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Saturday, December 15, 2018

The Beauty of Dance, Part Seven: Gayeon Jung, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, IL

Gayeon Jung is a ballet dancer from Seoul who joined the Joffrey Ballet in 2015.


Ms. Jung had already assumed a very impressive number of credits by the time she graduated from the the Korea National University of Arts in 2014. Among the ballets she performed in then were Sleeping Beauty, La Fille mal gardée, Diana and Actéon, and Le Corsaire.  She also received numerous medals and prizes during her studies, including the 2011 gold medal in the Sicilia Barocca  International Dance Competition.  In 2012 she won the Arabesque Ballet Competition Gold Medal for Best Female Dancer, and in 2014 she won the gold medal at the Cape Town International Ballet Competition in South Africa.  She brought all of those accolades to the Joffrey, the great ballet company of the American heartland.


I have a feeling that she'll be a Joffrey staple for quite some time to come. 

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