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Brian Carey Chung (born ????) is an American choreographer and poet. Chung is Assistant Professor of Ballet at Northern Illinois University, and the founding artistic director and choreographer of COLLECTIVE BODY | DANCELAB, a creative think tank for new dance and performance in New York City.

Biography
Chung was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He is of Chinese Jamaican descent, his father being half-Chinese Jamaican, half-Afro-Jamaican and mother Afro-Jamaican. He has four brothers and three sisters. Chung's brother Patrick Christopher Chung is is an American football safety for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Chung's mother, Sophia George-Chung, was a top Jamaican reggae artist in the 1980s. Her song, "Girlie Girlie," released in 1985, was a number one hit in Jamaica and made it into the Top 10 in the United Kingdom.