Backstage
Here you will find news, background articles and interviews with artists and news from the cultural field.
Aftermovie SPRING in Autumn 2021
We are reminiscing SPRING in Autumn and we would like to share this feeling with you too!
Grzegorz Reske new Artistic Director SPRING
He starts the first of June as the successor of Rainer Hofmann
Podcast series SPRING in het diepe!
In-depth conversations with artists about the performances that are at SPRING this year.
Rainer Hofmann is leaving SPRING
Artistic Director Rainer Hofmann will leave SPRING in summer 2021. He will take the position of head of dramaturgy at Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hannover.
Creating Space and Dismantling Hierarchy: Radouan Mriziga’s 7
Radouan Mriziga’s 7 is the final installment in a trilogy exploring the relationship between the human body and the spaces it constructs and occupies. Read here the whole interview with Radouan Mriziga, conducted by Morgan Amonett.
“Mijn werk gaat niet over mij” – in gesprek met Genevieve Murphy
This article is only available in Dutch.
“De muur tussen het theater en de straat moet verdwijnen” – in gesprek met Julian Hetzel
This article is only available in Dutch.
Sensorial surprises in Hiroaki Umeda’s work
Hiroaki Umeda’s work is all about haptic experience, or sensorial observations through touch. But Umeda’s aim is to widen the scope of the concept, which leads to some surprising performative installations, such as Haptic Installation which can be seen at SPRING in Autumn XXXL.
Critical reflections in the work of Abhishek Thapar
Abhishek Thapar is a theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and teacher from India. In this conversation, we talk about his latest performance Cow is a Cow is a Cow, his background, his inspirations and the critical reflections in his work.










