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SEOHWON JI (South Korea)

Seohwon Ji (1989) is an actor, dancer, choreographer, and director from South Korea. He graduated from Seoul Traditional Arts High School and Chung-Ang University, where he studied theatre, directing, modern dance, Korean dance, singing, and traditional mask dance. He has performed at the Arts Festival in Singapore, the Auckland Arts Festival in New Zealand, the Akita Dance Festival in Japan, Aspendos International Opera Festival in Turkey. His awards include the Grand Prize on 36th Seoul Dance Festival “Horn ” in 2015, and the Musical Award on Daegu International Music Festival (DIMF) in 2018. He developed an artistic methodology called “HEBS” (Happening, Energy, Breath, Sound & Space), that is investigating ways in which these actions establish the creative process of performance as well as organize the structure of it.