SPRING (co)productions
SPRING is not only presenter, but also initiator and (co)producer of new productions that often premiere at the festival. We build long collaborations with innovative, interdisciplinary (inter)national artists to sustainably support them in developing their artistic careers and creating new work.
In the past, SPRING has done this successfully with makers such as Florentina Holzinger, Julian Hetzel, Dries Verhoeven, Jan Martens and Nicole Beutler, whom we often accompanied in their transition from independent makers to their own company. Currently, we focus on interesting innovative (inter)national artists who move between genres and want to redefine their artistic practice. In the Netherlands, we focus on makers who are not yet structurally funded, or whose work does not fit within structural support possibilities. We support international (mostly mid-career) makers who decide to move their practice to the Netherlands. Internationally, SPRING focuses on interdisciplinary makers whose practice is threatened by political and/or economic conditions in their local context.
With the support of funds such as Ammodo and the VandenEnde Foundation and various formal and informal networks, we are able to support a significant number of new creations each year. Many of these tour internationally for many seasons. In addition to a financial contribution, we advise during the creative process and in professionalization, we are allies in finding other (inter)national production partners and in building new strong and sustainable international networks.
SPRING 2025
Agata Maszkiewicz – Call me Jay
Amparo González Sola – While Taking Shape
Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms – Modesta (play of language & lips)
ashleyho+domeniknaue – last portrait
David Bergé – Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend
Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera – Magic Maids
Su WenChi – Sensing Dark Matter
Y Events / Divadlo X / SPRING – Y: SLOW TV Cinema
SPRING 2024
Ainhoa Hernández Escudero – (DON’T) LOOK ME IN THE EYES
31 May world premiere – Theater Kikker
Ezra Veldhuis & Bosse Provoost – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
28 May Dutch premiere – Theater Kikker
Ira Melkonyan/the rubberbodies collective – Blood Thirsty
Het Huis Utrecht
Turkowski & Nowacka – collection of
26 May world premiere – Theater Kikker
Begüm Erciyas – Hands Made
24 May Dutch premiere – Het Huis Utrecht
Jaha Koo / CAMPO – Haribo Kimchi
29 May Dutch premiere – Paardenkathedraal
Michikazu Matsune & Martine Pisani – Kono atari no dokoka (Somewhere around here)
30 May Dutch premiere – Theater Kikker
Kate McIntosh – Lake Life
30 May Dutch premiere – Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Marta Górnicka – MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME
23 May Dutch premiere – Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Leandro Souza – Musa Insistente
31 May world premiere – Theater Kikker
Mette Ingvartsen – RUSH
23 May Dutch premiere – Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Agrupación Señor Serrano – Una Isla
31 May Dutch premiere – Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT – Within Cells Interlinked
29 May world premiere – Het Huis Utrecht
SPRING 2023
Asa Horvitz – GHOST
Het Huis Utrecht
Samara Hersch and Company – It’s Going to Get Dark
19 May world premiere | Het Huis Utrecht
Jija Sohn, Aleksandra Lemm & Julia Reist – Landing on Feathers
BAK
Katja Heitmann – Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM
19 May world premiere | Utrecht Centraal
Gosia Wdowik – She was a friend of someone else
26 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Julian Hetzel & Ntando Cele – SPAfrica
21 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Ingrid Berger Myhre – Spelling Spectacle
18 May world premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
SPRING in Autumn 2022
Asa Horvitz – A Dream That Belongs To No One
Metaal Kathedraal
SPRING 2022
Sonia Hughes – I am from Reykjavik
14 May Dutch premiere | various locations
Amparo González Sola – If every rock is a hole
13 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Bruno Beltrão – New Creation
20 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Maxime Berthou, Mark Požlep & Davis Freeman – SOUTHWIND
19 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Mette Ingvartsen – The Dancing Public
13 May Dutch premiere | former Pieter Baan Centrum
Dries Verhoeven – The NarcoSexuals
2 June world premiere | Wisselspoorterrein
Nieuwe Helden – The Village Utrecht
21 May world premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Julian Hetzel – There Will Be Light
12 May MENU (former bicycle depot)
