Zuzana Susová was born in Prague. In 1995 she graduated from Prague’s Dance Conservatory, where she studied with Prof. A. Voleská and P. Ždychinec. In 1996 she became a soloist and in 2003 principal dancer of the National Theatre Ballet. Amongst her first roles were Swanilda in Coppelia and the Wedding Couple in Giselle. She subsequently danced Micaela in Carmen, Odette /Odile in Swan Lake, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Tatiana in Onegin, the role of Isadora as a young girl in the original ballet by Libor Vaculík and Jozef Bednárik entitled Isadora Duncan – The Story of a Famous Dancer, Federika and Marion in the ballet Little Mr Friedemann / Psycho, Maria in Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (nomination for the Thalia Award) and the title roles in Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. In the mixed bill of American neoclassical ballet Americana II she has danced solos in The River, Tarantella and Who Cares? Owing to her profound sensation for the dramatic, she dazzled in the role of Lucrezia Borgia in the production of the same name and Gretchen in Faust by the choreographer and stage director Libor Vaculík, in the role of Giselle in the new ballet version by the English choreographer Christopher Hampson, as the dreamy Klara in the new adaptation of The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol, as well as in the role of Teresina in Act 3 of the ballet Napoli, Desdemona in Othello or in the role of „M“ in the famous Mats Ek´s ballet Carmen.
In Cranko’s famous ballet The Taming of the Shrew she enacted the role of Katherine (nomination for the Thalia Prize 2003) and in Onegin she danced Tatiana.
