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PROGRAMME 2016 / ENG
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SPRING time 2016:
Nicole Beutler / #newyoung / Belgium /
Germany / Tim Etchells / Nick Steur /
Andrea Bŏzić & Julia Willms /
#urbanspace / Katja Heitmann /
Dries Verhoeven / Estonia / #edgydance /
Massimo Furlan / Simon Mayer /
#tenderdance / Theatre NO99 / France /
Theater Utrecht / Davy Pieters /
United Kingdom / #toughtheatre /
#nakedtruth / Edit Kaldor / Hungary /
Jerzy Bielski & Sandra Abouav /
Israel / Dolores Bouckaert & Charlotte
Vanden Eynde / #digitalnatives /
Maud Le Pladec / Ictus Ensemble /
#politicalanimals / Toshiki Okada /
chelfitsch / Japan / #visualarts /
Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek /
CAMPO / Croatia / Adva Zakai /
Netherlands / #livesounds / Milo Rau / IIPM /
CAMPO / Austria / HODWORKS /
Oneka von Schrader / #bignames / Poland /
Jan Martens / Nástio Mosquito /
Switzerland / #utrechtconnection /
SPRING is coming to town again,
bringing a wide range of exciting,
distinctly original artists and a large
number of brand new performances
and installations. Really new. While I
write this, many of the performances
are still being rehearsed. They
premiere at SPRING or in a like-minded
festival somewhere in the world just
before.
And this means that even I haven’t
seen many of the performances on
our programme. But I know the people
making them; I know them well. SPRING
is sharing with them the risk that
every new artistic enterprise entails.
Will the exciting plans actually lead to
a captivating production? What will
you, the audience, think of it when it’s
finished? I am just as curious to find
out as you are and I’m looking forward
to witnessing the results of all these
adventures.
Dutch productions
Many of this year’s SPRINGperformances have been made in the
Netherlands and I am proud of the
artistic variety and the range of unique
signatures represented by these artists.
Nicole Beutler, Nick Steur, Florentina
Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek, Edit
Kaldor, Jan Martens, Jerzy Bielski &
Sandra Abouav, Davy Pieters, Andrea
Božić & Julia Willms, Katja Heitmann
and Dries Verhoeven are presenting
their performances and installations
at SPRING, and nearly all of them are
(Dutch) premieres.
International artists
The other artists come from Angola,
Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France,
United Kingdom, Hungary, Israel,
Japan, Austria and Switzerland. Does
that matter? Well, it does. Because
they all see our world from a different
perspective, from a different cultural
background and from a different personal
experience. But on the other hand, it
doesn’t matter at all. Because they are
not here to represent their country.
Many of them don’t even work in their
native country, but somewhere else,
wherever life and work opportunities
have taken them.
All of these artists mix dance with
theatre, visual art with technology, music
with politics. And that is what SPRING
represents. That is one half of SPRING.
The other half, that’s you, the audience.
So come, and make us complete!
Welcome to SPRING 2016!
Rainer Hofmann
Artistic director SPRING
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DOUBLE BILLS: ONE BY ONE
DOUBLE BILL
A SPRING Double Bill is THE way to see two very different
performances in one night and really get into that festival
vibe, at a very reasonable price.
springutrecht.nl/doublebills
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FROM
€ 15
ONLIN
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p 18
Folk Dance + Square Dance
DOUBLE BILL #1
Sons of Sissy – Simon Mayer (19.30 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
6: THE SQUARE – Nicole Beutler (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, DE-Zaal)
For only € 65 you can go 100% for the full SPRING
experience! A passe-partout offers you access to all the
performances for ten days in a row so you don’t have to
miss out on anything in the festival!
springutrecht.nl/passepartout
ONLIN
p 33
FRI 20 MAY
PASSE-PARTOUT
€ 30
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€ 65
ONLIN
E
€ 30
ONLIN
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p 33
p 46
Post-Folk + Post-Minimalism
SAT 21 MAY
DOUBLE BILL #2
Sons of Sissy – Simon Mayer (19.30 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
CONCRETE – Maud Le Pladec (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, DE-Zaal)
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€ 25
ONLIN
p 41
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p 46
Compositional Performance + Choreographed Composition
SUN 22 MAY
DOUBLE BILL #3
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X % – Bielski & Abouav (20.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
CONCRETE – Maud Le Pladec (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, DE-Zaal)
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DOUBLE BILLS: ONE BY ONE
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p 34
€ 15
+
ONLIN
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Stretchy + Edgy
MON 23 MAY
THURS 26 MAY
DOUBLE BILL #4
Ash and Money – Theatre NO99 (19.00 // Theater Kikker, Kleine Zaal)
Time’s Journey Through a Room – Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch (21.00 // Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal)
DOUBLE BILL #7
Conditions of Being a Mortal – HODWORKS (19.15 // Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal)
Schönheitsabend – Holzinger & Riebeek (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
€ 25
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ONLIN
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p 49
TUES 24 MAY
FRI 27 MAY
Last Seen Standing Between Brackets – Adva Zakai (19.30 // Theater Kikker, Kleine Zaal)
Time’s Journey Through a Room – Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch (21.00 // Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal)
p 52
Conditions of Being a Mortal – HODWORKS (19.15 // Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal)
THE COMMON PEOPLE – Jan Martens (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, DE-Zaal)
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ONLIN
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p 59
Tea Time + First Time
WED 25 MAY
SAT 28 MAY
Last Seen Standing Between Brackets – Adva Zakai (19.30 // Theater Kikker, Kleine Zaal)
Schönheitsabend – Holzinger & Riebeek (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
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€ 30
ONLIN
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p 60
In Your Head + In Your Face
DOUBLE BILL #6
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DOUBLE BILL #8
€ 25
p 51
ONLIN
p 60
Big Emotions + Intimate Encounters
DOUBLE BILL #5
€ 30
p 56
Lose Your Body + Find Your Soul
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p 51
Unified Estonia + Ruptured Japan
p 52
ONLIN
p 56
p 49
+
€ 25
DOUBLE BILL #9
Panda Express – Oneka von Schrader (19.30 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
THE COMMON PEOPLE – Jan Martens (21.00 // Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, DE-Zaal)
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CONTEXT
HASHTAGS
In its very own unique way SPRING is providing you with
information about its performances and artists. Bland, boring
discourse? No way!
Curious to find out about the similarities in the performances
at #SPRING16? Use our #hashtags, both online and offline.
10 MINUTES
10 Minutes 10 Questions is a high-energy after-show talk in quiz format. You come
up with the questions and a presenter puts them to the artist. Take a card, write down
the first question that pops into your mind after the performance, and hand it in. Our
‘Master of Ceremonies’ Oscar Kocken will fire ten of these questions in as many
minutes at the people behind the performance. (Language: English)
#NEWYOUNG the artists of the future
#EDGYDANCE rough and raw dance
#URBANSPACE SPRING in the city
#TENDERDANCE subtle and sensitive dance
#TOUGHTHEATRE exciting and beyond mainstream
#NAKEDTRUTH all will be revealed
BAR TALK
#DIGITALNATIVES theatre and new technology
In our Bar Talks a wide variety of guests discuss the performance they just saw; from a
university professor to a graphic designer. How did they experience the performance, what
did they think and what went on in their minds? With a beer in hand and some nibbles within
reach our guests, each from their own background, will share their findings. (Language: Dutch)
#POLITICALANIMALS performance meets politics
FLASH INTRO
A Flash Intro is not a real introduction, but a personal welcome. It is a short preface
by SPRING-programmers Rainer Hofmann and Karlien Vanhoonacker about the
performance that’s about to start. What can you expect? Who made this performance?
Why did we pick it for SPRING? Flash intros occur unannounced and only before a
limited number of performances. (Language: English)
OPEN ACADEMY
SPRING Open Academy is a programme for more in-depth study led by dramaturg
Merel Heering. During the meeting(s) you will find out more about contemporary
performing arts in general and the artists on the festival programme in particular. These
evenings include attending a performance. You can order SPRING’s Open Academy per
night, or book the whole series. The Open Academy is SPRING’s very own ‘people’s
academy’! (P. 14 - 15) (Language: Dutch)
#LIVESOUNDS a concert experience
#VISUALARTS performing art meets visual art
#BIGNAMES experience the experts
#UTRECHTCONNECTION made in Utrecht
GUIDE ME
No idea which SPRING-performances might be good for
you? With Guide Me, SPRING has developed an online tool
that will advise you which performances to see based on a
few brief questions and simple choices!
springutrecht.nl/guideme
ARTIST TALK
As part of SPRING Academy, every year the festival invites artists to take part in an
interview in front of our audience, to talk about their work. After Romeo Castellucci and
Dries Verhoeven in 2015, this year we will be interviewing Tim Etchells in an Artist Talk.