SPRING in Autumn 2021
Eko Supriyanto – IBUIBU BELO: Bodies of Borders
27 Oct Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Samira Elagoz – SEEK BROMANCE
30 Oct world premiere | Het Huis
SPRING 2021
Dries Verhoeven – Broeders verheft u ter vrijheid
20 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Jaha Koo – The History of Korean Western theater
26 May Dutch premiere – Theater Kikker
Julian Hetzel – Mount Average
Het Huis
Florentina Holzinger – TANZ
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Ingrid Berger Myhre – In Other Words
21 May Dutch premiere | Stadsshouwburg Utrecht
Jan fedinger – Land(e)scapes 4
28 May world premiere | Het Huis
SPRING 2019
Dries Verhoeven – Happiness
Lucasbolwerk
Jeroen van Loon – Ephemeral Data
De Neude
Naomi Velissariou | Theater Utrecht – PERMANENT DESTRUCTION: The HM Concert
17 May Dutch premiere | De Paardenkathedraal
Silke Huysmans & Hannes Deerere – Pleasant Island
20 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Stefan Kaegi | Rimini Protokoll – Uncanny Valley
23 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Kris Verdonck & ICK – SOMETHING (out of nothing)
24 april world premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
SPRING 2018
Mette Ingvartsen – to come (extended)
17 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Isaac Chong Wai – The Collective Individual Exercises
17 May Dutch premiere | Lucasbolwerk
Studio Dries Verhoeven – Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
17 May Dutch premiere | De Neude
Liz Kinoshita – You Can’t Take It With You
14 April Essen (DE) | PACT Zollverein
28 April Leuven (BE) | STUK
Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim – We Should All Be Dreaming
18 May Dutch Premiere | Palladio
Jisun Kim – Deep Present
Theater Kikker
Tianzhuo Chen – An Atypical Brain Damage
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Naomi Vellisariou, Theater Utrecht & Rudolphi Productions – The SK Concert
20 May Dutch premiere | De Paardenkathedraal
SPRING 2017
Marlene Monteiro Freitas – Bacchae – Prelude to a Purge
18 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Amparo González Sola & Juan Onofri Barbato – Caravana
24 May Dutch premiere | former jail Wolvenplein
Marcelo Evelin / Demolition Incorporada – Dança Doente
20 May Dutch premiere
Nick Steur – Drop Sculpture #4 – making senses
18 May World premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Katja Heitmann – Pandora’s DropBox
19 May World premiere | Theater Kikker
Erna Ómarsdóttir & Valdimar Jóhannsson / Iceland Dance Company – SACRIFICE – A mini festival
26 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Julian Hetzel – Schuldfabrik
26 May Dutch premiere | shopping centre Kanaleneiland
SPRING 2016
Jan Martens – THE COMMON PEOPLE
27 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Nicole Beutler – 6: THE SQUARE
19 May World premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Tim Etchells – Vacuum Days Utrecht
19 May World premiere
Dries Verhoeven – Guilty Landscapes, episode I
19 May World premiere | Galerij Sanaa
Edit Kaldor – Web of Trust
20 May Dutch premiere | Theater Kikker
Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch – Time’s Journey Through a Room
23 May Dutch premiere
Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek – Schönheitsabend
24 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
SPRING 2015
Julian Hetzel – Sculpting Fear
23 May World premiere | Theater Kikker
SPRING 2014
Julian Hetzel – STILL (The Economy of Waiting)
15 May World premiere | performance installation on location
Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek – Wellness
15 May Dutch premiere
Ula Sickle – Kinshasa Electric
23 May Dutch premiere
Jan Martens – The Dog Days Are Over
20 March World premiere Amsterdam (NL) | Frascati
Alma Söderberg & Hendrik Willekens – Idioter
23 May Dutch premiere
Ant Hampton & Tim Etchells – Lest we see where we are
6 May Dutch premiere | Domplein
Dries Verhoeven – De Uitvaart
15 mei World premiere | Sint Willibrordus Church
Kviss búmm bang – A walk on the lost highway
15 May World premiere | on location in the city center
SPRING 2013
Sanja Mitrovic – Speak!
16 May Dutch premiere
Dries Verhoeven – Ceci n’est pas…
16 May World premiere | Stadhuisplein
Kris Verdonck – H, an Incident
24 May Dutch premiere | Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
Ligna – Walking the City
15 May Dutch premiere
Coproductions Festival a/d Werf 2012
Yan Duyvendak & Roger Bernat – Please, Continue (Hamlet)
22 May Dutch premiere | Festival a/d Werf
Sanja Mitrovic – Crash Course Chit Chat
2 April World premiere | Theater aan het Spui, Den Haag
Keren Levi – The Dry Piece
17 May World premiere | Festival a/d Werf