Yangkeun Kim, choreographer/teacher/dancer/writer, is a professor of Soongeui Women`s College, Artistic Director of Garion Dance Company, and vice president of The Modern Dance Promotion of Korea. She has performed her own work with Garion Dance Company, Korea Contemporary Dance Company, and Wansoon Yook`s Dance Company, and toured Europe, the US, and Asia. She is also the Director of JD-KSDF (JD-Korea Summer Dance Festival). Ms. Kim has organized KDF (KADF) since 1990, Seoul International Choreographer’s Festival and workshops since 1995, and JD-KSDF since 2016. She founded Y-Conditioning Association and somatic research with choreographers and dance teachers in 2000. She has taught Healing Techniques at ADF since 2004. Ms. Kim works as a monitoring member of the Arts Management Service and as a judge on the funding and is currently serving as a member of the steering committee in the new project “Korea Is Performing” by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. (2024)
