25th Seoul Performing Arts Festival to showcase theater, dance and interdisciplinary artwork Oct. 16-Nov. 9The 25th edition of Korea’s leading international performing arts festival, the 2025 Seoul Performing Arts Festival, will take place Oct. 16-Nov. 9 across major Seoul venues, including the National Theater of Korea, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, ARKO and Daehakro Arts Theater. “We aim to discover new possibilities by looking at the diverse discourses and changing artistic languages of contemporary society through points of tension and friction,” said SPAF Artistic Director Choi Kyu at a press conference in Seoul on Tuesday. The 2025 festival will present 22 curated works in theater, dance and interdisciplinary art, alongside a program of forums, workshops and collaborative creation labs. SPAF highlights contemporary questions along four key axes: new relationships among art, science and technology; expanded and transformed performance languages of sound and new music; contemporary dance vocabularies reimagined in collaboration with Dance Reflection by Van Cleef & Arpels; and perspectives on contemporary issues from artists across the Asia-Pacific region. Dance works, developed through international collaboration, showcase how choreography evolves while engaging with social discourse and local contexts.