Movement Migration has been awarded two grants from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. →

On this edition of Charlotte Talks… A conversation on being Asian American or Pacific Islander in Charlotte as experienced and expressed through the arts.

Associate professor Kim Jones resurrects forgotten Korean dancer Choi Seung Hee.

Artistic Director Kim Jones is reconstructing and reimagining the choreography of Choi Seung Hee, Korea’s first female modern dancer.

Journal Article Highlights Movement Migration’s Inclusive Virtual Dance Classes.

Artistic Director Kim Jones is researching lost works of Korea’s first modern dancer.

Kim Jones, the artistic director of Movement Migration, is a wonderful teacher who lights up the virtual room whenever she enters it. Kim made these classes affordable for everyone whilst bringing in world-renowned staff to teach.

The chemistry between these dancers smoldered from start to finish. By the denouement, you wanted to know more about these dancers and this dance.

La compañía de danza Movement Migration con base en Charlotte, NC bajo la dirección de Kim Jones llevará a cabo el 19 de junio un programa con danza tradicional colombiana, danza social latina y danza moderna estadounidense para el público en un intercambio cultural animado a través del movimiento y los sabores.

Movement Migration will receive support for a summer workshop and performance that bridges traditional and social Latin Dance forms and American modern dance, embedding the traditional forms in their historical context and exploring their interplay with modern concert dance.

“I was looking for something fun to do during lockdown,” Jones said, explaining how she came to lead an international online dance school during the coronavirus pandemic.

The first week of North Carolina's shelter-in-place order, Kim Jones, artistic director of Movement Migration, took to her dance company's social media.

Movement Migration is thankful to receive The Arts & Science Council (ASC) Technical Assistance Grant, Charlotte, NC.

Accompanied by the Bechtler Ensemble, with conductor Alan Yamamoto, these works are choreographed and performed by Movement Migration, a new dance collective led by UNC Charlotte Associate Professor Kim Jones.

UNC Charlotte associate professor of dance Kim Jones and Kamara met in 2018 at Orsolina 28, a dance retreat. Jones, a régisseur for the Martha Graham Resource Center as well as founder and artistic director of Movement Migration, invited Kamara to Charlotte for a two-week residence that starts this month.

You could call this collective the brainchild of Kim Jones, the UNCC associate professor of dance who founded it and serves as artistic director. But Movement Migration really succeeds because of a groupthink infrequently found in the dance world.

One dance company, Movement Migration, is driving the power of dance to illuminate many lives internationally.

“[They have] the desire to continue dancing no matter what,” White-McGuire, a former principal of the Graham company herself as well as active choreographer in New York City and beyond, said. “Something in them has to keep dancing to be fully alive.”

This perfomance demonstrates our interest in a variety of dance styles and expressions. We are delighted to open the performance with the premiere of Lullaby-The Stories We Tell, choreographed by acclaimed artist Blakeley White-McGuire, at the DAP Festival.

The Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company will perform Tracer, a 1962 work by Paul Taylor that was reconstructed by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City on Wednesday, September 6.