Since the pandemic, the longstanding Seoul Performing Arts Festival has joined many arts presenters in cultivating its local garden, but it has also grown more adventurous (hopefully this too is a worldwide trend). We recommend the Festival regular Eun Me Ahn’s premiere. Dubbed the Pina Bausch of South Korea, the internationally recognized choreographer shares the German’s gift for pairing extroverted antics with introverted lyricism. But the two diverge in their take on the foreign. Bausch invariably lapsed into the touristic when dedicating a piece to another country; Ahn avoids exoticism by turning to the foreign, and often invisible, at home and bringing actual members of these unassimilated communities into the work itself. For the cheerfully titled premiere Welcome to Your Korea, she has invited four charismatic experimental choreographers—one each from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand—to collaborate with migrant laborers from their home countries. (Since its steep economic rise, South Korea has increasingly relied on foreign workers to do its dirty work.) The young choreographers have proceeded according to their individual MOs, and Ahn has organized the results. The festival as a whole runs from October 6 to 24. —Apollinaire Scherr