SPRING 2022

All Together

Michikazu Matsune

An intimate show about the lasting bonds between people

Between my name and me – Utrecht edition

Michikazu Matsune

Call for participation in name-story project

Dronude Utrecht Project

Van den Berg/Van Herk/Durden

A series of body positive art pieces, featuring one hundred naked people

Eros

DOX, Schweigman&

An electrifying musical experience that transports you out of the ordinary

Fuck me

Marina Otero

"It is beautiful, powerful, disconcertin, confusing and deeply disturbing" - L'oleil d'Olivier

I am from Reykjavik

Sonia Hughes

“Such a simple and powerful thing to watch” – audience feedback

I… Cognitive maps – Chapter 1

Ely Daou

This Lebanese artist is bringing back the simple art of storytelling

If every rock is a hole

Amparo González Sola

Talented up-and-coming artist presents a fragile yet powerful solo on resistance and surrender

Indoor Weather

Bosse Provoost, Ezra Veldhuis

Enter this curious, spooky mutating world

Landing on Feathers – Rehearsing the Not Yet

Jija Sohn, Julia Reist, Aleksandra Lemm in collaboration with Elmer Kouwenberg, Nica Roses

A safe space to reflect on care, proximity, and our relationship with the other

Manila Zoo

Eisa Jocson

“This show is far more intimate and confrontational precisely because of Zoom”- The Straits Times

New Creation

Bruno Beltrão, Grupo de Rua

The virtuoso hiphop maker’s response to the political situation in Brazil

OPEN EXPERT TALK: Feminist voices in performing arts

Arianne Perez-Koeleman, Boukje Schweigman, Khadija El Kharraz Alami

In-depth conversation with festival artists Boukje Schweigman and Khadija El Kharraz Alami

OPEN EXPERT TALK: Performing Radical Economies

Denise Harleman, Marianna Takou, Julian Hetzel

In-depth conversation with festival artist Julian Hetzel, Denise Harleman and Marianna Takou

OPEN EXPERT TALK: Postcolonial Performances

Choy Ka Fai, Sadiah Boonstra, Eko Supriyanto

In-depth conversation with festival artists Choy Ka Fai and Eko Supriyanto

Playful Robots

Irene Alcubilla Troughton (Universiteit Utrecht), Kim Baraka (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Take part in one-on-one sessions with robot Pepper

Podcast series SPRING in het diepe

Art journalist Luuk Heezen speaks to artists from SPRING Performing Arts Festival 2022

Postcolonial Spirits

Choy Ka Fai

A new take on Indonesian folk dance Dolalak in a live link with Surakarta

Presence

Royce Ng

A lecture performance on virtual presence using spectacular technology

SOUTHWIND

Mark Požlep, Maxime Barthou, Davis Freeman

A documentary film and performance about American life along the Mississippi

Sunny Sunday

Rabih Mroué, Lina Majdalanie

“An intense performance, full of narrative twists and turns, with elements of stand-up, storytelling and cartoons” - dwutygodnik.com

The Dancing Public

Mette Ingvartsen

A dance party, spoken word concert and an expression of physical craziness

The NarcoSexuals

Dries Verhoeven

A look inside the bittersweet world of sexual drug use

The Silicon Passion

SETUP

In search for a new relationship with big tech, armed with Bach's St. Matthew Passion and synthesizers

The Village Utrecht

Nieuwe Helden

Let this interactive app guide you on a bike ride across a rapidly changing city

The Waves

Khadija El Kharraz Alami

A healing ritual about female beauty, vulnerability and pain

There Will Be Light

Julian Hetzel

About the precarious economy of hope