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World premieres at SPRING 2025

This year, you can be at seven world premieres!

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Press release: SPRING 2025: “LET’S SAY IT OUT LOUD. WE ARE EXHAUSTED“

Ten days of dance, theater, installations and more in UtrechtFrom May 22 till 31, the thirteenth edition of SPRING Performing Arts Festival will take place in Utrecht, with this year’s theme WE ARE EXHAUSTED. Politically, socially, in nature, online, and in our bodies, it can be felt in many ways. Artistic director Grzegorz Reske states: “Shouldn’t we say it out loud? It’s hard not to lose yourself in a world that keeps accelerating and is filled with political and social unrest. But no matter how powerless we feel, we hold the power to bring change.”

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Ticket sales has started!

Have you already checked out the program on our website? Good news: ticket sales for SPRING 2025 start today!

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Pre programme SPRING

From now on, buy tickets for the pre programme SLOW TV CinemaThis year we have a special pre program that will help you get in the mood even before the festival. With all the hustle and bustle around us, we invite you to unwind.

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Programme SPRING 2025 is online!

You can find the full programme of SPRING 2025 on the website from now on. In addition, sales for Day Passes and Passe-partouts have started.

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SPRING Academy launches a new format!

From coming edition it will be possible to join a multi-day deepened experience of the festival. We present seven different thematic trajectories that the interested participant can choose between. From Protest & Future Imagination to Artistic Research and Vocabularies of the Body. These trajectories are carefully curated and will focus on current relevant topics in connection with the performances of SPRING Festival.

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Participant for Gob Squad’s Is Anybody Home? wanted

For the new performance Is Anybody Home? at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht on Saturday May 31, is Gob Squad looking for a participant aged between 18 and 28 and lives in Utrecht.

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SPRING IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

Do you want to be involved behind the scenes of an international festival and experience the thrilling, artistic ambiance? Sign up as a volunteer of the SPRING Performing Arts Festival!

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Teens from Utrecht pay attention, this is a special call for you!

Utrecht is the next stop for Teenage Songbook of Love & Sex, a unique musical performance featuring young people from Reykjavik. Together with local talents, and complemented with even more lyrics and songs written by young Utrechters, this makes for a unique one-off appearance in Stadsschouwburg Utrecht during SPRING.

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SPRING is looking for a: Business assistant

We are looking for a: Business assistant (0.4 fte)

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