[2] She was at that time the youngest principal dancer ever in the history of the San Francisco Ballet.

[3] She has danced lead female roles in Helgi Tomasson's Giselle, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Tomasson/Possokhov's Don Quixote, Morris' Sylvia, and Lubovitch's Othello.

She created roles in Tomasson's The Fifth Season, Chi-Lin, Silver Ladders and 7 for Eight; Possokhov's Magrittomania, Damned and Study in Motion; Wheeldon's Continuum and Quaternary and Welch's Tu Tu.

Her repertory includes Ashton's Thaïs Pas de Deux; Balanchine's Symphony in C, Theme and Variations, Concerto Barocco, Prodigal Son and Apollo; Duato's Without Words, Robbins' In the Night, Dances at a Gathering and Dybbuk; and Makarova's Paquita.

[6] In 2020, after 7 months off stage since March 2020 due to COVID-19, Tan appeared in the second season of Dance Smash, a Chinese talent show produced by Hunan Satellite TV that features the technology to capture diverse dance styles in motion.