Mingjun Han

Mingjun Han (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer from China, now living and creating in New York City. Trained in Chinese classical and folk dance, as well as contemporary movement, she blends tradition with tech—exploring how bodies, identities, and digital systems move together. Her work often plays with the glitchy space between the physical and the virtual, asking what it means to perform through both. She has performed and presented work at Movement Research at Judson Church, La MaMa, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dance Parade New York, Aranya Theatre Festival, UCCA, and Song Art Gallery.

Project Title: Bodies in Glitch: Choreographing Split Embodiment in Real-Time Digital Performance

Project Description: “Bodies in Glitch” examines how real-time digital performance—using motion-capture technology and interactive avatars—reshapes both choreographic practice and the experience of embodiment. Through live interaction between a dancer’s physical body and its digital counterpart, the project explores “split embodiment”: a perceptual condition in which the performer simultaneously inhabits both corporeal and virtual forms. Rather than aiming for seamless synchronization, this project embraces glitches, latency, and misalignment as generative disruptions. These moments of disruption expose underlying infrastructural biases and highlight moments of “transcriptional loss.” By bringing these breakdowns to the foreground, the project reframes digital choreography as a site of critical inquiry into agency, legibility, and the politics of mediated embodiment.