New season 19|20
Premieres from our internationally acclaimed ensemble. Intriguing performances. And a festive new season, the theater celebrates its 125th anniversary.
Meer ITA–ensemble
ITA–ensemble premières 19|20
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Freud
18 Sep '19 to 30 Nov '19
In the late 1950s, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Freud Scenario, at the request of Hollywood director John Huston. Sartre is completely immersed in the subject, that he writes a script for a seven hour movie. Huston reduces the many hundreds of pages to a two-hour film. Because ...
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De thuiskomst
09 Oct '19 to 30 Nov '19
Following on from Uit het leven van marionetten, Nanouk Leopold is now directing the ITA ensemble in The Homecoming, one of the most frequently performed plays by English playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
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Children of Nora
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Everyone knows about the argument - the big argument, the ferocious, final argument, the one that ends the relationship.
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Op hoop van zegen
13 May '20 to 21 Jun '20
Simon Stone has relocated the central fishing village in Op hoop van zegen to the arrival hall of an airport, where family and friends await the return of their loved ones. With fast, razor-sharp dialogue, he transforms the ultimate Dutch drama classic into a story from and about our time.
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Who Killed My Father
01 Apr '20 to 17 May '20
Young writer Édouard Louis (1992) is the greatest literary sensation in France since Michel Houellebecq. With his autobiographical debut The End of Eddy, he looked back on his tormented youth as a young gay man in the forgotten underclass of society: the north of France, plagued by unemployment.
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Highlights 19|20
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Am Königsweg
26 Nov '19 to 28 Nov '19
Dit met prijzen overladen stuk gaat over de opkomst van populistische leiders. Nobelprijswinnares Elfriede Jelinek schreef de tekst vlak na de presidentsverkiezing van Trump.
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A quiet evening of dance
13 Nov '19 to 16 Nov '19
This four-work programme is a unique opportunity to discover the versatility of dance innovator William Forsythe.
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ITA–ensemble reprises 19|20
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Een klein leven
06 Dec '19 to 22 Feb '20
No book has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
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Medea
16 Oct '19 to 29 May '20
Simon Stone made a radical adaptation of Euripides’s Greek tragedy about the daughter of the king, who is replaced with a younger woman by her husband and kills her children out of revenge. He turned it into a contemporary story. He let himself be inspired by the true story of an American docto...
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De kersentuin
22 Aug '19 to 19 Jan '20
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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Ibsen house
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann is thirty-six when he meets a young man during a holiday in Venice. The event inspires him to write one of his most famous works, Death in Venice.
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Na de repetitie / Persona
Van Hove has built a long and intense relationship with Bergman’s oeuvre as a director, which in the past resulted in the productions Scenes from a Marriage (2005) and Cries and Whispers (2009). With the diptych After the Rehearsal / Persona he continues his study of the Swedish film and theatr...
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Kings of war
Kings of War combines Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into a single, explosive play about leadership. For his portrayal of Richard III, Hans Kesting received the Louis d’Or in 2016.
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Roman tragedies
08 Nov '19 to 10 Nov '19
Ivo van Hove’s epic is ‘one of the most audacious Shakespeare productions of the modern era’ (Time Out), and immerses you in the midst of the multimedia action.
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This week
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De kersentuin
13 Jun '19 to 23 Jun '19
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
19 Jun '19
The American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work is still powerful and controversial thirty years after his death. His often erotic work makes the viewer automatically complicit in the extreme emotions it evokes: anger, desire, fear.
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Contextprogramma
22 Jun '19
How can we disrupt the predominant narrative structures in this information era?
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Listening Party Eddy de Clercq
22 Jun '19
Eddy De Clercq is one of the pioneers of Dutch dance culture.
Holland Festival
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De kersentuin
13 Jun '19 to 23 Jun '19
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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Los Incantados : un tríptico
Guerrilla groups, paramilitary groups and drug cartels - the conflict between these groups has disrupted daily life of Colombian citizens since 1964. In Los Incontados: un tríptico (a condensed version of the Anatomía de la violencia trilogy) the Colombian theatre company Mapa Teatro explores t...
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Sur les Traces de Dinozord
Elegant, visual, powerful – Sur les traces de Dinozord (‘In search of Dinozord’) is a highlight in Linyekula’s oeuvre.
