founder and artistic director of Blue Elephant Dance company (2002)

Blue Elephant Dance productions have received support by

• Ministry of Culture of the German federal state of NRW
• Kunststiftung NRW (Art Foundation NRW)
• Kulturamt der Stadt Düsseldorf
• Fonds Darstellende Künste
• Culture Foundation of the Republik of Korea
• Stiftung van Meeteren
• and other institutions

As a dancer in Germany, In-Jung has also worked with

• Rodolpho Leoni Dance
• Vera Sander Art Connects

Before coming to Germany, In-Jung was a full-time member of

• Jean-Claude Gallotta's company at Shizuoka Performing Arts Center in Japan

For her work, In-Jung has received several awards

• Audience Award at "Germany's Best Dance Solo", Leipzig, and 2nd prize in the competition (2011)
• Award of the Prime Minister of the Republik of Korea (2007)
• Award for choreography and dance (Förderpreis) of the city of Düsseldorf (2006)
• Award for young artists by the federal state of NRW (2005)
• Ballettanz magazine critics' poll: "young choreographer to watch" (2005 & 2003)
• Scholarship American Dance Festival, Durham, USA (1995)

• Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul: modern dance, ballet, Korean traditional dance (B.A. 1996)
• American Dance Festival (ADF), Durham, USA (1995)
• Sunhwa High School of the Arts, Seoul (grad. 1991)

• I See You - VR dance experience in collaboration with Olaf Hirschberg (2023-24)
  
  
• Vibration Celebration (with Simon Rummel), solo dance with improvised live music
  work in progress
  Festival TanzNRW21, Wuppertal (May 2021)
  Stadtgarten, Köln

• 9 mountains, 9 rivers
  choreography for theater piece
  Director: Lee Sang-u
  Gangjin Art Center, Korea National University of the Arts (2017)

• Hwa-Eom Spiritual Music Ritual
  opening performance of the music festival (choreography and dance)
  music by Won Il
  Hwa Eom Temple, South Korea (2016)

• Ai-inga I-inga
  performance at Yisang's House, Seoul, as part of the festivities to mark the anniversary of the poet's death (2016)

• Improvised performance at Seoul Improvisation Festival (2016)

• Singing of a Human Machine
  choreography and dance
  Big Red Space, Seoul

• Gateless Gate
  solo with live percussion by Simon Barker (AU)
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at LIG Arts Center, Seoul and Busan (2013)

• A Call of Chal-a
  choreography and dance as part of an installation by
  Yun Dong-Gu (metal installation artist)
  Seoul (2012)

• Bara
  prize-winning solo for "Germany's best dance solo" competition at Euro Scene Festival, Leipzig (2011)

• Choreography for the theater piece "The Farting Lady"
  directed by Peter Willson (UK) and Lee Jung-Un (ROK)
  Sadari Theater fot Children, Seoul (2011)

• < one, - >
  dance piece for 3 dancers and 4 musicians
  choreography and dance
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at Jang Festival, Seoul (2010)

• Survival Strategies
  dance piece for 7 dancers and 2 musicians
  choreography and dance
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2009)

• Soloparty
  dance piece for 1 dancer and 1 musician (Simon Rummel)
  choreography and dance
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2008)

• choreography for
  Great Journey of Princess Bari
  Director: Yun Dong-Gu (installation artist)
  Music: Won Il
  Culture History Seoul 284, Seoul

• GIFT
  blue elephant production with 5 performers
  choreography and dance
  co-produced by and premiered at
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2007)

• Story of B. / Tang!
  2 dance pieces for 2 dancers
  choreography and dance
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2006)

• Golden Helmet
  dance piece for 5 dancers and 3 musicians
  choreography and dance
  blue elephant production, co-produced by and premiered at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2005)

• you & me
  dance piece for 2 dancers
  choreography
  created for and premiered at Busan Summer Festival
  Busan (2004)

• This or That
  blue elephant production with 2 dancers
  choreography and dance
  co-produced by and premiered at
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2003)

• Boxring
  blue elephant production with 2 dancers
  choreography and dance
  co-produced by and premiered at
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2003)

• Sometimes it feels expensive, sometimes it feels cheap
  choreography and dance
  solo performed at pact Zollverein, Essen (2003)

• O2 - hole, 2 meters deep
  blue elephant production with 4 dancers
  choreography and dance
  co-produced by Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf and
  pact Zollverein, Essen
  premiered at pact Zollverein, Essen (2002)
  
  
• Wound Clockwork
  Solo
  choreography and dance
  co-produced by and premiered at
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany (2001)
  
  
• Swell 6 Frames
  creation for 3 dancers
  choreography and dance
  premiered at the 7th International Minjockchoom Dance Festival, Seoul, South Korea (2000)
  
