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Come and do an internship at SPRING
We are looking for interns! This is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable experience with a festival organization in a short period of time and to work with a dynamic team on SPRING edition 2026!
No business as usual, cultural boycott Israel
SPRING joins the cultural boycott of Israel www.cultureleboycotisrael.nu . Committing to a boycott is never something to be taken lightly. Perhaps especially in the arts sector, where we are constantly working to build bridges, foster connections, and deepen mutual understanding. But what we hold dear in the arts also includes honesty, justice, and freedom.
Changes in Subvisory Board
This summer, a number of changes took place in SPRING's Supervisory Board. Franc Faaij has been appointed chair of the Supervisory Board. He succeeds Tanja Mlaker, who has held this position for the past seven years. We thank her for her commitment and excellent cooperation. We are delighted that Cécile de Vos joined the Supervisory Board this summer.
Look back:Topic Talk War on Stage
How should artists deal with depicting war on stage? And what is the programmer's responsibility in this? Watch the Topic Talk about this subject now back!
Reading Space during Centraal Laat
Following the performance of Good Mom/Bad Mom, we explored the topic of motherhood during Centraal Laat in the Reading Space. We compiled a booklet with texts and literature. Read along with us!
SPRING x Centraal Museum Utrecht: Centraal Laat
Did you alreeady save the date of the 11the September in your agenda? Together with Centraal Museum Utrecht, SPRING will organise Centraal Laat! An evening with performances, art, music. talks, exchange and more.
Gap Exchange Project: David McGovern & Amparo González Sola
SPRING joined Irish Theatre Institute again for Gap Exchange project.
SPRING is looking for Head of Production (0.8 FTE)
Will you be organising SPRING next year? From 1 September, we are looking for a new Head of Production (0.8 fte year-round) for our core team who will be responsible for the planning and production of our festival and the activities we organise throughout the year. Are you a strong producer with extensive experience in the performing arts, preferably (also) at festivals? Can you translate production plans into content, work independently as well as lead a team, work in a planned and structured way with an eye for the short and long term and do you have excellent communication skills? Then respond before 20 June. Vacancy
SPRING in the press
On this page you will find all reviews and interviews posted about the performances of SPRING 2025.
INTERVIEW with Ntando Cele, by Laura Ginestar
Ntando Cele was born in Durban, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. She studied theatre in Durban and then followed a multidisciplinary training at DAS Arts in Amsterdam. In 2013, she founded the production company Manaka Empowerment Prod. together with Raphael Urweider. Her work crosses the boundaries of theatre, video installations, concerts and performance. With humour and deliberately politically incorrect statements, she makes hidden racism in everyday life visible. She combines music, text and video to dissect prejudices and stereotypes in a cheerful way, confronting the audience with their own prejudices. In February 2020, during the festival It's not that simple in Bern, Cele invited other artists to a satirical debate called Ennemi du progrès (Enemy of Progress), in which she discussed issues of racial freedom and the limitations for artists of colour. Her performances have been seen at Vidy (Switzerland), with Black Off (2019), Go Go Othello (2020) and SPAfrica (2023). SPAfrica, the award-winning production she made with Julian Hetzel, was a SPRING co-production and had its Dutch premiere at SPRING 2023. In the upcoming edition of SPRING Performing Arts Festival 2025, Cele will be presenting her last work Wasted Land, on Thursday 22nd May at 21h at the Grote Zaal of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. She will be also hosting the trajectory “Protest & Future Imagination”, in which she will reflect with the participants on what it means to not just "perform" our convictions but to truly "embody" them. Moreover, there will be a guiding question throughout the sessions: what does it take to envision a future that aligns with the values we fight for?
10 Days of Dance, Theatre and More
May 14 — 23 2026
SPRING Performing Arts Festival is a ten-day international festival with innovative dance, theatre, performance and more in the city of Utrecht. You will find SPRING in the theatres, at special locations and in public spaces. At the festival you will see over 25 adventurous and urgent performances from both near and far that dare to ask questions about the state of the world.
Images of SPRING 2025 by Allard Willemse, Alex Heuvink en Luz Soria.