Dance in season 26/27
Waste me (13+)
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25 Sep '26 to 27 Sep '26
Five performers emerge from a mountain of waste and sink into a world where everything becomes disposable: objects, relationships and themselves. Waste Me is a physical and confrontational performance about overconsumption and what it does to our psyche.
Out of the stillness
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15 Oct '26 to 18 Oct '26
NDT 1 brings together two intense choreographic worlds: the revival of The missing door by Gabriela Carrizo and a new world premiere by Hofesh Shechter. Between distorted reality and physical surrender, an evening of tension and imagination unfolds.
Nederlands Balletgala
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02 Nov '26
In 1979, Dansersfonds '79 was founded in our theatre. Now the Dansersfonds returns to our theatre with its annual Dutch Ballet Gala, a benefit performance where you can (re)discover the best of Dutch dance in a single evening.
Blast a universe
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04 Nov '26 to 07 Nov '26
The first NDT 2 programme of this season celebrates a past and present full of radical choices and poetic expression. In Blast a universe, two iconic works from the NDT repertoire are revived, alongside a world premiere by choreographer Noé Soulier.
The Current
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14 Jan '27 to 16 Jan '27
The Current is an immersive performance about rave culture, collectivity and resistance. In a pulsing landscape of sound and light, audience and performers move together through an installation where freedom, energy and choice constantly collide.
EN NOU GAAN WE EVEN HELEMAAL LOS (een topshow) (6+)
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20 Jan '27 to 21 Jan '27
Whether it's with friends on the schoolyard, with your grandma in the kitchen, silently under your desk, shamelessly in front of the mirror, or just on the inside. Everyone dances sometimes.
Ballet Vibes
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07 Mar '27
The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet gives a glimpse of ballet’s future: young dancers who shine and daring choreographers who aren’t afraid to push boundaries.
GONE - Inspired by Benjamin Clementine
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16 Mar '27 to 19 Mar '27
In GONE by Marcos Morau, we are immersed in a surreal world between dance and theatre, inspired by Benjamin Clementine. It is an evening about disappearance, acceleration and the desire not to lose one another.
Facing Transitions
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20 Mar '27
Facing Transitions is a visual and personal performance about change on the threshold of a new stage in life. About bodies shifting, identities wavering, and the search for stability in constant transition.
A poem for the world
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11 May '27 to 14 May '27
A poem for the world is a celebration of the playful and deeply human spirit of our NDT 2 dancers.
Everywhere is here
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02 Jun '27 to 05 Jun '27
Two choreographic worlds come together in Everywhere is here: a world premiere by Marco Goecke and the return of Ties Unseen (2024) by Christos Papadopoulos. Poetic, intense, and hypnotic, it explores connection, collectivity, and individual strength.