DaYoung Jung, from South Korea, trained at Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, graduating with honors with masters degree in Ballet Pedagogy. She was a semifinalist in the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition held in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2006. Jung joined Oklahoma City Ballet in 2012, was promoted to soloist in 2014, and to principal in 2017.

Throughout her career, Jung has performed the title roles of many of the great classics, such as Giselle, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Firebird, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as works by George Balanchine, Jiří Kylián, Septime Webre, Toni Pimble, Twyla Tharp, Michael Pink, Robert Mills, and many others. Her vast repertoire made her an accomplished dancer and also gave her a springboard to find her voice as a choreographer, launching her into a new branch of her career.

Jung gave her final performance with Oklahoma City Ballet as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty in May 2022 after 10 years with the company.

Transitioning away from the stage, Jung became a rehearsal director at Oklahoma City Ballet. She is also a dance educator who has been invited as a panelist by Ballet Des Moines to speak on moving arts and dances and has lent her expertise as a judge at ADC/IBC final in 2023. She has already established herself behind the scenes of the ballet, and also as an award-winning choreographer.

Her choreographic works have graced stages across the nation. She was invited to present her work Dissipation at The Five Moons Dance Festival in August 2021. The following year, she presented her work, Composition. In 2022, Vignettes was chosen as the audience’s favorite of the Milwaukee Ballet’s competition, Genesis: International Choreographic Competition.

Her most recent work, There, Never There was performed by Oklahoma City Ballet in 2023 at Ballet Under The Stars, a free performance for the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area at Scissortail Park.