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PAMS

PAMS Salon

Forum and talk sessions exploring key trends and diverse perspectives in the performing arts in Korea and abroad.

PAMS Salon
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This program shares key trends and issues in the performing arts both in Korea and abroad, while exploring new possibilities for practice and collaboration through diverse perspectives and experiences shared by professionals.

This year, PAMS Salon features sessions led by performing arts professionals, salons in collaboration with the Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF), and salons presented by international partner organizations. Covering production and circulation, theatres and cities, and locality and sustainability, the program explores current changes and new possibilities in the performing arts.

※ PAMS participants can take part in PAMS Salon free of charge.

10.13(Tue) 탭 내용 시작

[PAMSxSPAF] Changes in the International Environment and New Activities in the Performing Arts
  • Schedule 10.13.(Tue) 14:30 ~ 16:00
  • Venue Daloreum Theater (NTOK)

[Building a Sustainable Performing Arts Ecosystem through the Expansion of Production and Circulation] The development and circulation of repertoire are essential for artists and arts organizations. However, sustainable circulation within the global performing arts landscape requires a more multifaceted approach. This includes innovative approaches to support by funding bodies, long-term production and circulation strategies for artists, collaborative frameworks among festivals and venues that bring these works to the stage, and the role of producers in coordinating these processes. To establish genre-specific strategies for production and circulation, along with the support systems needed to sustain them, this session will examine key practices and examples from different stakeholders and countries and discuss the practical steps needed to move forward.

Curator
Jisun Park Producer Group DOT / Producer
Panel
Sarah Conn National Creation Fund / Artistic Producer
Kyu Choi SPAF / Artistic Director
Bobo Lee West Kowloon Cultural District Authority(HK) / Senior Producer
Kate McGrath Fuel(UK) / Artistic Director & CEO

10.14(Wed) 탭 내용 시작

After the Curtain Falls: How Does It Live On?
  • Schedule 10.14.(Wed) 10:00 ~ 11:30
  • Venue Haneul Round Theater (NTOK)

For decades, the international distribution of performing arts has primarily meant the physical movement of productions across borders through touring. Yet within a funding and production ecosystem that places strong emphasis on creating new work, even outstanding productions can disappear after only a handful of performances. This raises fundamental questions about the long-term sustainability of the field. This salon seeks to expand the concept of distribution beyond short-term touring focused on new productions. We look at the entire arc—from initial creative processes, including ideas, choreographic vocabularies, and directorial aesthetics, to localized re-creations and re-plays. This session aims to explore practical approaches to sustaining performing arts IP long after the stage is cleared, through the circulation of intangible assets, copyright licensing, cross-industry collaborations, and local adaptations.

Curator
Euna Im HOMI / Producer A planner by nature, drawn to thinking things through, expanding ideas, and bringing them into order. With a background in the cultural and arts sector, has worked in various roles—as an advertising planner, a performing arts and festival planner, and a policy planner at organizations including the Korea Arts Management Service, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now working as a freelance planner and writer, drawing on years of experience and skills across different fields, while continuing to write about the experiences, thoughts, and questions that emerge from work and life.
Panel
Pat To Yan Playwright Active in Hong Kong and German theatre, Pat To Yan is a playwright, director, and educator. Currently Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre, former House Author at National theater Mannheim and Literary Art Chairman of HKADC, Pat To Yan was selected for Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt as the first ethnic Chinese playwright with A Concise History of Future China. The Cantonese play White Blaze of the Morning won Best Play at Hong Kong Theatre Libre, with seven plays translated into German and performed on international stages.
Kerstin Schroth Liikkeellä Marraskuussa Festival / Artistic Director Kerstin Schroth is a curator and artistic director working across contemporary dance and the performing arts. Since 2020, she has been the Artistic Director of Helsinki’s international contemporary dance festival Moving in November. Her curatorial practice focuses on creating encounters between international and local artistic practices, and on rethinking the festival as a space for hosting, exchange and collective experience. Schroth previously spent 13 years building and managing Great Investment, the company of choreographer Mette Ingvartsen, and has worked extensively across Europe as a curator, producer and mentor. She also lectures at universities and arts institutions, sharing her experience in curating, international collaboration, production, distribution and organisational development. Her work brings together artistic programming, international exchange, organisational development and a sustained interest in how artists, audiences and institutions can meet.
Boram Kim Ambiguous Dance Company / Choreographer
Hyungjun Cho Ansan Cultural Foundation / Head of the Performance Planning Department Currently Head of the Performance Planning Department at the Ansan Cultural Foundation. Having worked with basic arts as a producer for a Daehangno theater company and the Arko Arts Theater, and with independent arts as a programmer for the Seoul Fringe Festival, they went on to serve as production PD for the musicals The Sorrows of Young Werther and Carmen, before expanding into producing for regional public performing arts venues. They discovered the potential of the musical The Legendary Little Basketball Team and led its creation and production. Through a partnership with a commercial production company, the work became the first production by a regional foundation to secure an open-ended run in Daehangno, Seoul's theater district, and went on to tour nationally and abroad, proving the reach of regionally produced content. Proposing a "synapse model" in which public theaters serve as points of connection between regions, they aim to build a value chain for the performing arts ecosystem through connection and interaction.
[Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse] Hybrid Horizons: Contemporary Performing Arts from Belgium
  • Schedule 10.14.(Wed) 10:30 ~ 12:00
  • Venue Central Yunit, Ground F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