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Crash Park - la vie d'une ile
Desert islands are places of infinite possibilities. In a refined way the French director Philippe Quesne takes his audience along in an aeroplane and crashes it on a desert island.
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Paisajes para no colorear
Nine teenage girls claim their place on the stage. They force the spectators to listen to their view of the world, in particular their experiences of gender-related violence and feminism in Chile and South America.
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Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
19 Jun '19
The American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work is still powerful and controversial thirty years after his death. His often erotic work makes the viewer automatically complicit in the extreme emotions it evokes: anger, desire, fear.
Julidans
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Story, story, die.
02 Jul '19 to 03 Jul '19
It’s his first time at Julidans and we asked him straight away to be the opening performance. Norwegian talent Alan Lucien Øyen caught our eye when he created the show Kodak for GöteborgOperans Danskompani. It was an extremely successful combination of video, dance and theatre. In that mix of d...
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BROTHER
05 Jul '19
Why do we love to dance together? The Portuguese choreography talent, Marco da Silva Ferreira - to be seen for the first time on Julidans – researched. From today's urban dance, he winds up with age-old ritual dances. BROTHER is an explosion of energy - it will be difficult to sit still yourself!
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The Quiet
06 Jul '19 to 07 Jul '19
The fascinating, hypnotic performances of Jefta van Dinther have been crowd magnets at Julidans for years. We have earlier presented his three large-scale performances, including the world premiere of Protagonist by the Cullberg Ballet. In 2018 we presented the intimate Dark Field Analysis, cal...
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Submission
07 Jul '19 to 08 Jul '19
Gender: the identity that we derive from or is imposed on us by the fact that we are male or female. It is a recurring theme in this edition of Julidans. Choreographers from all over the world ask questions about this simple dichotomy. Are we either male or female? And do we derive our full ide...
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ON THE CUSP
08 Jul '19
"Original, accessible and thought-provoking," is what the world-famous Swedish Cullberg Ballet calls the work of Ian Kaler, and asked him to create a new work for them. It fits in with the new company direction, which opens its doors to original talent. ON THE CUSP is a large-scale performance ...
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#minaret
09 Jul '19 to 10 Jul '19
'Omar Rajeh is the best-known choreographer from the Arab world. In #minaret he combines a powerful language of movement with a political message,’ wrote one German critic. #minaret is a powerful indictment of war violence, with dance, live video, Syrian music and an ominous drone.
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CUTLASS SPRING
10 Jul '19 to 11 Jul '19
In 2005, Canadian Dana Michel completed her dance studies in her late twenties. A surprising career change, because before that she combined a marketing job with competition sports (running and football). Equally special is the place that she occupies as a choreographer and performer. 'Michel i...
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Private Song
10 Jul '19 to 11 Jul '19
The three performers start with the stereotypes of women, from which an original performance about role patterns unfolds. The guideline are popular songs from rebetiko, the Greek blues, that can be heard in the folk cafes, in squares and streets. 'The audience soon became captivated. It was ver...
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Body of Work
11 Jul '19 to 12 Jul '19
Dances from the past continue to live in the body of the dancer. Like an archaeologist, choreographer / dancer Daniel Linehan digs into the performances that he has created over the past 15 years and lets its traces speak. After the fascinating solo, Not About Everything, which Linehan previous...
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Session
12 Jul '19 to 14 Jul '19
Session is the dream ending of Julidans 2019, in which an icon of Irish dance and the most requested choreographer of today are on stage together. Colin Dunne and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Riverdance meets contemporary dance in a stunning and at the same time moving dialogue between two dance grand...
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Conversations Out of Place
13 Jul '19
‘What is the connection between getting lost in the forest and deleting all human data? The answer is given in Ivana Müller's brilliant show’, wrote the newspaper, Libération. Conversations Out of Place (2017) is about the relationship between humans and nature.
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Ion
13 Jul '19
In 2008 Christos Papadopoulos created a dance performance in Kenya. He slept in a small tent in the savannah, surrounded by lions at night. When he realized how completely defenceless he was as a human being in this vastness of nature, a tiny cog, he felt an enormous peace, a liberation from al...
