Bio
Dahye Lee (이다혜) is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and an instructor at the City College of New York, CUNY. A native of Seoul, South Korea, she is a dancer and a choreographer of Korean dance. She double-majored in Dance and Philosophy (summa cum laude) and completed her MFA in Dance at Ewha Womans University, Seoul. She earned her MA in Theatre and Performance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Dahye has worked with several leading Korean dance companies, including Kim Young-hui Mutdance, one of the pioneering companies of Korean contemporary dance. Her research interests include East Asian contemporary dance and corporeality, with particular focus on Korean dance, and intercultural performance through a postcolonial framework, and new materialism theories. She is currently working on her dissertation on Korean changjak (newly created) dance, a new genre of Korean dance created in the late 1970s as a means of expressing contemporary Koreanness.
(Photography by Seo Young Lee)
Research Interests
- East Asian contemporary dance and corporeality
- Intercultural performance through a postcolonial framework
- Postdramatic theatre and material performance in a more-than-human world
