OFFSPRING

The audience is essential to the work of performing artists. During OFFSPRING we open the doors to the artistic process for audience that is curious about new developments in the performing arts. See, meet and exchange with makers, audience or (new) peers.  The evening includes a break with a cup of soup. In the afternoon you can follow a workshop about queering artistic feedback.

OFFSPRING is part of SPRING Academy and is organized in collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant, VIA ZUID & FAAM.

With work by Yoko Haveman, Boris de Klerk, Anthony van Gog and Nienke Coers, Freija Roos and Freke Vos.

Works in Progress

Anthony van Gog

During OFFSPRING I show a first insight into the working process of the quiet. The quiet is a performance in which the most intimate bodily experiences are expressed. Through a well-chosen sound scenography, it attempts to portray experiences such as sleep, illness, ecstasy, orgasm, pain, paralysis, dying, etc. in an ambiguous constellation. Are the bodies suffering from high fever illness or are their movements instead expressions of sleep spasms and dreams? Do we see bodies being born or dying? Are they in ecstasy or are they just in pain? Do they make random sounds or do they create harmony together?

By zooming in on the “silent” movements of the body – such as rapid-eye movement, muscle tension, perspiration, the shift in the tempo of breathing, small vocal sounds, surging bodily influences, etc – and externalizing them through spatial sound and painting them with light, the quiet plays on the viewer’s corporeality by drawing them into this intimacy and throwing them back into the sensation of their own bodies.

Boris Klerk

At OFFSPRING, Boris presents an initial sketch as part of an artistic research project exploring the intersection of musical composition, performance, and language. Strong influences from improvised music, Japanese haiku, the work of John Cage, and the radio play come together in a spatial listening experience.

Yoko Haveman

“Pain doesn’t always scream. Every so often, it just sits there. Silently.’’ A Tribute to Everything That Breaks is an interdisciplinary revealing of violence: bodily, emotional, aesthetic, and symbolic, as seen through the female encoded anime body. This work in progress explores the fractured psyches and hyper-sexualized frames of archetypal figures, the Innocent, the Seductress, the Tragic Antagonist, whose narratives are frequently shaped by implosion or sacrifice.

Through performance, voice, and live guitar, this work doesn’t merely depict violence; it listens to it, gives it space, and traces its pulse through gesture, embodiment, and pitch. A new character emerges, shaping a physical language of rupture and resistance. Voice experiments range from high, constricted frequencies to guttural exhalations, layered with live guitar and shifting physical states. Movement, live sound, and scenography, inflected with the heightened dramatics of anime and its visceral, ever-evolving landscape, come together to reveal that we don’t have to fear this intensity, but rather, move through it. This is a tribute to what breaks under pressure, and an invitation to see breaking not as failure, but as a form of intelligence, clarity, and re-entry into the world.

Nienke Coers, Freija Roos and Freke Vos

Time Not Lost is a cross-medial project on the meaning and impact of intercultural and intergenerational eating rituals. The project explores how culinary traditions form a living archive of family histories and identities. Through interviews, we delved into the relationship between food, identity and migration. The focus was on people with roots outside the Netherlands, who often experience their cultural identity through the tastes and smells of their country of origin. The stories showed that food goes beyond the physical; eating habits evoke strong feelings and make cultural connections tangible.