2021 PAMS

PAMS ONLINE DATING

PAMS Online Dating with the PAMS Community

* What is the PAMS Community?
Human resources of art professionals such as artists, producers, presenters and promoters

Each conversation will serve as an occasion for a presenter to chat with three attendees for 20 minutes. Reservation is required to participate in the conversation. Although our future is uncertain due to the crisis of international mobility, PAMS would like to build up a culture of working together by sharing your resources, build interconnection and create potential projects such as touring, co-production, residency and research.

· DATE : Oct.12(Tue)~13(Thu)
※ The applicants should be fill out questions and discussion points when making reservations. The final attendees will be informed.
※ Reservation for PAMS Online Dating will be announced for registrants later.

Duration	PAMS Community (Presenter)	Attendees (Artist/group)
5 mins	Share about current situation, changes, challenges and future plan in the organization/festival	-
5 mins	-	Share about your artistic direction and current projects.
10 mins	Q&A

PAMS Community

PAMS Community
Name	소속	Organization	직책	Job Title
Byeongho Kim	노원어린이극장	Nowan Culture and Arts Center for Kids	예술감독	Artistic Director
Ji Yeong Bang	아시테지코리아	ASSITEJ Korea	이사장	President
Eunju Shin	부산국제춤마켓	Busan International Dance Market	예술감독	Artistic Director
Hye Won Shin	포항거리예술축제	Pohang Street Arts Festival	예술감독	Artistic Director
Ju Eun An	부산문화회관	Busan Cultural Center	공연기획팀 차장	Deputy Director
Younkyung Lee	서울국제공연예술제	Seoul Perfoming Arts Festival	공연예술기반 팀장	Team Manager
Jung Hun Lee	서울뮤직위크/울산재즈페스티벌	Seoul Music Week, Ulsan Jazz Festival	감독	Director
Jongho Lee	서울세계무용축제	SIDance	예술감독	Artistic Director
Su Taek Yim	수원연극축제	Suwon Theater Festival	예술감독	Artistic Director
Dong Hee Cho	서울거리예술창작센터(in 서울문화재단)	Seoul Street Arts Creation Center(in Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture)	팀장	Director
Hwa Yeon Cho	국립극장	National Theater of Korea	프로듀서	Producer
Ji Young Han	전주소리축제	Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival	콘텐츠운영부 부장	Programmer
André Bourgeois	어반정글	Urban Jungle	대표	CEO
Anup Kutty	지로 페스티벌	Ziro Festival	크리에이티브 프로듀서/개발자	Creative Producer/Co-Founder
Cynthia WANG	대만 당대 문화 실험장	Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab	총괄 프로그래머	Head of Programming
Felix Preval	다윈축제	Darwin Festival	예술감독	Artistic Director
Galina Metelskaya	제이그룹 코퍼레이션/와일드민트 페스티벌	Jgroup Co. Ltd/Wildmint Festival	국제교류부장	Head of International Relations Department
Hisashi Shimoyama	키지무나 페스티벌	ricca ricca *festa(International Theater Festival OKINAWA for Young Audiences)	프로듀서	Producer
Isa Köhler	탄츠메세	Tanzmesse	예술감독	Co-Director
Kris Nelson	런던 인터내셔널 페스티벌	LIFT Festival	예술감독/CEO	Art Director/Joint CEO
Lexy Morvaridi	사우스뱅크 센터	Southbank Centre	컨템포러리 뮤직 프로그래머	Contemporary Music Programmer
Marie le Sourd	온더무브	On The Move	사무총장	Secretary General
Mojca Jug	벙커, 류블라냐	Bunker, Ljubljana	프로그래머	Programmer
Powei WANG	대만 디지털 아트 센터	Digital Art Center.tw	예술감독	Artistic director
River Lin	아담(ADAM) / 타이페이 퍼포밍 아츠 센터	Asia Discovers Asia Meeting / Taipei Performing Arts Center	독립 큐레이터	Curator
Tang Fu Kuen	타이페이아트페스티벌	Taipei Arts Festival	예술감독	Artistic director
Virve Sutinen	탄츠 임 아우구스트	Tanz im August	예술감독	Artistic director
Wei-Ling Wang	타이중 국립극장	National Taichung Theater, Taiwan	프로그래머	Manager of Programs and General Planning
Gideon Obarzanek	라이징	Rising	예술감독	Co-Artistic Director