(Language: English)
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SPRING OPEN ACADEMY
DANCE
6: THE SQUARE
INTERNATIONAL
Time’s Journey
Through A Room
INSTALLATIONS
A Piece Of 2,
The Cube & THE
COMMON PEOPLE
OPEN ACADEMY INTRO
OPEN ACADEMY #1
OPEN ACADEMY #2
OPEN ACADEMY #3
During SPRING you can see
a range of performances that
straddle the line between
dance and theatre, made by
contemporary, international
theatre makers and
choreographers. But what can
you expect? And how to watch
these performances? Why has
SPRING decided to present
this particular type of ‘theatre’
and ‘dance’? This first SPRING
Open Academy-night offers
an introduction to the festival
programme and provides a
framework for the type of work
that is presented at SPRING. But
it also serves as an introduction
to the series of three SPRING
Open Academy nights and an
opportunity to meet dramaturg
Merel Heering as well as your
fellow participants.
Without words
How to talk about dance?
Attracted by the exotic…
How to watch
international theatre?
Visitors in motion
How to undergo an
installation?
Japanese stage director
Toshiki Okada is the
central focus of this
meeting, during which
we will address Time’s
Journey Through A Room
and the context of this
performance. Can we
simply understand a
performance that comes
from a faraway culture?
Is there such a thing as a
universal language of the
stage? And does a work of
art work regardless of the
context?
In the course of this evening
we will be visiting various
performances and works of
art in (semi) public space.
We will address not only the
background of the pieces,
but we will also be looking
at the impact a work of art
has on its environment (and
vice versa). How does an
installation affect public
space and the everyday life
in the city? What happens
to you as a spectator when
you are not bound to a
chair in the auditorium and/
or when the start and the
end of a performance are
unspecified?
SPRING Open Academy is
SPRING’s very own ‘people’s
academy’, founded especially
for those of you who want to find
out more about contemporary
dance and theatre but also about
the artists in the festival. During
each of the three meetings, led
by dramaturg Merel Heering, one
performance and a related theme
will be the focal point.
SPRING
OPEN ACADEMY
INTRO
You can attend a single meeting
or you can attend the series of
three. The price includes your
ticket to the performance, a
coffee before the performance
and a drink afterwards. Max.
15 participants per night.
(Language: Dutch)
ATTEND ALL OPEN
ACADEMIES FOR ONLY € 55
OPEN ACADEMY
TUES 10 MAY: 20.00 – 21.30 // HET
HUIS UTRECHT // AN EXCLUSIVE
EVENT FOR PARTICIPANTS OF SPRING
OPEN ACADEMY #1, #2 AND/OR #3
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During this get-together
we will be addressing
the opening performance
at this year’s SPRING
with a brief introduction
to contemporary dance
and Nicole Beutler’s
work in particular. Merel
Heering will be tackling
questions such as: how
to watch dance? And how
can abstract work and
movement be interpreted?
FRI 20 MAY: 19.00 – 23.00 //
STADSSCHOUWBURG
UTRECHT, FOUNDERS ROOM
€ 27.50 (ONLINE ONLY)
MON 23 MAY: 19.00 – 23.00 //
THEATER KIKKER,
BACKSTAGE //
€ 20 (ONLINE ONLY)
SAT 28 MAY: 19.00 – 23.00 //
STADSSCHOUWBURG
UTRECHT, FOUNDERS ROOM
€ 27,50 (ONLINE ONLY)
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Nicole Beutler DE / NL
6: THE SQUARE
#TENDERDANCE
PREMIERE
#VISUALARTS
SPRING COPRODUCTION
6: THE SQUARE zooms in on our human
need to create order in a constantly
changing world. Defining, drawing lines,
pigeonholing: the square. What role
does this man-made shape perform in
our society? In a celebratory ritual eight
dancers and one actress lead you through
a landscape of possibilities. In this second
part of her Bauhaus-trilogy, Nicole Beutler
is making our inherent longing for nuance,
poetry and vitality felt. Drawing inspiration
from sources as diverse as urban life, Piet
Mondrian and American Square Dance, 6:
THE SQUARE is a plea for freedom that
brings together dance, fashion, visual art
and electronic music.
6: THE SQUARE by Nicole Beutler will
premiere during SPRING as part of
Size Matters: a programme with which
the festival helps choreographers who
have hitherto predominantly created work
for the studio stages create performances
for the big stage.
DOUBLE BILL #1
+
Folk Dance + Square
Dance
Combine 6: THE SQUARE
with Sons of Sissy –
Simon Mayer (P. 33)
FRI 20 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
OPEN ACADEMY #1
The work of Nicole Beutler
will be the central focus in
this meeting. (P. 15)
FRI 20 MAY: 19.00 // € 27,50
(ONLINE ONLY)
BAR TALK
FRI 20 MAY
springutrecht.nl/square
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PHOTO: KAMERICH & BUDWILOWITZ - EYES2
THURS 19 AND FRI 20 MAY: 21.00 (90 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, DE-ZAAL //
€ 22,50 (ONLINE)
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Tim Etchells UK
Vacuum Days Utrecht
#URBANSPACE
#POLITICALANIMALS
#BIGNAMES
PREMIERE
SPRING PRODUCTION
Take a stroll around the Utrecht city centre
and for once, try not to avert your eyes from
the big poster ads everywhere. Vacuum
Days Utrecht, a poster campaign created by
writer and stage director Tim Etchells (Forced
Entertainment) announces a series of entirely
imaginary performances. The posters are
inspired by newspaper headlines, current
affairs, gossip and political rhetoric. We
expect Putin, Merkel and IS to be part of the
cast, possibly with a minor role for the Dutch
prime minister Rutte. These caustic, funny,
far-fetched and sometimes uncomfortable
announcements are made to spark reflection
on the times we live in, the political dilemmas
we are facing today, and the sensationalism of
the news and other media.
Vacuum Days Utrecht will be especially created
for SPRING and is a continuation of Etchells’
(online) project Vacuum Days (2011).
springutrecht.nl/days
Interview with Tim Etchells (P. 69)
SUN 22 MAY: 17.00 (60 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, FOYER
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PHOTO: HUGO GLENDINNING
ARTIST TALK
THURS 19 – SAT 28 MAY (ONGOING) //
UTRECHT CITY CENTER // ADMISSION FREE
(NO TICKET REQUIRED)
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#NEWYOUNG
#URBANSPACE
#VISUALARTS
PREMIERE
Performance artist Nick Steur stacks and
balances rocks in complete concentration
and with incredible precision. It has even
earned him an appearance on national
television. During SPRING, Nick Steur will
once again be defying gravity. With fewer,
but considerably bigger rocks than before.
A piece of 2 – balancing human sized rocks
is a new, large-scale and unremitting search
for a moment of balance that seeks out
the eternal tension between man and the
forces of nature. Come to Neude square and
witness Nick Steur trying to balance two
man-sized rocks with the utmost precision.
It will change your view on the obvious and
the unnoticed.
PHOTO: NICK STEUR, NIKA DINGS EN STUDIO NOTO
Nick Steur NL
A piece of 2 – balancing
human sized rocks
springutrecht.nl/piece
THURS 19 – SUN 22 MAY AND TUES 24 – SAT 28
MAY: 14.00 – 21.00 (ONGOING) // NEUDE SQUARE
// ADMISSION FREE (NO TICKET REQUIRED)
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Andrea Bŏzić &
Julia Willms HR / DE / NL
The Cube
#DIGITALNATIVES
#VISUALARTS
NL PREMIERE
Enter the Hekman Foyer! Enter The Cube!
