Song Song-hee

South Korea

Song Song-hee is a choreographer, dancer, and a dance educator professionally working in various artistic fields. She made her first choreographic debut with Monkey Defense, a piece to satirizes human defense mechanism and contemporary human character that has been gradually isolated from the society.The most representative works are In N Out (2013) and Sook-ja (2015). Sook-ja (2015) is her solo piece that expresses a story of the mother’s identity that has been forgotten. In N Out was first premiered in Seoul International Choreography Festival 2013 and was later invited by the Pori Dance Company in Finland.The latest works involve Hole (2015), her second solo piece about the concern of being left alone; Meal Table, a collective choreographic piece with JJ Bro; and Momuro Movement Lab, which won the Best Piece Award by the Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers. She is also a co-creator of Pyo Ryu Gi (2018), an experimental project with stage technology artists commissioned by Arts Council Korea. Song-hee’s work focuses on expressing the organic movement that she found from reinterpreting the body with her own interpretation. She is motivated by the findings from the natural movement process and have them as her own movement language. She keeps pushing her own artistic boundaries and focuses on building and expanding her artistic value and directions.