From left top: Park Ha-min, Oh Yubin, Kim Si-jin, Jeong Yong-jae, Lee Hyeon-gyu

The Six Students of School of Dance Win the Prizes in the International Ballet Competition Sicilia 2019

The six students who are currently studying dance at the Korea National University of Arts attained excellent results in the International Ballet Competition Sicilia 2019 which ran from July 10^th to July 14^th in Modica, Sicilia, Italy. 

In Senior Girls division of the competition, Park Ha-min ranked 1^st class, and Oh Yubin and Choi Sol-ji both ranked 2^nd class. Also, in Senior Boys division, Kim si-jin ranked 1^st class, and Jeong Yong-jae and Lee Hyeon-gyu ranked 2^nd and 3^rd classes respectively. The winners of this competition further won tickets to the final of the International Ballet & Contemporary Dance Competition known as “Domenico Modugno” and received offers from the Thuringer State Ballet (Thüringer Staatsballett) in Germany. Overall, the jury lavished praise on our dancers and commented “The participants from Korea exhibited wonderful artistic techniques. We were especially impressed by the accuracy of the dancers’ choreographies.”