Jungeun Kim (J.e.) is a choreographer, dance and movement-based performance artist, educator and digital media artis. Her work focuses on connectedness accentuated by aesthetic simplicity and curiosity, and is often sourced from personal experience and relationality. She works with both mediums of dance and digital media, such as video, moving images and animation to create live performance, experimental short video and animation works. The motion of tracing and connecting has been a common theme and vital movement practice in her work which is embedded with placelessness, loss and the forgotten and evokes remembering and desire.
Her research and practice begins with interdisciplinary approaches by choreographing and mapping assorted images; crafting different pieces and movement sequences together like doing a puzzle without knowing the final image; improvising with various elements and materials such as sound/music, video projections and tangible objects to transform and design the performing space. She is interested in integrating and crossing over different disciplines. Her experimentation of the process focuses on probing the gray area near the boundaries of each discipline and exploring what can be discovered in this area.
Her dance and video work has been presented around the U.S., Europe and Asia including Korean Cultural Center, Design Philadelphia, Taubman Museum of Art and Torino Esposizioni. As an educator, she has taught extensively, from a community center for refugees and immigrants, to dance festivals, to institutions of higher education including The University of the Arts and Amherst College.
She is a self-taught web designer and has worked with many artists to develop their website such as Wideman/Davis Dance, Ballet Ashani, Iyun Harrison, Amanda K. Miller and Jason Klinke.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from American Dance Festival/Hollins University, under direction of Donna Faye Burchfield and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in Visual and Performing Arts from Hollins University. She is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Restorative Practices at the International Institute for Restorative Practices Graduate School. J.e. hails from Seoul, South Korea.
