Free Dance Workshops with visiting guest choreographers from the Korea National University of the Arts
Join us for dance workshops with Dr. Samjin Kim!
Monday August 29 & Wednesday August 31, 12:30 – 1:50PM
Free and Open to the Public
UHM Dance Building
This fall semester our UHM Dance Performance at Kennedy Theatre, Form Within a Form: Echoes and Reverberations, features the choreography of visiting guest choreographers from the Korea National University of the Arts. One of the artists is Dr. Samjin Kim who will be joining us this week to stage her new work “출정/Chuljeong: The Battle Against Invisible Fear.”
Dr. Kim teaches dance and choreography at K’ARTS and serves as the director and dean of the program. She received her BA, MA, and PhD from Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Mid-Career Lecturing award from California State University, Long Beach. She has been a guest choreographer and faculty member for the American Dance Festival’s International Choreographers’ Commissioning Project for many years.
Dr. Kim blends movement utilizing breath techniques and improvisation. Dr. Kim’s work will afford opportunities for both dance and theatre students to learn her expressive staging. This is an exceptional opportunity for our students and community members to be exposed to her choreography and creative process.
This residency is sponsored by the UHM Department of Theatre and Dance, Edward A. “Skeeps” UHM Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity Office (SEED), East West Center Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Join us for dance workshops with Dr. Jae Hyuk Jung!
Friday September 2 & Wednesday September 7, 12:30 – 1:50PM
Free and Open to the Public
UHM Dance Building
This fall semester our UHM Dance Performance at Kennedy Theatre, Form Within a Form: Echoes and Reverberations, features the choreography of visiting guest choreographers from the Korea National University of the Arts. One of the artists is Jae Hyuk Jung who will be joining us this week to stage his new work “Hangout.”
Mr. Jung is a professor of dance at K’ARTS. He worked as a principal dancer at Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York from 2004 – 2010, where he also taught technique and repertory workshops. He has also performed TBDC repertory in major theaters in Europe, Asia and the U.S. with works including PRESENT TENSE, Astral Convertible, Set and Reset, Groove and Countermove, Geometry of Quiet, Canto pianto, and I love my robots, Foray foret, EARLY WORK, and L’Amour au theatre.Since then, he has founded Company J to explore a wider range of possibilities. Mr. Jung has been presenting sophisticated works with the company. He has recently presented his choreography at the Seoul Performing Arts Festival and the Seoul Dance Festival. He is a graduate of Kungseoung University, Korean National University of the Arts Choreography Division, and attended the France Lyon Conservatory. Jung is the recipient of many awards including Arts Council Korea Young Artists, Dance Vision Best Dancer, Daejeon Dance Festival Best Dancer, and the The Korea Daily Best Young Artist Award.
Mr. Jung will create choreography on our students while using repetitive movements as a method of skillfully combining two opposing elements of Korean tradition and contemporaneity. This is an exceptional opportunity for our students and community members to be exposed to Mr. Jung’s choreography and creative process.
This residency is sponsored by the UHM Department of Theatre and Dance, Edward A. “Skeeps” UHM Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity Office (SEED), East West Center Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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