Kim Ip

Kim Ip is a New Zealand born, Queer femme, Chinese American choreographer and movement artist based in the Bay Area. Aesthetically, Kim’s choreography is inspired by femme fatales of film noir and video vixens of pop culture. Kim’s artistic research lives in creating intergenerational spaces, long term friendships with elders, and improvisational practices that feel simultaneously caring for the self and the collective. She seeks to ask questions that create more questions and less answers??? cultural poetics?! She has received residencies from Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, SafeHouse, and CounterPulse. She’s received commissions from Edge on the Square, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, CounterPulse, B4BEL4B Gallery, and Gray Area. Kim is incredibly humbled and honoured to be working alongside her first artistic home–CounterPulse.