In my quest to discover whether Korea’s culture and its rabid pursuit of education at any costs geared toward the national suneung, or College Scholastic Aptitude Test, could change, I journeyed to ...

A low, groaning sigh-like gasp was followed by a hushed silence that spread through the audience. On the afternoon of the 4th ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a division of the South Korean army is turning out pirouettes and tendus. Weekly ballet classes provide these soldiers, who guards the zone at the ...

What if ballet dancers were to change their roles, from dancing to choreography? The Korea National Ballet is now presenting the KNB Movement Series I, featuring dancers who not only perform on stage ...

Three generations of Korean ballet dancers will share the stage this week — not as fellow dancers, but as choreographer, stager and performer. Together, Hue Young-soon, Kim Ji-young and Kang Hyo-jung ...

After Universal Ballet, of Seoul, loaded in its sets Thursday, in Zellerbach Hall, the company of 70 dancers ran through its ruggedly anti- authoritarian, Soviet-inflected "Romeo and Juliet," ...

While the search for Korea's "Billy Elliot" is ongoing, as the eight-month-long audition to find the lead role of Billy in the famed musical is drawing to a close, there are many more real-life ...

A young Korean ballerina has joined the world's leading professional ballet company. According to San Francisco Ballet, Wednesday, its trainee Park Won-a was promoted to the position of corps de ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Earlier this year, the Universal Ballet, the first private ballet company in Korea ...

FILE PHOTO: Zakharova and other dancers perform during a rehearsal of "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow SEOUL (Reuters) - A ballet show in South Korea featuring principal dancers ...