This session introduces diverse creative practices and international activities in contemporary performing arts from Belgium. Focusing on artists and works from Wallonia-Brussels, it presents key artistic practices and explores opportunities for exchange and collaboration with performing arts professionals in Korea and beyond.

Beyond the Venue: Rethinking Performing Arts and the City
  • Schedule 10.14.(Wed) 11:30 ~ 13:00
  • Venue 3F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

How far can theatre extend beyond the physical boundaries of a venue? Today, the performing arts increasingly move beyond conventional theatre spaces, engaging with diverse urban spaces, people, and cultural resources to create new relationships and experiences. In this salon, “Liquid Theatre” is a term inspired by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of “Liquid Modernity.” It invites us to imagine theatre not as a fixed venue, but as something whose functions of creation, production, mediation, and connection can fluidly extend into diverse spaces and relationships across the city. Through the experiences of artists and producers working in different cities and contexts, we will explore how the performing arts can form new relationships with the city, and what new possibilities these relationships might open up for both the performing arts and urban life.

Curator
Eun-hye Yang STUDIOGRACE / Executive Producer
Panel
Ja-yun Gu Sejong Center / Team Leader
Stefan Czura Ruhrtriennale / Artistic Advisor The Ruhrtriennale is one of Europe’s leading international festivals for music theatre, drama, dance, performance and visual arts. Since 2002, it has taken place every year in late summer (August/September), transforming former industrial sites across the Ruhr region—such as coal mines, coking plants, steelworks and slag heaps—into unique venues for artistic productions.
Rainer Hofmann Holland Festival / Senior Programmer Rainer Hofmann has a long-standing career as programmer, dramaturg and producer. Since 2025 he works as senior programmer for theatre and dance at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. Before, he was head of programming at KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hannover (2021-2024) after having been director of SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 2013 to 2021. Earlier has been working for theatres and festivals in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, amongst them Theater der Welt (Mülheim/Ruhr, Essen), Festival Politics in Off Theatre (Cologne), Schauspiel Köln (all Germany), Stadttheater Bern, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich and Theater Neumarkt Zürich (all Switzerland). The focus of Rainer Hofmann has mostly been interdisciplinary and innovative work. Next to these jobs he has been active in juries and committees and as a writer of articles on theatre-related issues for publications and media in different countries.
[Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting(YPAM)] Two Perspectives on Japan’s Independent Theatre and Its Creative Landscape
  • Schedule 10.14.(Wed) 13:00 ~ 14:30
  • Venue Central Yunit, Ground F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

Two producers introduce two artists with distinct perspectives and artistic practices, offering a glimpse into contemporary theatre in Japan. Kensuke Seto Cameron has been involved in theatre management and programme planning at Ogimachi Museum Cube (OMC) since its opening in 2023. He also works independently as a dramaturg and producer. In this programme, he introduces Tomoki Kawamura, a playwright and director based in Nara Prefecture. Kawamura’s dialogue-driven works, which make use of Kansai dialects, explore human relationships, physical expression, and collaborations that cross genre boundaries. Tomoko Konuma worked for 18 years at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, and Owlspot Theatre, and is now an independent producer. In this programme, she introduces Takashi Masuyama, a playwright, director, and actor based in Osaka and a fourth-generation Zainichi Korean. Influenced by Japanese popular and underground cultures, his work moves across a range of genres and forms. Both producers participate in the International Performing Arts Coordinator Training Programme organized by the Japan Association of Public Cultural Facilities (Kobunkyo), as well as YPAM.

10.15(Thu) 탭 내용 시작

[Conference international des arts de la scene (CINARS)] Québec on Stage
  • Schedule 10.15.(Thu) 10:00 ~ 11:30
  • Venue Central Yunit, Ground F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

Québec on Stage is an international platform that introduces Québec’s outstanding performing arts works and artists to presenters, theatres, festivals, and cultural institutions in Korea and around the world. This edition brings together 12 Québec arts companies, creating new opportunities for artistic exchange, collaboration, co-production, and international touring between Québec, Korea, and beyond.

