Minju Kang

Birthplace
Seoul, South Korea

Age started dancing
Four years old

Training
Started dancing with her mother, a ballet dancer who opened her own academy. Then trained at Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, Yewon School, and Seoul Arts High School until the age of 17 when she moved to Germany to train at the Hamburg Ballet School.

English National Ballet
Joined in 2022, promoted to First Artist in 2023, Soloist 2024.

Previous Companies
Bundesjugendballett (2014 – 2016); Northern Ballet (2016 – 2022)

Favourite roles
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Manon in Manon, and Carmen in Carmen

Career Highlights
Being a part of the creation process for Kenneth Tindall’s Geisha in 2020 and having the lead role of Okichi created on her. Performing the lead role of the woman in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Gloria.