PAMS Community

Name

ORGANIZATION

Title

Country

Ricardo Peach

Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba

Director

Republic of South Africa

1.Organization
Official Name	Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba
Overview	The Vrystaat Arts Festival is an Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures. It also contributes to the global exchange of ideas around arts, culture and society through connections with other national and international creative communities. Our vision is centred on the principle of ‘One festival, many stories,’ and our mission is to support the development and presentation of great art in the Free State for all. We do this by bringing people together; supporting great art; developing artists and audiences; driving innovation; and playing on the world stage. The festival’s current strategic plan was developed after international, national, and local consultations on what the festival could achieve not just to support the local Free State economy, but also to have a significant impact on South African, African, and global creative communities. As a consequence the festival now functions as a creative industry generator, instigating partnerships and new initiatives such as a fringe festival (vrynge); a national and international literature festival (Vrystaat Literatuurfees); public art projects (PAP and Vrywees); Arts Learning programs; a Free State Arts and Health program; the Programme for Innovation in Art form Development (PIAD); and a Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE). The Vrystaat Arts Festival is now one of the key international arts festivals on the African continent. We achieved this not only because of our strong artistic vision, but because Mangaung has some of the best theatre and accommodation infrastructure of any secondary city in Africa. There are more than 15 fully equipped theatres ranging from 150-1000 seaters, over 800 guesthouses, an international airport (Bram Fischer), and easy access from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban by road.
Website	https://www.vrystaatkunstefees.co.za/en/home/
2.Presenting Information
Name	Ricardo Peach
Title	Director
Profile	Dr Ricardo Peach is the Director of the Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba, a multi-artform Afrikaans language festival in Mangaung, South Africa, that forges links with Sesotho and English cultures. The festival is held annually over a six-day period in July in Bloemfontein, Free State. He also developed and is the Co-director of the Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) at the University of the Free State, partnering with the Vrystaat Arts Festival, and a Founding Director of the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE). In 2017 he was appointed by the Minister of Arts and Culture as a Council member of the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley, Northern Cape. He is also a board member of ASSITEJ South Africa theatre for young audiences and a founding member of the Sustaining Theatre and Dance Foundation (STAND).
Interest	"Theater / Dance / Children / Multidisciplinary / Interdisciplinary and experimental art / Theatre for Young Audiences"

River Lin

ADAM / Taipei Performing Arts Center

Independent Curator

Taiwan

1.Organization
Official Name	ADAM / Taipei Performing Arts Center
Overview	Launched by Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in 2017, Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM) is a network and platform dedicated to fostering cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary exchange, performing knowledge and generating the artistic process, in order to build a creative interface between artists and arts markets in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Through ADAM, TPAC is partnered with and supported by West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), Performance Space (Australia), Kyoto Art Center (Japan) among others, collaboratively supporting artistic development for contemporary performing arts in the Asia-pacific region. ADAM’s Artist Lab, a collective and artist-led residency program, has brought together numbers of artists from around the world in the Taipei city to learn from peers, do research, invent new ideas and eventually formulate future collaborations. In each edition, ADAM Artists have continuously returned to curate the Artist Lab and, at ADAM Annual Meeting, present works in progress invented through Artist Lab.
Website	http://www.tpac-taipei.org/?
2.Presenting Information
Name	River Lin
Title	Independent Curator
Profile	River Lin is an artist working across the contexts of visual art, performance and dance. His work has been presented by the Palais de Tokyo and Centre National de la Danse (Paris), KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Live Art Development Agency (London), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Rockbund Art Museum and Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai), and 2016 Taipei Biennial among others. Since 2017, he’s initiated and headed ADAM with Taipei Performing Arts Center. In 2019, he curated Camping Asia, a new dance biennial in Taiwan, with Centre National de la Danse.
Interest	Theater / Dance / Music / Multidisciplinary

