SPRING 2016
6: THE SQUARE
Nicole Beutler
6: THE SQUARE zooms in on our human need to create order in a constantly changing world. Defining, drawing lines, pigeonholing: the square. What role ...
A piece of 2 – balancing human sized rocks
Nick Steur
Performance artist Nick Steur stacks and balances rocks in complete concentration and with incredible precision. It has even earned him an appearance ...
Ash and Money
Theatre NO99
In 2010 Theatre NO99 founded a fictional political movement, turning all of Estonia into a stage, because the majority of the population believed that...
Blue Tired Heroes
Massimo Furlan
A blue costume with a red cape, red socks, yellow belt and red underpants: Superman! Has he ever grown old? Can superheroes even grown old? Can they g...
CONCRETE
Maud Le Pladec, Ictus Ensemble
CONCRETE is a dance piece with the vibes of a live concert: exhilarating, tight, fierce and powerful. With CONCRETE, the French choreographer Maud Le ...
Conditions of Being a Mortal
HODWORKS
Conditions of Being a Mortal is a colourful piece that explodes in a tangle of bodies and big emotions. Raw humour, full-blown yelling sessions, shard...
Deceptive Bodies
Dolores Bouckaert, Charlotte Vanden Eynde
Does our body language betray our innermost thoughts? How misleading is physical communication? How can body language be read, but also: how can it be...
Five Easy Pieces
Milo Rau, IIPM, CAMPO
Five Easy Pieces is a performance featuring children, aimed at grownups, and deals with an emotionally charged subject. The Swiss stage director Milo ...
For iTernity
Katja Heitmann
For iTernity comes to life in the dark on Neude square. It is a dance performance with a dancer who is present as a projection in the air. You can mak...
Guilty Landscapes, episode I
Dries Verhoeven
We like to travel to exotic places for fun, and social media allow us to be friends with people in countries half a world away. But at the same time, ...
Last Seen Standing Between Brackets
Adva Zakai
‘How can I go on dancing when, one day, I no longer have a body?’ the Israeli choreographer and performer Adva Zakai asks in Last Seen Sta...
Panda Express
Oneka von Schrader
Panda Express stimulates all the senses and adds new meaning to the term ‘experimenting’. This performance is an installation, tea ceremon...
Re-enactment of the Now
Davy Pieters, THEATER UTRECHT
Every day we consume a considerable amount of news and information, whether trending or breaking or less urgent. The truth must be hidden somewhere in...
S.E.F.A. (Se Eu Fosse Angolano)
Nástio Mosquito
S.E.F.A. (Se Eu Fosse Angolano) is a remarkable one-man show in which Nástio Mosquito mixes personal rants, exhilarating poetry slam and emotio...
Schönheitsabend
Florentina Holzinger, Vincent Riebeek, CAMPO
Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek form what may well be Europe’s most controversial performance- duo. For Schönheitsabend they have ...
Sons of Sissy
Simon Mayer
Simon Mayer is a country boy who was born in a small village in Austria. He is one of the four performers in Sons of Sissy: a performance featuring ru...
SPRING & Gaudeamus Muziekweek present… + – /, 1 = _ ; X %
Jerzy Bielski, Sandra Abouav
In + – /, 1 = _ ; X % four performers explore the corporate world and the impact the banks and big multinationals have on our daily lives. Using...
THE COMMON PEOPLE
Jan Martens
In THE COMMON PEOPLE 48 Utrecht residents meet for the first time. Not on Facebook or in a chat session, but in real life: one on one onstage. T...
The Cube
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT
Enter the Hekman Foyer! Enter The Cube! Enter an audiovisual landscape with mountains, clouds, a river, the sea, people and animals. The video project...
Time’s Journey Through a Room
Toshiki Okada, chelfitsch
Time’s Journey Through a Room is an incisive portrait of Japan today by the most important theatre maker currently working in Japan. Director an...
Vacuum Days Utrecht
Tim Etchells
Take a stroll around the Utrecht city centre and for once, try not to avert your eyes from the big poster ads everywhere. Vacuum Days Utrecht is ...
Web of Trust
Edit Kaldor
What if we refuse to continue on the plotted course? What if we demanded real change? Not tomorrow, not in ten years’ time, but now? Edit Kaldor...