Miri Lee is an Amsterdam-based imprographer and choreographer working across dance, visual art, theatre, film, literature, and science art. She has developed Imprography as an embodied method of real-time composition in which perception, choice, and composition unfold simultaneously. Her work uses frameworks that focus attention while leaving the outcome open.

Based in the Netherlands since 2008, Lee brings a body trained in Korean traditional dance into sustained dialogue with European improvisation practices. In 2008, she undertook a one-year apprenticeship with Katie Duck’s Magpie Music Dance Company and subsequently assisted Duck’s workshops for a decade while developing her own teaching practice. She has sustained long artistic exchanges with improvisation artists Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, and Jack Gallagher, and has taken part in more than 200 improvised performances with artists from many disciplines.

Music is integral to Lee’s compositional practice. Her collaborators include Oene van Geel, Kate Moore, Michael Moore, Raoul van der Weide, Philipp Rüttgers, Kapok, Doek Collective, Sonic Perspectives, and White Noise Orchestra. In these collaborations, movement and sound carry equal compositional authority.

Her longest artistic collaboration in visual art is with Jennifer Tee. Since 2011, Lee has created performances within Tee’s exhibitions, including Still Shifting, Mother Field, the Let It Come Down series, Star Crossed, Concrete Interior, Rugs and Bones, and Women’s Mind. These works have been presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Manifesta 11 in Zurich, Secession in Vienna, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, and ISCP in New York.

In theatre, Lee performed in Julian Hetzel’s Still / The Economy of Waiting and Sculpting Fear, which premiered at the Spring Performing Arts Festival, toured European venues, and returned to Frascati Theater in 2024. With filmmaker Emilia Tapprest, she co-directed Ineffable Shape: The Shape of Language, which premiered at Tempel Amsterdam alongside live improvised performance and was officially selected for the New Dutch section of Cinedans FEST 2025 at Eye Filmmuseum.

Her interdisciplinary practice also extends into science, media, and technology through collaborations with EU Metabody, STEIM, Dablab, Chris Salter, and TeZ Maurizio. These projects explore relationships between the body, perception, sound, and technology. In literature, she contributed writing and video to Jongkag Park’s Come Down City as part of the Nieuw Babylon project in 2021.

Lee founded Collectief Imprography in Amsterdam in 2018 and curates Co-Session, an ongoing performance series presented at Splendor. She is also the founder of IMDL (Improvised Music Dance Laboratory) and Imprography Laboratory, through which she develops performance, research, and training around real-time composition. Her international exchanges include collaborations with IPAPI and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company.

Across performance, teaching, and curation, Lee creates conditions in which artists with distinct practices can compose together while retaining their individual voices.