Chae Eun Yang

Chae Eun Yang is a member of the Houston Ballet. She began her training at the Universal Ballet Academy in South Korea before studying at Sunhwa Arts School and Korea National University of the Arts. During these years, Yang competed with great success at many prestigious ballet competitions. Her awards include finalist at the Prix de Lausanne, second prize at the Varna International Ballet Competition, first prize at Tanz Olymp Berlin, and first prize at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. Following this last competition, in 2018, Yang was offered a corps de ballet contract with the Houston Ballet. She was promoted to demi soloist in 2021. 

With Houston Ballet, Yang has performed works by Stanton Welch, Jiri Kylian, George Balanchine, Fredrick Ashton, Kenneth Macmillan, William Forsythe, John Cranko, David Bintley, Ben Stevenson, and Jerome Robbins. In 2022, she spent a short time with the National Ballet of Canada, where she danced works by Rudolf Nureyev, Christopher Wheeldon, James Kudelka, Robert Binet, and John Neumeier. Since then, Yang has rejoined the corps de ballet at the Houston Ballet, where she continues her career.