Her Sung-im

Her Sung-im is a South Korean choreographer and dance artist whose practice moves across London, Belgium, and South Korea without flattening those scenes into one generic international lane. Her official biography says she studied at P.A.R.T.S. after completing a master's degree at Hansung University, then worked as a performer with Ji-Gu Dance Theater, Jan Fabre's Troubleyn, Les ballets C de la B, Needcompany, and Abattoir Fermé.

That background matters because it explains why her 2026 visibility feels earned rather than sudden. Her biography also lists commissions from Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Counterpoint Arts, and the Korean Arts Council, plus support from Arts Council England. In the current Festival d'Avignon cycle, she arrives with 1 Degree Celsius, a work framed in festival coverage as a response to climate crisis and the question of what performance should do under that pressure.

Inside HITKULTR's Avignon feature, Her Sung-im gives the Korean presence a movement-first counterweight. She is not there as a symbolic inclusion. She is there with a choreographic practice already backed by cross-border institutions, strong development programs, and a body-based language tuned to present-tense political urgency.