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 Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Korea Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and New Music USA. She has received residency support from Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Loghaven Artist Residency, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), Brockus Project Dance, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs at Camera Obscura Art Lab, and Show Box L.A. at we live in space. Before relocating to LA, Jung toured cities and countries in Asia and Europe as a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company which is renowned for its large-scale classical and contemporary 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, Korea. In the US, Jung holds her MFA in choreography at UCLA where she was recognized as a Westfield Emerging Artist.

A woman with short dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail wears a baggy sleeveless white top, brown shin-length pants, and bare feet. She is kneeling as she looks down at a diagonal direction in front of her, extending both arms in that direction. Photo by Taso Papadakis
ID: A woman with short dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail wears a baggy sleeveless white top, brown shin-length pants, and bare feet. She is kneeling as she looks down at a diagonal direction in front of her, extending both arms in that direction. Photo by Taso Papadakis