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Ahn Eunme was born in the city of Yeongju in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province in 1963. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies in dance at Ewha Womans University before going on to attend Tisch School of The Arts at NYU.

Eun-me’s choreography is shaped by the idea that “people are animals who dance,” and the natural history of human dance over the ages is a major theme in her work.

In 1988, Eun-me founded Ahn Eun-Me Company, which can today be found performing on stages across the world, including in Korea, the United States, and Europe. Ahn Eun-me Company has earned international acclaim for boldly original, mold-breaking works that display the body’s capacity for expressing mesmerising color, language, energy, and humor.

A major source of inspiration for Eun-me is Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, which sought to reclaim dance’s narrative power through a fusion of dance and drama. In fact, Eun-me has been the pioneer for a similar movement in Korean dance, combining dance and narrative with visual devices that speak to Asian cultural identity.

Over three decades, Eun-me has made collaboration, color, transformation, and anti-hierarchy the hallmarks of her creative work.

Recent works like Dancing Grandmothers, Dancing Middle-Aged Men, and Dancing Teen Teen have enjoyed an enthusiastic reception among audiences in France as well as the Czech Republic. Works like Ahnsim Dance, Daesim Dance, Symphoca Princess Bari, Let Me Change Your Name, and North Korea Dance have also garnered attention.

Eun-me continues to break new ground in individual dance ensemble history, as demonstrated, among others, in Eun-me’s recent appointment to associate artist of Théâtre de la Ville de Paris.