DaYoung Jung is an award-winning choreographer, dancer, and dance educator from South Korea. Jung’s choreographic works have been commissioned by companies and projects across the United States, including National Choreographers Initiative, Oklahoma City Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, and PointeWorks. Her work Vignettes, created in 2022, was chosen as the audience favorite at Milwaukee Ballet’s Genesis: International Choreographic Competition. Most recently, she was invited to create a new work for the New York Choreographic Institute.

She trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, where she graduated with honors and earned a master’s degree in ballet pedagogy. In 2006, she was a semifinalist at the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition in Donetsk, Ukraine.

As a dancer, Jung joined Oklahoma City Ballet in 2012, was promoted to soloist in 2014, and to principal dancer in 2017. Throughout her career, she performed leading roles in classical works including Giselle, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Firebird, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty. She also performed works by renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jiří Kylián, Twyla Tharp, Stanton Welch, Septime Webre, Michael Pink, Robert Mills, and many others. Her final performance was in May 2022 as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, after which she transitioned into her current role as Rehearsal Director for the company.