Chaery Moon

As a dance maker, performer, and dance educator, Chaery Moon shares her internal thoughts and feelings through body motion. Working across live performance and new media, she mixes elements from both Eastern and Western cultures in creating work. Capturing time, exploring transitions, and expressing intent are inherent in her movement vocabulary, which melds ballet and contemporary dance.

Throughout her creative procedures, she embraces and trusts the unknown, freely allowing a nebulous idea to evolve into a concrete interpretation. She cherishes collaborating with other genres of artists in order to catapult her sequences of body movement into a deeper realm, surrounded by light, sound, and visual design.

Moon believes that a good artist is not just a good mover but a compassionate, generous, and respectful citizen of the world. She stands on the shoulders of her mentors who came before her and hopes to become one for the younger artists who wish to push the needle forward.

She won the Tanzolymp in Berlin in 2007 and earned her BFA from The Juilliard School, then danced professionally with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon in France. She returned to academia and the U.S. and holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She founded her company, Chaery Moon Dance(CMD), in 2017 and has presented several dance works and films in New York, New Jersey, L.A., and South Korea. Moon received a grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts and an artist in residency at Downtown Brooklyn and Leimay. Her collaboration work has been shown at Schön! Magazine, Vogue Hong Kong, and her writing has been published in Dance and People, and Dance magazine in South Korea.

contact

thecmdance@gmail.com