Mimi Jeong (Germany, S.Korea)
Mimi Jeong is a south Korean choreographer, artistic director and dancer based in Berlin/Geneva/Seoul. She is working in the contemporary dance and interdisciplinary fields: creating and performing works for the stage, as well as mixed media art projects.
She focuses on non-verbal communication where space, sound and movement are in an interlaced ecosystem, in order to search for new performance identities with a trandsciplinary vacabulary.
In 2005 She received her degree in dance at the Folkwang University of arts in Essen, Germany as well as a Master degree in Choreography (MA Choreography) in the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), in 2016. Since 2004 she has been working as a dancer and a choreographer in Theater Bremen, Theater Münster, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Compagnie Anna Huber, Nyoba kan Butoh dance group Malaysia and the multimedia group Urbanscreen Bremen, as well as with numerous choreographers like Pina Bausch, Reinhild Hoffmann, Urs Dietrich, Emanuel Gat, Rami Be’er, Ingun Bjonsgaard, Tero Saarinen, Anna Huber, among others.
In 2008, she started to create her own dance pieces and performed them in Theater Bremen. As a choreographer she has created several dance performances for festivals and institutions in Europe and Asia, such as Extra Frei, Tanz Bremen, P-Bodies, Freier Tanz im Delta in Theater Felina Areal Mannheim and “International Nyoba Kan Butoh Festival Kuala Lumpur” supported by Goethe institute. Parallel to her creation work, she is regularly teaching in universities and professional institutions in Europe and Asia.