Enter an audiovisual landscape with
mountains, clouds, a river, the sea, people
and animals. The video projections inside
The Cube cause a constant shift in your
perception of the space. The spectacular
landscapes, shifting weather conditions
and gigantic animals enter the cube,
as it were. The Cube evokes emotions,
making you feel a little as if you were in
a place you have visited before, but had
forgotten all about. You lose yourself in a
completely different world while staying
firmly rooted in the here and now. Inside
is outside is inside.
springutrecht.nl/cube
THURS 19 – SAT 28 MAY: 14.00 – 0.00 (ONGOING) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, HEKMAN FOYER
// ADMISSION FREE (NO TICKET REQUIRED)
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Katja Heitmann For iTernity
#NEWYOUNG
DE / NL
#URBANSPACE
#DIGITALNATIVES
For iTernity comes to life in the
dark on Neude square. It is a dance
performance with a dancer who is
present as a projection in the air.
You can make her appear if you
team up with your fellow visitors
and go in search of the eternal
dying swan using your screens.
The performance lasts anywhere
between five minutes and eternity:
as long as you are willing to be a
part of it, the performance will go
on... Katja Heitmann’s installation
For iTernity makes you experience
the overlap between physical and
virtual reality.
PHOTO: JOS VAN DER SCHAAF
springutrecht.nl/iternity
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THURS 19 – SAT 21 MAY AND THURS
26 – SAT 28 MAY: 22.00 – 01.00
(5 – 30 MIN) // NEUDE SQUARE // € 2.50
(ONLINE & BOX OFFICE)
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#VISUALARTS
PHOTO: KEVIN MCELVANEY
Dries Verhoeven NL
Guilty Landscapes
#POLITICALANIMALS
#UTRECHTCONNECTION
PREMIERE
SPRING COPRODUCTION
We like to travel to exotic places for fun,
and social media allow us to be friends
with people in countries half a world
away. But at the same time, we are also
flooded with images of refugees stranded
on a Greek island, or some disaster in a
holiday destination. Images that affect
us in very different ways: they make us
aware of reality and beset us with feelings
of discomfort, responsibility and perhaps
even guilt. With his video installation
Guilty Landscapes Dries Verhoeven is
bringing the reality of uncomfortable news
images dangerously close. His question:
is there a personal connection between
the supposed victim and its witness?
Can the relationship be turned around?
springutrecht.nl/guilty
THURS 19 – SAT 28 MAY: 14.00 – 22.00 (5 MIN,
1 PERSON PER ENTRY) // GALERIE SANAA //
€ 2.50 (ONLINE & BOX OFFICE)
ADMISSION FREE FOR VISITORS
HACKING HABITAT, FURTHER INFO VIA
SPRINGUTRECHT.NL/GUILTY
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Massimo Furlan CH
Blue Tired Heroes
NL/D
#URBANSPACE
#UTRECHTCONNECTION
NL PREMIERE
A blue costume with a red cape, red
socks, yellow belt and red underpants:
Superman! Has he ever grown old?
Can superheroes even grown old?
Can they get washed out at all? In Blue
Tired Heroes, the Swiss choreographer
Massimo Furlan releases a group of
ageing ‘supermen’ to walk around
Utrecht. Fat or thin, stooped or proudly
standing tall, with or without health shoes
or walking sticks: they haven’t forgotten
their heroic gestures or their flying
poses… Blue Tired Heroes is a funny yet
moving performance that questions the
fragile nature of man through heroism,
icons and role models.
PHOTO: DANIEL SUAKA
springutrecht.nl/heroes
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FRI 20 – SUN 22 MAY: 16.00 (60 MIN) // STARTING
POINT: STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT /
FESTIVAL CENTRE // ADMISSION FREE (NO
TICKET REQUIRED)
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PHOTO: ARNE HAUGE
Simon Mayer Sons of Sissy
#NEWYOUNG
AT
#NAKEDTRUTH
#LIVESOUNDS
NL PREMIERE
Simon Mayer is a country boy who was
born in a small village in Austria. He is one
of the four performers in Sons of Sissy:
a performance featuring rural rituals,
dancing and live performances of Alpine
music. Folklore with a twist. Freed from
all conservatism and averse to any form
of pigeonholing, these gentlemen, part
queer band of folk musicians and part
‘experimental ritual dance combo’, are
unflinchingly going in search of hitherto
unseen interpretations. With laughter as
their weapon they offer a complete overhaul
of the clichés of traditional male role models.
Sons of Sissy is a European festival hit that
offers an unexpected introduction to Alpine
folklore.
Made with support from [DNA]
springutrecht.nl/sissy
DOUBLE BILL #1
+
Folk Dance +
Square Dance
Combine Sons of Sissy with
6: THE SQUARE – Nicole
Beutler (P. 18)
FRI 20 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
DOUBLE BILL #2
+
Post-Folk +
Post-Minimalism
Combine Sons of Sissy with
CONCRETE –
Maud Le Pladec (P. 46)
SAT 21 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
10 MINUTES
SAT 21 MAY
FRI 20 AND SAT 21 MAY: 19.30 (65 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, BLAUWE ZAAL //
€ 15 (ONLINE)
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Theatre NO99 EE
Ash and Money
#POLITICALANIMALS
#BIGNAMES
NL PREMIERE
In 2010 Theatre NO99 founded a fictional
political movement, turning all of Estonia
into a stage, because the majority of the
population believed that NO75 Unified
Estonia was a real political party. From the
first press conference to the party meeting
that was attended by no fewer than 7000(!)
people, the fictional NO75 Unified Estonia
was closely followed by a film crew. In the
documentary Ash and Money we witness
how probably the biggest performing arts
event in recent European history came
about. What started out as a stunt that tried
to make real populist politics redundant by
employing a fictional hyper-populist approach,
became a hallucinatory documentary about
contemporary politics.
DOUBLE BILL #4
+
Unified Estonia +
Ruptured Japan
Combine Ash and Money
with Time’s Journey Through
a Room – Toshiki Okada (P. 48)
MON 23 MAY // € 15 (ONLINE)
springutrecht.nl/money
FRI 20 MAY AND MON 23 MAY: 19.00 (95 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, KLEINE ZAAL // € 5 (ONLINE)
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PHOTO: JEROEN HOFMAN
Theater Utrecht / Davy Pieters Re-enactment of the Now
#NEWYOUNG
#UTRECHTCONNECTION
NL
#TOUGHTHEATRE
PREMIERE
10 MINUTES
SAT 28 MAY
Every day we consume a considerable amount of
news and information, whether trending or
breaking or less urgent. The truth must be hidden
somewhere inside that heap of information. And
if we find it, why don’t we act on it? For instance,
to put a stop to climate change? Re-enactment of
the Now is a cinematic site-specific performance
in which the young stage director Davy Pieters
has taken the immanent climate change as her
point of departure. By offering a re-enactment
of the now – showing an event in the present as
if it were something that took place in the past
– Pieters is creating a world in which fact and
fiction become bizarrely intertwined, and which
will make you doubt everything you thought you
knew and saw. The talented Davy Pieters has
rapidly risen to fame with her work and is fast
becoming one of the most original stage directors
in the Netherlands.
springutrecht.nl/now
SUN 15 AND MON 16 (TRY-OUTS), TUES 17 AND WED 18,
FRI 20 – SUN 22 MAY AND WED 25 – SAT 28 MAY: 20.00
(90 MIN) // KOOIJDIJK 34 (NEAR FORT RUIGENHOEK) //
€ 20 (ONLINE)
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON TRANSPORTATION,
ROUTE AND PARKING SEE SPRINGUTRECHT.NL/NOW
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Edit Kaldor Web of Trust
#POLITICALANIMALS
HU / NL
#DIGITALNATIVES
#TOUGHTHEATRE
NL PREMIERE
SPRING COPRODUCTION
What if we refuse to continue on the
plotted course? What if we demanded
real change? Not tomorrow, not in ten
years’ time, but now? Edit Kaldors Web
of Trust is an attempt to set up a new
online platform: a ‘trust network’. The
aim? To bring people from all over the
world together online and form a social
movement based on respect and equality.
Web of Trust is bringing the internet into
the theatre and offers you an opportunity
to turn your passive discontent into
active involvement. The performance will
culminate in an action plan that mobilizes
everyone.
