Programme 2025

OFFSPRING

Three makers and one collective courageously present their works in progress. Each of them curious about the spectator’s response.

Reading Group: Arab Futurism

alaa minawi

With alaa minawi, the maker of The Liminal Rethinking the past in order to create a future. Arabfuturism is an artistic movement that formulates counternarratives to the eurocentric image projected on the Middle-East.

Reading Group: Art of Joy

Nathan Ooms & Anna Franziska Jäger

In what ways can the essence of a novel’s character be brought to the stage?Join us in the cosy and informal sphere of Savannah Bay, for a morning of reading and discussing together. A book in one hand, a cup of tea and a cookie in the other.

SPRING Academy Trajectories

Dive deep into our educational program, get to know the SPRING Academy Trajectories!The SPRING Academy trajectories are for everyone who has a practice in performing arts, studies in the field of humanities, is an autodidact, an activist, a researcher or a person for any other reason interested in diving deep into a topic related to the works at SPRING.

Topic Talk: Age on Stage

Beppie Blankert, Keren Levi, Teenage Songbook Choir

Is age just a number?Aging is something we all experience. However, it remains an unspoken subject in several contexts, such as the professional field. When we are young, we feel pressured to grow up and gain experience. When we are adults, we are bombarded with “anti-aging” messages, urging us to look younger, more energetic, and fitter.

Topic Talk: Cannibalisation of Culture

Studio Julian Hetzel

A discussion on meta-politics – a complex mechanism that uses words as weapons. In this encounter Studio Julian Hetzel invites guests and the audience to bring critical attention to the cannibalisation of culture.

Topic Talk: Making the Impossible Possible

SHIFFT, Viktor Szeri

In a world where systems and political environments seem to be constantly pushing artists and organizers to adapt, how can we stay true to our artistic vision? How can we create artistic possibilities in places where it feels like it’s getting harder and harder?

Topic Talk: Performing care

Alaa Minawi, Guiot Duermeijer, Fotini Stamatelopoulou, Marthe van Mosselveld

How do performing arts perform care?How does the performance of care relate to the performing arts? What is the relationship between artistic practices and care ethics? Is art careful enough? Can care be staged? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this topic talk.

Topic Talk: The (de)colonised Body on Stage

Marcelo Evelin, Venuri Perera, Eylül Fidan Akıncı

It is not unusual anymore to speak up about colonial pasts and present examples of occupation. But what shifts when we speak of bodies rather than nations? When bodies with histories of colonization—past or present, or living with the ongoing reality or fear of it—take the stage? How does this dynamic unfold when the audience is primarily from a white Western background?

Workshop: Queering artistic feedback

workshop by Annika Hilger and Szymon Adamczak

Feedback is a form of conversation that facilitates mutual learning, frames critique, and generates valuable insights prompted by artistic creations and their resonances.

zzz Bookpresentation: A Queer Feedback Handbook. Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education.

Presented by: Elioa Steffen, Szymon Adamczak and the IPOP community members

With an introduction by the ATD Lectorate professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca.Drawing on three years of experiences with developing a queer communal feedback model, the authors of educational and pedagogical platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities present their first handbook.