JIYEON YANG
SEOUL, KOREA (SOUTH)
Jiyeon Yang is a Seoul-based dancer and choreographer whose performances and collaborations have taken her across South Korea and internationally. Working across solo creation, body-based research, moving image, and interdisciplinary practice, she investigates bodily sensation, memory, spatial perception, sound, and the ways bodies change through relation.
INDEPENDENT CHOREOGRAPHY, DIRECTION AND RESEARCH
2026-present GROUND.YANG
Founder. Seoul-based artist-led platform connecting body-based research, performance projects,
and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
2026-ongoing PROJECT TANGO
Initiator / artistic research. Seoul-based relational framework exploring shared rhythm, coexistence, resonance,
and mutual transformation; embodied sound-system experiments begun in 2026.
2026-ongoing Her Room : Edith
Seoul-based work in development within PROJECT TANGO. Body-based research into memory pressure and accumulated experience,
with sound and technology as collaborators.
2026 DOODOO - Image Work | Doodoo Fragment Film Work
Concept and movement; Seoul-based image work developed from the 2025 solo research.
2025 DOODOO
Choreography and performance. Solo presented at The Night of HEEN, Hongdae Post Theater, Seoul.
Research into vibration, sound, boundaries, and incomplete connection.
2023 I N S | EYE | D
Concept, direction, choreography and performance. Selected for Art Korea Lab 1st Testbed, Seoul; performance,
dance film, eye tracking and interactive media.
2023 EYE-ING / EYEING: You Can't See Me Where I Can See You
Seoul-based interactive media, dance film and performance research using gaze, image, webcam, eye tracker and TouchDesigner.
2022 Piece by Piece - Ambiguous Dance Company
Invited solo artist; choreography and performance, Seoul.
2014-2017 METEOR
Solo choreography and performance. Began as 2014 graduation work in Seoul; revised in 2016; toured Bagnolet,
France and Pori, Finland in 2017.
2016 The Garden of Earthly Delights
Choreography and performance; MMCA x Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, Seoul.
SELECTED PERFORMANCE AND COLLABORATIVE WORK
2023-2026 JUNGLE - Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC);
Performer / Processor. Barcelona | Liège | Stockholm | London | Pamplona | Berlin | Hong Kong | Paris | Padula | Vienna | Astana | Abu Dhabi | Seoul
Mercat de les Flors Barcelona; Théâtre de Liège; Festival Pays de Danses; Oscarsteatern; The Place; Museo; Universidad de Navarra; Tanz im August; Freespace, West Kowloon; ImPulsTanz; NYU Abu Dhabi; Seoul Art Center; Arko Arts Theater
2025 CRAWL - Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC)
Performer / Processor. National Theater of Korea, Haeoreum Grand Theater,
Double Bill: Sungyong Kim & William Forsythe.
2025 TIME IS SPACE SPACE IS TIME - UNKNOWNPS
Performer. ARKO Arts Theater Main Hall, Seoul.
2025 Byeoljibinari - Heen Dance x Layer Studio
Performer. Layer Studio 7, Seoul.
2025 Dancing Paradise: Edge of Pleasures - Heen Dance
Performer. Frieze Paradise Art Night Gala, Seoul.
2025 MANGO - Heen Dance
Performer. Sogang University Mary Hall, Seoul.
2025 EVERFLOW - Seoul Light DDP Autumn opening
Performer. Opening performance alongside Aka Chang installation.
2024 Flow While Still - Louvre Abu Dhabi
Performer. KNCDC presentation, Abu Dhabi.
2024 JUNGLE international workshop - NYU Abu Dhabi
Workshop facilitation team member. Shared the work process with international students as part of KNCDC.
2024 YEONJI; SWIRI / DRAW - Heen Dance
Performer. Seoul.
2024 Ice Goblin - Ambiguous Dance Company
Performer. Winter Youth Olympics opening performance.
2023 Bloom - Heen Dance x Tieut; GAN
Performer. Seoul.
2022 Synesthetic Perception - Bora Kim x Gearl Studio
Co-creation / research. SPAF x KNCDC, ARKO Arts Theater, Seoul.
2022 MUAK - Art Project Bora
Performer. The Place, London; SPAF, Seoul.
2022 Universe in Me ver.2022 - Heen Dance
Performer. Seoul.
2021 DOT. - KNCDC / Bora Kim
Performer. Seoul.
2019 CAGED - GAYA Dance Company
Performer. Seoul presentation, SPAF, Sejong Center M Theater
2019 CAGED - GAYA Dance Company
Performer. Six-month collaborative production in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; world premiere there.
2018 Tail Language - Art Project Bora
Performer. Germany, including Potsdam.
2018 BOW - Misuk Jeon Dance Company
Performer. STEPS festival tour, Switzerland.
2018 NO FILM - Kim Sung Hoon Dance Project
Performer. CKL Stage, Seoul.
2017 I was admiring her through a series of precision cut mirrors - LDP
Performer. Choreography by Eric Longe, a former DV8 Physical Theatre dancer. LDP 17th regular performance,
ARKO Arts Theater, Seoul.
2017 Look Look - LDP
Performer. Choreography by Kim Dongkyu. LDP 17th regular performance, ARKO Arts Theater, Seoul.
2017 BOW - Misuk Jeon Dance Company
Performer. Daehakro Arts Theater Main Hall, Seoul.
2017 LYNCH - Moi Dance Company
Performer. Cuernavaca-Morelos Festival, Mexico.
2017 GREEN EYE - Kim Sung Hoon Dance Project
Performer. Sogang University Mary Hall, Seoul.
2015-2018 Laboratory Dance Project (LDP)
Performer. Repertory includes 12MHz, Social Factory, LDP Last Project, and the 17th and 18th regular performances.
2016 HELLO
Co-choreography and performance, Seoul; Jury Prize at 21MASDANZA, Canary Islands, Spain.
2015 SOMOO; Tail Language - Art Project Bora
Performer. Tail Language presented at Festival Internacional Cervantino, Mexico.
AFFILIATIONS
2024-2025 UNKNOWNPS
Collaborating performer.
2023-2026 Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
Collaborating performer / JUNGLE Processor / NYU Abu Dhabi workshop team member.
2022-2025 Heen Dance
Collaborating performer.
2020-2022 Art Project Bora
Performer and collaborator.
2019 GAYA Dance Company
Collaborating performer; international co-production in Bulgaria.
2015-2018 Laboratory Dance Project
Collaborating performer.
AWARDS AND SUPPORT
2024 1st Prize, Seoul International Dance Competition
Performer in RED SPROUT.
2016 Jury Prize, 21MASDANZA
HELLO; co-choreographer and performer.
2017 Arts Council Korea International Arts Exchange Support
METEOR European tour, France and Finland.
2014 3rd Prize, Seoul International Dance Competition
What Should I Do; choreography and performance; Alvin Ailey School scholarship.
2010 Gold Prize, Dong-A Dance Competition
Shock Wave.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2011-2014 BFA, Contemporary Dance
Korea National University of Arts, Seoul.
2016 Gaga Intensive
Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015,2019 Gaga Workshops
New York, USA / London, UK.
2015 Alvin Ailey School
Summer scholarship training, New York, USA.
2008-2010 Goyang Arts High School
Contemporary dance, scholarship student.