He Jin Jang is an award-winning choreographer, researcher, and educator whose work approaches choreography as a method of sensing, remembering, and transforming embodied experience. Based in Seoul and working internationally, her practice moves across contemporary dance, experimental performance, writing, installation, and somatic research. Her works engage vulnerability, invisibility, grief, and embodied memory, treating the body as a site where personal, social, and historical forces converge. MOMM,

a Korean dance magazine, has described her as “a daring and candid choreographer.”
 

She is the Artistic Director of He Jin Jang Dance, a project-based choreographic platform formed through fluid constellations of collaborators rather than a fixed ensemble. HJJD creates performances, workshops, and discursive formats that blur boundaries between choreography, ritual, and collective sensing. Since its U.S. debut in 2008, Jang’s work has been presented across more than thirty cities at festivals and institutions including the Seoul International Dance Festival, MODAFE, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Musikfestival Bern, New York Live Arts, and The Kitchen.​

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Her 2025 work Unseaming. was named a Best Work of 2025 by the Korean Dance Critics Association. Her projects have been supported by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Council Korea, and the Korea Arts Management Service. She has been invited as an artist, fellow, and resident by institutions including danceWEB, Movement Research, New York Live Arts, the Saison Foundation, and T:Works. Alongside her choreographic practice, she has contributed as a curator, mentor, performance coach, dramaturg, and artistic advisor in Korea and internationally.

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Her teaching and research draw on improvisation, text, imagery, somatic movement practices, feminist theory, Korean ritual traditions, and socio-political inquiry. In 2026, she joined the faculty of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, leading three workshops that explore dissolving bodies, weakness as choreographic intelligence, and porous modes of improvisation. Her workshops cultivate internal listening and relational attunement, creating environments in which movement emerges through subtle bodily shifts and changing states of permeability. She describes these spaces as forms of “collective lucid dreaming” and “social rehearsal for co-survival.”  

 

Jang is a practice-based PhD researcher with Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. Her doctoral project, Rehearsing Invisibility, engages eunhyeongbeop—methods of invisibility described in the Korean medical text Donguibogam (1613)—as a choreographic and somatic methodology. The research considers how invisibility might operate not simply as disappearance, but as healing, care, resistance, and altered presence. It reimagines ancestral rehearsal as a sensory and speculative space in which inherited memory, mourning, and transformation can be sensed and renegotiated.​​​
 

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