The Program & Artistic Leading Ensemble
Meet the Artistic Leading Ensemble and what they are teaching for the A!KO TANZ FEST 2026: a vibrant collective of exceptional artists hailing from both national and international countries.
LiLi Jung In Lee (AT/KR)
LiLi Jung In Lee is a Korean choreographer, dancer, and producer based between Austria and Korea. She is the artistic director of Lee Jung In CREATION and the founder and director of A!KO TANZ FEST, a platform fostering artistic exchange between Korea and Austria. She is currently a PhD candidate in Time-based and Interactive Media Art at Kunstuniversität Linz.
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Workshop:
Tracing the Breath – Floor Flow
This class explores breath as the foundation of movement, using floorwork to investigate the connection between breath, the body, and the flow of energy. Through circular pathways and embodied awareness, dancers discover how movement naturally emerges, transforms, and expands. By integrating flexibility, strength, and balance, the practice encourages dancers to move efficiently with the floor while developing their own movement language, creativity, and expressive potential.
Damián Cortés Alberti (AT/AR)
Damián Cortés Alberti is an Argentinian dancer, choreographer, dance educator, and multidisciplinary artist based in Austria. He holds a Master of Arts in Dance Education from Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz. His artistic practice spans contemporary dance, Argentine Tango, theatre, and music, with a strong focus on embodied research, spatiality, and interdisciplinary approaches. Alongside his work as a freelance performer and choreographer across Europe and South Korea, he currently works as a resident choreographer at Stadttheater Bad Hall and is a member of Cie Of(f) Verticality. He is also actively engaged with CID Vienna Section, serves as a board member of RedSapata Kulturinitiative, and is co-producer of A!KO TANZ FEST.
Workshop: Moving Energy
This movement session explores the relationship between the body, music, and dynamics. Using musicality, rhythm, and shifting qualities of energy, participants are invited to approach movement with curiosity and discover new physical possibilities. Through playful exploration of the body and space, the session encourages dancers to expand their awareness, challenge familiar movement patterns, and develop new ways of moving, responding, and connecting within space.
Kim Yu Mi (KR)
Kim Yumi is a Korean choreographer and dancer, and the artistic director of Jajak Movement, a Korean dance creation collective based in South Korea. She completed her doctoral studies at Sejong University and teaches at Korea National University of Arts (K-ARTS). She has also worked as a dancer with the Incheon Metropolitan City Dance Theatre. Her artistic practice explores new possibilities of bodily expression through movement rooted in Korean traditional dance. She has a strong interest in collective creation, visual composition, and transforming diverse Korean traditional materials and cultural elements into contemporary performance works. Through Jajak Movement, she continues to develop choreographic works while expanding artistic collaborations and international exchange across diverse cultural contexts.
Workshops:
Korean Contemporary
Samsara of Blossom: Tam-mae (探梅)
This workshop takes the fundamental movements and vocabulary of Korean dance as a starting point, exploring how traditional forms can be transformed through contemporary creative approaches. By repeating, deconstructing, and reshaping movement patterns through changes in direction, speed, and rhythm, participants discover how traditional motifs can evolve into new choreographic structures and expressions.
Korean Traditional Dance
Buchae Ipchum
This workshop introduces the distinctive movement vocabulary of Buchae Ipchum, a Korean traditional fan dance. Participants learn characteristic dance movements and fan techniques, exploring how opening, folding, turning, and extending the fan can create dynamic lines, forms, and spatial images in relation to the body.
