Winter Warming Seoul 2027 - Countertechnique

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WINTER WARMING SEOUL 2027 – SPECIAL EDITION

4 – 8 January 2027 at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul

With Countertechnique Founder Anouk van Dijk and Senior Teacher Na-ye Kim!

For the first time, Winter Warming comes to Asia! This special edition, five-day Countertechnique workshop is organised in collaboration with SKKU Dance and Countertechnique Senior Teacher / SKKU Professor, Na-ye Kim.

This workshop offers fresh fuel for the year ahead. How to add longevity to your dance career? How to keep things interesting for yourself? Our ever-changing bodies need different care and stimulation every single day, and in this workshop we explore how to sustain a positive, creative work ethic, even when circumstances are not in our favour.

Each day begins with a Countertechnique class, followed by a Practical Tools session introducing a new focus daily. After lunch, we bring these tools into creation and performance, exploring how specific tools and tasks can support us beyond the class format – in rehearsal, on stage, and in daily life. Building on Anouk's choreographic practice, we explore different entry points into making and performing: combining tasks and emotional states, imagery and reality, and weaving improvisation into set composition – and vice versa. The afternoons also include choreographic material Anouk van Dijk developed during her tenure as Artistic Director of Chunky Move.

Winter Warming is designed for professional dance artists and senior dance students seeking inspiration to contribute to the creative process, and keep dancing interesting while fostering a healthy, joyful work ethic. Be prepared to work proactively, think creatively, and perform at a high physical level.

Translation of the classes into Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese will be available.

Participation is by application. Scholarships are available.

DATES

Mon 4 – Fri 8 January 2027
Daily from approximately 10:00 to 16:15 (incl. 45-minute lunch break). On Monday 4 January, we start at 09:00 with registration and a welcome at 9.30. Participants must be able to attend the entire period.

Important: entering Korea (K-ETA). Korea's temporary K-ETA exemption currently ends on 31 December 2026, and the workshop starts on 4 January 2027. Rules may change, so please check the official K-ETA website (www.k-eta.go.kr) and the Korean embassy in your country well in advance, and apply for a K-ETA or visa in good time if it is required. The K-ETA fee is about USD 7–8 and processing is generally within 72 hours, but please allow extra time. This is general information, not immigration advice.

DAILY SCHEDULE (PROVISIONAL)

Mornings, 10:00 – 13:45: Countertechnique class and Practical Tools session
Lunch break
Afternoons, 14:30 – 16:15: creation and performance sessions, with daily themes such as Shifting Attention, Seeing, Space & Repertoire, and Structure and Toolbox
Friday 8 January: Countertechnique class with Anouk van Dijk and Na-ye Kim, Practical Tools wrap-up and a closing Creative Workshop

The schedule is provisional and may still change. Participants will receive the final schedule before the start of the workshop.

PROGRAM FEES

Full price: 550,000 KRW.
Early-bird price: 500,000 KRW (until 22 November 2026).

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are available, primarily to support participants from low-income countries within Asia, participants from Asia with relatively high additional costs for travel and accommodation, and/or participants from Asia with a low income. Further criteria include the overall diversity and level of the participant group.

Scholarships range from 5 to 50% of the participation fee; only in exceptional cases will a scholarship cover 75% or 100% of the participation fee. Scholarships apply to the participation fee only; all participants cover their own travel, housing and other expenses. You can indicate on the application form if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. Scholarships are awarded at the organisation's discretion.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for Winter Warming Seoul via the online application form: https://form.jotform.com/263012706561046. The form is available in multiple languages. Applications are processed upon submission; you will generally hear about your acceptance within 5 days.

LOCATION

Winter Warming Seoul will be held at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, South Korea.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Read the full Terms & Conditions, including the cancellation policy and answers to frequently asked questions, here: https://eu.jotform.com/app/263013154425447.

Can't make it to Seoul? Winter Warming continues in New York, 29 – 31 January 2027 at Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn. More information here.

WINTER WARMING SEOUL 2027 FACULTY

Anouk van Dijk

Anouk van Dijk is a choreographer, artistic director and the creator of the movement system, Countertechnique. From 2012 - 2019, she was the Artistic Director of renowned contemporary dance company Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia. Currently Anouk van Dijk works internationally as a freelance choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Countertechnique.

Anouk van Dijk spent the first ten years of her career as a lead soloist for Rotterdam Dance Company and Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company. From early on, she was attracted to choreography and from the late nineties committed herself exclusively to the conception, creation and performance of her own work. In 1999, Van Dijk founded her own company, anoukvandijk dc, dedicated to creating work that sought to provide an insight into the many facets of the human experience through the lens of contemporary dance.

During her tenure of Artistic Director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia, she created several large scale productions, amongst others An Act of Now (2012), Complexity of Belonging (2014, with Falk Richter), Depth of Field (2015), Rule of Thirds (2016), Common Ground (2018). In recent years, she created amongst other Distant Matter for Staatsballet Berlin, followed by the multi-disciplinairy show TOUCH with writer/director Falk Richter at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany, and a Out of the Blue for Skånes Dansteater / Malmö Opera in Sweden, a large-scale work on music from Bach to Björk with the Malmö Opera Orchestra and Children's Choir. This year, Anouk has been created works for the Hessische Staatsballett, Theater Münster, and the cross-disciplinary collaboration with writer/director Falk Richter, A Perfect Sky, for SchauSpielhaus Hamburg.

In her career Anouk van Dijk has created more than thirty full-length works that toured the world’s leading festivals and venues including Adelaide Festival, Sydney Opera House, Schaubuehne Berlin, Dance Triennale Tokyo, American Dance Festival, Theater der Welt (Hamburg), SPRING International Performing Arts Festival and Festival d'Avignon.

Na-ye Kim

Born and based in South Korea, Na-ye Kim resides in Seoul. She has been studying Countertechnique in-depth since 2019, including attending two One Body, One Career intensives and participating in the Countertechnique Teacher Training program in 2021 and 2022, and became Senior Countertechnique teacher upon completion of her third training in 2025.

Na-ye Kim is a dance artist, educator, and scholar. She trained in classical ballet at The Royal Ballet School and earned a BA (Hons) in Dance Education from Durham University (UK). In 2006, she completed her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (USA). She has performed extensively on international stages, including with Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance, and has also worked with renowned American choreographers such as Gerald Casel, Aszure Barton, Karole Armitage, Bill Young, Kyle Abraham, Bridget L. Moore in New York.

Na-ye furthered her academic pursuits with a PhD in Dance Education from Seoul National University (Korea). She served as a full-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2016 to 2019 and is now the Chair of the Department of Dance and an Associate Professor of Contemporary Dance at Sungkyunkwan University (Korea). She also leads her project company, Na-ye Kim Movement Collective (NKMC). Her research focuses on contemporary dance, choreography, and creativity in pedagogy.