[PAMSxSPAF] Asia Playwrights NOW: Place, Diaspora and Trans-locality
  • Schedule 10.15.(Thu) 11:00 ~ 12:30
  • Venue Haneul Round Theater (NTOK)

Asian Playwright Project is an international collaborative network launched in 2024, bringing together the Seoul Performing Arts Festival, the National Asia Culture Center (Seoul and Gwangju), the National Theater and Concert Hall (Taipei), the West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), KYOTO EXPERIMENT(Kyoto), Square-Sums & Co and Satellites (Auckland), and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (Sydney). The project explores the perspectives and narratives emerging from new writing in Asia today, with a particular focus on how the meaning of diaspora has evolved from Asian perspectives. It also aims to create a space for discourse on contemporary playwriting in Asia, in dialogue with critics and dramaturgs. Bringing together Asian playwrights and performing arts professionals, this forum discusses current trends and creative approaches in contemporary Asian playwriting. It also examines practical challenges surrounding the translation, interpretation, and localization of plays, as well as the production environments and roles of institutions in Asian theatre. Through these discussions, the forum seeks to explore sustainable models for international exchange and new possibilities for collaboration in Asian theatre.

Curator
Kyu Choi SPAF/ Artistic Director
Panel
Yudai Kamisato Playwright
Soo-kyung Oh Korea-China Theater Exchange Association / Honarary Chairman
Tessa Leong Contemporary Asian Australian Performance / Artistic Director
Sung-jay Jung ACC Theater, National Asian Culture Center / Chief Producer
Bonn Park Playwright, Director Bonn Park, born in 1987 in West-Berlin, Germany, is a German-Korean writer and director. From 2008 he was part of the youth theatre of Volksbühne Berlin. He later studied at the University of Arts Berlin and at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland. Bonn Park has received many nominations and awards for his work, among them the Innovation award of Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2011, the Else-Lasker-Schülerpreis 2015, the Stückepreis of the Berliner Theatertreffen in 2017, the Friedrich-Luft-Preis 2019. In 2018, he won Show of the Year (ZITTY) for writing and directing the opera at Volksbühne Berlin. He was nominated for the Berliner Theatertreffen 2021 for his show and was most recently awarded the Anna-Seghers-Preis 2023 for his complete work – and others.
Pat To Yan Playwright Active in Hong Kong and German theatre, Pat To Yan is a playwright, director, and educator. Currently Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre, former House Author at National theater Mannheim and Literary Art Chairman of HKADC, Pat To Yan was selected for Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt as the first ethnic Chinese playwright with A Concise History of Future China. The Cantonese play White Blaze of the Morning won Best Play at Hong Kong Theatre Libre, with seven plays translated into German and performed on international stages.
[Canada Association for the Performing Arts (CAPACOA)] [Korea–Canada Exchange Roundtable] Contemporary Performing Arts: Who Are Our Audiences? — Focusing on Artistic Practice
  • Schedule 10.15.(Thu) 12:30 ~ 14:00
  • Venue Central Yunit, Ground F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

Building on three years of artistic exchange between Korea and Canada, this program brings together performing arts professionals from both countries to share the questions and concerns they have encountered in their own practice. Organized and run by CAPACOA, the program begins with the question, "How well do we understand our audiences?" Through a roundtable format, participants will examine the artistic ecosystem surrounding audiences and the social changes shaping it. Reflecting on past exchanges, they will also seek to understand the different contexts and perspectives of each other's fields, and explore possibilities for future exchange and collaboration.

10.16(Fri) 탭 내용 시작

On-going Fringe: Alternative Ways to Sustainable Diversity
  • Schedule 10.16.(Fri) 10:00 ~ 11:30
  • Venue 3F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

How have Fringe Festivals preserved their unique ecosystems amid shrinking funding and standardized systems? By rejecting traditional evaluations in favor of open-access and autonomous participation, Fringe has served as a safe living lab for artists and a hub for informal solidarity. Featuring producers from Bangkok, Adelaide, Yokohama, and Seoul Fringe Festivals, this PAMS Salon explores the real costs of autonomy and sustainability dilemmas across different cities. Together, we investigate how global Fringe networks can build sustainable arts ecosystems and foster new international connections.

