DaEun Jung is a dancer-choreographer whose work reveals her past and present body memories. Jung’s work has been presented at Highways, REDCAT, Electric Lodge, The Mortuary, Bootleg Theater, Pieter, and Movement Research at Judson Church. She had artist-in-residencies from Show Box L.A. at We Live in Space, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs at Camera Obscura Art Lab, LA Performance Practice at Automata, and LA Dance Project as well as a residency-lab Forward Dialogues 2019 at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography.
A master artist of the 2019 Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Jung redefines the principle, form, and structure of Korean 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. She has worked with Victoria Marks, Milka Djordjevich, Oguri & Roxanne Steinberg, Yuval Sharon, Ros Warby, Wilfried Souly, Jeanine Durning, and Melinda Ring.
Jung’s solo dance in collaboration with experimental theater director Alexander Gedeon and organist Christoph Bull opened the TEDxUCLA 2019 and she performed in John Cage’s Europeras with LA Phil as a dancer in 2018. Previously, she performed in Asia, Europe, and North America as a dancer of GPDC, a dance organization renowned for its traditional and contemporary Korean dance repertoire. Having six years of specialized training in dance through the National Gugak (traditional music and dance) School as a recipient of the National Theatre of Korea Award, she obtained a BA in dance from Ewha Womans University in Seoul.