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WonKim/Group Collaboration OR
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Won Kim Dance Company founded in 1986 by artistic director Won Kim, renamed WonKim/Group Collaboration OR in 1992. Basically they have freedom to implement full abilities and ideas influenced with the pursuit of liberal creations focused on the relationships of human being. Their goal is to find movements beyond formalized and predetermined choreography searching for the essence of “free and pure” movements of human body: Especially emphasizing the harmony the traditional methods of movement and movements through imagination. They try to present a new phase of art-performance as the complex-media mixing with dance, music, and computer-technology and so on. They have developed this kind of ideas and worked the experimental performances with a deeper understanding of dance, realizing the area as what is needed to strengthen. They keep on searching the cooperation of various part of the art and they like to share the ideas to abroad. Communicating with Artists from all over the world, they fuse their culture with the others in a more developed of art. The company has been working with the artists from France, Mexico, America, Tiwan, Japan, China and performing throughout the world including New York, Main, Brooklyn (USA), Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, Montreuil (France), Guangzhou, Shanghai (China), Karlsruhe, Ettlingen, Dusseldorf. Frankfurt, Munster, Aachen (Germany), and Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto (Japan). Won Kim, artistic director of the company, was born in Jeonju, Korea. She got her B.A. & M.A. from Ewha Womans University and she is a professor at Chonbuk National University since 1991. Currently, she is invited to teach at Kinki Unversity in Osaka and to work with Jin Xing Dance Theatre in Shanghai for her sabbatical year. She received Diplome d’Etat de Danse from Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication in 1999 and teach dance technique at the Studio Harmonic in Paris. She was a visiting professor at paris 8 University in 1999 and at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1995; received the scholarship from Bates Dance Festival in 1997; and also nominated for the final selection of the Rencontre Choreographiqures Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis in 1994. She has received the President Award in 1984; New Dance Award in1985; Best Choreographer’s Award in 1993; Isadora Award in 2005 and Best Artist of the year in 2003 and 2007.
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