Vicenţiu Rahău

Sibiu International Theatre Fesitval

Curator

Romania

1.Organization
Official Name	Sibiu International Theatre Fesitval
Overview	The Sibiu International Theater Festival (FITS) is one of the most important theater and performing arts festivals in the world, being one of the largest in Europe, together with the Avignon Festival and Edinburgh International Festival. It is an annual festival, held in June, for 10 days, in the city of Sibiu, Romania. Founded in 1993 by Constantin Chiriac, FITS includes in its program important names of the international scene, offering to the spectators a wide range of sections that sum, annually, the presence of at least 73 countries that ensure the development of approximately 550 events. The Sibiu International Theatre Festival is an annual festival is structured in 16 spectacular section: Theatre Performances, Contemporary Dance Performances, Street Performances, Circus Shows, Theatre and Concerts in Churches and Historic Sites, Music of the World, Flamenco Performances, Meetings of Theatre Art Schools and Academies, the Visual Arts Platform, Play-Reading Performances and Radio Theatre, Special Conferences and Lectures, Book Launches, Film Theatre, Specialized Workshops, Sibiu Performing Arts Open Market, Meetings of Cultural Networks.
Website	-
2. Presenting Information
Name	Vicenţiu Rahău
Title	Curator
Profile	I am the Curator & Coordinator of Sibiu International Theatre Festival - Indoor Events (October 2012-present) and Radu Stanca National Theatre (september 2015 – present). Project manager within Creative Europe project BeSpectActive 2 on behalf of Radu Stanca National Theatre (2014-2022). I have a PHD in Theatre-Cultural Management (2018), Master in Theatre Studies (2011) and License in Philosophy (2015). I teach as Assistant Professor at the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (2015-present), having also experience as a theatre stage director and actor.
Interest	Theater / Dance / Music / Multidisciplinary / Street arts

Luis Javier Sánchez

Festival Internacional Cervantino - Mexico

Subdirector of Programming

Mexico

1.Organization
Official Name	Festival Internacional Cervantino - Mexico
Overview	In its 48 year existence, the Festival Internacional Cervantino is today the most important of its kind in Latin America and within the most recognized worldwide. Promoting cultural activity in Mexico with national and international programming excellence is its main mission. Every year, distinguished artists congregate at the Guanajuato City, Mexico, and are party to what we call the spirit feast. Our vision is to provide audiences with the highest quality of artistic expressions in a multidisciplinary festival. Faced with the situation of health crisis that we are experiencing, we decided that our 48th edition will be held virtually and so we will take care of public, our collaborators and artists. For us life is the most important value, and it is also fundamental to continue being one of the most important Festival in which national and international artists are presented, that is why we will open the curtains digitally so that from home you can enjoy a great variety of artistic expressions. It may not be the same, but all of this has one intention: to look at us again in Guanajuato in future editions.
Website	https://festivalcervantino.gob.mx/
2.Presenting Information
Name	Luis Javier Sánchez Magaña
Title	Subdirector of Programming
Profile	Committed to cultural management for the last 15 years, his main goal is to strengthen and enrich national and international cultural activity in Mexico. With an artistic preparation focused on music, continuous work and commitment have been fundamental to embrace other disciplines related to the arts. The management within the public administration has led him to collaborate in the most active cultural offices in Mexico such as Centro Cultural Universitario UNAM (Cultural University Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico), la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera (The National Coordination of Music and Opera) of INBAL (National Institute of Fine Arts) , The National Opera Company of INBAL and at present, the Festival Internacional Cervantino.
Interest	Theater / Dance / Music / Children

