Sam Kim

Sam Kim is an experimental choreographer, dancer, and teacher who has been making and performing in dances for over two decades. She was born to Korean immigrants and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Sam’s felt and direct experience of being an immigrant has uniquely honed her artistic lens and approach; it’s manifested in her work as an elegantly subversive form of agitation against traditional dance forms. Her body of work resolutely pushes into the margins of dance, celebrating the edges while courting the danger inherent in rejecting dance’s legacies—in other words, she approaches her choreographic practice as an artistic game of brinkmanship.

Sam has received multiple commissions from Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis), The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and Highways Performance Space (LA), among many others, to make and present her body of work.  Sam has been awarded multiple fellowships and residencies at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Mount Tremper Arts, The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), New York Live Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and MacDowell, among others, in support of her work, and was a 2022 GPS Artist (Global Practice Sharing program of Movement Research) in Belgrade, Serbia.

Sam looks forward to the premiere of her latest work, The Fall, at The Chocolate Factory Theater in fall 2025.  Inspired by her recent works, Procession and Angle of Incidence, as well as American Ninja Warrior and The Olympics, The Fall will traffic in high-stakes athletic action and scrutiny to make visible the shape and force of human will.