Sujin Han

SUJIN HAN is from South Korea. She began dancing at age 9, and she entered the Yewon School and studied character dance at the Vaganova Academy. In 2010, Sujin entered the Seoul Arts School on scholarship. There she performed pas de deux such as the Sugar Plum Fairy Variation from The Nutcracker. She also participated in many South Korean ballet competitions, including the Seoul International Dance Competition. Han earned the Great Performers Scholarship to attend Ewha Womans University, where she began choreographing and learned several George Balanchine works and the Bournonville method. After graduating, she worked as a freelance ballet dancer with M Ballet and Seoul Ballet Company in South Korea. Sujin joined Atlanta Ballet for the 2017|2018 Season, danced the role of Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote. Since she joined Atlanta Ballet, she worked with choreographers Craig Davidson, Max Petrov, Dwight Rhoden, Ricardo Amarante and Yuri Yanowsky. Favorite performances include Jiri Kylian's Return to a Strange Land, Alexander Ekman's Cacti, Claudia Schreier's First Impulse and Lar Lubovitch's Elemental Brubeck. Special thanks to Sujin's Pas de Deux Society Patron Atlanta Ballet Corps de Ballet.