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OONA
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Oona Moon Frances is a professional child performer and ballet student in the Advanced Division of the School of American Ballet, the official training institution for the New York City Ballet, where she studies Balanchine technique and repertory. She has performed at Lincoln Center in NYCB productions of Balanchine works, representing SAB students on stage with the Company. She was a member of the 2026 New York City Center Preludes! Teen Ensemble, and is an alum of the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she studied musical theater.
Bio: Oona Moon Frances comes from a long line of ballet dancers, tappers, and vaudevillian performers. Raised in New York City, she began singing and dancing at a young age through local YMCA programs. After seeing New York City Ballet perform while in first grade, Oona Moon fell in love with the stage. At seven years old, she auditioned for, and was accepted into, the prestigious School of American Ballet (SAB).
While a student in the Children’s Division at SAB, Oona Moon performed in several New York City Ballet productions, including George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, the 50th anniversary of Coppélia, the “pas de quatre” in Tiler Peck’s premiere of Mozartiana, and alongside ballet icon Maria Kowroski in the 2022 Spring Gala at Lincoln Center.
In 2025, Oona Moon joined SAB’s Advanced Division, and was the recipient of a named scholarship from The Angel Shine Foundation in partnership with SAB.
She has attended summer intensive programs on merit scholarship with American Ballet Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Steps on Broadway, where she studies musical theater, jazz, and hip-hop.
In the summer of 2026 she was a member of the New York City Center Preludes! Teen Ensemble. Through the program she performed excerpts from In The Heights at the United Palace Theater for City Center's Rush Event. From 2022 to 2024, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, performing in a variety of musical theater productions as a vocalist. In 2020, she appeared in several episodes of Ron Howard’s On Pointe for Disney+.
Outside of her theater work, Oona Moon has appeared in digital content for NBC, Capezio, Freed of London, and Rubia dance wear.
Ordinarily I would not single out for praise the young dancers from NYCB’s affiliated School of American Ballet who appear in Mozartiana. Here, however, they delivered a flawless performance, and deserve to be credited. They were Oona Moon Frances and...
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