Masterclasses Rosas movement phrases and choreographic tools

Sue-Yeon Youn

Sue-Yeon Youn (South Korea) studied Korean Traditional Dance and graduated from the dance department at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul. Between 2001 and 2003 she worked as a dancer in the Sungsoo Ahn Pick-up Group in Korea. In 2003 and 2004 Sue-Yeon studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. From 2004 till 2006 she followed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S., from which she graduated with Love. Death. My life with Ting -Yu. Oh wait, I am you. In 2006 she participated at Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning project o,o at the Findhorn Community Foundation in Scotland.

Sue-Yeon joined Rosas in 2007 for the creation of Steve Reich Evening and took part in the creation of Zeitung, En Atendant, Golden Hours (As you like it), The six Brandenburg Concertos, The Dark Red Research project/Brancusi and the revivals of Rosas danst Rosas, Bartók/Mikrokosmos, Elena’s Aria and Drumming.

She worked with various artists such as David Zambrano for Soul project and created a duet for his piece called Holes. In 2016, she collaborated with Georgia Vardarou for the creation of New Narratives. And in 2019 she collaborated with Femke Gyselinck for the creation of Moving ballads and later Letters 2 Dance. In 2021, she contributed as dancer to the creation of Fruit Tree by Lara Barsacq.

In 2024, she was part of the creation of Voice Noise by Jan Martens.

Boštjan Antončič

Boštjan Antončič (Slovenia) started dancing in Plesni forum Celje with Goga Stefanovič-Erjavec and continued training at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, where he danced in projects by Matjaž Farič, Susan Quinn, Mia Lawrence, and Matej Kejžar, and created his own performances. He taught workshops in Slovenia and around Europe, and was a faculty member at the High School for Contemporary Dance in Slovenia and SEAD in Salzburg. In 2005, he joined Rosas. He danced in many productions, including D’un soir un jour (2006), Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg—Repertory Evening (2007), Steve Reich Evening (2007), Zeitung (2008), The Song (2009), En Atendant (2010), Cesena (2011), Drumming, Vortex Temporum (2013), Work/Travail/Arbeid (2015), Mitten wir im Leben sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (2017) and The Six Brandenburg Concertos (2018). He also participates in the (re) staging of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work, including Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera in 2017. Recently, he danced in the museum projects of the Dark Red series, the revival of En Atendant (2022), and Forêt (2022). Boštjan is also a part of Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione (2024).