Sae Eun Park

Sae Eun Park was born in Seoul, where she began her dance education at the Academy of the Korea National ballet when she was ten years old.

Park joined American Ballet Theatre ABT II in New York on a two-year apprentice scholarship from the 2007 Prix de Lausanne. She dances soloist roles in ballets such as Allegro Brillante (George Balanchine) or Interplay (Jerome Roobbins).

In May 2009, Park joined the Korea National Ballet Company as a member of the corps de ballet.

She was promoted to Soloist in January 2010.

Her performances include Grigorovich's The Nutcracker (Marie); Swan Lake (Odette/Odile); Don Quixote (Kitri); and La Bayadere (Nikia).

In 2011 Park had a contract for one full season at the Paris Opera, and a year later she join the corps de ballet at the level of Quadrille.

Within three months she was raised to Coryphée. In 2014 Park was promoted to Sujet and in 2017 to Premiere Danseuse. She made her debut at the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre with La Bayadere dancing Nikia (2015).

Following the performance of Romeo & Juliet (Nureyev) on June 10th 2021, Sae Eun Park is named "Danseuse Étoile".

Her awards include Prix de dance de Cercle Carpeaux by the Paris Opera Ballet Company, a gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 2010, first prize at the Rome Competition in 2010, and first prize at the Prix de Lausanne. In 2007 she was awarded a junior silver medal at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson 2006

She awarded the prize of "Benois de la danse" in 2018 

She named a "Chevaliere de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres"

Her repertoire includes 

Nureyev : Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Don Quixote (Kitri, Driad Queen), Nutcracker (Clara), La bayadère (Nikiya), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), Sleeping Beauty (Aurora),

John Cranko's Onegin (Tatiana), 

Giselle (Giselle, Myrtha) 

Pierre Lacotte: Paquita (Paquita)

Manon (Manon)  

La Dame aux Camélias (Manon) 

Notre Dame de Paris (Esmeralda) 

Ashton's Rhapsody, Etudes (principale femme) 

Jean Guillaume Bart's La Source (Naila); Alexei Ratmansky's Seven Sonatas

Justin Peck's Entre Chien et Loup

Polyphonia

She has also performed in George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream (divertissement pas de deux from Act II), Mozartiana (title role), Brahms' Schoenberg Quartet (third movement), Jewels (Diamond, Emerald second pas de deux) 

Agon (pas de deux and pas de trois) 

Robbins : Glasse Pièces , In the Night (1st pas de deux)