Chauncey Parsons is from Santa Barbara, California. He began dancing at age 12 at the Santa Barbara Ballet Center. In 1997, he was accepted into the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. where he trained under Vladimir Djouloukhadze until 2000 when he went on to dance with the State Street Ballet. In 2002, he joined the Colorado Ballet as a soloist and was promoted to principal dancer in 2004. This is his first season with The Washington Ballet.