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SunMi Park
Seongnam, South Korea
Joined ABT 2021 / Soloist since 2022
Biography
Photo: Karolina Kuras.
SunMi Park was born in South Korea and began ballet at age 10. She received ballet training at Sun-hwa Middle and High School of the Arts (2012-2016) and at Korea National Institute of Gifted Arts (2014-2016). She was awarded the First Prize at Moscow IBT (2017) and the Youth America Grand Prix (2018). Park graduated from Korea National University of Arts in August 2019 and joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company that September.
Park became an apprentice with the main Company in November 2021, joined the corps de ballet in February 2022, and was promoted to Soloist in September 2022. Her repertoire includes a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, the peasant pas de deux and Moyna in Giselle, the pas de deux from Great Galloping Gottschalk, a Shade in The Kingdom of the Shades, Tita in Like Water for Chocolate, Night Falls, Clara, the Princess, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters and the Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Natalia in On the Dnipro, Hail in The Seasons, Sinatra Suite, the pas de trois and a big swan in Swan Lake, Rezia and “Becomings” in Woolf Works, and featured roles in Petite Mort and Songs of Bukovina. She created Sonya in Crime and Punishment and leading roles in La Boutique and Children’s Songs Dance.
ABT is grateful to Jay Grossman and Max Murphy for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of SunMi Park.
Upcoming Performances
7:30 pm
GS Arts Center
pas de deux
7:30 pm
Metropolitan Opera House
(Paulina)
Repertoire
* created role
- La Boutique - Leading Role*
- Children's Songs Dance - Leading Role*
- Crime and Punishment - Sonya*
- Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) - Flower Girl
- Giselle (McKenzie) - peasant pas de deux; Moyna
- Great Galloping Gottschalk - Leading Role
- The Kingdom of the Shades - Shade
- Like Water for Chocolate - Tita
- Night Falls - Leading Role
- The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Clara, the Princess; Nutcracker's Sister; Spanish Dance
- On the Dnipro - Natalia
- Petite Mort - Featured Role
- The Seasons - Hail
- Sinatra Suite - Leading Role
- Songs of Bukovina - Featured Role
- Swan Lake (McKenzie) - pas de trois; Big Swan
- Woolf Works - Rezia; "Becomings"