Stone & Water: winter movement workshop series with Jungwoong Kim

In 2025, Studio 34 will host “Stone and Water / Stone Moving Like Water” two 5-part workshop series with our artist-in-residence Jungwoong Kim. Drawing on Korean shamanistic and martial arts, awareness and mindfulness forms, contact improvisation, and theater games/practices, Jungwoong will guide participants in observing, playing, sharing, making, and dancing. Critical questions for these workshops include:

• How can we give support to others from a place of availability and generosity?
• How can we ask for support and know what we need to feel supported?
• What power and possibilities are unearthed when we are able to both give and receive support from others?

Each series will develop across five 2½-hour sessions (12½ hours total) spread out over several weeks. Workshop participants will explore how the qualities of stone and water can inspire ways to connect with and support one another and engage with the natural environment.

Series 1: 9:30AM–12:00PM on Wednesdays Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, March 5, and March 26.

Series 2: 9:30AM–12:00PM on Wednesdays April 23, April 30, May 21, May 28, and June 4.

Each workshop will evolve in response to the rhythms, experience and needs of its participants. Attendance at either one or both series is invited. Participants are expected to commit to all five sessions of a workshop series. Drop-ins will not be permitted.

Fee for each workshop: $150 ($125 for those who enroll in Series 1 by Jan 10, 2025, and who enroll in Series 2 by April 7, 2025)

For questions and registration, email morgan@studio34yoga.com.
Also feel free to email Jungwoong at uturnkim@gmail.com with questions.

About the Artist:

Jungwoong Kim, born and raised in South Korea, has been a dance/performing artist, choreographer, curator, actor, theater choreographer and arts educator for 25 years. He is trained in Korean martial arts and traditional dance/ritual of Korean shamanism, which strongly inform his aesthetic and artistic vision.  Kim describes his practice as "a dynamic dialogue between my training and background in South Korean traditional dance and music and my embrace of western improvisation, especially Contact Improvisation, as a performance medium." His performance practice spans a spectrum of improvisational solos, durational ensemble work, site-specific engagement with visual and media artists, and characterizations for mainstage and experimental theater. He has performed with noted Contact Improvisors such as Karen Nelson and Christine Simpson.

Kim teaches workshops nationally and internationally that focus on movement, deep listening, and observation practices as a form of thinking that we can apply to any aspect of life, be it dancing, making, or being in the world. He has been adjunct faculty at Temple University (Philadelphia PA), University of the Arts (Philadelphia PA), and Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster PA), and been a visiting teaching artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston MA), and Richmond University (Richmond VA). He regularly leads workshops for the Hothouse repertory company of Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and has led improvisation workshops across the U.S. and in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Japan, Thailand and South Korea.

His work has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Independence Foundation, and the Knight Foundation among other funders.