Sitta Hyekyung Sim

Sitta Hyekyung Sim is a faculty member at Seoul Digital University and the head of Sitta Sim & Dance Company. The artistic point of view of Hyekyung Sim as a director and choreographer, pursuing insuperable energy and potential beyond the tradition and the present times through performances at home and abroad is ultimately aimed at pursuing the life with full of true human happiness and love by exhibiting the message for freedom and peace of the humankind through performance.

Her works mainly adapts the humanity and the nature as subjects and have been evaluated as a fresh storm through her attempt at new choreography of 'Raining on the Dried Earth', her first work of 1994. Her principal works include 'Sun-rising Country', 'Early Riser Can See the Sunrise', 'Jeokmyulbogung' and so on. Her artistic material and techniques have been reflected in her works are being realized through teaching students in college and the performance. The dance comes to us as a shamanism at first, the art and now as the therapy; Hyekyung Sim translates the role of dance to mankind as the therapy becomes a part of human life then brings us the true happiness through both physical and spiritual health.

She has involved in creative activity at home and taken a main role as the ambassador introducing traditional Korean arts and cultures to the world with touring performances in Hawaii, Russia, Taiwan, EU, Japan, Canada and the United States. v