Sue Jin Kang

The Prix de Lausanne is a gateway to the world of dance, helping you to launch your professional career as a dancer. The Prix helped me enormously when I took part. It means and has always meant a lot to me, throughout my career as a ballet dancer. And now I feel responsible for the younger generation. I think being a member of the Prix de Lausanne jury is a good way of supporting it.
I hope to have the chance to discover talented young dancers and their purity in their art.

• 1985 Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace in Monaco
• 2016 Honorary Doctorate Degree in the Department of Dance, Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea

Career

• 1986-2016 Stuttgart Ballet
• 1994 Soloist in Stuttgart Ballet
• 1997 Principal Dancer in Stuttgart Ballet
• 2007 Appointed as ‘Kammertänzerin’ in Germany
• 2013 Honorary Ambassador of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics
• 2014 Artistic Director of the Korean National Ballet
• 2022 Principal speaker for International Dance Day

Honors

• 1985 Prix de Lausanne, Scholarship
• 1990 President Prize, Republic of Korea
• 1999 Prix Benois de la Danse, Best Female Dancer
• 1999 Order of Cultural Merit, BoGwan, Republic of Korea
• 2001 The 9^th KBS Global Korean Award, Arts & Culture Category
• 2002 The Ho-Am Foundation, Ho-Am Prize, The Arts
• 2007 John Cranko Association, John Cranko Award
• 2007 Order of Civil Merit, SeokRyu Medal, Republic of Korea
• 2014 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• 2014 The Kowoon Foundation, The Kowoon Cultural Award
• 2015 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Sejong Cultural Award, Art and Culture
• 2015 Association of Korean Journalists, Proud Korean Award
• 2016 Paradise Culture Foundation, Paradise Award, Special Merits
• 2016 Korean-German Society, 9^th Mirok Li Prize
• 2017 The 7^th Korea Wave Awards, Award for Service of Excellence in Pure Art
• 2021 The 25^th Manhae Prize, Literary Arts Awards
• 2022 The 2021 Arts Awards (Korea Dance Association) – Ballet
• 2023 The 28th Korea Ballet Association Awards, Grand Prize

Jury of competition 

2006 | Prix de Lausanne
2006 | Seoul International Dance Competition (ballet category)
2010 | International Istanbul Ballet Competition
2012 | Prix de Lausanne
2017 | Prix de Lausanne
2017 | Benois de la Danse
2017 | Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition

Autobiography

2013 | ‘I do not wait for tomorrow’
2017 | ‘Every Step I Take Is My Own’