Na-ye Kim is a choreographer, educator, and performer from Seoul, Korea. She holds a BA in Dance Education from Durham University, an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a PhD in Dance Education from Seoul National University. She has performed internationally with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and worked with leading choreographers including Gerald Casel, Aszure Barton, and Kyle Abraham. From 2016 to 2019, she was a full-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is currently Associate Professor of Contemporary Dance at Sungkyunkwan University and Artistic Director of her project-based company, NKMC. Founded in 2014, NKMC engages with artists across disciplines, exploring the everyday spaces we inhabit and the mundane rhythms of life by examining human relationships through collaborative, multidisciplinary performance.