Stephanie Chun joined the Dance Education faculty in the Fall of 2021 and teaches Beginning Ballet to non-dance majors from across the university. She received much of her early training from Moscelyne Larkin at the Tulsa School of Ballet, Interlochen, Boston Ballet and Margaret Gray (formerly of San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet). Stephanie danced professionally with multiple contemporary ballet and modern companies in New York, and her dancing in Remy Charlip’s “Twelve Contra Dances” was declared radiant by The New York Times.
Stephanie has led master classes and workshops at schools and universities across the country, and she had the honor of helping Asian-American choreographer, H.T. Chen set his work on students at New York’s LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. She has also appeared in Mr. Chen’s work on The Kennedy Center’s “Arts Across America”. Stephanie joined Chen Dance Center’s Board of Trustees in the Fall of 2023. In addition to teaching at NYU, Stephanie also teaches at Ballet Academy East (BAE). She serves as the Head of BAE’s Children and Teen Division – a division that serves students ages 7-15 – where she oversees both the faculty and curriculum. She also teaches in BAE’s Adult Division.
Stephanie is an ABT® Certified Teacher in Pre-Primary through Level 5. When she is not teaching, Stephanie is a class pianist at American Ballet Theatre and Juilliard. As a musician, she is fortunate to be a guest lecturer on music and rhythms in dance for the ABT/NYU Masters Program in Ballet Pedagogy. Stephanie can also be seen as a pianist in the upcoming Amazon Prime series, Étoile.
Stephanie holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and an MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.