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 | Seoul’s autumn arts event, Seoul International Performing Arts Festival opens Sept. 23 |
| | Now in its 5th holding, the Seoul International Performing Arts Festival (art director: Kim Kwang Lim) is being held this year from Sept. 23 to Oct. 16. The Seoul International Performing Arts Festival was launched in 2001 as a new festival incorporating the Seoul Theater Festival and Seoul Dance Festival that until then had been held separately. In the past few years, the program has consisted largely of the kinds of inclusive or genre-crossing productions that are typical of contemporary theater.
The theme of this year’s festival is “expanding artistic imagination” and the program will include 22 productions by 25 companies and organizations that cross lines not only of genre but also national boundaries to gather participants from 12 countries of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and the Americas, many of which have participated in international festival like Avignon. Of particular note is the Korean debut of Hideki Noda’s Red Demon produced by the Seoul International Performing Arts Festival (Oct. 13~16). Noda will reside in Seoul for the production period, auditioning and directing Korean actors for a Korean-language production of Red Demon.
Also planned on the program are forums and workshops on the theme of overseas joint productions as related enterprise.
| Dates: | Sept. 23 - Oct. 16, 2005 |
| Venues: | KCAF Arts Theater, Sogang University Mary Hall, the National Theater, Chungmu Art Hall, etc. |
| Organizer: | Seoul International Performing Arts Festival |
| Supporters: | Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Seoul City, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korean Broadcasting Commission |
| Seoul Performing Arts Festival WEBSITE: http://www.spaf21.com (Korea / English) |
| + | Program |
| • | Opening Performance: Spain / production of La Carnicera teatro / La Historia de Ronald el Payaso de McDonalds performed at the Avignon Festival. (Theater)
Cheers to the appetite of the masse! Don’t even think about a 21st century without McDonalds!
Sept. 23-25: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Korea / Dance Theater CcadoO Blue Stone (dance)
Sept. 23-24: Chungmu Art Hall Grand Theater |
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| • | Korea, Cyprus / Lee Gyoung Un & Evas The TWO (dance)
Sept. 24-25, KCAF Arts Theater Small Hall |
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| • | Korea / Seoul Ballet Theater Three Colors from Modern Ballet (dance)
Sept. 27-28: Chungmu Art Hall Grand Theater |
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| • | Belgium / La Cie Michele Noirte, Do We Ever Know? (dance)
Sept. 27-28: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Canada / Les Deux Mondes, 2191 Nights (theater)
Sept. 28-30: National Theater Small Theater |
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| • | Korea / Theatre Golmokgil West Pier (theater)
Sept. 28-Oct. 1: KCAF Arts Theater Small Hall |
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| • | Korea / Korea Festival Ensemble Tolstoy in Music (music, theater)
Experimental music theater
Sept. 29-30: Dangduk Women’s University Art Center |
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| • | Russia / Formainy Theater School for Fools (theater)
Oct. 1-3: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Tunisia / Familia Production JUNUN (theater)
Oct. 1-4: KCAF Arts Theater Main Hall |
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| • | Iran, Germany / Project Group Letters from Tentland (dance)
Oct. 2-3: National Theater Small Theater |
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| • | Korea, international / An Un Mi Company Let me change your name? (dance)
Oct. 3-4: Chungmu Art Hall Grand Theater |
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| • | Korea / Mokwha Repertory Company Romeo and Juliet (theater)
Oct. 3-9: National Theater The Open Stage |
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| • | Korea / Group Party Terrorists (theater)
Oct. 4-7: KCAF Arts Theater Small Hall |
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| • | Korea / Jung Shin-Hea & Kim Hyo-Jin & Kim Yoon-Jin Encountering Revolution (dance)
Oct. 5-6: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Korea / Sadari Movement Lab Cherry Orchard (theater)
Oct. 5-9: Sadari Art Center |
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| • | Korea / Kim Sam Jin Dance Company Terminal (dance)
Oct. 9-10: KCAF Arts Theater Small Hall |
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| • | Belgium / La Cie Mossoux-Bonte Twin Houses (dance)
Oct. 15-16: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Germany / Dorky Park Company Back to the Present (dance, theater)
Oct. 7-9: KCAF Arts Theater Main Hall |
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| • | Brazil / Group de Rua de Niteroi H2-2005 - Philosophical Break Dance
Oct. 11-13: Sogang University Mary Hall |
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| • | Korea, Japan / Seoul Performing Arts Festival production, Red Demon (theater)
Oct. 13-16: KCAF Arts Theater Small Hall |
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| • | Closing Performance / 2002 Melbourne Festival, Seoul International Performing Arts Festival joint production
Australia, Korea / NYID & Torgoji Theater, K (theater)
Oct. 13-16: KCAF Arts Theater Main Hall |
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