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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 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 HorvitzA Dream That Belongs To No One
Metaal Kathedraal

SPRING 2022

Sonia HughesI 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

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