KIM BORAM

Born in Korea, KIM Boram entered into the field of contemporary dance unconventionally. Working as a back-up dancer for 10 years, he began to wonder about how dance speaks to the audience, and with passion and ambition, he began to develop his own choreography. Kim established his own dance company, Ambiguous Dance Company, in 2007. Since its formation, he has created three works a year on average.

To Kim, creating dance works flushes out uncertainties ingrained within him. In the process of creating, stories and answers to these uncertainties are existentially and inherently revealed. Kim first begins this process by choosing music with which to work. Interpreting the music, movements begin to take form in his mind, intertwining with melodies and rhythms, like a shuttle weaving across a loom.


In Kim’s work, he seeks to return to the core of music and dance: pursuing sound before music itself and body movement before dance, through which one can find distinct musical interpretation. Kim hopes to convey intimate communication, harmonising music and dance.


As a relatively young choreographer, Kim has won awards such as ‘Best Performance’ for a 2008 creation, Bolero, at the CJ Young Festival; named ‘Performer of the Year’ by critics in 2010; and ‘Best Performance’ at the 2010 Seoul Performing Arts Festival for Coexistence, the work to be presented at CONTACT 2013.