DAEUN JUNG (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor

DaEun Jung is a Korean-born, Los Angeles-based dancemaker whose work interlaces the forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices within her self-constructed system.

Jung’s work has been supported by Jacob’s Pillow, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Movement Research at Judson Church, Korea Foundation, and New Music USA. Her residencies include Marble House Project, Headlands Center for the Arts, Loghaven Artist Residency, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), UCROSS Artist Residency, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), and Santa Monica Cultural Affairs at Camera Obscura Art Lab.

A master artist of the 2019 Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Established Artist Awardee, and 2025/26 City of Los Angeles Independent Mater Artist Project grantee, Jung redefines the practice and repertoire of Korean dance in intercultural settings. She was the Korean Cultural Consulting Choreographer for “Golden” prologue at the 98th Academy Awards and choreographed opening dance performances for the KCON LA 2026 held in Crypto.com Arena.  

Before relocating to LA, Jung toured cities in Asia and Europe as a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company which is renowned for its large-scale classical and creative Korean dance repertoires. Having six years of early conservatory training at the National Gugak School as a recipient of the National Theater of Korea Award, she completed a BA in dance and minor in Korean literature from Ewha Womans University in Seoul. In the US, Jung holds her MFA in dance at UCLA where she was recognized as a Westfield Emerging Artist. She has taught at Santa Monica College, Loyola Marymount University, University of Nevada Reno, and Indiana University prior to joining UC Riverside.