Save the dates for Moving Futures festival 2019! In 2019 we celebrate our 5-year anniversary with an extra extensive festivaltour. With performances, pop-ups, films, workshops and (after)talks you get the change to meet the makers of nowaday dance- and performance art from the Netherlands. The makers that will travel along with the jubilee program are […]

Are you one of the visitors of the Moving Futures Festival? Did you attend the program in one, or more of the cities? Then help us with our audience survey. By participating in the research you can help us gain more insight in the experience of our audience. Completing the survey will take around 5 […]

The time has come. In Amsterdam the final edition of the Moving Futures Festival is up and running. With premières, guerilla-dance at the station and other locations, installations, films and the queer techno afterparty we conclude our 2018-tour with a bang. Let’s meet eachother, one more time!

From Wednesday to Saturday the closing edition of the 2018 Moving Futures tour takes place in Amsterdam. Next to in depth (after)talks, meet & greets and lectures, the event is a visual spectacle including surprise acts at various locations in the public space of Amsterdam. The extraordinary program has been created in collaboration with various local creatives. We worked […]

As the second last city of the 2018 tour, we are heading to Roosendaal. On Saturday March 24th, theater De Kring will open its doors for their first Moving Futures experience! The evening consists of a double program with the ever inventive b-boys Jonas Frey and Joseph Simon in Infinite Games and the powerful performers Hilde […]

After seven spectaculair edition of the Moving Futures Festival, the last cities of the tour are coming up. We will still hit the stages of Theater Rotterdam on 16-18 March, De Kring Roosendaal at March 24th, and have our final celebration in Theater Bellevue and Dansmakers Podium in Amsterdam on 28-31 March. In both Rotterdam as Amsterdam we still have four (!) fantastic premières ahead of us. […]

After five editions in 5 different cities we are still good to go! This week we travel to Germany for the Tanz Mainz Festival UPDATE #2 on March 6 and 7 and pay a first time visit to Podium Bloos in Breda (9 + 10 March). For our new audience-members in Breda we have prepared a special […]

This weekend we travel to LUX Nijmegen (March 1-3). Here we present a three-day program with performances, an exclusieve Cinedans filmprogram, workshops, talks and more. The opening is dedicated to gender and sexuality. The evening is constructed around the work of choreographers Igor Vrebac, Moreno Perna and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen & Leon Emil Franzke / NEON Dance collective. They […]

The tour of the Moving Futures Festival is up and running. In past editions in Tilburg, Arnhem, Utrecht and Groningen the audience got a festive and sometimes unexpected introduction to the dance-makers of the festival. In addition to the choreographers-crew that travel along with the tour, each edition is supported by local guests and partners. […]

During every edition we invite the visitors to share their experience, in words or images. Here you can read some of the reactions written by the press and the audience about their festival-experience in Tilburg or Arnhem. The beauty of this festival is that it invites you to, for a moment, step into the world […]

After the explosive kick-off in Tilburg the Moving Futures Festival now travels to Arnhem. In Arnhem we surprise the audience with another extensive program including performances, local guests-shows and surprise acts. We hightlight the dance-symposium Gender & Identity with a.o. Lana Čoporda and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen & Leon Emil Franzke (NEON dance collective), the final performance of BLISS by Jasper van […]

The dates for the Moving Futures Festival 2018 are confirmed! As of January 25th the festival will travel through 9 different cities in the Netherlands next to a stop in Mainz, Germany on March 6th. Check out the tourdates and places below. More information about the program will follow soon. Stay tuned! Tilburg 25-27 Jan ’18 […]

In this podcast Leonieke van Dipten goes into a conversation with three city guests of the festival. Nurah Abdulkadir, marketeer at the westergasfabriek Amsterdam, writer and winner of the El Hizjra literature award Fatima Jamai fromAmsterdam (North) and journalist of Vers Beton Fay van der Wall from Rotterdam visited Moving Futures in their city. In a […]

CALL! We are looking for dance-loving reporters. In May Moving Futures festival will travel to Zwolle for the first time. Next week the festival is presented in Utrecht. For this event Zwolse Theaters are looking for people who would like to visit the Utrecht edition and share their foundings in text, images and/or video. This […]

On April 8th and 9th the Moving Futures festival traveled to Groningen for the first time. In the Grand Theatre we presented a colorful program. During the day the audience was invited to experience the works by moving themself as part of the workshops, during the evening the work was presented by the makers themselves. […]

Share your story. Let yourself be heard! Moving Futures and Domein voor Kunstkritiek invite you, the public, to let your voice be heard during Moving Futures. The word is to the festival audience at Edit this Post.com With the interactive talk Edit this Post the public speaks and writes with each other about the performances and themes […]

