Misa Kuranaga

• BORN

Osaka, Japan

• TRAINING

Jinushi Kaoru Ballet School

School of American Ballet

• SAN FRANCISCO BALLET

Named an apprentice in 2001

Returned to the Company as a principal dancer in 2019

Named Guest Principal Dancer in 2025 

• OTHER COMPANIES

Boston Ballet 

• ASHTON

Marguerite and Armand (Marguerite)

• BALANCHINE  

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Divertissement Principal)  

Rubies  

Symphony in C (1st movement) 

• CANIPAROLI 

Emergence (originated) 

• LANDER  

Etudes (Principal)  

• MORRIS  

Sandpaper Ballet (Trumpeter)  

• PETIPA

Le Corsaire (Pas de deux) 

• RATMANSKY

La Reveil de Flore (originated principal) 

The Seasons (The Spirit of the Corn) 

• THATCHER 

COLORFORMS 

• TOMASSON

Caprice 

Don Quixote (Kitri) 

Giselle (Giselle) 

Harmony (originated principal) 

Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy, Grand Pas de deux)  

Romeo & Juliet (Juliet) 

Soirées Musicales 

Swan Lake (Odette-Odile) 

Trio 

• WHEELDON

Cinderella (Cinderella) 

• ASHTON 

La Fille mal Gardée (Lise) 

Cinderella (Cinderella) 

• BALANCHINE 

Apollo 

Ballo della Regina 

Chaconne 

Concerto Barocco 

Coppélia (Swanhilda) 

Diamonds 

Divertimento No.15 

Donizetti Variations 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

Rubies 

Serenade 

Stravinsky Violin Concerto 

Symphony in C 

Symphony in Three Movements 

Tarantella 

Tchaikovsky pas de deux 

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 

Theme and Variations 

Who Cares? 

• BOURNONVILLE 

La Sylphide (The Sylph) 

• CLERC after Fokine 

Les Sylphides (Prelude) 

• CLERC after Petipa

La Bayadere 

• CRANKO 

Onegin (Tatiana) 

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) 

• ELO 

Bach Cello Suite 

Creatures of Egmont 

Fifth Symphony of Jean Sibelius 

Lost by Last 

Slice to Sharp 

• EKMAN 

Cacti 

• FORSYTHE 

Artifact 2017 

Pas/Parts 2018 

Playlist (EP) 

The Second Detail 

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 

• GIELGUD 

Giselle (Giselle) 

• KYLIÁN 

Petite Mort 

Sechs Tanze 

Symphony of Psalms 

Wings of Wax 

• LANDER 

Etudes (the Ballerina) 

• LIŠKA 

Le Corsaire (Medora) 

• MARTIN 

Barber Violin Concerto 

• MCGREGOR 

Chroma 

• NEUMEIER 

Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler (Angel) 

• NISSINEN 

The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Clara) 

• NUREYEV 

Don Quixote (Kitri) 

• PETIPA 

Le Corsaire 

The Sleeping Beauty (Princes Aurora, Princess Florine) 

Swan Lake (Odette/Odile) 

• PETIPA/IVANOV 

The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy) 

• TOMASSON 

Soirées Musicales 

• WHEELDON 

Polyphonia 

• Awarded a gold medal in the junior division of the Ninth Moscow International Ballet Competition. 

• Awarded the gold medal in the senior division of the USA International Ballet Competition, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006. 

• Nominated for a Benois de la Danse award for her portrayal of Tatiana in Cranko’s Onegin and Medora in Liška’s Le Corsaire, 2017.