- Principal
Frances Chung
- HERBERT FAMILY PRINCIPAL DANCER
Biography
Born in Vancouver, Canada, Frances Chung trained at Goh Ballet Academy before joining SF Ballet in 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2005 and principal dancer in 2009. She was appointed Herbert Family Principal Dancer in 2018.
- BORN
Vancouver, Canada
- TRAINING
Goh Ballet Academy
- SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001
Promoted to soloist in 2005
Promoted to principal dancer in 2009
Appointed Herbert Family Principal Dancer in 2018
- ASHTON
Symphonic Variations
- BALANCHINE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Divertissement Pas de deux)
Agon (Pas de trois)
Ballo della Regina
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (3rd movement)
Coppélia (Swanilda)
Divertimento No. 15 (Allegro – Ballerina)
Emeralds (Principal)
The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic)
Rubies
Serenade (Russian Girl, Angel)
Square Dance
Stars and Stripes
Symphony in C (3rd & 4th movement Principal)
Tarantella
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
Theme and Variations (Principal)
Who Cares?
- BINET
Children of Chaos (Pas de deux)
- BINTLEY
The Dance House (3rd movement Principal)
- CANIPAROLI
Ibsen’s House (Hedda Gabler in “Hedda Gabler”)
Lambarena (Principal)
- DAWSON
Anima Animus (Principal)
- ELO
Double Evil
- FOKINE
Petrouchka
- FORSYTHE
Artifact Suite (Principal)
Blake Works I
in the middle, somewhat elevated
Pas/Parts 2016 (originated)
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
- JENKINS
Thread (originated)
- KUDELKA
The Ruins Proclaim the Building Was Beautiful (originated)
Terra Firma (“Purple”)
- LIANG
Symphonic Dances
- LIFAR
Suite en Blanc (Pas de deux, Pas de cinq, Flute)
- LUBOVITCH
Elemental Brubeck
“…smile with my heart” (1st Principal Couple)
- MACMILLAN
Elite Syncopations
Winter Dreams (Irina)
- MAKAROVA AFTER PETIPA
La Bayadère, Act II (Nikiya, 3rd Solo Shade in “The Kingdom of the Shades”)
Paquita (Demi-Soloist, Pas de trois)
- VAN MANEN
Variations for Two Couples
- MCGREGOR
Borderlands (originated)
Chroma
- MILLEPIED
The Chairman Dances—Quartet for Two (Principal)
- MORRIS
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
A Garden
Joyride
Maelstrom
Pacific
Sandpaper Ballet
Sylvia
- NUREYEV
Raymonda—Act III (Raymonda)
- PAGE
Guide to Strange Places (Principal)
- PECK
In the Countenance of Kings (originated Electress)
- POSSOKHOV
Classical Symphony (Principal)
Diving into the Lilacs (Principal)
Francesca da Rimini (Francesca)
Fusion (Principal)
The Rising (originated Principal)
Violin Concerto (Muse)
- RATMANSKY
Le Carnaval des Animaux (Turtle)
From Foreign Lands
Russian Seasons (Violet Woman)
Seven Sonatas
Piano Concerto #1 in Shostakovich Trilogy
The Seasons (The Spirit of the Corn)
- RHODEN
LET’S BEGIN AT THE END (originated)
The Promised Land (originated Principal)
- ROBBINS
Dances at a Gathering (Yellow)
Glass Pieces
Other Dances
- ROBSON
The Energy Between Us
- SCARLETT
Fearful Symmetries (originated)
Frankenstein (Elizabeth Lavenza)
Hummingbird (originated)
- THATCHER
Ghost in the Machine
- TOMASSON
7 for Eight
Caprice
Chaconne for Piano and Two Dancers
Chi-Lin
Criss-Cross (1st movement Principal)
Don Quixote (Kitri, Kitri’s Friends, Queen of the Driads)
The Fifth Season (Principal)
Giselle (Giselle, Myrtha, Peasant Pas de cinq, Solo Wili)
Haffner Symphony (Principal)
Nutcracker (Queen of the Snow, Grand Pas de deux, Snowflakes, Sugar Plum Fairy, Spanish, Flowers)
On a Theme of Paganini (Pas de trois)
Prism (Pas de trois)
Le Quattro Stagioni
Romeo & Juliet (Acrobats)
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Pas de six, Enchanted Princess/Bluebird Pas de deux)
Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Neapolitan, Act I Pas de trois, Russian Princess, Czardas)
Trio (3rd & 4th movement principal)
- VAINONEN
Flames of Paris (Pas de deux)
- WELCH
Bespoke (originated)
Naked (originated)
Tu Tu
- WHEELDON
Borealis (originated)
Carousel (A Dance) | (Soloist)
Cinderella (Cinderella, Stepsister Clementine)
Continuum
Ghosts
Number Nine (Principal)
Rush (Principal)
Within the Golden Hour (Principal)
- ZANELLA
Underskin (originated)
- DANCE FILMS
Dance of Dreams (Dir. Benjamin Millepied, 2020) | (Principal – Soloist)
- Received the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance (Individual) for the 2013 Repertory Season.
- Finalist at the Helsinki International Competition in Finland, 2001.
- Awarded silver medal (no gold medal awarded) at the Adeline Genée Awards in London, 2000.
- Finalist and prizewinner at the Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000.
- Awarded 3rd place with partner Nozomi Haga at the Japan National Pas de Deux Competition, 1999.
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