Co-presented by Korean Cultural Center New York and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
(Broadway between 62nd St. & 63rd St., New York, NY 10023)

Tickets: Free (General admission, first-come first-served)
*The line will form at the Atrium’s entrance on Broadway, between 62nd and 63rd Street.

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K-pop music has already influenced every kind of contemporary sound, from the Billboard charts to the Broadway stage. Now, in collaboration with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, K-pop's unstoppable beats and powerful melodies take over Lincoln Center for a dance party series designed for all fans of the genre.

Moobek (aka DJ Y.U.P.), an award-winning South Korean EDM producer and international touring DJ, brings 22 years of experience playing hip-hop, EDM, and top-40 mainstream to the Atrium dance floor. After spending years touring Asia's most prestigious clubs and global festivals, Moobek permanently relocated from South Korea to the U.S. in 2015.

The evening begins with a short movement tutorial from a Korean popping dancer LOBEL, so bring a friend or meet a new one on the dance floor and prepare to live out all your K-pop dreams!

The event is approximately 2 hours.

◆ DJ Moobek

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/moobek/
Website https://www.moobek.com/

MOOBEK (aka DJ Y.U.P.) is an award-winning South Korean EDM producer and international touring DJ. MOOBEK’s combined 22 years of experience playing hip-hop, EDM, and top-40 mainstream, makes him a true open format DJ.

Hailing from the underground club scene in South Korea, MOOBEK started his career showcasing his art at some of Korea’s original nightclubs. His talent landed him residencies at two of Seoul’s most prestigious clubs, and soon thereafter led him to perform at many of South Korea’s major global festivals including Ultra Music Festival, World DJ Festival, the Yeosu Expo, Pentaport Rock Festival, and Samsung’s Summer Wave Festival.

MOOBEK’s international bookings include global festivals and high-profile nightclubs in South Korea, Canada, Vietnam, Japan, Philippines, China, Taiwan, Macau, Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia. After spending many years touring Asia, Moobek permanently relocated from South Korea to the United States in 2015 to further his music career.

Since relocating to America, MOOBEK has found success DJing in major cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Hawaii, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco and parts of Canada. Moobek made waves in Las Vegas, once opening for RL Grime at XS Nightclub and also Djing at the Safe in Sound Festival at the Brooklyn Bowl with Flux Pavilion, Destructo and Cvked Up. In 2019, Moobek performed at the Paradiso Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington.

Currently, MOOBEK has multiple residencies in nightclubs in Seattle, including Super Nova and Lucky Strike. In 2022, after the re-opening of festivals from the pandemic, he traveled back to South Korea to perform at the Vector Festival in Daegu, South Korea. Since January 2023, MOOBEK has been touring with Souljaboy in major US cities with the tour ending in September in Los Angeles, California.

◆ LOBEL

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lobelbylobel/

GYEUN JEONG aka Lobel is a South Korean dancer specializing in popping who started her professional dance career after she trained Popping with Lia Kim (1million CEO) since 2008.

For years, she studied various dance forms such as Popping, hip-hop, jazz, african, tap, house, ballet. While she still lived in Seoul, Lobel worked for DOREMI media entertainment as a dance trainer for singers/artists and several teaching jobs for developing teaching experience.

Since moving to NYC in 2010, Lobel has performed at the Apollo Theater (Amateur night at the Apollo TV show), Guggenheim (works&process), Lincoln Center, Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival at Alvin Ailey Theater, Carnival Choreographer's Ball at HighLine Ballroom, Grey Group live performance at Whitney Museum, KCON at Javits Center, Madison Square and many more.

She has been recognized in the dance community as choreographer, performer, teacher, judge widely since pushing her way through any hardship and she started her career more varieties of dance work for TV/Commercial such as Carolina Herrera ,Bluemercurry, PhilipMorris Broadcasting worldwide, Adidas and many more. Furthermore, During her teaching career, she had great opportunity to be featured on BBC News as teacher, choreographer through Bornstar training center, also The korean New York Daily News as a K-Pop instructor in New York City (2018). In the meantime, She has been teaching for EXPG NYC, Nike x Beat, Liberate Artists, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Capezio center, Born Star training center, as well as in different states, Canada, and across Europe for dance workshops.

Lobel is also a prominent dancer in the street dance circuit. She judged several events such as Ladies of hip hop, Channel flex, NYFE, many more in different states and currently battled worldwide dance competition awarded Top3 at Red Bull’s Dance Your Style Boston (2019). She has previously shown her impact at competition Freestyle session in LA (2014), StepYaGameUp (NYC) among other international dance competitions.

K-Pop Dance Night with DJ Moobek