Blanca Li

Compagnie Blanca Li / Teatros Del Canal

Artistic Director

Spain

1.Organization
Official Name	Compagnie Blanca Li / Teatros Del Canal
Overview	This 35,200m2 complex is dedicated soley to the performing arts. The space has three stages: The Sala Roja, with a seating capacity of 843; the Sala Verde, with 778 seats; and the Sala Negra, a smaller stage that can seat up to 180. It is also home to the Canal Choreographic Centre (CCC) with 9 studios and 30 companies in resiidence. Its programming is committed to technical and artistic excellence, with a wide variety of styles and contents, ranging from classical texts and modern pieces to concerts, dance, flamenco, zarzuela, opera, circus. Teatros del Canal also hosts annual festivals organised the Madrid Regional Government, such as the Autumn to Spring Festival, Madrid en Danza, Teatralia, Suma Flamenca and Arte Sacra. # your organizations’ mission and artistic direction https://www.teatroscanal.com/espectaculo/programacion-2020-2021/ # programming the next year’s line-up next year lineup download at https://www.teatroscanal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/programacion-teatros-del-canal-2020-2021-1.pdf # promoting your residency space / program https://www.teatroscanal.com/centro-danza-madrid/convocatoria/
Website	https://www.teatroscanal.com/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Blanca Li
Title	Artistic Director
Profile	After 5 years of training with Martha Graham in New York, Blanca Li founded her own independent dance company in 1993 in Paris. For the past 27 years, her shows have toured around the world’s most prestigious stages. She has also directed three full-length feature films and a 360° film.Well known institutions, fashion designers, stage and film directors regularly seek her contribution as a choreographer and filmmaker. Her passion for new technologies gives them a special place in her various creations. She was elected member of the Académie Française des Beaux-Arts in April 2019 and Artistric Director of the Teatros del Canal since november 2019.
Interest	Dance / Music / Multidisciplinary

Francesc Casadesus

Grec Festival de Barcelona

Director

Spain

Natalie Hennedige

Arts House Ltd(Singapore)

Director

Singapore

1.Organization
Official Name	Arts House Ltd (Singapore)
Overview	First launched in 1977 as the Singapore Festival of Arts, SIFA (Singapore International Festival of Arts) presents works in performance, theatre, dance and music. Inaugurated in 1977, the Singapore International Festival of Arts is an annual celebration presenting works in performance, theatre, music and dance, seeking to engage and inspire a diverse audience with strong artistic offerings and experiences. I will be helming the festival beginning in 2022 for a three-year term. I am interested in cultivating multiplicity or a platform for the sharing of unique perspectives. Delivering cultural pluralism and a multiplicity of experience. Festivals become vital when they are viewed as socially and globally engaged entities that serve as channels of connection and communication between people and communities, exchanging ideas, facilitating critical dialogue, and charged meaningful experiences.
Website	https://www.theartshouse.sg/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Natalie Hennedige
Title	Director
Profile	Natalie Hennedige is a performance director and writer, she is known for her singular artistic language and creative vision exploring contemporary issues through highly constructed heightened worlds with collaborators from diverse artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. She served as Artistic Director of Cake, a performance company now in its fourteenth year of presenting progressive new works at the intersection of performance and a variety of other disciplines. Her work has been presented in national and international venues. She is a recipient of the National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2007) and JCCI Singapore Foundation Culture Award (2010) and now serves as Festival Director Designate for Singapore International Festival of Arts.
Interest	Theater / Dance / Music / Multidisciplinary