Made with support from Urban Heat
springutrecht.nl/trust
FRI 20 AND SAT 21 MAY: 21.00 (90 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, GROTE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
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DOUBLE BILL #3
Jerzy Bielski &
Sandra Abouav PL / FR / NL
SPRING & Gaudeamus
Muziekweek present…
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X %
+
#NEWYOUNG
Compositional
Performance +
Choreographed
Composition
#LIVESOUNDS
NL PREMIERE
In + - /, 1 = _ ; X % four performers
explore the corporate world and the
impact the banks and big multinationals
have on our daily lives. Using rhythms,
voices and movement, composer Jerzy
Bielski and choreographer Sandra Abouav
not only reveal the underlying message
and hidden agenda of this specific world,
they also twist and distort it. The audience
is part of a board meeting and is forced
to go along in the leaders’ obsessive
competitiveness and their need to control
other people’s dreams and desires.
Combine + - /, 1 = _ ; X %
with CONCRETE – Maud Le
Pladec (P. 46)
SUN 22 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
On Sunday 22 May: + - /, 1 = _ ; X %
by Jerzy Bielski & Sandra Abouav
and CONCRETE by Maud Le Pladec
/ Ictus Ensemble (P. 46) are presented
in collaboration with Gaudeamus
Muziekweek.
PHOTO: LAURENT PAILLIER
springutrecht.nl/muziekweek
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SUN 22 MAY: 20.00 (30 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, BLAUWE ZAAL //
€ 10 (ONLINE)
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Thurs 19 May
Fri 20 May
15.00 - 18.00
Sat 21 May
p 68
City Symposium
16.00 - 17.00
p 31
Massimo Furlan
Blue Tired Heroes
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht (starting point)
19.00
19.00 - 23.00
p 15
OPEN ACADEMY #1
19.00 - 20.35
p 34
Theatre NO99
Ash and Money
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
19.30 - 20.35
16.00 - 17.00
Massimo Furlan
Blue Tired Heroes
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht (starting point)
Simon Mayer
Sons of Sissy
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
+
DOUBLE BILL #1
16.00 - 17.00
p 69
17.00 - 19.00
p 44
19.15 - 20.25
p 44
Bouckaert &
Vanden Eynde
Deceptive Bodies
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
Bouckaert &
Vanden Eynde
Deceptive Bodies
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
p 33
Thurs 26 May
19.00 - 23.00
p 15
OPEN ACADEMY #2
19.00 - 20.35
p 34
Theatre NO99
Ash and Money
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
10 MINUTES
Simon Mayer
Sons of Sissy
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #4
19.30 - 20.20
DOUBLE BILL #5
+
p 52
Adva Zakai
Last Seen Standing
Between Brackets
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
19.30 - 20.20
p 52
Adva Zakai
Last Seen Standing
Between Brackets
Theater Kikker /
Kleine Zaal
+
19.15 - 20.30
p 56
HODWORKS
Conditions of
Being a Mortal
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
+
DOUBLE BILL #6
10 MINUTES
+
DOUBLE BILL #7
10 MINUTES
19.15 - 20.30
p 55
Milo Rau
Five Easy Pieces
Akademietheater /
Grote Zaal
10 MINUTES
p 37
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
19.15 - 20.30
19.00 - 23.00
p 15
OPEN ACADEMY #3
19.30 - 20.15
+
DOUBLE BILL #8
p 55
Milo Rau
Five Easy Pieces
Akademietheater /
Grote Zaal
19.30 - 20.30
BAR TALK
p 18
21.00 - 22.30
p 18
Nicole Beutler
6: THE SQUARE
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #1
21.00 - 22.30
20.00 - 21.30
p 37
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
21.00 - 22.00
+
DOUBLE BILL #2
p 46
+
BAR TALK
p 38
Edit Kaldor
Web of Trust
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
21.00 - 22.30
20.00 - 21.30
p 37
20.00 - 21.30
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
Maud Le Pladec
CONCRETE
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
BAR TALK
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p 56
BAR TALK
19.30 - 20.30
p 59
Oneka von Schrader
Panda Express
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
p 62
Nástio Mosquito
S.E.F.A.
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
p 59
Oneka von Schrader
Panda Express
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
+
DOUBLE BILL #9
10 MINUTES
20.00 - 21.30
Nicole Beutler
6: THE SQUARE
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
19.15 - 20.30
HODWORKS
Conditions of
Being a Mortal
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
20.00
21.00 - 22.30
Sat 28 May
p 69
+
DOUBLE BILL #2
Fri 27 May
TM live
Artist Talk Tim Etchells
19.15 - 20.25
Wed 25 May
Tues 24 May
Mon 23 May
p 31
Massimo Furlan
Blue Tired Heroes
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht (starting point)
17.00 - 18.00
19.30 - 20.35
p 33
Sun 22 May
p 31
p 38
Edit Kaldor
Web of Trust
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
20.00 - 20.30
p 41
Jerzy Bielski &
Sandra Abouav
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X %
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #3
21.00 - 22.00
+
p 46
Maud Le Pladec
CONCRETE
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #3
p 37
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
+
ONGOING
Tim Etchells Vacuum Days Utrecht
Utrecht city center
14.00 - 21.00
Nick Steur A piece of 2
Neude square
14.00 - 22.00
Dries Verhoeven Guilty Landscapes Galerie SANAA
14.00 - 00.00
Andrea Božić & Julia Willms The Cube
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht / Hekmanfoyer
22.00 - 01.00
Katja Heitmann For iTernity
Neude square
21.00 - 22.10
p 49
Toshiki Okada /
chelfitsch
Time’s Journey
Through a Room
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #4
BAR TALK
21.00 - 22.10
p 49
Toshiki Okada /
chelfitsch
Time’s Journey
Through a Room
Theater Kikker /
Grote Zaal
+
DOUBLE BILL #5
21.00 - 22.15
21.00 - 22.15
DOUBLE BILL #6
p 37
20
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Locatie 34
Kooijdijk
p 51
Florentina Holzinger &
Vincent Riebeek
Schönheitsabend
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
+
20.00 - 21.30
21.00
+
21.00 - 22.15
p 37
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
p 51
Florentina Holzinger &
Vincent Riebeek
Schönheitsabend
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #7
20.00 - 21.30
+
21.00 - 00.00
p 37
Theater Utrecht /
Davy Pieters
Re-enactment of the
Now?
Kooijdijk 34
p 60
Jan Martens
THE COMMON
PEOPLE (ongoing)
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
DOUBLE BILL #8
20.00 - 21.30
10 MINUTES
21.00 - 00.00
+
DOUBLE BILL #9
10 MINUTES
p 51
22.00
Florentina Holzinger &
Vincent Riebeek
Schönheitsabend
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / Blauwe Zaal
p 60
Jan Martens
THE COMMON
PEOPLE (ongoing)
Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht / DE-Zaal
+
p 71
Closing Party
DJ St. Paul
p 21
p 22
p 28
p 24
p 27
Performances
+ Double Bill
Installations
Extra
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Dolores Bouckaert &
Charlotte Vanden Eynde Deceptive Bodies
#NEWYOUNG
#TENDERDANCE
10 MINUTES
SUN 22 MAY
BE
#VISUALARTS
NL PREMIERE
Does our body language betray our
innermost thoughts? How misleading is
physical communication? How can body
language be read, but also: how can it
be manipulated? Throughout history, the
female body has been especially subjected
to a heavily controlled gaze. Dancer/
choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde
and visual artist Dolores Bouckaert are
both fascinated with the representation of
the human body and the (mis)perception
of it. Deceptive Bodies reveals a series of
representations, in serene poses, of body
images from the past and the present.
Tempting, innocent and touching, Dolores
Bouckaert and Charlotte Vanden Eynde try
to expose stereotypical images. Deceptive
Bodies is an intimate duet, powerfully
dramatic and visual.
springutrecht.nl/bodies
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PHOTO: HERMAN SORGELOOS
SAT 21 & SUN 22 MAY: 19.15 (70 MIN) // THEATER
KIKKER, KLEINE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
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#EDGYDANCE
PHOTO: KONSTANTIN LIPATOV
Maud Le Pladec /
Ictus Ensemble FR / BE
CONCRETE
#LIVESOUNDS
+
NL PREMIERE
DOUBLE BILL #2
CONCRETE is a dance piece with the
vibes of a live concert: exhilarating, tight,
fierce and powerful. With CONCRETE, the
French choreographer Maud Le Pladec has
created a performance in which dancers
and musicians enter into a dialogue and
appear to want to switch roles. The postminimalist music made by composer Michael
Gordon, a mix of high-energy rock, electronic
pop, virtuoso free jazz and contemporary
classic, is performed live by the Belgian
Ictus Ensemble. CONCRETE brings together
choreography and contemporary music in an
exciting way and is visually reinforced by a
spectacular light design. A performance with
the qualities of a concert.
Post-Folk +
Post-Minimalism
On Sunday 22 May: CONCRETE by
Maud Le Pladec / Ictus Ensemble and
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X % by Jerzy Bielski & Sandra
Abouav (P. 41) are presented in collaboration
with Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
springutrecht.nl/concrete
Combine CONCRETE
with Sons of Sissy –
Simon Mayer (P. 33)
SAT 21 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
DOUBLE BILL #3
+
Compositional
performance +
Choreographed composition
Combine CONCRETE
with + - /, 1 = _ ; X %
– Jerzy Bielski &
Sandra Abouav (P. 41)
SUN 22 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
BAR TALK
SAT 21 MAY
SAT 21 AND SUN 22 MAY: 21.00 (60 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, DE-ZAAL //
€ 22,50 (ONLINE)
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47
Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch Time’s Journey Through
a Room
DOUBLE BILL #4
#BIGNAMES
+
JP
#TOUGHTHEATRE
#POLITICALANIMALS
Unified Estonia +
Ruptured Japan
NL PREMIERE
Combine Time’s Journey
Through a Room with Ash
and Money – Theatre
NO99 (P. 34)
Time’s Journey Through a Room is an
incisive portrait of Japan today by the most
important theatre maker currently working in
Japan. Director and choreographer Toshiki
Okada has a unique style in which text,
movement and images all seamlessly melt
into each other. With an almost microscopic
eye for detail he focuses on his characters’
inner and outer movements on the stage.
Time’s Journey Through a Room uncovers
Japanese society: a society that has been
torn in many ways since the big earthquake,
and the tsunami and nuclear disaster that
followed it in 2011. A performance about
hope, desperation and giving up hope.
MON 23 MAY // € 15 (ONLINE)
DOUBLE BILL #5
+
Lose Your Body +
Find Your Soul
SPRING COPRODUCTION
springutrecht.nl/room
Combine Time’s Journey
Through a Room with Last Seen
Standing Between Brackets –
Adva Zakai (P. 52)
TUES 24 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
OPEN ACADEMY #2
MON 23 MAY: 19.00 // € 20
(ONLINE ONLY)
BAR TALK
MON 23 MAY
PHOTO: MASUMI KAWAMURA
In this meeting the work of
Japanese stage director Toshiki
Okada and his company chelfitsch
will be the central focus (P. 15).
MON 23 AND TUES 24 MAY: 21.00 (70 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, GROTE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE, WITH ENGLISH AND
DUTCH SURTITLES
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Florentina Holzinger
& Vincent Riebeek /
CAMPO AT / NL / BE
Schönheitsabend
DOUBLE BILL #6
+
In Your Head +
In Your Face
#NAKEDTRUTH
NL PREMIERE
SPRING COPRODUCTION
#NEWYOUNG
Florentina Holzinger and Vincent
Riebeek form what may well be Europe’s
most controversial performanceduo. For Schönheitsabend they have
drawn inspiration from their illustrious
predecessors, those who reinvented dance
(and themselves) at the beginning of the
20th century by creating taboo-breaking
ballets full of exotic fictions, shifts in the
balance of power, sex and reversed malefemale roles. Holzinger and Riebeek have
taken Sheherazade by the famous Ballet
Russes as one of their starting points for
a dance duet in three acts. In addition
to frenzy, ecstasy and explicit eroticism,
expect an homage to the star of the ballet
Vaslav Nijinsky and a well-measured dose
of camp. Those who saw Wellness at
SPRING 2014 know enough: let’s go!
Combine Schönheitsabend
with Last Seen Standing
Between Brackets –
Adva Zakai (P. 52)
WED 25 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
DOUBLE BILL #7
#EDGYDANCE
+
Stretchy + Edgy
Combine Schönheitsabend
with Conditions of Being a
Mortal – HODWORKS (P. 56)
Made with support from [DNA]
THURS 26 MAY // € 25
(ONLINE)
springutrecht.nl/abend
10 MINUTES
WED 25 MAY
PHOTO: KAROLINA WIERNIK
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TUES 24 – THURS 26 MAY: 21.00 (75 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, BLAUWE ZAAL
// € 15 (ONLINE)
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#NEWYOUNG
#DIGITALNATIVES
PHOTO: HELENA DIETRICH
Adva Zakai IL / BE
Last Seen Standing Between
Brackets
#VISUALARTS
NL PREMIERE
‘How can I go on dancing when, one
day, I no longer have a body?’ the Israeli
choreographer and performer Adva Zakai
asks in Last Seen Standing Between
Brackets. By combining dance with text and
animation, Adva Zakai presents a fragmented
character that appears in different spaces:
from private to public, from real to digital
and virtual. Thoughts escape her head in
this performance, to nestle inside yours. Her
words create a choreography of their own
and dance on the stage. And Zakai herself?
She sits down with her audience and
watches, just like you.
DOUBLE BILL #5
+
Lose Your Body +
Find Your Soul
Combine Last Seen
Standing Between Brackets
with Time’s Journey
Through a Room –
Toshiki Okada (P. 49)
TUES 24 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
springutrecht.nl/brackets
DOUBLE BILL #6
+
In Your Head +
In Your Face
Combine Last Seen
Standing Between Brackets
with Schönheitsabend –
Florentina Holzinger &
Vincent Riebeek (P. 51)
WED 25 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
10 MINUTES
TUES 24 MAY
TUES 24 AND WED 25 MAY: 19.30 (50 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, KLEINE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
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BAR TALK
Milo Rau / IIPM /
CAMPO CH / BE
Five Easy Pieces
THURS 26 MAY
#BIGNAMES
#TOUGHTHEATRE
#POLITICALANIMALS
NL PREMIERE
Five Easy Pieces is a performance featuring
children, aimed at grownups, and deals with an
emotionally charged subject. The Swiss stage
director Milo Rau, never one to shy away from
social and political taboos in his controversial
and very powerful performances, is presenting
seven young performers (aged 8 to 13) who are
using the life of Marc Dutroux to ask a number
of questions. Questions about ‘our times’, about
how private lives will be forever tied up with
certain (political) events, and which taboos are
hidden beneath them. What do children teach
us about our own fears, doubts and hopes?
In Five Easy Pieces, Milo Rau uses a range of
techniques which he himself has refined, such
as the ‘re-enactment’, in which a real event is
imitated in minute detail.
PHOTO: PHILE DEPREZ
springutrecht.nl/pieces
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THURS 26 AND FRI 27 MAY: 19.15 (75 MIN) //
AKADEMIETHEATER // € 15 (ONLINE)
LANGUAGE: DUTCH, WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
55
HODWORKS HU
Conditions of Being a Mortal
#NEWYOUNG
#EDGYDANCE
#NAKEDTRUTH
NL PREMIERE
DOUBLE BILL #7
Conditions of Being a Mortal is a colourful
piece that explodes in a tangle of bodies
and big emotions. Raw humour, full-blown
yelling sessions, shards of sexuality and
arias that have the singers gasp for air.
Moving to the stirring sounds of Franz Liszt’s
music and filled with emotion and drama,
the four inexhaustible dancers give until it
hurts. In their weird and wonderful stretchy
costumes, which they use in many equally
weird and wonderful ways, they triumph over
boring reality. Conditions of Being a Mortal
is an uncompromising and exhilarating
performance which proves that Adrienn Hód
is one of Hungary’s leading choreographers.
+
Stretchy + Edgy
Combine Conditions
of Being a Mortal with
Schönheitsabend –
Florentina Holzinger &
Vincent Riebeek (P. 51)
THURS 26 MAY // € 25 (ONLINE)
springutrecht.nl/mortal
PHOTO: DANIEL DÖMÖLKY
DOUBLE BILL #8
+
Big Emotions +
Intimate Encounters
Combine Conditions
of Being a Mortal with
THE COMMON PEOPLE –
Jan Martens (P. 60)
FRI 27 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
10 MINUTES
THURS 26 MAY
THURS 26 AND FRI 27 MAY: 19.15 (75 MIN) //
THEATER KIKKER, GROTE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
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Oneka von Schrader Panda Express
#NEWYOUNG
#EDGYDANCE
AT / NL
#NAKEDTRUTH
PREMIERE
DOUBLE BILL #9
+
Panda Express stimulates all the senses
and adds new meaning to the term
‘experimenting’. This performance is
an installation, tea ceremony and group
choreography all rolled into one, with Bach
as its endlessly meandering soundtrack.
Onstage, the performers, objects and liquids
are perpetually in motion. From drinking tea
to passing water, Panda Express navigates
its own course between the sacred and
the profane. Oneka von Schrader has
developed a vocabulary of her own in a very
short amount of time, playing with taboos,
conventions and expectations. With Panda
Express she transforms the theatre from a
place to watch into a ‘sensorium’: a place to
taste, feel, smell, and let go.
Tea Time + First Time
Combine Panda Express
with THE COMMON
PEOPLE – Jan Martens
(P. 60)
SAT 28 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
10 MINUTES
FRI 27 MAY
Oneka von Schrader initially developed
the first phase of Panda Express as her
graduation project from SNDO Amsterdam.
PHOTO: NELIE DE BOER
springutrecht.nl/panda
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FRI 27 AND SAT 28 MAY: 19.30 (60 MIN) //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, BLAUWE ZAAL //
€ 15 (ONLINE)
59
Jan Martens BE / NL
THE COMMON PEOPLE
#NEWYOUNG
#UTRECHTCONNECTION
#TENDERDANCE
PREMIERE NL VERSION
DOUBLE BILL #8
SPRING COPRODUCTION
+
Big Emotions +
Intimate Encounters
In THE COMMON PEOPLE 48 Utrecht
residents meet for the first time. Not on
Facebook or in a chat session, but in real
life: one on one onstage. This is an intimate
person-to-person encounter – in the most
literal sense. THE COMMON PEOPLE is
a portrait of the city of Utrecht that brings
together its inhabitants on the big stage
inside the Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. A social
experiment, workshop and performance in
one, in which Jan Martens, with film director
Lukas Dhont, intertwines choreography, film
and stories from everyday life.
Combine THE COMMON
PEOPLE with Conditions
of Being a Mortal –
HODWORKS (P. 56)
FRI 27 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
THE COMMON PEOPLE is Jan Martens’ first
production for the big stage and was made
as part of his Size Matters-collaboration with
SPRING.
DOUBLE BILL #9
+
Tea Time + First Time
Combine THE COMMON
PEOPLE with Panda Express –
Oneka von Schrader (P. 59)
Jan Martens is a participant in the exchange
programme Residenties in Utrecht
SAT 28 MAY // € 30 (ONLINE)
springutrecht.nl/common
OPEN ACADEMY #3
During this evening we will
be visiting a number of
installations and performances,
including Jan Martens’
durational piece (P. 15)
VISITORS WILL RECEIVE A WRISTBAND THAT
WILL ALLOW THEM TO ENTER AND LEAVE THE
PERFORMANCE AS THEY PLEASE
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PHOTO: JOERIE THIRY
FRI 27 AND SAT 28 MAY: 21.00 (2 – 3 HOURS
ONGOING) // STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT,
DE-ZAAL // € 22.50 (ONLINE)
SAT 28 MAY: 19.00 //
€ 27,50 (ONLINE ONLY)
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Nástio Mosquito AO
S.E.F.A.
(Se Eu Fosse Angolano)
#TOUGHTHEATRE
BAR TALK
#LIVESOUNDS
SAT 28 MAY
#POLITICALANIMALS
NL PREMIERE
S.E.F.A. (Se Eu Fosse Angolano) is a
remarkable one-man show in which Nástio
Mosquito mixes personal rants, exhilarating
poetry slam and emotional songs with
titillating visuals. In S.E.F.A. he doesn’t
mince words. Hopeful and full of energy
he asks questions about identity and
expressions such as ‘roots’, never afraid
of being politically incorrect. Mosquito,
who was born in Angola, takes a multidisciplinary approach: music, philosophy,
dance, video art, digital art… He has
even developed his own app. Some call
him a visual artist, others a theatre maker
or musician. But Mosquito is first and
foremost a full-blooded performer, the new
face of cultural empowerment.
Nástio Mosquito developed the initial phase
of S.E.F.A. at BAK in Utrecht. The Dutch
premiere of S.E.F.A. during SPRING 2016 is
co-presented with BAK.
SAT 28 MAY: 19.30 (45 MIN) // THEATER KIKKER,
GROTE ZAAL // € 15 (ONLINE)
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PHOTO: MARGAUX KOLLY
springutrecht.nl/sefa
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SPRING ACADEMY
SPRING Academy offers an intense ten-day festival experience
with performances to see, artists and scientists to meet,
lectures and masterclasses to attend.
SPRING asks its artists to contribute more than ‘just’ a good performance on the
bill, and invites them to be part of SPRING Academy: a fringe programme providing
context, developed for artists and students. At SPRING Academy the SPRING
theatre makers and choreographers share their experiences, expertise and views
with the participants.
STUDENTS
SPRING Academy was set up in collaboration with the Theatre Studies department
at Utrecht University and the Theatre faculty at HKU. Students from these Utrecht
schools are joined at SPRING Academy 2016 by their peers from ArtEZ (Arnhem,
NL) and De Montfort University (Leicester, UK).
YOUNG ARTISTS
For young artists we offer several ‘open call’ programmes, such as the SPRING
Intensives, a masterclass by Tim Etchells and a workshop created in collaboration
with Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
springutrecht.nl/academy
SPRING FESTIVAL FELLOW:
TIMOTHEUS VERMEULEN
The Festival Fellowship-programme is an initiative taken by the Centre for the
Humanities (Utrecht University) which collaborates with festivals to organise
activities that will bring academic discourse and the Utrecht cultural field closer
together. A Festival Fellow is asked to act as a connector.
The first SPRING Festival Fellow is the scientist Timotheus Vermeulen who
works at Radboud University Nijmegen (Cultural Studies). As the SPRING
Festival Fellow, Vermeulen will lead some of the elements of the SPRING
Academy programme and give a series of guest lectures at Utrecht University.
SPRING OPEN ACADEMY
For all those who are not young artists, nor students at an
art school, but who are interested in SPRING Academy.
For all those looking for a more in-depth experience and
more background information: SPRING Open Academy is
here for you! (P. 14 and P. 15)
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SPRING ACADEMY & MORE
City Symposium
Aesthetics and Activism
Artist Talk
Interview Tim Etchells
TM live
Erosion of the arts
SPRING ACADEMY
SPRING ACADEMY
SPRING ACADEMY
As part of his Festival Fellowship,
Timotheus Vermeulen will be one of
the speakers at City Symposium:
Aesthetics and Activism.
On Sunday 22 May, as part of SPRING
Academy, there will be an interview
with writer, theatre maker and artist Tim
Etchells (Forced Entertainment) which
will be open to the public. Capacity is
limited, so we advise you to apply for
this Artist Talk. (Language: English)
The Dutch performing arts have proven
their resilience after the government
budget cuts, according to current policy
plans and funding applications. But
what does this mean? Trade journal
Theatermaker and Theaterkrant.nl
are observing an eroding theatre sector:
we are keeping up a façade of success
and artistic development, or are we
doing more on a smaller budget? We
are exhausted and burned-out. Across
the performing arts we are hearing:
the sector seriously can’t take any
more. In collaboration with SPRING,
Theatermaker is organising a talk about
the near future. Will it all get much worse,
or is there a way out? The afternoon’s
subject ties in with the theme of the April/
May issue of Theatermaker.
Composing for Choreography is an
in-depth one-afternoon class about
composing music for dance. Several
artists who are part of the festival will be
involved.
PHOTO: MAX PREDIGER
SPRING Academy with
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Composing for choreography
springutrecht.nl/academy
SUN 22 MAY // HET HUIS UTRECHT,
KOEPELZAAL // ADMISSION FREE,
FOR APPLICATIONS AND FURTHER
INFORMATION GO TO SPRINGUTRECHT.NL
springutrecht.nl
FRI 20 MAY: 15.00 (180 MIN) // ADMISSION
FREE, FOR APPLICATIONS AND FURTHER
INFORMATION GO TO SPRINGUTRECHT.NL
SAT 22 MAY: 17.00 (60 MIN) // THEATER
KIKKER, FOYER // ADMISSION FREE,
APPLY THROUGH SPRINGUTRECHT.NL
TUES 24 MAY: 17.00 (120 MIN) // UCK,
UTRECHTS CENTRUM VOOR DE KUNSTEN
// ADMISSION FREE, APPLY THROUGH
SPRINGUTRECHT.NL
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SPRING FESTIVAL CENTRE
After a one-year absence due to major renovations,
the SPRING festival centre is back at the revamped
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. The brand-new café
Mevr. Dudok is the meeting point. The festival’s central
box office is also located at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.
SPRING Closing Party
with DJ St. Paul
The Cube by
Andrea Bŏzić & Julia Willms
at the Hekman foyer
This year the festival closes with a
party at the Blauwe Zaal, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. Your musical host
will be DJ St. Paul, best known for
his famous Tivoli(Vredenburg)-nights
and explosive festival sets in which he
effortlessly mixes pop, soul, indie, hip
hop, electronica and rock ’n roll.
The Cube is an installation in
which a series of video projections
constantly change your perception of
space. Enter an audiovisual, natural
landscape and experience the here
and now while feeling transported to
a different universe. This installation
can be visited ADMISSION FREE
on every day of the festival. It is
set up inside the Hekman Foyer at
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. (P. 24)
SPRING CENTRAL BOX OFFICE
SPRING’s central box office at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht is open daily from
14.00 until 30 minutes after the start of the last performance of the day. Go to
page 74 for further information on ticket sales for SPRING 2016.
MEVR. DUDOK
Mevr. Dudok is the ideal place to meet during SPRING. With the newspaper
and a coffee, tea and a magazine or a beer and some snacks within reach
this café will get you in the perfect festival mood. Mevr. Dudok also offers
daily meals, from healthy lunches to tasty daily meal deals, and DJ’s will be
creating the perfect festival soundtrack every night.
PHOTO: FRANK HANSWIJK
If you bought online tickets to SPRING,
you can get 1 or 2 ADMISSION FREE
tickets for the SPRING Closing Party
through springutrecht.nl. Or pick up
your ticket(s) on Saturday 28 May from
14.00 from the central box office inside
the festival centre (Stadsschouwburg
Utrecht).
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THURS 19 – SAT 28 MAY: 14.00 – 00.00 //
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT, HEKMAN
FOYER // ADMISSION FREE (NO TICKET
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SAT 28 MAY: FROM 22.00
STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT,
BLAUWE ZAAL // € 5 OR ADMISSION FREE
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The central box office at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht is open daily from 14.00.
The central box office sells tickets to performances at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht,
but also to the performances at the other venues, until one hour before the
performance starts. From one hour before showtime the remaining tickets will
go on sale at the venue. Please note: ticket prices at the central box office and at
the venue box offices are 20% higher than online!
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TICKET PRICES
PRICES DOUBLE BILLS
ONLINE
REGULAR
DISCOUNT
BOX OFFICE
ONLINE
REGULAR
DISCOUNT
REGULAR
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (DE-zaal) € 22,50 € 10
€ 27
€ 12
Re-enactment of the Now - Theater Utrecht / Davy Pieters Try-outs 15 & 16 May
€ 20 € 15 € 10 € 10
€ 22
€ 15
€ 12
€ 12
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (Blauwe zaal),
Theater Kikker and Akademietheater € 15
€ 10
€ 18
€ 12
SPRING & Gaudeamus Muziekweek present…
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X % - Jerzy Bielski & Sandra Abouav
(Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe Zaal)
€ 10 € 7,50
€ 12
€ 10
Ash and Money – Theatre NO99 (Theater Kikker, kleine zaal) € 5
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€ 7
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For iTernity - Katja Heitmann and
Guilty Landscapes - Dries Verhoeven € 2,50
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€ 2,50
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Other
Passe-partout (P. 8)
€ 65
€ 40 € 78
Double Bills (P. 8)
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Closing Party € 5*
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€ 48
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SPRING Open Academy**
Combi ticket 3x SPRING Open Academy
€ 55
€ 40
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Fri 20 May (6: THE SQUARE – Nicole Beutler)
€ 27,50 € 15
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Mon 23 May (Time’s Journey Through a Room - Toshiki Okada)
€ 20
€ 15
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Sat 28 May (i.a. THE COMMON PEOPLE - Jan Martens)
€ 27,50 € 15
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BOX OFFICE
DISCOUNT
REGULAR
DISCOUNT
FRI 20 MAY // Double Bill #1 Folk Dance + Square Dance
Sons of Sissy – Simon Mayer + 6: THE SQUARE – Nicole Beutler € 30
€ 17,50 € 36
€ 21
SAT 21 MAY // Double Bill #2 Post-Folk + Post-Minimalism
Sons of Sissy – Simon Mayer + CONCRETE – Maud Le Pladec € 17,50 € 36
€ 21
SUN 22 MAY // Double Bill #3 Compositional Performance +
Choreographed Composition
+ - /, 1 = _ ; X % - Jerzy Bielski + CONCRETE – Maud Le Pladec € 25
€ 15
€ 30
€ 18
MON 23 MAY // Double Bill #4 Unified Estonia + Ruptured Japan
Ash and Money – Theatre NO99 +
Time’s Journey Through a Room – Toshiki Okada € 15
€ 12,50 € 18
€ 15
TUES 24 MAY // Double Bill #5 Lose Your Body + Find Your Soul
Last Seen Standing Between Brackets – Adva Zakai +
Time’s Journey Through a Room – Toshiki Okada € 25
€ 15
€ 30
€ 18
WED 25 MAY // Double Bill #6 In Your Head + In Your Face
Last Seen Standing Between Brackets – Adva Zakai +
Schönheitsabend – Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek € 25
€ 15
€ 30
€ 18
THURS 26 MAY // Double Bill #7 Stretchy + Edgy
Conditions of Being a Mortal – HODWORKS +
Schönheitsabend – Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek € 25
€ 15
€ 30
€ 18
FRI 27 MAY // Double Bill #8 Big Emotions + Intimate Encounters
Conditions of Being a Mortal – HODWORKS +
THE COMMON PEOPLE – Jan Martens
€ 30
€ 17,50 € 36
€ 21
SAT 28 MAY // Double Bill #9 Tea Time + First Time
Panda Express – Oneka von Schrader +
THE COMMON PEOPLE – Jan Martens
€ 17,50 € 36
€ 21
€ 30
€ 30
* If you have bought an online ticket for SPRING, you can order 1 or 2 ADMISSION FREE tickets to the Closing Party
on the website or you can pick them up during the festival from the central box office at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.
** Admission fees SPRING Open Academy include a ticket to a performance plus one complimentary drink before
the performance and one after. Max. 15 participants per night. Available online only. (Language: Dutch)
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SPRING IS… SUSTAINABLE
SPRING IS… CREW
Since the start of the festival in 2013, SPRING has subscribed
to the Duurzame Evenementen Utrecht agreement initiated by
the Utrecht municipality.
Management
Rainer Hofmann
(general and artistic director)
Jeltsje In der Rieden
(business director)
SPRING exchanges expertise and experiences with other festivals and events
such as Bevrijdingsfestival, Nederlands Film Festival and Tweetakt. With its fellow
festivals and other parties SPRING strives for a climate neutral Utrecht in 2030!
Spearheads of the festivals are print, energy and catering. This brochure, for
instance, was printed by Libertas Pascal printers from Utrecht on Core Uncoated
paper (FSC Mixed). SPRING also works with local suppliers wherever possible,
as does our partner Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. And did you know that all our
international guests move around Utrecht by bicycle, and sleep at the sustainable
Hotel Mitland, holder of a Green Key Gold?
springutrecht.nl/duurzaam
SPRING IS… ACCESSIBLE
The SPRING organisation makes every effort possible to
promote accessibility, also for visitors with an impairment.
This is why SPRING is part of Toegankelijk Theatermaken, a project initiated by the
VSB fund and 5D to increase the accessibility of festivals. The advice which 5D
offered SPRING after an inventory have sparked a more active accessibility policy.
In collaboration with the venues, SPRING is facilitating the wheelchair bound in
and around the buildings or sites. But we are also using our website and service
mails to inform our guests about things such as the use of (substantial amounts of)
text in performances or the use of technologies such strobe lighting.
springutrecht.nl/toegankelijkheid
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Artistic Adviser
Karlien Vanhoonacker
Festival Coordinator
Anne van der Weg
Marketing and
Communications Coordinator
Matthijs van Burg
SPRING Academy
Aukje Verhoog
Production Coordinator
Nanouk Hildebrand
Technical Coordinator
Richard Bron
Administrative Staff
Marijn Alders
Strategic Adviser /
Project Management
Internationalisation
René Vlemmix
Marketing and
Communications Staff
Daniëlle Hielckert
Elsje Brussee
Martine Smallenburg
Niki de Jonge
Eva van der Laan (intern)
Sanne Jonkers (intern)
Production Staff
Evelien van de Sanden
Laura Slager
Lian Schouten
Yola Parie
Amber Bongaerts (intern)
Ellen van de Mortel (intern)
Volunteers Coordinator
Emma van Tol
Ticket Sales Coordinator
Andrée van den Berg
Campaign and corporate
identity design by
TOMIS visuele communicatie
Festival centre design by
VOID interieurarchitectuur
Online partner and website
We Cross
Translations
Wendy Translates
Board of Directors
Max Merkx (chair)
Cees Vernooij (treasurer)
Barbara van Lindt
Hiske Arts
Lisa Skwirblies
SPRING would like to thank
Carlijn van de Laar
Marius Dona
Martijn de Rijk
Mattijn Boerkamp
Merel Heering
Oscar Kocken
And all our volunteers!
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PERFORMANCES
Adva Zakai – Last Seen Standing Between Brackets
Co-producers: Playground Festival Leuven (BE), Hors Pistes / Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) //
Made with support from: BUDA Art Center, Kortrijk (BE) // With additional support from: David Weber Krebs
Andrea Božić & Julia Wilms – The Cube
Produced by: TILT // Made with support from: Mondriaan Fons, Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK),
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich and Wiener Art Foundation
Dolores Bouckaert & Charlotte Vanden Eynde – Deceptive Bodies
Produced by: Margarita Production // Co-producers: Kaaitheater, BUDA. Made in collaboration with CAMPO, Vooruit,
wpZimmer and STUK // Made with support from: Vlaamse Overheid // With additional support from: Museum dr.
Guislain
Dries Verhoeven – Guilty Landscapes
Made with support from: Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds and Zilveren Lint Fonds
Edit Kaldor – Web of Trust
Produced by: Edit Kaldor/Stichting Kata (Amsterdam) // Co-producers: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussel), Dublin
Theatre Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlijn), SPRING (Utrecht), Vooruit (Gent), Contemporary Arts Center
(Cincinnati) and NXTSTP (with additional support from the European Union’s Cultural Program) // Made with
support from: City of Amsterdam, Performing Arts Fund Netherlands, Open Latitudes Network and Onassis
Cultural Center (Athene)
Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek – Schönheitsabend
Produced by: CAMPO Gent, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum/Theater
Freiburg // Co-producers: Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, ImPulsTanz Wien, SPRING Utrecht,
Sophiensaele Berlin // Made with support from: Tanzfonds Erbe – an initiative of the Federal Cultural Fund of
Germany, BesteBuren and [DNA] DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS
HODWORKS – Conditions of Being a Mortal
Made with support from: Ministry of Human Resource (HU), National Cultural Fund (HU), Budapest City IX.
district, New Performing Arts Foundation (HU), Workshop Foundation (HU), SÍN Cultural Center (HU), OFF
Foundation (HU) and Zagreb Dance Company & Art Centre Svetvincenat (HR)
Jan Martens – THE COMMON PEOPLE
Produced by: Grip // Co-producers: tanzhaus nrw, SPRING performing arts festival, ICKamsterdam (as part of
the Nieuwe Makersregeling), Wiener Festwochen, CDC Le Gymnase // Made with support from: the government
of Flanders, Fonds Podiumkunsten - The Performing Arts Fund NL, City of Antwerp, BesteBuren, Fonds
Podiumkunsten (Nieuwe Makers & Size Matters) and CAMPO, STUK kunstencentrum, deSingel, vaba lava &
r.a.a.a.m. & mousonturm and wp Zimmer
Jerzy Bielski & Sandra Abouav, SPRING & Gaudeamus Muziekweek
presents… – + - /, 1 = _ ; X %
Produced by: Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Katja Heitmann – For iTernity
Co-producers: DansBrabant // Made with support from: Trisha Paytas, Ingrid de Rond
Massimo Furlan – Blue Tired Heroes
Produced by: Numero23.Prod // Made with support from: Ville de Lausanne, Etat de Vaud, Pro Helvetia,
Fondation Suisse pour la Culture and the Praque Quadrennial of Scenography
Maud Le Pladec – CONCRETE
Produced by: Léda // Co-producers: Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes), CCN BALLET DE LORRAINE
-Accueil studio 2015/2016, CCN Grenoble dans le cadre de l’Accueil Studio 2015, The Point (Eastleigh)
and Fondation Royaumont (Asnières sur Oise) // Made with support from: Ministère de la Culture et de la
communication – DRAC Bretagne, Région Bretagne, Ville de Rennes, Adami, Spedidam and DanSCe Dialogues 2
// With additional support from: Musée de la danse/CCNRB (Rennes), la Raffi nerie à Bruxelles pour le prêt de
studio, Coralie Berquer, Magali Caillet Gajan, Maud Cojean, Nicolas Couturier, Flore Khoury, Konstantin Lipatov
and Julie Pareau
Milo Rau – Five Easy Pieces
Produced by: CAMPO & IIPM // Co-producers: Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussel, Münchner Kammerspiele,
La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zürich, Singapore International Festival of Arts
(SIFA), SICK! Festival, Manchester, Sophiensaele Berlin and Le phénix scène nationale Valenciennes pôle
européen de création
Nástio Mosquito – S.E.F.A.
Produced by: ZZZZZ
Nick Steur – A piece of 2 – balancing humans sized rocks
Produced by: Stichting SoAP // Made with support from: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Richard Jordan Production,
Stichting Via Zuid, Dommelhof and CAMPO
Nicole Beutler – 6: THE SQUARE
Produced by: NB Projects // Co-producer: SPRING // Made with support from: AMMODO Fonds, NFPK and de
Gemeente Amsterdam
Oneka von Schrader – Panda Express
Co-producer: Rosemarie Allaert // With additional support from: Sabine Cmelniski, Clara Amaral, Tiana
Hemlock, Matthieu Blond, Aitana Cordero and Lisa Skwirblies
Simon Mayer – Sons of Sissy
Produced by: Sophie Schmeiser, Elisabeth Hirner // Co-producers: Kopf hoch, brut Wien, Gessnerallee Zurich,
zeitraumexit Mannheim and Tanz ist Dornbirn // Made with support from: the City of Vienna’s Department
of Cultural Affairs, the Arts Division and the Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Kulturland
Oberösterreich, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, WP Zimmer Antwerp, im_flieger, Kunstund Kulturverein SPIEL, INTPA – International Net for Dance and Performance Austria en [DNA] DEPARTURES
AND ARRIVALS // With additional support from: Simon Zöchbauer, Julian Rubisch, ALMA (Marlene Lacherstorfer,
Julia Lacherstorfer, Evelyn Mair, Marie-Therese Stickler), Godi Burgstaller, Chris Standfest, Andrea Amort,
Munderfinger Goaßlschnalzer, Altstädter Bauerngmoa, Pramtaler Volkstanzgruppe and Elio Gervasi/Raum 33..
Theatre NO99 – Ash and Money
Produced by: Piret Tibbo-Hudgins, Rein Kotov, Allfi lm, NO99 and the Praque Quadrennial of Scenography
Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch – Time’s Journey Through a Room
Produced by: chelfitsch, in association with precog // Co-producers: Kyoto Experiment / ROHM Theatre Kyoto,
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, La Bâtie – Festival de
Genève and SPRING Festival Utrecht // Made with support from: Arts Council Tokyo // With additional support
from: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory, Suitengu Pit and Kyoto Art Center Artist in Studio Program
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SPRING WOULD LIKE TO THANK
SUBSIDIZERS
FUNDS, MAIN PARTNERS AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
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