  
• Chewing
  solo
  choreography and dance
  created for and premiered at Shizuoka Performance Art Center (SPAC), Shizuoka, Japan (1999)
  
  
• Sugar + Sugar = Dangerous Relationship
  creation for 2 dancers
  choreography and dance
  Seoul, South Korea & Bangkok, Thailand (1997)
  
  
• Variety of Spaces
  creation for 3 dancers
  choreography and dance
  performed in various museums, galleries, bars and streets in Seoul, South Korea (1996-97) 

Film & Video (excerpts)

• Yadang: The Snitch - crime action noir movie (movement director)
  director: Hwang Byeong-Guk
  (theatrical release: 04/2025)
  
  
• Fanta-G-Spot (engl.: Hit the Spot) romantic drama series for Korean streaming service Coupang Play, 8 episodes (movement director)
  director: Lee Yuna
  (2022)
  
  
• music video "force eject v2" (choreography and performance)
  music: Wallfacer
  (2019)
  
  
• Video installation for projection at the facade of Hana Bank Seoul (choreography and performance)
  director: Oh Mooyoung
  (2018)

• music video "Aus meinem Kopf" (performance)
  music: Erdmöbel
  director: Sandeep Mehta
  (2007)
  
  
• Tang! - choreography and dance in collaboration with film director Marcel Ahrenholz
  Festival Temps d'Images, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2005)
  
  
• dance film "Meditations on 3 elements" (performance)
  director: Frank N. for Arte TV (France / Germany, 2004)
  
  
• music video: "It never was you" (choreography and dance)
  music: Thomas Brinkmann
  director: Sandeep Mehta
  1st price for best music video at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2004) 
  
  

RESEARCH and LABS

• Body Mind Centering (BMC)
  participant in the Somatic Movement Education Program (2019 - present)
  Workshops with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2016 in Jeju, Korea, 2021 online)
  
  
• Ttang-tta-mok-gi
  Initiator and Art director of German-Korean choreography research and residency project in Gyeongi-do, South Korea (2007)
  
  
• Colina - the European exchange project for Collaboration in the Arts
  participation as artist
  director: Rui Horta
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2005)
  
  
• Mark Tompkins
  participation in improvisation workshop at Vienna Tanzwochen (2004)
  
  
• dance link UK@NRW with Wendy Houstoun
  participation as choreographer
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2003)
  
  
• dance link NL@NRW
  European exchange laboratory with Vera Sander and Bruno Listopad
  participation as dancer
  Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (2001)
  
  
• Josef Nadj
  participation in pro-series workshop at Vienna Tanzwochen (2000)
  
  

TEACHING

• Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
  various classes for professional dancers (2020, 2003-2010)
  
  
• Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Dance at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul (full academic year 2018)
  
  
• teaching at Gangjin Art Center & Korea National University of the Arts, Seoul (2017)
  
  
• teaching summer and winter classes at various universities in Korea (Sungkyunkwan, Hansung, Dungguk, Korea National Unversity of the Arts, Kookmin, Chung Ang, Wongkwang, Korea National Sports University, Hanyang - 1998-2016)
  
  
• Korea Performance Art Center HANPAC, Seoul
  Let's Go Back to Body Basics
  director, teacher, choreographer of a 2 months workshop for non-professional participants (2013)
  
  
• Cologne University for Music and Dance (HFMT), Cologne, Germany
  Raw, medium, well done? - teaching and choreography for graduating students (2010)
  
  
• Theater Maqamat, Beirut, Lebanon
  teaching as guest artist (2009)
  
  
• Miteinander reden
  teaching body work during a music and dance project for high school students, Bergheim, Germay
  
  
• Carte Blanche Company, Bergen, Norway
  teaching as guest artist (2008)
  
  
• Cologne University for Music and Dance (HFMT), Cologne, Germany
  I am here - teaching and choreography for graduating students (2007)
  
  
• Galili Dance Company, Netherlands
  teaching as guest artist (2005)

• Vera Sander, Cologne, Germany
  States of Transition (2001) - dancer
  Trespassing (2004) - choregraphic assistant
  
  
• Rodolpho Leoni, Wuppertal, Germany
  The Thread (2001) - choreographic assistant
  Sarara Tangled (2000) - dancer
  
  
• Jean-Claude Gallotta, Shizuoka, Japan / Grenoble, France
  ensemble member (dancer) at Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (1998-1999)
  
  La Chamoule (1999)
  
  Ulysses (1999)
  
  Yume Manatsu no Michino (1998)
  
  Premonition (1998)
  
  Mammane (1998)
  
  
• Kim Hyun-ok (KOR) and Paco Decina (IT)
  Sinawui 2000 (Seoul 1996) - dancer
  
  
• John Mead (USA)
  Phoenix (Seoul 1996) - dancer
  
  
• Ofra Levy (ISR)
  Winter (1995, ADF, Durham USA) - dancer