Kang Sue-jin

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 강수진
Revised
Romanization 		Gang Su-jin
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kang Sujin

Kang Sue-jin (born April 24, 1967 in Seoul ) is a South Korean ballet dancer . She is prima ballerina at the Stuttgart Ballet .

She is best known for dramatic roles such as Tatiana in Onegin .

biography

Kang Sue-jin learned Korean folk dance as a young girl in her native city of Seoul in South Korea. Only then did she begin to take ballet lessons and in 1982 moved to Europe to study with Marika Besobrasova at the Académie de Danse classique Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo . In 1985 she became the first Asian woman to win the Prix ​​de Lausanne .

On September 1, 1986, at the age of 19, Kang became the youngest member of the corps de ballet in the history of the Stuttgart Ballet. In 1994 she was promoted to soloist under Marcia Haydée and to principal soloist under Reid Anderson in 1997.

She married her manager Twinch Shokman, a former dancer, on January 12, 2002.

In January 2013, she published her autobiography in Korean . In December 2013, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism appointed her to succeed Choi Tae-ji as director of the Korea National Ballet . Your appointment spans the three years from 2014 to 2016.

Awards

literature

  • Sue Jin Kang . Photos: Gundel Kilian. Edited by Stephan Götz. Daco, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87135-053-5
  • Bernd Krause: The terrific temptation. The dancer Sue Jin Kang = The allure of an outstanding talent . In: Stuttgart Ballet Annual . 18/19. Vol. 1994/96, pp. 22-25
  • Hartmut Regitz: Sue Jin Kang. A Korean in Stuttgart . In: Ballett international, Tanz aktuell . Issue 4/1998, p. 52 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stuttgart Ballet's Kang Sue-jin to release autobiography . The Korea Times, January 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Ballerina Kang Sue-jin Releases Autobiography . Chosun Ilbo from January 26, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ Vita ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Stuttgart Ballet @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-ballett.de
  4. ^ Kang Sue-jin Praises Special Seoul Stage . Chosun Ilbo from January 29, 2002 (English).
  5. ↑ Ballerina Kang to Perform in 'The Lady of the Camellias' . Chosun Ilbo from January 16, 2002 (English).
  6. ↑ Kang Sue-jin Picked to Head National Ballet . Chosun Ilbo from December 4, 2013 (English).
  7. ^ Judy Van Zile (2001): Perspectives on Korean Dance . Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6494-X .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kang is the family name here, Sue-jin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kang, Sue-jin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 강수진 (Korean, Hangeul); Gang, Su-jin (Revised Romanization); Kang, Sujin (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea