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Sung Im Her (Seoul, South-Korea, 1976) obtained a master’s degree in contemporary dance at Hansung University in 2003, at which point she already had been working with Ji-Gu Dance Theater for six years. In 2004, she moved to Brussels, Belgium to study at P.A.R.T.S., the acclaimed contemporary dance school led by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
After graduating in 2006, she started working with Jan Fabre/Troubleyn for the solo ‘Quando l’uomo principale è une donna’ and the group work ‘Je Suis Sang’.
In 2008, she joined Les ballets C de la B to collaborate on and perform in the work ‘Ashes’.
In 2009, Sung Im Her started collaborating with Needcompany. Since then, she has collaborated on and performed in many creations of Needcompany’s Grace Ellen Barkey and Jan Lauwers as a dancer, choreographer and/or choreographic director: This door is too small (for a bear) (2009), The House of our Fathers (2010), Marketplace 76 (2012), Mush-Room (2013), Odd but True (2013), Just for Bolzano (2014), All Tomorrow’s Parties (2014), Time Between Two Mistakes (2014), Begin the Beguine (2017), PIE (2019) and Intolleranza 1960 (2021).
In 2011, she also joined the physical theatre company ‘Abattoir Fermé’ as a performer in the piece ‘Monkey’. In 2015, she choreographed the dance piece ‘NYMF’, for which Abattoir Fermé received the Critics Award for Dance Piece of the Year 2015 in South-Korea. Later, she also performed in Abattoir Fermé’s BUKO (2016) and Hotel Poseidon (2019).
In 2019, Sung Im Her took up the role of choreographic director during the production of ‘Trois Contes’ by Opéra de Lille in Lille, France.
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