Kris Nelson

LIFT

Artistic Director/CEO

United Kingdom

Roberto Cassarotto

Operaestate Festival and Centro per la Scena Contemporanea-Bassano del Grappa

Director of Dance

Italia

1.Organization
Official Name	Operaestate Festival and Centro per la Scena Contemporanea-Bassano del Grappa
Overview	Comune di Bassano is a public body in the North East of Italy. Its Operaestate Festival is a multidisciplinary festival taking place in about 35 cities in the Veneto region, its Centro per la Scena Contemporanea is a dynamic dance house dedicated to the development of the culture of contemporary dance in the Veneto Region. It is a member of European Dancehouse Network and of Aerowaves.
Website	www.operaestate.it/it/
2.Presenting Information
Name	Roberto Casarotto
Title	Director of Dance
Profile	Since 2006, Roberto has been responsible for the dance projects and programmes for the Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa (CSC) and Operaestate Festival Veneto. Associate director of Aerowaves, he is a member of the board of EDN European Dancehouse Network. Currently involved in several international projects supported by the EU Creative Europe and Erasmus + Programmes, he develops initiatives aimed at supporting artistic research, mobility and artistic development in the field of dance, the engagement of communities and participation of citizens in cultural activities. He is the initiator of Dance Well – Movement research for Parkinson. Prior to working for dance organisations, Roberto was a professional contemporary dancer. He is the author of the book Nigel Charnockpublished in 2009 by L’Epos. In 2015-17 he has been Artistic Director of Balletto di Roma. He is a Member of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO.
Interest	Dance

Carmen Romero

Fundación Teatro a Mil

Executive Director

Chile

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Fundación Teatro a Mil
Overview	"We’re a group of professionals from different backgrounds and disciplines who are committed to the performing arts and to the country’s fair cultural development. The institution was set up as a non-profit organization in 2004, after the expansion and consolidation of the Santiago a Mil International Festival, our most important project, held in January each year since 1994. Since then, as the Teatro a Mil Foundation, our work has involved contributing to the geographical, social and economic decentralization of access to culture, through the highest-quality projects, training and educational programs for both the public and artists and touring opportunities for Chilean and Latin American companies. MISSION. For the highest-quality contemporary art and the performing arts to be fundamental to life in Chile and all its citizens. WHAT INSPIRES US? Values such as diversity, freedom, inclusivity, tolerance, respect, collaboration and innovation inspire us. We’re open to reflecting on multiple perspectives, creativity, good ideas and the different views that are part of our society."
Website	https://santiagoamil.cl/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Executive Director
Title	Programmer of Dance
Profile	Her work has focused on making contemporary performing arts important in people's lives. In 2004, she created Fundación Teatro a Mil, dedicated to the creation and execution of cultural projects that facilitate the access and development of artists and new audiences. Among its projects, the Santiago a Mil International Festival (1994-2019) stands out, which presents the best of contemporary theater, dance and music from Chile, Latin America and the world.
Interest	Theater/Dance/Music/Multidisciplinary

Louise Lapointe

Festival de Casteliers

Director

Canada

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Festival de Casteliers
Overview	The Festival de Casteliers is an annual international festival held in Montreal (Canada) in March every year. Lasting five days, the festival proposes remarkable puppet performances and new creations for adults or for children. A wide variety of parallel activities are also on the programme : exhibitions, round table, workshops and professional networking. Since 2018, Casteliers is also the owner of the new Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MAIM ) in Montreal, devoted to the creation and research in puppetry art. The MIAM offers its well equipped spaces to the artists (workshop, rehearsing space and a laboratory), and also lodges the Quebec Puppeteers Association (Unima-Canada, Quebec section) Founded in 2005, Casteliers is devoted to the dissemination of puppetry arts. Casteliers organizes an annual international festival – Le Festival de Casteliers – and a season of performances for adults and for children. Casteliers also offers residencies for artists and a vast array of cultural education activities for the community. The 2020-2021 season is mostly devoted to artists residencies and a family series at the MIAM. The 16th Festival de Casteliers will take place from March 3 to 7 2021, and will be devoted to small audience performances (because of the covid crisis). Most performances will be from local artists and digital facilities will be offered for professional networking gatherings. The residency program is usually open to international and national artists, but because of the crisis, this year’s residencies will be welcoming artists from Montreal and Quebec, except for one exception for a French artist.
Website	https://festival.casteliers.ca/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Louise Lapointe
Title	Director
Profile	Louise Lapointe is the founding director of Casteliers, established in Montreal in 2005, and devoted to the dissemination of puppetry arts, for adults or for children. In 2016, Louise was elected member of the UNIMA Executive Committee and appointed President of the International Festivals Commission, of which she has been a member since 2001. Louise Lapointe holds a BFA, a Diploma in Theatre Production and a Certificate in puppetry construction from the École nationale supérieure des arts de la marionnette in Charleville-Mézières. She has also worked for over twenty years on numerous professional productions as a set, mask and puppet designer.
Interest	Theater / Children / puppetry art

