Joori Jung is the Founder and Artistic Director of ArtLab J. Originally from Seoul, Korea, she received her B.A (2006) and M.A in dance from Kyung Hee University in 2008. She toured internationally with the Seoul Dance Theatre and danced with Eun Mi Ahn and Su Jeong Kim. She danced with various dance companies in Korea before moving to New York in 2009. She then joined Time Lapse Dance and Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre and began her own choreographic work in New York. In 2012, she moved to Detroit to achieve her goal to expand contemporary dance as well as the arts community in Detroit and decided to establish ArtLab J in 2012.

Through ArtLab J, she produces and directs the international Detroit Dance City Festival. Jung is also the curator of many other ‘lab’ projects, including the local choreography showcase Detroit Dance Race, collaboration concert Detroit Revival Project, Moving with Detroit networking group, and is the publisher of the annual Moving With Detroit Dance Resource Magazine.

Jung has also been a 2014 Ted Fellow, and the Detroit Dance City Festival was a 2014 Knight Arts Challenge winner. Under Jung’s direction, ArtLab J co-curated dance programming for the Detroit Institute of Arts to supplement the special exhibit on dance 2016. Her work has been presented at the 2014 TedX at Detroit Opera House, 313 to the 212 at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Summer Stage at Grand Circus Park, Ann Arbor Art Fair, Friday Night Live at Detroit Institute of Arts, The Current Sessions (NYC), Dumbo Dance Festival(NYC), Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mix @ the Max, APAP(NYC), Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts, New Dance for Asia(South Korea), Zawirowania Dance Festival(Poland), A!Ko_Jenseits Von Grenzen(Austria) and more. Jung’s story has appeared in Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Dance Teacher Magazine, Crain Business, Creative Exchange, ModelDMedia, Yonhap News and more.

Contact Joori: joorijung@artlabj.com