within/without

Overview

Two artists—-different backgrounds, different movement lineages, different generations, different nationalities, different ethnicities—–prodding and supporting each other in an ongoing search for the meaning and realization of “home”.

Note: the 9/8 performance of this show has been canceled. 

About the Artist

Jungwoong Kim, born and raised in South Korea, has been a dance/performing artist and arts educator for 25 years. He is trained in Korean martial arts and traditional dance/ritual, which strongly inform his aesthetic and artistic vision. Kim describes his practice as a dynamic dialogue between my training and background in South Korean traditional dance and music and my embrace of western improvisation, especially Contact Improvisation, as a performance medium. In 2014 he became an artist-in-residence at Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) in Philadelphia PA, where a Knight Foundation grant supported several of his performance works. He was awarded a 2015 multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to create SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary research/creative/performance project which addressed sudden human loss caused by the Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of S. Korea and the collapse of a Goodwill Store at 22nd & Market St. in Philly. He was nominated in 2017, 2020 and 2024 for a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and received a 2017 Bilateral Dance Artist Exchange Residency in Budapest, Hungary through Philadelphia Dance Projects. In 2021 he was awarded a project grant from the Public Art Program of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation to create Gather Together in Their Name, a year-long public art project in collaboration with 3 community-based arts/social service organizations. Most recently, his work has focused on how movement and voice are pathways to finding a sense of home and belonging at a time of increasing migration, displacement, hostility toward immigrants, and human isolation.