Backstage
Here you will find news, background articles and interviews with artists and news from the cultural field.
“We wanted to know what perspectives there might be in a place that is so devastated”
Interview with Silke Huysmans en Hannes Dereere about Pleasant Island.
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"Ravishing dance shows and documentary theatre pieces, ironic humanoids and skillful bondage artists, Greek traditional dance and Indonesian noise music come together in a theatrical journey around the world and into Utrecht."
“We cling to the idea that machines are going to solve our problems.”
Interview with visual artist and theatre maker Kris Verdonck
“I want to bring back the moment with a piece of art that is very unique, temporary and local”
Interview with Jeroen van Loon
“Radio en podcast zijn heel intiem: iemand vertelt een verhaal in je oor”
Interview met Luuk Heezen over SPRING Radio! This article is only available in Dutch.
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Interview: Rima Najdi about Think Much. Cry Much.
Rima Najdi has lived in Beirut, New York and is now settled in Berlin. Her work occupies and (re)negotiates in-between spaces. She deals with the ways in which identity is constructed and perceived, focusing on the lived experience of the body.
Interview: Kate McIntosh about In Many Hands
Kate McIntosh is a Brussels-based artist from New Zealand who actively involves her audiences in her shows. During In Many Hands, McIntosh invites the SPRING audience to feel, smell and experience - a multi-sensory situation which is almost like a ritual.