Jarmo Juha Penttila

Chaillot-National theater for Dance

Executive Director

Chile

Ju Kim

LG Arts Center

Project Manager

South Korea

Yo-ahen Kim

Doosan Art Center

Executive Producer

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Doosan Art Center
Overview	DAC is one of the most important private producing theater and owned by non-profit organization, Doosan Yonkang Foundation. It is producing theaters in Korea which is focusing on supporting emerging performing artists and on developing and producing new contemporary performances. Want to talk about the topic, “Whtat is the performing arts that we need after Covid-19?” About new needs, researches and creative processes
Website	https://www.doosanartcenter.com/ko
2. Presenting Information
Name	Yo-ahen Kim
Title	Executive Producer
Profile	Yo-ahen KIM is the executive producer of Doosan Art Center(DAC) in Seoul. He is supporting emerging performing artists and on developing and producing new contemporary performances. He majored in political science for B.A. in Korea Univ. and in Arts Management for M.A. in Korea National University of Arts. He had worked for major theater productions AGA Company and Dongsoong Art Center and has been working as the producer at Doosan Art Center from 2007 of DAC's opening year. He has been doing successful global co-productions between his supporting Korean artists and Japanese theater companies like Chelfitsh and Tokyo Deathlock. He has been continuing a long-lasting relationship with Traverse Theatre in Scotland. He is also working with important Korean theater companies and endeavoring to find new contemporary performances.
Interest	Theater / Multidisciplinary

Dong-hee Cho

Seoul Street Arts Creation Center

Manager

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Seoul Street Arts Creation Center
Overview	(This dating session is Korean/French-based.) A base camp for street art and circus production, practice, training, distribution, and exchange. The Seoul Street Arts Creation Center is the Korea’s first creative base for street art and circuses, created by remodeling a former water supply station in 2015. The Center supports productions in street art and circuses, train professionals in the fields based on domestic and international partnerships, and expands art education. The Center includes the Main Hall converted from the first water supply facility, practice rooms and video production room converted from the second water supply facility for indoor practice and training, an outdoor yard for performance practice, a wood/iron workshop for stage props, and artists’ residences for creative activities and exchanges. Interested in the new cultural plannings in the post-corona, 2021 Circus Cabaret (1st-5th of May), etc.
Website	https://www.sfac.or.kr/artspace/artspace/streetArts_main.do
2. Presenting Information
Name	Dong-hee Cho
Title	Manager
Profile	Currently, Director of Seoul Street Arts Creation Center(in Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture). I studies on cultural policies and cultural projects in France during 5 years. Since 2010, I work at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture that is supported by Seoul Metropolitan City. I initiated since 2012 the Seoul Street Arts Creation Center(SSACC), Korea’s first street arts and circus base camp for production, practice, education and distribution and also initiated Circus Asia Network(CAN). Since 20 years, I work in the field of street arts, arts in public space and circus running many international projects in collaboration with foreign countries.
Interest	Street Arts / Circus

