Youngseo Ko
Youngseo Ko joined the Norwegian National Ballet after two years with NNB 2. In Makarova's La Bayadère she has danced one of three Shades and pas de trois 2nd solo, and in Balanchine's Serenade she has danced the Dark Angel. Furthermore, she has performed in Ek’s … and Brahms, Kylián's One of a Kind, Ekman's Cacti, Øyen's The Hamlet Complex Redux, Spuck's Anna Karenina, Boyadjiev's The Nutcracker, Balanchine's Symphony in C and in Jensen/Touret's Afternoon of a Faun.
South Korean Ko began dancing in her hometown of Seoul at the age of seven. She was admitted to the national art academy at the age of ten and continued at the Sunhwa Arts High School before receiving a scholarship from the Princess Grace Academy in Monaco, completing her ballet training at the age of 18. During her studies, she danced such roles as Kitri in Don Quixote and Giselle in pas de deux in Giselle, and she performed in Kylián’s Un Ballo and Maillot’s The Nutcracker with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. She won first place in the Korea International Ballet Competition in Seoul in 2014 and 2013, in the Concorso Internazionale Danza Sicilia Barocca in 2014 and in the Sunhwa Arts High Schools dance competition in 2012.
Performances
Selection of previous acts
- 2. Pas de deux in Balanchine: Jewels
- Brun Kostyme in MATS EK: She Was Black + A Sort Of
- Cacti in Ekman / Haagenrud / Kylián
- Clara in The Nutcracker
- Damer in MATS EK
- Damer in MATS EK …
- Group in The Hamlet Complex Redux
- Holbergs Suite Solo Par in NNB2: Vivace
- Left From Write in NNB2: Vivace
- Let's Play in NNB2: Vivace
- Medvirkende in Alan Lucien Øyen: Nothing Personal
- Odette in A Tale about Swan Lake
- Odette in Klassisk Mesteraften: Swan Lake Act 2, Raymonda Suite, New Work
- One of a kind in Kylián: One of A Kind
- Purple in Portner/Kylian/Balanchine
- Sleepless in NNB2: Vivace
- Solistpar damer in Balanchine: Jewels
- Vinterfe in Cinderella
- Zulma in Giselle