Yumi Lee
Yumi Lee is an Ireland based professional dancer, improviser and performer. Yumi holds a MA degree in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She started ballet training at 6 years old in South Korea and additionally trained in jazz, traditional dance, aerial dance and contemporary dance. She has worked as yoga, aerial yoga and pilates instructor in Gwangju and Seoul, South Korea. After completing her education in South Korea, she has been training contemporary dance and capoeira in the UK, Germany, Austria, Poland and Ireland. Yumi is continuing her career by using her knowledge and experience from different movement backgrounds such as ballet, traditional Korean dance, contemporary dance, release technique, yoga, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Taekwondo, capoeira, flying low, floor work, somatics, spiral dynamics, dance theatre and contact improvisation. Since her graduation, she has been working as a freelance dancer. She did a Wave project with Winona Lin, who is a contemporary musician based in Berlin. Also, she worked on a screen dance project which was directed by Fei Wu and was nominated at Albania Dance Meeting-Festival. She was invited as a guest lecturer from the University of Limerick to work with MA students. She has performed in Dēmos and the Dēmos Films of Separation and Togetherness with Liz Roche Company for Dublin Dance Festival 2021/The Abbey Theatre and Uillinn Dance Season 2021.