Frances Chung

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Frances Chung trained at Goh Ballet Academy before joining San Francisco Ballet in 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2005 and to principal dancer in 2009.

Chung has danced major roles such as Odette/Odile in Tomasson’s Swan Lake; Aurora in Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty; Swanilda in Balanchine’s Coppélia; Cinderella in Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Elizabeth Lavenza in Scarlett’s Frankenstein; Giselle in Tomasson’s Giselle; Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen in Nutcracker; Kitri in Tomasson/Possokhov’s Don Quixote.

She has created roles in ballets, including Forsythe's Pas/Parts 2016; Peck's In the Countenance of Kings, McGregor’s Borderlands, Scarlett’s Hummingbird, Wheeldon's Borealis, and Rhoden’s Let’s Begin at the End among others.

As a guest artist, Chung has performed in Swan Lake with Houston Ballet; The Sleeping Beauty with Melbourne Academy of the Arts, Australia; in the Danish-Icelandic Galla, Copenhagen; the International Ballet Gala for the 80th anniversary of Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; the Fall for Dance North Festival in Binet’s Children of Chaos, Toronto; Les Etoiles de Ballet 2000 in Cannes, France; and the Spoleto Festival, Italy.

Chung received the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance for the 2013 Repertory Season. She was a prizewinner at the Prix de Lausanne and received the top honor of a silver medal at the Adeline Genée Awards in London.