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Sung Woo Han
Seoul, South Korea
Joined ABT 2013 / Soloist since 2022
Biography
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Sung Woo Han was born in Seoul, South Korea. He began his ballet training at the Sun-hwa Arts Middle School in his hometown and entered Korea National University of Arts at the age of 17. Han has won numerous awards including Beijing International Ballet Invitational Competition (at which he received the Grand First Prize), International Ballet Competition-Varna, and Youth America Grand Prix. In 2011, Han placed the second prize from Prix de Lausanne and received a full scholarship at the Royal Ballet School.
Han joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in December 2013 and was promoted to Soloist in September 2022. His repertoire includes a Cavalier in Cinderella, the Grand Pas de Deux and Gamache in Don Quixote, Lysander in The Dream, Persian Man in The Golden Cockerel, Grand Pas Classique, Drosselmeyer, Spanish Dance, and Russian Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Puss-in-Boots in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, the Act II pas de deux, Benno, Spanish Dance, Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Don Zucchero in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Études and Monotones II, and featured roles in Bernstein in a Bubble, Petite Mort, Raymonda Divertissements, and Sinfonietta. He created a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty.
Repertoire
* created role
- Bernstein in a Bubble - Featured Role
- Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) - Basilio (Grand Pas de Deux); Gamache
- The Dream - Lysander
- Études - Leading Role
- The Golden Cockerel - Persian Man
- Grand Pas Classique - Leading Role
- Monotones I and II - Monotones II
- The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Drosselmeyer; Spanish Dance; Russian Dance
- Petite Mort - Featured Role
- Raymonda Divertissements (Kolpakova/McKenzie) - Featured Role
- Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) - Benvolio
- Sinfonietta - Featured Role
- The Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky) - Fairy Cavalier*; Puss-in-Boots
- Swan Lake (McKenzie) - Prince Siegfried (Act II pas de deux); Benno; Spanish Dance; Neapolitan Dance
- Whipped Cream - Don Zucchero