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Bo Kyung Lee
Contemporary
Biography:
Bo Kyung Lee is a choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of BK Dance Project. She received her Ph.D. from The Department of Living Dance and Performing Arts at Hayang University in South Korea in 2011.Lee has presented her work in the following festivals: United States--NYC: Queens Museum- New New Yorker(2015), WAXWORKS(2017), Pan-Asian Dance Festival(2017), SOAK(2018), 92Y Dig Dance Series(2019), WestFest Dance Festival(2020); NJ: Bergen PAC Korea Dance Awakening(2014), K Dance in New York(2015); Chicago: Going Dutch Festival(2015, 2016); DC: Art all night(2018); Seattle: yeoja: in herself(2019); Europe—Burgas, Bulgaria: Water festival for Contemporary Arts(2019); Varna, Bulgaria: The Center World(2019); Sofia, Bulgaria: Contemporary Arts in DNK International Program(2019); Plovdiv, Bulgaria: Night Plovdiv(2019); Paris: Festival S.O.U.M,(2022) Nantes, France: Printemps Coreen (2022); Helsinki, Finland: TANSSIN LUMOA-International Gala(2023); Asia – Fukuoka, Japan: Fukuoka Fringe Dance Festival(2019); Seoul, Korea: Seoul International Choreography Festival(2018), Monotanz Seoul(2019).
Lee received the “Gold Medal” from the Contemporary Dance Competition at the Contemporary Dance Association of Korea(2002), “The Presidential Prize” at the 7th Nagano International Performance Competition in Japan (2005) “Best dancer Prize”(2007) and “Best Repertory Prize”(2009) from the Performing Arts& Film Reviews(PAF), as well as “2011 Dance Vision-New Dancer Award” at The Modern Dance Promotion of Korea(2011), “First Prize” at the International Contest for the Mature Contemporary Dance Soloist in Mexico City(2018).
Lee has taught workshops Hangul: Korean alphabet dance at Rutgers University(2009), Contemporary dance for theater arts student at Ithaca College(2012) , New New Yorker- Korean folk dance at Queens Museum(2015), Dune Dance Company for children at a Youth Center in Burgas, Bulgaria (2019), Peridance Center for the Certificate Program students(2020), Absolute Beginner for contemporary dance at Peridance Center(2023).
Class Description:
In this contemporary dance class, students of beginner level will explore a style of expressive dance movement that combines elements of modern dance, ballet, jazz, and lyrical. Students will be led through a full body warm-up to increase flexibility and strength. The class will be focused on not only how to express emotion in motion by practicing choreography that have a theme but also how to understand continuous movements by exploring action and reaction.