Save the date: May 14 til 23 2026

SPRING is looking for Head of Production (0.8 FTE)

Will you be organising SPRING next year? From 1 September, we are looking for a new Head of Production (0.8 fte year-round) for our core team who will be responsible for the planning and production of our festival and the activities we organise throughout the year. Are you a strong producer with extensive experience in the performing arts, preferably (also) at festivals? Can you translate production plans into content, work independently as well as lead a team, work in a planned and structured way with an eye for the short and long term and do you have excellent communication skills? Then respond before 20 June. Vacancy

INTERVIEW with Ntando Cele, by Laura Ginestar

Ntando Cele was born in Durban, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. She studied theatre in Durban and then followed a multidisciplinary training at DAS Arts in Amsterdam. In 2013, she founded the production company Manaka Empowerment Prod. together with Raphael Urweider. Her work crosses the boundaries of theatre, video installations, concerts and performance. With humour and deliberately politically incorrect statements, she makes hidden racism in everyday life visible. She combines music, text and video to dissect prejudices and stereotypes in a cheerful way, confronting the audience with their own prejudices. In February 2020, during the festival It's not that simple in Bern, Cele invited other artists to a satirical debate called Ennemi du progrès (Enemy of Progress), in which she discussed issues of racial freedom and the limitations for artists of colour. Her performances have been seen at Vidy (Switzerland), with Black Off (2019), Go Go Othello (2020) and SPAfrica (2023). SPAfrica, the award-winning production she made with Julian Hetzel, was a SPRING co-production and had its Dutch premiere at SPRING 2023.   In the upcoming edition of SPRING Performing Arts Festival 2025, Cele will be presenting her last work Wasted Land, on Thursday 22nd May at 21h at the Grote Zaal of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. She will be also hosting the trajectory “Protest & Future Imagination”, in which she will reflect with the participants on what it means to not just "perform" our convictions but to truly "embody" them. Moreover, there will be a guiding question throughout the sessions: what does it take to envision a future that aligns with the values we fight for?

INTERVIEW with Marina Otero, by Laura Ginestar

In the upcoming edition of SPRING Performing Arts Festival 2025, Otero will be presenting her last work Kill me, on Saturday 24th May at 19h at the Grote Zaal of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. She will be also facilitating the workshop “I am a body” within the trajectory Embodiment & Physical Knowledge, within SPRING Academy, on Sunday May 25th.

The big stage

Press release: SPRING 2025: “LET’S SAY IT OUT LOUD. WE ARE EXHAUSTED“

Ten days of dance, theater, installations and more in Utrecht From May 22 till 31, the thirteenth edition of SPRING Performing Arts Festival will take place in Utrecht, with this year’s theme WE ARE EXHAUSTED. Politically, socially, in nature, online, and in our bodies, it can be felt in many ways. Artistic director Grzegorz Reske states: “Shouldn’t we say it out loud? It’s hard not to lose yourself in a world that keeps accelerating and is filled with political and social unrest. But no matter how powerless we feel, we hold the power to bring change.”