We were lucky to catch up with Euseon Song recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Euseon thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

To be honest, yes!!!! sometimes I do wonder. Especially when a project ends and the silence feels too loud, or when I face rejection after rejection during auditions. As an international student in LA, there are moments of deep uncertainty and loneliness.

The last time I really questioned everything was after I suffered a serious lower back injury in 2020. I had just finished a project with the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, and suddenly, I couldn’t move like I used to. I spent weeks in bed, not just healing physically but also wrestling with fear and doubt.

But through that time, I came to a powerful realization “Even when I’m still, the art inside me doesn’t stop”.

Art isn’t just a profession for me, it’s how I exist in the world. I create, even in my daily life. I notice things, I feel deeply, I connect. That’s what makes me a creative soul. So yes, the path isn’t easy. But it’s mine. I’m not only an artist or a performer, I’m becoming a well-rounded storyteller. And despite the challenges, that makes me truly happy.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

About Me – My Story, My Work, and What Sets Me Apart

Hi, I’m Euseon Song—a Korean-born performer currently based in Los Angeles. My artistic path began with ballet at the age of ten, shifted to contemporary dance during my teenage years, and has now evolved into acting. I don’t define myself by a single form. Instead, I’m drawn to the intersections—between body and voice, between movement and language, between stillness and story.

I trained extensively in dance, attending arts high school and university in Korea. I’ve performed across genres and continents—from the musical Mozart Opera Rock to being a trainee at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel. My background as a dancer shaped how I understand the world: through sensation, rhythm, and the unspoken.

But over time, I longed to express more—more voice, more text, more character. That’s what led me to acting. I’m currently pursuing my MFA in Acting at California Institute of the Arts, where I focus on integrating my physical background with emotional and vocal storytelling.

What I offer isn’t a “product” in the traditional sense. I offer experiences—through performance, through presence, through stories shared in movement or in words. My work explores the blurry space where emotion lives in the body, and where truth reveals itself through both silence and speech.

What sets me apart is this hybrid identity: I’m a trained dancer, a developing actor, and a bilingual artist navigating across cultures and disciplines. I don’t just perform—I embody. I bring breath, sensation, and authenticity into each moment. And having made the leap from a stable dance career in Korea to starting over in the U.S., I carry the resilience of someone who chose uncertainty for the sake of growth.

Right now, I’m preparing for an upcoming solo performance titled “Dream of Salmon,” which will premiere in early June in Ohio. This will be the first time I take the stage as both choreographer and solo performer. The piece draws from the image of a salmon—returning upstream against the current, led by instinct and memory. In many ways, that’s how I feel as an artist: constantly moving through unfamiliar spaces, trying to return to something essential.

Dream of Salmon is a deeply personal work about origin, identity, resistance, and emotional migration. It uses a minimalist movement language—built on repetition, breath, and stillness—to express what cannot be spoken. It’s a story of going back to move forward, and I hope to share something raw and honest with the audience.

What I’m most proud of isn’t a specific role or stage—it’s the fact that I didn’t give up. When I left Korea, followed my husband to LA, and started over in a new language and field, it would’ve been easy to step back. But I chose to trust the unknown. And every step since has felt meaningful.

If I could share one message with readers, it would be this:
“Your story doesn’t have to fit neatly into one category. You’re allowed to change. To begin again. To evolve”.
And often, that’s where the most powerful stories come from.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

During the pandemic, I had the opportunity to explore a new way of engaging with art through a performance titled The Prequel. In this work, I collaborated with a sculptor, Gwon O-sang, to create three performances and one video piece. What made this project unique was that it intentionally incorporated NFT technology—leveraging blockchain to highlight the scarcity and ownership of live performance as a digital asset.

We aimed to preserve the ephemeral nature of movement and acting by issuing performance footage as an NFT-based art piece. In other words, we transformed scenes from the live performance into video works that could be owned and collected. This experience helped me understand how performance—traditionally fleeting and unrepeatable—could take on a new form of permanence through digital tools.

Even at a time when the performing arts faced an unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19, the essence of live performance did not disappear. Instead, it evolved. Experiencing how the “finite” could become “infinite” through NFTs gave me hope and inspiration. I now believe future performances can be even more innovative and diverse, bridging technology with embodied experience.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me, the most rewarding aspect of being an artist is witnessing how art can spark awareness, reflection, and even action. I’m deeply interested in the social function of art, especially its ability to generate a virtuous cycle of thought and response within society. That’s why I’m often drawn to immersive performances and documentary theater forms—they allow the audience to not just observe, but participate, reflect, and sometimes carry what they experienced into real-life decisions and perspectives.

One powerful example was in 2018, when I presented a piece titled Hegemony at the Gwangju Media Art Festival in Korea. The work centered around the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement. The choreographer interviewed survivors of the event, recorded their voices, and embedded those recordings into a mannequin installation. The closer an audience member got, the louder the voices became—creating a physical and emotional intimacy with history. Alongside the installation, I performed a text-based piece, and the installation remained on display for 10 days. Many audience members said the experience deeply moved them and made them think more critically about history and truth.

I’m inspired by this kind of work—art that doesn’t just make you feel something vague, but invites you to think, engage, and act. I’m passionate about projects that address social or environmental issues, and I believe art has a unique ability to deliver political messages not through caricature, but with sincerity, depth, and clarity.

This is when I feel most alive as a creator—when I see that my work has opened someone’s mind or made them pause to reconsider something they once overlooked. That’s the kind of impact I hope to continue pursuing through future works.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.euseonsong.com/
• Instagram: @you__sunnny
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/euseon.song/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtBySun

Image Credits
(Photo 1&2) Play “Mother Courage and Her Children” Directed by Ilse Castro Corona, Role: Katrin (3) “Hegemonie” Choreographer: Su Kyung Yoo, Role: Researcher&Dancer (4) “The Prequel-Reclining Figure” Choreographer: Sun Young Lim, Role: Contemporary Dancer (5) “This and That” Choreographer: Yun A Kim, Role: Contemporary Dancer (6) MSGM – Model & Live Performer (7) Modeling (8&9) KCDC as a Contemporary Dancer