SPRING 2018
An Atypical Brain Damage
Tianzhuo Chen
Asia meets Europe, fashion meets performance, vogueing meets karaoke. What would be a better place for this clash than a stage that turns into a ...
Anti—Gravity
Chunky Move returns to SPRING! After the overwhelming success of Complexity of Belonging in 2016, Anouk van Dijk’s Australian company presents A...
Anyways
PIPS:LAB
Would you like to be part of a rail-road movie? If so, enter the PIPS:lab compartment and put on your VR goggles and headset for a 360° Film e...
City Symposium – Technoperformance
Jon McKenzie, Pedro Manuel, Marian van Dijk, SPRING
Technology plays an increasingly active role in our day-to-day lives, in industry, education and science. Instead of a passive tool, technology is qui...
De geschiedenis van mijn stijfheid
Wunderbaum
Is the way we dance determined by our deep-seated Calvinism, our freezing winters, the collective shame and clay soil? The actors’ collectiv...
Deep Present
Jisun Kim
Deep Present is a show without human beings but with four artificial intelligences on stage. Korean artist Jisun Kims asks what happens when a...
every-one
Cie. Willi Dorner
Revue dances in the streets of Kanaleneiland? A girl dance group (including boys) between apartment block and shopping mall? Austrian choreograph...
Farci.e
Sorour Darabi
What if you come from a neutral world and, all of a sudden, everything has a gender? The Iranian dancer Sorour Darabi has a personal answer to tha...
In Many Hands
Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh actively involves her audiences in her shows. In previous works the artist from New Zealand had them take apart household objects (W...
NAME Readymade
JANEZ JANŠA
In 2007, three Slovenian artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and of cially changed their names to that of the leader ...
PARADI$E BITCH | PICNIC
Tianzhuo Chen
Bright colours ow into visually stunning fantasies in the two video works by Chinese visual artist Tianzhuo Chen. Central to his approach is the r...
Ravemachine
Doris Uhlich, Michael Turinsky
Ravemachine, by Doris Uhlich in collaboration with Michael Turinsky, is a highly energetic show with two very different bodies. Uhlich and Turinsk...
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
At a time when controversy surrounds colonial memorials, the West’s most recent dominance is beginning to show signs of collapse. Russia and...
Something In This Universe
Genevieve Murphy/Nicole Beutler Projects
Obsessive-compulsive disorders: there’s something about the endless drive for perfection. It is endlessly tempting, and so addictive. Someth...
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ho Tzu Nyen
In old myths clouds are a barrier, but also a zone of transition and transcendence between earth and heaven, between humans and God. In his immers...
The Collective Individual Exercises
Isaac Chong Wai
Let’s think about the future, the Hong Kong-based Isaac Chong Wai tells us with his performance art. He designs simple mass choreographies i...
The SK Concert: Permanent Destruction
NAOMI VELISSARIOU, THEATER UTRECHT, RUDOLPHI PRODUCTIONS
Permanent Destruction is a melodramatic energy concert by actor and director Naomi Velissariou and sound producer Joost Maaskant. A sexy show abo...
Think Much. Cry Much.
Rima Najdi
A no man’s land in Utrecht. Footprints on the oor. Refugees, border patrols, policemen, social workers… Rima Najdi was travelling...
to come (extended)
Mette Ingvartsen
Commercials, films, the internet and magazines inundate us with images of sexualised, eroticised bodies. The intimate has become public. Pleas...
TUTUGURI
Flora Detraz
Flora Detraz was a guest at SPRING before, as a remarkable performer for Marlène Monteiro Freitas (2017). This year the dancer-ventriloquis...
Wiek
Schweigman&
Three dancers trapped by horizontal rotating blades. The audience encircles the performers, preventing their escape. Nothing is possible than to face...
You Can’t Take It With You
Liz Kinoshita
What do we need to survive? When does an object offer us something to hold onto? And when do these much-needed objects turn into useless mate...