Jae Lee Kim is living and working in Seoul as a dramaturg, dance theorist and lecturer. Currently she is working as an adjunct professor in Department of Dance at Sungkyunkywan University in Korea. She received her PhD from the Department of Dance at Ewha Womans University in 2012, and also undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Performance Arts at Kookmin University in Korea in 2013. As an academic, she has worked with The Society for Dance Documentation and History, The Korea Laban Movement Institute, and The Dance Research Institute at Ewha Womans University in Korea from 2011 to 2016.
As a dramaturg, Jae Lee was resident dramaturg at the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company from 2013 to 2015. While at KNCDC, she mainly worked with Ahn Ae Soon, an artistic director/choreographer, but also collaborated with visiting artists. After leaving KNCDC, she continued to work as a freelance dramaturg and an artistic coordinator for works including Choreography Laboratory (Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, 2014-2015) and Emerging Choreographer's Class (Hankook Performing Arts Center, 2012). In 2017, she co-curated the 1st Seoul International Choreography Workshop.
As a scholar in dance, Jae Lee received certification for Laban Movement Analysis in New York (2004) and has published books such as Reading Body and Movement (2010) and Integrated Body-Movement-World (2016). She was awarded the research grants Emerging Researcher Program from National Research Foundation of Korea in 2016, and the Academic Future Generation from National Research Foundation of Korea in 2017. Jae Lee has also contributed articles to many journals for dance and choreographic studies in Korea. She recently published the articles Actuality of Performance Archive (2017) and Choreographic Approach on Archive (2017).
Last Updated: 2018