SPRING 2023

2048 – identity in dissolution (٢٠٤٨ – تَحَلّلْ هَوِيَة)

alaa minawi

Intimate performance, with and about an artist who will be with the audience all the time, but never shows up

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Igor Shugaleev

Inciting first-hand report about life under inhuman dictatorship in the heart of Europe

A Plot / A Scandal

Ligia Lewis

The newest stage work by Lewis covers the history of colonialism as written in historical books and the one embodied in the personal history of her ancestors

Ambient Theatre Fury: The Death Of Dialogue and How To Avoid It

Anna Franziska Jäger, Nathan Ooms

Artistic duo conquering European stages with their theatre project about the impossibility of finding each other in the world of social media

Ascension

Leon Rogissart, Paul Boereboom

Live opera in virtual reality allowing your mind to unwind

Batty Bwoy

Harald Beharie

Celebration of dance by an upcoming star of choreography, directly confronting the audience with the queer body on stage

blind & lame

Lucy, Gika Wilke

Location moved to Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. Astonishing acoustic music duo of mother and daughter blind & lame

Canceled: Spelling Spectacle

Ingrid Berger Myhre

Canceled due to a injury. Come see Panflutes and Paperwork by Ingrid Berger Myhre!

DakhaBrakha

DakhaBrakha

Well-known Ukrainian band opens the festival with a mixture of folk music and electronic beats

Dear beloved friend,

Dries Verhoeven

A performance straight from Lagos, Nigeria about our shifting European self-image

Eurydice, een afdaling in oneindigheid

Silbersee, Celine Daemen, Kate Moore

VR installation invites the audience to join the heroes Eurydice and Orpheus of the ancient epos in their journey to the underworld

GHOST

Asa Horvitz

Four musicians and Artificial Intelligence in a performance about the meaning of life and death

Golden Age

Igor Cardellini, Tomas Gonzalez

Unexpected excursion across shopping mall Hoog Catharijne, changing our perception of public space and daily shopping decisions

If All Else Fails

Forced Entertainment

Legendary British group that paved the way for independent performing arts in Europe, in their most recent stage work, full of perverse humor.

It’s Going to Get Dark

Samara Hersch

Hersch continues her successful search for theatre as a place where not obvious encounters between strangers can be a safe space to talk about the most intimate topics

Kim_Twiddle DJ set

Kim_Twiddle

DJ set with electronic music 

Landing on Feathers

Aleksandra Lemm, Jija Sohn, Julia Reist

Funny and nostalgic story about the notion of care and its crucial role in building connections

MELLOWING

Christos Papadopoulos, Dance On Ensemble

An energetic celebration of the collectivity and the individuality of dancers

Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM

Katja Heitmann

New intimate intriguing chapter, in Katja’s choreography project, on archiving and transferring the movement of an individual person into collective memory

Panflutes and Paperwork

Lasse Passage, Ingrid Berger Myhre

In this duet, the relationship between dance and music is playfully examined

Pas de deux #1 – Constructing Love

Milla Koistinen, Paul Valikoski, Ladislav Zajac

Charming low-tech micro-theatre created by and for two audience members at the time

SCORES THAT SHAPED OUR FRIENDSHIP

Kim_Twiddle, Lucy Wilke, Paweł Duduś

A story about friendship between two artists, and about struggling to relate to the normativity of the world around

Screaming for Belarus

Jana Shostak

Artistic protest against the political persecutions in Belarus

She was a friend of someone else

Gosia Wdowik

In this international project, a rising star of Polish theatre investigates the unfinished feminist revolution in Europe

SNN #2: Light/Space/Prop

Chris Salter, Alexandre Saunier

An interactive and dynamic installation in which light and motion are used as creative elements

SPAfrica

Ntando Cele, Julian Hetzel

Two great provocateurs join forces to reveal the perverse aspects of the water industry and its impact on our society

Still Not Still

Ligia Lewis

Large scale dance production on the colonial past and presence by one of the strongest choreographic voices of this time

The conspiracy of forms

Amparo González Sola

Movement- and sound lead feminist ritual, taking back control over a civilization shaped by and for men

Topic Talk: Between Provocation and Invitation

Conversation about provocation and invitation in performing arts with Samara Hersch, Amparo González Sola, Julian Hetzel and Ntando Cele

Topic Talk: Black Body – White Gaze

Conversation about the black body on stage with makers Harald Beharie, Ligia Lewis, and Dries Verhoeven

Topic Talk: Performing Care

SPRING Academy

Conversation about care in life and in performing arts with Jija Sohn, Aleksandra Lemm, Paweł Duduś, Kim Ramona Ranalter.

UU & Academy: Doing Dramaturgy and What Dramaturgy Can Do

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Maaike Bleeker

Launch of the book "Doing Dramaturgy: Thinking Through Practice" and the new Dramaturgy Database from Utrecht University

UU & Academy: Open round table AI & the Arts

Open round table on art and AI in collaboration with Utrecht University and SPRING festival fellow Chris Salter

UU & Academy: Robots in SPRING

Lectures & Studio Presentations in collaboration with Utrecht University

Walk by Peter Power for the Gap Exchange Programme

Peter Power

Peter Power reflects on the tensions of urban living through a walk in the city

Work-in-progress: OFFSPRING

Double bills with the work-in-progress of new makers