Hun-Mok Jung (°1978, Soon-Cheon, KR) joined Peeping Tom in 2009. With the company, he created and performed 655 shows until February of 2025, 7 pieces: 32 rue Vandenbranden, À Louer, Vader, Moeder, Kind, Dido & Aeneas, and La Visita.
He is the director of JUMOK Dance Theater, performing in Seoul and Brussels. He created his own work Yaras which got the award for Best Dance of Work of year 2024 from The Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers. That same year he got invited to create a new piece Ezras for SPAF (Seoul Performing Arts Festival), got selected as Seoul Arts NFT Artist and was reveled for the short film Bayan-The HumanBorg. In 2022 he made ANON supported by Seoul foundation for Arts and Culture and finally, he was a semi-final Jury member for the Brussels Dance Contests in 2021.
During the covid period, he created the dance film Uragano, which received awards and nominations at the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival (Best Dance Short, Best Sci-Fi), Paris International Short Film Festival (Finalist), Tokyo International Short Film Festival (Finalist), Berlin Short Award (Semi Finalist), Seoul Dance Film Festival (Official Selection), Montreal Independent Film Festival (Official Selection) in 2021. In 2016, Hun-Mok directed Don’t be Afraid with the C&C company in Italy. He was also invited by the Korea World Dance Stars Festival to perform his solo Jean Marc. He worked as a choreographic advisor for the company Petri-dish for their production Driften in 2015, as well as for the company BaBa Fish’s production Expiry Date in 2014.
Hun-Mok graduated from the Dankook University’s dance department and received a degree as Performance Producer at the Seoul School of Performing Arts in 2001. A year later, his solo piece A Whistle was awarded first prize in the young choreographers’ category at MODAFE, and he himself won twice the Best Dancer Award at the Korea Dance Festival. Moreover, Hun-Mok earned a Master’s degree at Dankook University with thesis in 2004, and established the dance and theatre group JU MOK that same year. In 2007, his own duet/performance Ring Wanderung won best choreographer & writer from Dance&people magazine, and the Arts Council Korea mentioned Hun-Mok as a rising choreographer. In 2009, MODAFE included the JU MOK production An Unconvenient Truth in their programme.
Hun-Mok Jung teaches dance workshops of the Peeping Tom-method with his unique material all over the world such as Brussels, Bogota, Strasbourg, L‘ile de la Reunion, Seoul, Tokyo, Matsumoto, Hyogo, Macao, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulon, Toulouse, Lyon, Albi, La Raffinerie, Garage29, Danscentrum Jette, KVS, Company with Ultimavez and C&C company, Barcelona, Rome, Bologna, Firenze, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Zurich, and New York.
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