji (2008~2013)
Kang Sue-jin (2014~2016)

Structure

Korea National Ballet is composed of 5 ranks of dancers.

Principal Dancers

Kim Joo-won, Ji-Young Kim, Yoon Hae-Jin, Lee Young-Cheol, Lee Dong-Hoon, Kim Li-Hoe, Park Seul-Ki, Lee, Eun-Won, Lee Jae-Woo

Grand Soloists

Jong-pil Lee, Young-jae, Jung Hae-Ran, Chong Nam-Yull, Lee Soo-Hee, Park Ki-hyun, Shin Seung-won, Song Jung-Bin, Bae Min-Soon, Shin Hye-jin, Kim Youn-Sik, Kim Ki-Wan

Soloists

Ji-young Kim, Hae-ran Jung, Woo-youn Hong, Jun-bum Kim, Hyun-ok Jung, Jun-hee Kim, Soo-hee Lee, Jung-yoon Choi, Jun-yong Ha, Hyun-kyung Park, Woo-jung Jang, Hye-ju Go, Nan-hee Yoo, Ellis Jung Tiffany.

Coryphées

Eun-jin Kim, Sun-hee Bang, Hyang-jo Lee, Sung-chul Lim, Ki-hyun Park, Jung-bin Song, Seung-won Shin, Hyun-ah Jung, Jae-min Seo and Jeon-il Yoon

Corps de Ballet

Ju-hyun Jung, Chang-ik Kim, Salapsun Hwang, Hee-hyun Kim, Min-soon Bae, Hyo-jin Ahn, Seo-hee Chae, Hyo-hyung Kang, Jong-yeol Kim, Na-ri Park, Hae-jin Shin, Dae-sung Lee, Sang-ro Lee, Monica Lee, Ju-yeun Jang, Youn-sik Kim, Ho-hyun Sun, Eun-won Lee, Min-kyoung Kim, Ji-hee Kim, Ha-lim Byun, Seo-hee Lee, Seul-bi Lee, Jae-eun Jung, Ji-young Jung, Da-jeong Hur, Da-hae Kim, Ju-beam Kim, Tae-hwan Kim, Han-gil Kim, Ye-eun Park, Eugene Won, Ye-seul Lee, Sun-a Choi, Ho-jin Jung, Min-ji Jung, Kyung-sik Kim and Tiffany Ellis Jung.

Performances

The Korea National Ballet has introduced the world artists' masterpieces such as Boris Eifman's Musagète, Requiem, Bravo Figaro, Tchaikovsky: The Mystery of Life and Death, Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Raymonda, Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Do’ve La Luna, Mats Ek's Carmen and Michel Fokine's Chunhyang L'Epreuve d'Amour, Les Sylphides, George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Fernand Nault's Carmina Burana, Byung-nam Moon’s Prince Hodong, Marius Petipa’s Giselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Alexandre Gorsky's Don Quixote, Philippe Alonso’s La Fille Mal Gardée, Rudolf Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty, etc. to Korea, and these performances were extremely well received.

The Ballet with Commentary created by artistic director Tae-ji Choi was newly established in 1997. It has broken many records among the numerous annual performances in the Korea dance world. It is the first ballet performance with commentary and the first permanent dance performance in the Korean dance world. The Korea National Ballet currently performs 'Visiting Ballet with Commentary' for audiences who would not otherwise have an opportunity to see ballet, in areas, such as small villages and army bases, etc. Further in 2010, the Korea National Ballet has performed for the first time the Full-length Ballet with Commentary, Coppelia.

Reviews

Ballet Magazine

External links

Official website
Twitter: @kn_ballet

Ballet companies

Africa	Cairo Opera Ballet Company Cape Town City Ballet

Asia	Ballet Manila Ballet Philippines Guangzhou Ballet Hong Kong Ballet Iranian National Ballet Company Israel Ballet K-ballet Korea National Ballet National Ballet of China Philippine Ballet Theatre Shanghai Ballet Company Singapore Dance Theatre State Ballet of Georgia Tokyo Ballet Universal Ballet

Europe	Ballet Cymru Les Ballets Persans Barcelona Ballet Bayerisches Staatsballett Béjart Ballet Berlin State Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet Bolshoi Ballet Cork City Ballet Royal Danish Ballet Donetsk Ballet Dutch National Ballet Eifman Ballet English National Ballet Finnish National Ballet Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet Greek National Opera Hamburg Ballet Hungarian National Ballet Kiev Ballet La Scala Theatre Ballet Mariinsky Ballet Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova The Monte-Carlo Ballet National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria Northern Ballet Norwegian National Opera and Ballet Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet Original Ballet Russe Paris Opera Ballet Perm Theatre Ballet Polish National Ballet National Ballet of Portugal The Royal Ballet (London) Rambert Dance Company Russian State Ballet of Siberia Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre Scottish Ballet Spanish National Dance Company Stanislavski Ballet Stuttgart Ballet Royal Swedish Ballet Théâtre du Silence Turkish State Opera and Ballet

North America	American Ballet Theatre Anaheim Ballet Atlanta Ballet Ballet BC Ballet Des Moines Ballet Magnificat! Boston Ballet Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Carolina Ballet Cleveland Ballet Cincinnati Ballet Cuban National Ballet Dayton Ballet Houston Ballet Joffrey Ballet Los Angeles Ballet National Ballet of Canada National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico New Jersey Ballet New York City Ballet Oklahoma City Ballet Oregon Ballet Theatre Pacific Northwest Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet Pittsburgh Ballet San Francisco Ballet Tulsa Ballet Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Oceania	The Australian Ballet Queensland Ballet Royal New Zealand Ballet West Australian Ballet

South America	Ballet Municipal de Lima Chilean National Ballet Colon Theater Ballet Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

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