DaEun Jung, Photo courtesy of Loghaven by Shawn Poynter

DaEun Jung, Contempolytemporal Dance
Friday, May 30, 2025 | 7PM-9:30PM

Sharing the stage with Anuj Bhutani, Tsiambwom “T” Akuchu, Paul Outlaw, and Nina Sarnelle

ABOUT CONTEMPOLYTEMPORAL DANCE

Contempolytemporal Dance is a solo dance that traces multilayered movement roots of Jung’s body. Continuously shape-shifting while defining each moment, this solo fast-forwards the thousand-year codification process of classical Korean dance idioms, reverts stylized movements to her (ancestors’) everyday actions, defines contem-poly-temporal body memories of the self and communities, and ultimately takes the dancing body to somatic ecstasy. 

Challenging the binary dialogue in Jung’s previous works—traditional vs. contemporary—this project investigates somatic and choreographic methods to render her embedded body memories across different times. Just as Korean dance has always been contemporary in its evolving practice, traces of Jung’s movement practices emerge from multiple contemporary moments within her personal and collective history.

ABOUT DAEUN

DaEun Jung is a Korean-born dancer-choreographer currently based in Los Angeles. She interlaces forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices within her self-constructed system.

Jung’s work has been supported by Jacob’s Pillow, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Movement Research at Judson Church, Korea Foundation, and New Music USA. Her residencies include Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Loghaven Artist Residency, UCROSS, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), and Santa Monica Cultural Affairs at Camera Obscura Art Lab. A master artist of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Established Artist Awardee, Jung redefines the practice and repertoire of Korean dance in multicultural settings.

Before relocating to LA, Jung toured cities in Asia and Europe as a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company which is renowned for its large-scale classical and creative Korean dance repertoire. Having six years of early conservatory training in dance at the National Gugak School as a recipient of the National Theater of Korea Award, she completed a BA in dance and minor in Korean literature from Ewha Womans University in Seoul. In the US, Jung holds her MFA in dance at UCLA where she was recognized as a Westfield Emerging Artist. She has taught at Santa Monica College, Loyola Marymount University, University of Nevada Reno, and Indiana University and currently is a lecturer at UC Riverside.

The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.