Producers Forum
The YAMsession Producers Forum brings together local young audiences production with international producers and performance experts.
The production first performs live for the YAMsession with their existing work. After, they are whisked away by the producers and over the course of the next 2 days they work together to make a 'new' production. The whole process is followed by the audience who is encouraged to give input and reflections on what transforms a good production into a great one!
PRODUCER
Édouard Signolet
Playwright and Stage Director
Édouard Signolet is an acting and stage director currently behind the artistic direction of La Clef des chants, a centre for lyric decentralisation in the Hauts-de-France region. Trained in modern literature, acting and stage direction, his work spans opera, music theatre, and spoken theatre, with productions staged at prestigious venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra de Massy, the Théâtre de l'Athénée, and the Comédie Française, alongside collaborations with major ensembles such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
He has written and directed original works as well as adaptations, from Wagner to fairy tales, with his texts published by L'Arche éditeur and Universal-Casa Ricordi, and has upcoming projects including a contemporary cabaret for the Opéra de Reims and a new opera based on Adolfo Bioy Casares's L'Invention de Morel.
PRODUCER
Ceren Oran
Dancer, Choreographer and Soundpainting
Ceren Oran (1984, Istanbul) studied contemporary dance and choreography at SEAD (Salzburg) and has worked as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and soundpainting artist since 2010. Since 2015, she has been based in Munich, where she founded Ceren Oran & Moving Borders together with creative producer Karolina Hejnova.
Oran believes that contemporary dance and art can and should be accessible to everyone, both as an art form and as a practice. With this in mind, her work focuses on dance for young audiences, public space performances, durational performances, and many other performance formats in order to engage with diverse audiences. Her company’s productions tour internationally, and in 2025, she received the FAUST Theatre Award in the category of “Direction for Young Audiences” for her performance Gute Wut.
SHOWCASE
Valøya
Daphne Sander, Mark Vang Lauridsen, Shona Mélis, Christian Mathias Laursen
Valøya offers an unfiltered universe of Nordic folk music, stirred together with elements of pop and jazz. The band takes you back to the roots, revealing how the same emotions that moved people a thousand years ago still live within us today.
Through murderous tales, strange love ballads, supernatural legends and much more, the four young musicians dust off the old ballads and breathe new life into them, turning medieval songs into stories that resonate, move the body, and draw you in.
The concert presented in the Producers’ Forum will be an adaption of Valøyas concert (here aimed for 0.- 3. grade school children), and it will involve storytelling connected to the songs, as well as different kinds of interactions with the audience: Movement, improvised word input, call & response singing and more!
Line-up:
Daphne Sander: Lead vocal and nyckelharpa
Mark Vang Lauridsen: Guitar and choir
Shona Mélis: Double bass and choir
Christian Mathias Laursen: Drums, violin, percussion and choir
