SPRING 2017
Bacchae – Prelude to a Purge
Marlene Monteiro Freitas
In 2015, Of Ivory and Flesh – Statues also suffer by Marlene Monteiro Freitas was a smash hit and the must-see of the festival. For her explosiv...
Balabala
Eko Supriyanto, EkosDance Company
In Balabala five young female dancers from Eastern Indonesia lend a voice to the vulnerable female part of their community. With no background in danc...
Caravana
Amparo González Sola, Juan Onofri Barbato
Juan Onofri Barbato first came to the Netherlands with his powerful choreography Duramadre. For his new performance Caravana he is placing his audienc...
Cock, Cock.. Who’s There?
Samira Elagoz
Cock, Cock.. Who’s there? is a disturbing, moving and personal performance in which Samira Elagoz uses online dating and intimate encounters to ...
Corbeaux
Bouchra Ouizguen
Like a murder of crows a group of women – dressed in black and wearing white head scarves – is taking flight. Their voices swell until the...
Dança Doente
Marcelo Evelin, Demolition Incorporada
Three years after his SPRING success Suddenly everywhere is black with people, Marcelo Evelin is returning to Utrecht. In Dança Doente (Sick Da...
Drop Sculpture #4 – making senses
Nick Steur
After balancing a couple of giant rocks on Neude square last year Nick Steur is making a move from large to small. In his series Drop Sculpture, Steur...
Hear
Yoann Durant, Benjamin Vandewalle
In collaboration with sound artist Yoann Durant and a group of performers from among others HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht), Benjamin Vandewa...
IN.somnial
Vinny Jones
Poetry for the senses: IN.somnial is an installation that allows visitors to enter the bedroom of the sleepless poet Sonia and immediately immerses th...
Maibaum
Jordi Gali, Arrangement Provisoire
With his piece Maibaum, Jordi Gali is reviving an old tradition from Central and Northern Europe: that of young men and women erecting a maypole in th...
Pandora’s DropBox
Katja Heitmann
According to Greek mythology, when Pandora opened her box, every disaster and worry in the world came pouring out: hunger, fear, disease, death ...
Personal Symphonic Moment
Elina Pirinen
Personal Symphonic Moment by Elina Pirinen is an impulsive and expressionist dance performance that takes Shostakovitch’ seventh symphony as its...
Recognized / Not Recognized
Coralie Vogelaar, Marjolein Vogels
Two pictures of the same news event: the first reappears a thousand times on the internet, the second all but disappears from view. What makes one new...
SACRIFICE – A mini festival
Erna Ómarsdóttir, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Iceland Dance Company
Visitor of SACRIFCE on 27 May can attend SPRING & Nordic Delight Festival present… Closing Party ft. Milkywhale – live & FM B...
Schuldfabrik
Julian Hetzel
The performance-installation Schuldfabrik takes you through a series of spaces behind a high-end soap store. The raw material for Julian Hetzel’...
Solar: a Meltdown
Ho Rui An
Solar: A Meltdown is a surprising lecture-performance that deals with colonialism and globalism. In it, the young writer and artist Ho Rui An talks to...
Specific place needs specific dance
Tian Rotteveel, Darlane Litaay
Specific place needs specific dance is the result of a blind date between two choreographers; one from Europe, living in Germany, and the other from J...
The Family
Casper Vandeputte, THEATER UTRECHT
From March until June a gang of theatre makers led by director Casper Vandeputte will be setting up shop inside Theater De Paardenkathedraal. During t...