10 x Dans & Performance

We'd love to take you through our program: ten performances where dance and performance take center stage.

Each one offers a unique perspective on how we navigate as humans in a constantly changing world. Through dreams, rituals, or special encounters, you'll discover what happens when language fades into the background.

Check out the full agenda, pick your favorites, and dive into the world of Dance and Performance.

©Casper Koster

vanishing acts - Felix Schellekens / Nicole Beutler Projects

Tue 28 Jan - Sat 1 Feb In vanishing acts, Felix Schellekens reflects on those fleeting moments when the impermanence of life becomes undeniable. Everything is destined to fade—our surroundings shift, we transform, and everything we try to hold onto eventually slips through our fingers. How do we learn to embrace the solitude that comes with knowing nothing ever stays the same?

COME TOGETHER (10) - GREENHOUSE / Frascati Producties

Wed 5 Feb - Fri 7 Feb In February 2025, COME TOGETHER celebrates its tenth edition! As the annual gathering for innovative performance art, this jubilee edition marks not only a festive milestone but also a crucial moment for the Amsterdam performance scene. Over three days, artists and audiences will share time and space with each other.

Dream Archive: Live Collection - Andrea Božić & Julia Willms / TILT i.s.m. de Premonitions Agency

Tue 18 Feb - Thu 20 Feb Welcome to the Dream Archive: Live Collection – public dream collecting sessions. This government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict possible future scenarios and affect outside events. Would you like to donate your dream to the Dream Archive?

©Milena Twiehaus

The Bone Algorithm - Amos Ben-Tal / OFFprojects, Gosse de Kort & Salvador Breed

Tue 18 Feb - Sat 22 Feb The space moves the dancers, their movement generates sound, the sound redesigns the space.... The result is a delicate interplay of cause and effect, but who is the instrument and who is the player? The Bone Algorithm is an interdisciplinary performance with a kinetic installation that produces music through the movement of the dancers.

©Thomas Lenden

Trying to get cozy in the dark dark void - FADAT

Thu 20 Feb & Fri 21 Feb Two beings exist in a green void. This void, a hideous expanse of nothingness, stretches infinitely in every direction, leaving them unsure if they occupy all of it or none of it at all. The boundaries of their being seem to blur, as they feel an overwhelming connection to all that was, all that is, and all that ever will be. Anything could happen because nothing ever will. In the void, danger is looming because nothing touches them.

The Oracle: Ritual for the Future - Victorine van Alphen

Fri 28 Feb - Sat 1 Mar In an immersive landscape of screens and modern rituals, the viewer is enticed to engage with both (bizarre) everyday practices and far-reaching visions of the future, where artificial intelligence and robots redefine our sensuality.

©Paul Sixta

We play so hard it hurts - Fernando Troya

Fri 28 Feb & Sat 1 Mar We play so hard it hurts is a solo directed and performed by Fernando Troya. Delving into the subterranean realms of cruising culture and the quest for intimacy amidst darkness, the production emerges as a testament to the transformative power of resilience. During Amsterdam Fringe 2024 We play so hard it hurts received the International Bursary Award.

©Casper Koster

PEEKABOO - Maxime Dreesen

Fri 7 Mar PEEKABOO is a vision in which the world is a sex playground. This universe depicts new ways of contact through cruising: seeking fleeting, sexual contacts in the open air. Theatre maker Maxime Dreesen approaches this phenomenon as getting lost in a web of experimental relationships and unexpected encounters.

Listening to the Planets - Ari Teperberg

Tue 11 Mar - Thu 13 Mar I am listening to The Planets (1917), a monumental orchestral piece by the British composer Gustav Holst. Can you hear it through me? It transforms into words, images, movement. I try to listen even deeper and hear the artist writing it, navigating a brutal war to which he did not enlist. His music turns on stage into matter in motion - it orbits, gets distorted, disappears and reappears.

The End - Part 2 - Arno Schuitemaker

Tue 15 Apr & Wed 16 Apr Multidisciplinary dance performance with a future-oriented vision.Blending movement, electronic music, light, and video, The End – part 2 immerses itself in questions of togetherness, solidarity, and belonging within an increasingly digital and fragmented society. How do we perceive each other as our identities grow more transparent? What do we share in a culture where so much feels exposed? When does our presence become real?