The future is watching the present* Jochem Naafs The future is reading these words While she sits in front of me And I’m not sure she knows English But I am sure she understands me The future stares friendly and smiles The future talks with the past The past may be her mother And it […]

Van 2 tot en met 5 februari streek het Moving Futures Festival neer in Amsterdam. Vroege bezoekers in theater Bellevue werden verrast met een spontane act van 12 studenten, Inari Salmivaara liet de bezoekers op diverse momenten zweven en de dansperformances deden de discussie op het platform Edit this Post over de rol van de danser […]

The first edition of Edit This Post is a fact. Six visitors settled after the performance behind their laptop and prepared themselves for a shared conversation about the performance Geisha’s Miracle. The first texts were written carefully, researching the tone of voice to use. In answers and responsive to each other’s input, little by little the […]

    Moving Futures festival is looking for new audience for modern dance Interview with Suzy Blok, Sanne Wichman and Marie Goeminne, written by Maarten Baanders for Cultuurpers ‘Many people find contemporary dance difficult. Especially performances of young makers who are experimenting and looking for new ways . We do this not only by showing good […]

As partner of Moving Futures, again Cinedans again gave form to a special dance filmprogram. The program is based on the different themes and subjects of the performances in the festival. Shorter and longer films from different choreographers and directors are screened in one program or as part of the theatreprogram. A glimpse of what the filmprogram in […]

PRESS RELEASE Moving Futures Festival 2017 The most leading young choreographers of this moment, from the houses of Dansmakers Amsterdam, Dansateliers, DansBrabant, De Nieuwe Oost and Random Collision. As of January 25th, 2017 the contemporary dance festival Moving Futures again travels through the Netherlands. The festival presents the most prominent young artists of the moment connected […]

As part of the Open Studio program at the Tanzmesse 2016 the Moving Futures Network invites the audience for a complete Moving Futures experience! During the program different choreographers from the network present their work. The performances are framed by an inviting and in-depth context program. With work by Loïc Perela, Katja Heitmann and Joseph […]

During the 2017 edition of Moving Futures, the festival will also travel to Zwolle. On 19 and 20 of May, 2017 we will end this edition with an extensive dance program at Odeon Theatre, one of the locations of Zwolle Theaters. Programmer Stella van Leeuwen (Zwolle Dance Theatre) about the new collaboration: I am very proud […]

As part of Moving Futures festival in Utrecht we organized the programme Dance Dialogue Live in Het Huis Utrecht. The programme was initiated by Domein voor Kunstkritiek and the partners Moving Futures, Theatermaker and Dansmagazine. Over sixty (young) professionals, a mix of participants and writers, dancemakers, dancers, programmers, marketing experts and festival directors came together […]

In Utrecht the festival started off in Het Huis Utrecht. Choreographer Fernando Belfiore explained his choices in themes, objects and decor to Scenography students. During the crowded first edition of Dance Dialogue Live by Domein voor Kunstkritiek, Theatermaker and Dans Magazine, cultural journalists, dramatuges and makers discussed contemporary ways of writing about dance. During the […]

On November 25th to 28th, the Tilburg edition of Moving Futures festival took place in Theatre de NWE Vorst. Every day the audience was able to live “screen” with Katja Heitmann, talk or follow lectures on contemporary dance and see different performances by different dancemakers. During the edition the dark solo All About Eve by […]

From November 19th to November 21st Moving Futures landed in Arnhem. In the city theatre and Theater aan de Rijn you could visit various combination programmes framed by musical, visual and poetic acts. Below some beautifull pictures of the Arnhem edition by Frans Scheider.

From November 12th to 15th Moving Futures visited Amsterdam. The whole city was surprised by a fantastic programme with danceguerilla’s, makersmeetings, performances, filmprogrammes and music acts.Check out the pictures of the successful Amsterdam edition here! Pictures by Desiré van den Berg.

The Animated by Hilde Elbers & Lea Martini Context article[1] by Zeynep Gündüz How to really be human with you The Animated is a duet that deals with our perception of time by investigating the relation between body and film. Our quest in The Animated was to create an altered perception of time with live […]

DEU$/EX\M4CHIN4 by Fernando Belfiore Context article [1] by Zeynep Gündüz Who are the gods from the machines? Deus ex machina, which means “god from the machine”, is a Greek term that refers to a specific theatrical plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is solved by the intervention of a god descending from the sky […]

Moving Futures festival kicked off on October 29th – November 1st in Rotterdam. The festival showed work of different dance-makers framed by a side programme with workshops, performances, interventions, aftertalks, meet & greets, film and party in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg and Dansateliers. Check out the pictures of the successful first edition!

We are online! From now on you find everything you nee to know about Moving Futures: the network, the festival, the tour and this season’s program here. From the 29th of October 2015 till the 1st of May in 2016 the festival travels to 10 cities around the Netherlands. Keep an eye on the website […]