Jong-yeoun Yoon

Seoul Street Arts Festival

Artistic Director

South Korea

Jong-ho Lee

Seoul International Dance Festival

Artistic Director

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Seoul International Dance Festival
Overview	Seoul International Dance Festival (SIDance, Artistic Director LEE Jong-Ho) is the largest annual international dance festival in Korea hosted by Seoul Section of the Int’l Dance Council (CID-UNESCO). Ever since it was first held in the year 1998, it has represented Korean dance art scene and organized numerous co-productions and international tours fostering cultural exchanges. This year, the 23rd SIDance will focus on presenting Korean dance companies on an online platform to play a part in revitalizing the Korean dance scene that has been going through a hard time. - Topic: Performing arts going online - SIDance2021: It will be held from late October to mid-November for about 3 weeks.
Website	http://www.sidance.org/2020/main.php
2. Presenting Information
Name	Jong-ho Lee
Title	Artistic Director
Profile	Jong-Ho Lee studied French literature in Seoul National University and began his career in 1977 as a reporter at the ""Courrier de la Corée,"" a French weekly published in Korea. From 1981 to 2009, he worked for Yonhap New Agency where his career in journalism prospered going through many titles, from a reporter on the city desk and a foreign correspondent in Brussels to the chief cultural editor and the vice president. At the same time, he has been active as a dance critic since early 1980s. He established South Korea Chapter of International Dance Council CID-UNESCO in 1996 and led the success of the 13th CID-UNESCO General Assembly held in Seoul in 1998 and started SIDance (Seoul International Dance Festival), which has been held ever since every autumn and grown into the biggest comprehensive annual dance event in South Korea.
Interest	Dance / Multidisciplinary / Street arts

Seok-hong Kim

ASSITEJ Korea

Board member

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	ASSITEJ Korea
Overview	"ASSITEJ Korea hosts annually ASSITEJ Korea International Summer Festival and ASSITEJ Korea Winter Festival, respectively in July and January. The Summer Festival has a “Focused Country” programme, in which several shows from one foreign country or region are presented to the Korean audiences. During the Winter Festival, which is mainly for the domestic productions, ASSITEJ Korea holds a Korean showcase platform called K-PAP. It is an intensive introductory programme of the Korean TYA for the international delegates. (Discussion point) TYA is particularly vulnerable at this time of the Covid-19. How can we maintain in times of crisis that children and young people have the right to access and participate in the arts?"
Website	http://assitejkorea.org/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Seok-hong Kim
Title	Board member
Profile	Seok-hong Kim has been passionate about the performing arts his entire adult life as an arts manager and administrator. During the time the Theatre for Young Audience is also an important part of his career, as he has had a deep relationship with ASSITEJ Korea such as by working as a board member for more than ten years. He is currently working for the Korea Arts Management Service, while still staying active at the ASSITEJ Korea and ASSITEJ International. He is also an Executive Committee member of the ASSITEJ International as one of the Asian TYA representatives.
Interest	Theater / Children

Jun-ho Choe

Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival

Artistic Director

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival
Overview	It is Korea’s only music theatre festival which celebrated its 19th anniversary in 2019. The festival is run by Uijeongbu Arts Center and Uijeongbu Cultural Foundation and organized by public theaters, thus forming a firm basis for the event. Collaborations are also developed through the Korean Cultural & Arts Centers Association and a network of public theaters in Gyeonggi Province. In the context of Korea’s performing arts scene focused on musicals, the festival has widened the scope of the country’s music theatre, thus contributing to the creation, development and invigoration of the performing arts and the theatre incorporating music. The Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival (UMTF) plays a pivotal role in the creation and invigoration of performances as well as in domestic and international co-production and distribution by means of the convergence and exchange of music, technology and the theatre. - Celebrating the 20th anniversary in 2020, the UMTF is willing to explore Korea’s creative music theatre performances, to establish an official network of festivals and local theaters, to diversify ways of engaging in international exchange and to vitalize co-production. - The programming for the 20th festival will be completed soon (late October or early November). - The festival plans to meet with creators, performing arts companies and the network of theaters on a regular basis and to collaborate with them annually.
Website	http://www.umtf.or.kr/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Jun-ho Choe
Title	Artistic Director
Profile	As of September 2020, Jun-ho Choe serves as a member of the Immersive Content Promotion Committee, a member of the International Cultural Exchange Promotion Committee, the CEO of KNUA Techno Holdings, Inc., a professor in charge of the project for the cooperative integrated arts activities of middle and high schools, director of K’Arts ICT Convergence Business Center at Jeju Development Center, the artistic director of the Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival and a board member of Korea Street Arts Association. He was the chairman of the Cultural City Deliberation Committee, the artistic director of the 2015-2016 France-Korea Year, a board member of the Korean Cultural & Arts Centers Association, the chairman of the steering committee of the Seoul Street Arts Festival, the artistic director of Seoul Arts Center and the director of the Korean Cultural Center in France.
Interest	Theater / Multidisciplinary / Music Theatre

Dae-won Choe

Head of Cultural Arts Promotion Department

Head of Dpet.

