Prof. Kim Sunhee, School of Dance, Delivers Boston Ballet the Teachings of K-Ballet

From October to the next spring semester, Professor Kim Sunhee (School of Dance), who has fostered the excellent ballet performers who represent South Korea, delivers the Boston Ballet the didactics of Korean ballet education. Joan Boada (an associate director of Boston Ballet II), Kathleen Mitchell (a faculty member of Boston Ballet School), and Miranda Weese (a faculty member of Boston Ballet School) are going to learn from Prof. Kim.

The Boston Ballet is one of the top ballet schools in the US together with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. Prof. Kim Sunhee said, “This opportunity is finally carried out after Mr. Mikko Nissinen, an art director of Boston Ballet for 23 years, has invited me for about five years. I am also in charge of coaching main ballet dancers of repertoires to be staged 46 times at the year-end, holding classes for young ballet dancers of Boston Ballet II, and instructing practice sessions of classical and self-choreographed ballet works.” The Boston Ballet School is the largest ballet education institution in North America with as many as 3,600 students, yet few among them join the Boston Ballet Company. Hence the invitation on the school’s hand was made to adopt the Korean ballet education system aiming to discover and train young talents to best dancers.

Prof. Kim Sunhee was appointed as the professor of the K-Arts after having completed a teaching course at Vaganova Academy of Mariinsky Ballet. Adopting the Vaganova Method, a ballet technique from Russia, Prof. Kim has raised many Korean ballet dancers, including Kim Kimin and Park Se-eun, to world-class levels.