SPRING Academy

About

SPRING Academy: Platform for artistic exchange 

SPRING Academy is an important part of the SPRING Performing Arts Festival. As a platform, it presents many free public events such as aftertalks, topic talks and reading groups. The Academy program opens new doors to the performances and allows you to get a deeper insight into new developments in the performing arts and current topics that determine our understanding of the world.  

In the past edition, SPRING Academy presented seven different thematic trajectories. Each of these trajectories will focus on a current topic and will be composed by different performances and contextual activities from the Academy program. These will include conversations with the makers, masterclasses, and workshops. The trajectories will be open for registration to both the general public and schools. Everyone will have the opportunity to choose one or more trajectories, gaining access to several performances and exchanges with artists, dramaturgs, scenographers, and researchers in the field. 

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Trajectories

Would you like to dive deeper into our programme? Get to meet the SPRING Academy Trajectories!

The SPRING Academy Trajectories are for anyone with a practice in the performing arts, who is studying or has studied in the humanities, who is self-taught, an activist or researcher, and for anyone interested in diving deeper into the SPRING programme.

In 2026, SPRING Academy will offer six thematic “trajectories”, allowing you to experience the festival on a deeper level. We will share more about the content of these trajectories with you soon.

This is what you can expect when you follow one of the SPRING Academy Trajectories:

• Visits to at least four performances
• Meetings with makers
• Opening and reflection session with a maker from the festival programme
• Knowledge exchange
• Workshops
• Topic Talks and (post-)discussions
• Joint lunch

All in all, the Academy Trajectories offer an experience full of fun, learning, new friendships and lots of inspiration!

School Program

For over 10 years we have built close relations with various art and academic schools, who visit SPRING yearly for a deepened experience with SPRING Academy. 

Educational institutions from all over the Netherlands and anywhere in the world will be able to participate in the trajectory or trajectories of their choice. The content of the trajectories is carefully curated to include performance visits and after-talks, topic talks, reading groups and workshops related to current and relevant topics of the contemporary social and cultural agenda.

These trajectories align the SPRING Academy program more closely to the interests of each academic program and educational institution, while staying up-to-date with what happens around us. Students will have the opportunity to share their perspectives with the festival makers and artists at SPRING on those topics, and connect with one another and students from other disciplines, building a sustainable and enriching network of future professionals.

Public Program 2026

Next to the School Program, SPRING Academy also organizes events for the general audience. Our public program consists our Academy Trajectories, Reading Groups, Topic Talks, Workshop, Book Presentations and more! Through our Academy Trajectories you can get a deeper insight into the festival and the makers behind it. We will share the SPRING Academy programme soon on this page.

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Contact

Questions? Feel free to contact us via springacademy@springutrecht.nl