Curator
Gyohee Baek Seoul Fringe Network / Director
Panel
Parnrut Kritchanchai Bangkok Theatre Festival / Festival Director A theatre practitioner based in Bangkok, she has worked as a director, actor, and writer since 2004. She holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2019, she has served as the Director of the Bangkok Theatre Festival. In addition to her work in directing, acting, and playwriting, she also lectures part-time at several universities.
Setsiri Nirandara Bangkok Theatre Festival / Festival Director Setsiri Nirandara (Pump) is a theatre actor and director who has been making theatre since his university years. After graduating, he continued to work in theatre, both on stage and behind the scenes. In 2010, he became a lecturer at the Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, where he has been working ever since. Since then, he has enjoyed doing both: teaching and making theatre. He continues to enjoy working with students and young artists, while pursuing his own creative work as an actor and, at times, as a theatre director. Since 2021, he has also been serving as the Co-Festival Director of the Bangkok Theatre Festival, one of Thailand’s major theatre festivals. Through all these roles, he continues to explore theatre as a space for collaboration, creativity, and simply having fun with the people around him.
Hayato Okada YPAM Fringe / Program Officer YPAM is a platform where performing arts professionals from around the world connect through performances and meeting programs to gain information, inspiration and networks for the creation, dissemination and vitalization of the performing arts. Her role at YPAM is organizing the Fringe program which is an open-access festival platform for domestic and international artists.
Marc Carnes Adelaide Fringe Festival / CEO Marc Carnes is the CEO of Adelaide Fringe, taking up the role in July this year. He most recently served as CEO of listener-supported CKUA Radio, Alberta’s voice for music, arts and culture, where he led an eight-year revitalisation and transformation of Canada’s oldest public broadcaster during a period of significant disruption across the social, cultural and media sectors. He also have experience across the fringe festival sector, having served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Society, the organisation behind the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, North America’s largest and longest-running Fringe festival. Adelaide Fringe is a world-renowned, annual arts festival that celebrates culture, place and artists from across the globe. Bringing 8,000+ independent artists far and wide to South Australia with 500 venues across the city and state.
Rereading the Landscape of International Exchange
  • Schedule 10.16.(Fri) 13:00 ~ 14:30
  • Venue 3F, Haeoreum Theater (NTOK)

A conversation that looks beyond conventional networks and market-driven models of international exchange. Through examples of self-organized platforms, producer networks, artist development, research-based exchange, and international co-production, we explore how relationships and collaborations can take shape in different ways. Rethinking what distribution can mean, we revisit the familiar landscape of international exchange with an unfamiliar gaze, and consider new possibilities for how we connect, collaborate, and circulate across borders.

Curator
Jin Yim Project DARI / Executive Producer Jin Yim is an independent producer based in South Korea. Working across performance, theatre and multidisciplinary arts in diverse forms and spaces. She is interested in developing, producing and circulating artistic work, and in creating relationships between art, people and place. Her main practices include creation, producing, programming, and international collaboration and exchange, with a particular interest in arts in public spaces and new forms of international exchange for artists. Building on her practice as a producer, she aims to expand her role as a researcher. Over the past 16 years, she has worked across festivals, performing arts platforms and international networks in Korea and abroad, creating projects and structures that enable artists, producers, communities and audiences to meet and collaborate across different contexts. More recently, her practice has expanded toward international co-production, the mobility of artistic work, and producing projects that connect different places and communities. She is interested not only in artistic work itself, but also in shaping the conditions and relationships through which work is created, shared and experienced. She works with fellow producers as part of Project DARI, a producers’ collective, and is a member of the co-directing team of the Asia Producers’ Platform. She also serves as a Global Ambassador for IN SITU, the European network for artistic creation in public space.
Panel
Jini Kim Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival / Artistic Director
Maria Tri Sulistyani Papermoon Puppet Theatre / Founder & Co. Artistic Director PESTA BONEKA / Artistic Director Founded Papermoon Puppet Theatre that’s based in Yogyakarta-Indonesia on 2006 with no educational background of puppetry, makes puppetry becomes a never-ending experimental journey for her. In Papermoon, Ria becomes co-directors with her husband (Iwan Effendi – a visual artist). Papermoon Puppet Theatre has been an experimenting kitchen of 7 members who came with different background for these past 20 years. The company has been travelled to meet many people in different countries such as United States of America, Netherland, Japan, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, UK, Scotland, Germany, Canada, Myanmar, Pakistan, Taiwan, Philippines and Thailand. As a mother of two, Ria has bring Papermoon Puppet Theatre to worldwide audiences with their performances, visual arts projects, and workshops with wide-range age of audiences. She also initiated and works as Artistic Director of an independent International Biennial Puppet Festival calls PESTA BONEKA since 2008. Being close to the audiences’ hearts is her reason to make her puppets alive.
Nozomi Tanaka Dance Base Yokohama / Assistant Director Nozomi Tanaka is Assistant Director at Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY), a contemporary dance house in Yokohama, Japan. DaBY is operated by SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION under the artistic direction of Eri Karatsu. Since DaBY's founding in 2020, Nozomi has led communications, international outreach, and production coordination across the organization's programs. Through "Wings" project — DaBY's international touring initiative developed in collaboration with Aichi Prefectural Art Theater and supported by Japan Creator Support Fund — she is involved in the coordination of six productions currently in circulation. In 2026, she joined Edinburgh Fringe Festival and will go on to participate in CINARS and Taiwan Dance Platform, with a North American tour planned for early 2027. DaBY also runs an annual open-call residency program welcoming artists from Japan and abroad.