Festival in Seoul
Oct 16 - Nov 8, 2025
This sixth Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival is a new opportunity to underscore the importance we place on relationships with our partners around the world. We are delighted that this first Korean edition is the result of our collaboration with the Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) over the past few years.
From October 16 to November 8, 2025, various venues in the city are hosting a broad panorama of international choreographic work. Reflecting the values of creation, transmission and education that have animated Dance Reflections since its launch in 2020, this Festival brings together recent pieces as well as those that have marked the contemporary history of dance. This program is complemented by workshops and masterclasses for professional dancers and amateurs alike.
The Tao Dance Company presents 16 and 17, two creations whose singular vocabulary blends tradition and modernity. Room With A View by LA(HORDE) – Ballet National de Marseille fuses electronic music with choreography and vividly illustrates the disorder of today’s world. In Loïe Fuller: Research, Polish artist Ola Maciejewska expresses her fascination with Fuller’s legacy as a pioneer of modern dance. Alessandro Sciarroni’s Save the Last Dance for Me is an intimate work inspired by a traditional dance from the Bologna region of Italy. South African culture is also joyfully celebrated in movement, song and music with Robyn Orlin’s WE WEAR OUR WHEELS WITH PRIDE. Belgian choreographer Jan Martens shares the results of his study on the jump in THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0, a hypnotic dance that tests the physical capabilities of its performers. Honoring our host country, Sung Im Her, a SPAF Associate Artist since 2023, delivers a manifesto against global warming in 1 Degree Celsius. In C A R C A Ç A, Portugal’s Marco da Silva gathers ten performers to create an original dance with multiple influences, both popular and traditional. To close this program, young French choreographer Némo Flouret once again invites the audience out of the theater. His choreographic project, 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century, is presented at S-Factory, a former manufactory now converted into a venue for artistic experimentation.
This first edition of the Dance Reflections Festival in Korea brings together artists with multiple perspectives from the most diverse horizons around a shared passion for the choreographic arts. We hope that this rich program organized with SPAF will encourage dialogue with the Korean choreographic scene and, more broadly, intercultural exchange.
SERGE LAURENT
Van Cleef & Arpels’ Director of Dance and Culture Programs.
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about the partner
Ballet national de Marseille
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Ballet national de Marseille - direction (LA)HORDE in the creation of two performances, in June and October 2026.
Seoul Performing Arts Festival
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) for the presentation of Soapéra, an Installation by choreographer Mathilde Monnier and painter Dominique Figarella.
