Established in 2026, the Korean Heritage Performing Arts Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing Korean traditional performing arts through education, performances, and cultural exchange. Our mission is to share the beauty and value of Korea's cultural heritage with mainstream American society and communities around the world.
To preserve and advance Korean traditional performing arts; to pass Korea's cultural heritage on to future generations; to promote the beauty and value of Korean culture throughout mainstream American society and the global community; and to foster cultural understanding, diversity, and mutual respect through performance, education, cultural exchange, and community engagement.
That the arts connect people across generations and cultures. We create meaningful opportunities for future generations and diverse communities to experience and appreciate Korean culture, and — working with schools, museums, performing arts centers, cultural organizations, and community institutions — grow into a platform that speaks with the world.
We preserve and celebrate Korea's living traditions — traditional dance, music, drumming, and folk arts — and safeguard their original form through research and documentation.
International exchange and collaborative projects, together with partnerships with schools, museums, performing arts centers, and cultural organizations, foster cultural diversity and mutual understanding.
School residencies, workshops, and youth scholarship initiatives pass our cultural heritage on to future generations.
Performance, education, community, exchange, and artist support — our programs are built to lead into one another, so that a single stage leaves a record and the record becomes teaching.
We believe that traditional arts are not simply a legacy of the past, but a living heritage that inspires future generations. By sharing Korea's artistic traditions with the world, we seek to strengthen communities, promote intercultural understanding, and ensure that Korea's cultural heritage continues to thrive for generations to come.
The Foundation was established in 2026 to bring Korean traditional performing arts to mainstream American society and to communities around the world. Traditional dance, music, drumming, and folk arts run too deep to be introduced in a single visiting performance — and those who wish to learn need a place to do so.
So performance, education, and cultural exchange live within one organization. Working in partnership with schools, museums, performing arts centers, cultural organizations, and community institutions, we expand access to Korean traditional arts throughout American education and the arts, pass this heritage on to future generations, and grow into a platform that connects with the world.
Founder & President, Korean Heritage Performing Arts Foundation · Director and Artistic Director, Korean Traditional Dance of Choomnoori (KTDOC)
Eunhee Ahn is a traditional artist and arts educator. A graduate of the Department of Dance at Dankook University, she has built a career in performance, choreography and teaching rooted in Korean traditional dance, in Korea and abroad.
She began her professional dance career in Korea in the 1990s and performed on international stages including the Kremlin Theatre in Russia and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, before moving to the United States in 1999.
In 2008 she founded the Korean Traditional Dance of Choomnoori (KTDOC), an academy and dance company in New Jersey, where she continues to teach and perform Korean dance and traditional percussion. Through performances and education programs at American public schools, universities, government agencies and cultural institutions, she introduces Korean culture and nurtures the next generation of traditional artists.
She currently studies the Chae Hyang-soon style of traditional dance and serves as New Jersey Branch Director of the Chae Hyang-soon Dance Preservation Society.
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