Young Gyu Choi

The South Korean Young Gye Choi has been with Dutch National Ballet since 2011. He began in the corps the ballet and worked his way

up to the rank of principal in five years time. He has danced with the Korea National Ballet and Universal Ballet in Seoul. Young started

his training at the age of eight, and was trained at the Sunhwa Arts School in Seoul and the Tanz Akademie Zurich (Switzerland).

In 2006, Young participated in the International Ballet Competition in Varna and came in second; four years later, in 2010, he entered the

competition again and won the first prize. That same year, he also came in first in the Boston International Competition. In 2007 he won

the first prize in the Youth America Grand Prix in New York.