Gwangju City Ballet

The Gwangju City Ballet (

Gwangju Metropolitan City

, the sixth-largest city in South Korea.

Artistic director

Scheherazade, in 1983. ^[1]

Yuri Grigorovich and Jean-Christophe Maillot

. Choi Tae-ji was newly appointed in 2017 as head and artistic director of the Gwangju City Ballet from 2017 to the present.

Location

Gwangju City Ballet has been acting mainly at

Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea. "[1]

Motto

Beautiful Daily Life & Dance Festival for Gwangju citizens

Performances

Gwangju City Ballet company was founded in

Gwangju Metropolitan City in October, 1976 as a professional ballet company. "[2]

" "[3]"

Outside of Korea, it has performed at Chicago Center East Theater of the United States, Fukuoka Momoch Place Theater of Japan, San Francisco Herbst Theater of the United States, San Jose Flint Center of the United States, Celestral Bridge Theater of China, Guangzhou Opera House of China, etc. "[4]"

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Seo Ji-eun "The driving force behind the Korea National Ballet^[usurped]" Korea JoongAng Daily (online) June 28, 2011 retrieved January 2012

External links

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