About Daeun Jung

DaEun Jung is a Los Angeles-based choreographer/dancer who interlaces forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices. DaEun’s work has been supported by New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), CultureHub LA, Pieter Performance Space, Highways, Electric Lodge, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Korea Foundation. She has received residencies from Loghaven Artist Residency, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), Brockus Project Dance, Camera Obscura Art Lab, Dance Resource Center, and Show Box LA, as well as Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Forward Dialogues II. She served as a master artist of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and was selected as a Cultural Trailblazer from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for 2019-2020. She has worked with choreographers, musicians, and artistic directors including Alexander Gedeon, Daniel Corral, Victoria Marks, Milka Djordjevich, Oguri & Roxanne Steinberg, Yuval Sharon, Ros Warby, Wilfried Souly, Jeanine Durning, and Melinda Ring.

DaEun has redefined the principle, form, structure, and function of Korean classical/folk dance in inter/multi-cultural settings as a continuation of her graduate study at UCLA where she received her MFA in choreography and Westfield Emerging Artist Award. Previously in Korea, she toured cities and countries in Asia and Europe as a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company, a dance organization renowned for its traditional and contemporary Korean dance repertoire. DaEun also performed in Tokebi Storm, a rhythmic theater performance group, presenting Korean-style drumming and dance in more than 1,000 shows to worldwide audiences. Having six years of early conservatory training in dance through Gugak (traditional music and dance) National Middle and High School as an awardee of the National Theatre of Korea, she obtained a BA in dance and minor in Korean Literature from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. DaEun has taught at Santa Monica College, Loyola Marymount University, and University of Nevada Reno and currently is a lecturer at UC Riverside.

Contact:
daeundance@gmail.com