Programme
The Crowd is Full of Faces
SPRING invites you to join the 12th edition festival crowd. A crowd of many, where artists also become spectators and spectators share their thoughts, join discussions, or might even play an active part in the performance. A joyful crowd that celebrates this festival as a time of being together. A thoughtful crowd, navigating through a multitude of narrations being brought to Utrecht from nearby and far away. This edition is filled with bigger and smaller productions bringing unique individuals into the spotlight. Get inspired by these stories of difference, diversity, and individuality. We invite you to share, discuss and exchange ideas and stories. Don’t lose yourself in the crowd, but find each other there.
- Book launch
- SPRING Academy
Book Launch: What Can Theatre Do
This book launch will feature a conversation and an artistic intervention, focused around the utterance 'What Can Theatre Do': an invitation for artists and thinkers alike to reimagine the potential agency of the performing arts.
- Long Table Talk
- SPRING Academy
Long Table Talk: Speculative Storytelling
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT
Let’s tell the unknown.
- Long Table Talk
- SPRING Academy
- SPRING Academy
MASTERCLASS #1
Mette Ingvartsen
Masterclass with choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvartsen, whose work is characterized by hybridity and combines dance and movement with other domains.
- SPRING Academy
MASTERCLASS #2
Taoufiq Izzediou
Masterclass with Taoufiq Izzediou: choreographer, dancer, and educator. This workshop is based on his piece HMADCHA, which features a world where dance meets trance, bodily exhaustion, and the transformation of the individual into a political body.
- SPRING Academy
MASTERCLASS #3
Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost, Extinction Rebellion Utrecht
Workshop for artists and activists in which Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost, and Extinction Rebellion invent an “installation protest" together with the participants.
- SPRING Academy
MASTERCLASS #4
Ontroerend Goed, Karolien De Bleser, Leonore Spee
- Dance
- Theatre
- SPRING Academy
OFFSPRING : studio sharings #2
Lizzy Deacon and Ika Schwander, Ashley Ho & Domenik Naue
Experience brand new work! OFFSPRING shows making processes for audiences curious about new developments in the performing arts.
- Dance
- Theatre
- SPRING Academy
OFFSPRING: studio sharings #1
Ghaliah Conroy, Aina Roca
Experience brand new work! OFFSPRING shows making processes for audiences curious about new developments in the performing arts.
- SPRING Academy
PrikkelTalk
Boukje Schweigman
In this PrikkelTalk, Boukje Schweigman, artistic director of Schweigman&, delves deeper into the phenomenon of sensory processing, at both physiological and socio-cultural levels.
- Reading Group
- SPRING Academy
Reading Group #1 with Ainhoa Hernández Escudero
Ainhoa Hernández Escudero
Come have a tea and read together with artists and audiences in the cosy atmosphere of bookstore Savannah Bay. You don't have to prepare anything!
- Reading Group
- SPRING Academy
Reading Group #2 with Turkowski & Nowacka
Turkowski & Nowacka
Come have a tea and read together with artists and audiences in the cosy atmosphere of bookstore Savannah Bay. You don't have to prepare anything!
- Reading Group
- SPRING Academy
Reading Group #3 with Celine Daemen
Celine Daemen
Come have a tea and read together with artists and audiences in the cosy atmosphere of bookstore Savannah Bay. You don't have to prepare anything!
- Topic Talk
- SPRING Academy
Topic Talk: Ownership & (De)colonial Practices
Choy Ka Fai, Leandro Souza, Francesca Vincentie
How do we talk about the colonial past? And is the colonial perspective really about the past?
- Topic Talk
- SPRING Academy