South Korea

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	The Korean Cultural&Arts Centers Association(KoCACA)
Overview	"Korean Culture and Arts Centers Association (KoCACA) is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. It is established in order to assist and promote local culture and arts centers as the hub for the network. At present, KoCACA has a total of 220 culture and arts centers in Korea as the registered member organizations. It has been promoting various projects including educating and training of employees of member centers for seeking balanced development between the centers and providing performances, exhibitions, and education programs to share more opportunities to enjoy culture events with local residents. Jeju Haevichi Arts Festival - The Largest Performing arts festival in Korea - More than 13,000 people participated in the festival (including 180 art centers, 260 cultural and arts agencies& artist, arts festival directors abroad, cultural arts organizations, and public figures.) -The festival was centered on performing arts and now, expanded to include exhibitions, cultural arts education, and tourism since this year - Leading role of revitalizing the performing arts circulation - Discussion on the development of performing arts, culture and arts - Pursuing internationalization of festivals, Distribution of international & domestic performance works"
Website	https://www.kocaca.or.kr/Pages/Main.aspx
2. Presenting Information
Name	Dae-won Choe
Title	Head of Cultural Arts Promotion Department
Profile	Dae-won Choe is currently working at the Korean Cultural Arts Centers Association(*) as a head of Cultural Arts Promotion Department. He started his work in classical music and Arts at Seoul Arts Management. He worked at Yeon Gang Foundation, Doosan Group as a manager for Performance Programing and Operation from 2000 to 2003. He also worked at Daejeon Cultural Arts Center as a team leader of public performance Programing team for 8years after that. (One of major performing art center) He has been working in a field of supervision on performing arts programming, public relations, and marketing / Art administration for more than 20years.
Interest	Theater / Dance / Music

Annette Shun Wah

OzAsia Festival

Artistic Director

Australia

1.Festival Overview
Official Name	OzAsia Festival
Overview	Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival is Australia’s leading contemporary multi-arts festival engaging with Asia. Held annually over three weeks in spring, OzAsia Festival presents a bold and exciting program of contemporary theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film and free community events at the Adelaide Festival Centre and associated venues across Adelaide. Due to COVID-19 the 14th edition of the Festival has been transformed into an online event – OzAsia Talks. The full festival will return in October 2021. Adelaide Festival Centre (AFC) is the home of OzAsia Festival. The Centre houses the Festival Theatre – a large proscenium arch theatre seating approx. 2000; the flexible Dunstan Playhouse which seats approx. 600; and the highly flexible Space Theatre which depending on the configuration can seat 200-350. AFC also manages the newly refurbished Her Majesty’s Theatre a grand proscenium arch theatre seating 1500 over three levels. Other venues around Adelaide are used for OzAsia Festival such as Nexus Galleries, Samstag Gallery, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and some smaller performance venues. In addition to the ticketed program, OzAsia Festival includes three free community events which also provide some opportunities for performance: the Moon Lantern Parade, Lucky Dumpling Market and a literature event produced as a satellite of the Jaipur Literature Festival. Dates for the 2021 OzAsia Festival have not yet been confirmed, but as a guide it will run October 18 – November 7.
Website	https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/
2. Presenting Information
Name	Annette shun Wah
Title	Artistic Director
Profile	After an extensive career as a presenter and producer on radio and television, Annette took leadership of theatre company Contemporary Asian Australian Performance in 2013. This organization champions Asian Australian stories and artists to take their place on main stages nationally and internationally. As Executive Producer, Annette has produced all it productions and initiated a range of skills and sector development programs to provide career pathways for Asian Australian playwrights, directors and performers. In 2020 she was appointed Artistic Director of OzAsia Festival and will program the 2021-2023 Festivals.
Interest	All