Backstage
Here you will find news, background articles and interviews with artists and news from the cultural field.
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Podcast series SPRING in het diepe!
In-depth conversations with artists about the performances that are at SPRING this year.
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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.
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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.
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“Mijn werk gaat niet over mij” – in gesprek met Genevieve Murphy
This article is only available in Dutch.
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“De muur tussen het theater en de straat moet verdwijnen” – in gesprek met Julian Hetzel
This article is only available in Dutch.
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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.
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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.
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New narratives in the work of Ulrike Quade Company
During the rehearsals for Womb m/f/x (which will premiere at SPRING in Autumn XXXL), director Ulrike Quade has found the time to discuss her latest work with us from her rehearsal studio.
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The different perspectives of Benjamin Kahn
In this interview dancer, choreographer and theatre maker Benjamin Kahn talks about his performance “Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified…”, representation and power relations.
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“Is this body out of date?” An interview with Doris Uhlich and Boris Kopeinig
Choreographer Doris Uhlich and media-artist Boris Kopeinig talk about their durational performance TANK, and the themes related to technology and the human body that it contains.
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Hope and collective experiences in the work of Marc von Henning
In a Thursday-afternoon conversation with German/British theatre-director, writer and artist Marc von Henning, he talked about his video-installation/moving poem this is for everyone, which will be presented at SPRING in Autumn XXXL at the renewed library in Utrecht.
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