Donna Kim is a London-based choreographer and movement artist whose practice explores the body  through movement, breath, and embodied perception. Trained in Korean traditional dance, she  approaches tradition as a living physical language that can be questioned, transformed, and reimagined  through the body.  

Breath is at the centre of Kim’s choreographic research. She explores breath as both a physical process  and a way of sensing, relating, and understanding the body. Through sustained attention to breathing,  she investigates how invisible experiences can become perceptible through movement, exploring  themes of presence, anxiety, communication, existence, and trace.  

Kim’s practice is grounded in an ongoing study of the body as both a medium and a site of research.  Through choreography and performance, she explores rhythm, stillness, energy, weight, resistance, and  space, developing a contemporary movement language informed by the breath and embodied principles  of Korean dance.  

Alongside her choreographic practice, Kim has worked as a performer, choreographer, and creative  director across interdisciplinary projects involving dance, film, sound, visual art, architecture, and  fashion. Her collaborations include Nowness Asia, Sadler’s Wells East, BFI Southbank, BBC Television  Centre, The Place London, Royal College of Art, Centre Pompidou Paris, Zaha Hadid Architects, and  London Fashion Week. In 2024, she was a finalist for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards at Central Saint  Martins.