Choreographer and programme maker Jasper van Luijk has been appointed as the new artistic coordinator of Moving Futures. Previously, the artistic direction was in the hands of the five dance production houses Dansmakers Amsterdam, Dansateliers, DansBrabant, De Nieuwe Oost and Random Collision. The appointment of Van Luijk is the next step in the independence of […]

The seventh edition of Moving Futures is already underway and will travel to nine cities in the Netherlands between 1 April and 5 June 2021. Moving Futures is the festival where you will experience dance of the latest generation of makers in all its forms. The festival brings innovative dance in a rich festival programme […]

  Moving Futures Festival makes a new generation of choreographers (inter)nationally visible, supported by a national network of dance houses and by joining forces with local theatres and partners. Moving Futures Festival is a travelling festival in 9 cities. For a new generation of dance makers, this festival is the perfect springboard to showcase their […]

dearest dance lover, Moving Futures season 2020 will be cancelled in all nine cities due to the measures surrounding the coronavirus. We have worked hard over the past few months to put together a wonderful programme together with the makers. We are very sorry for the makers that they can’t share their beautiful productions with […]

The Rotterdam & Arnhem edition of Moving Futures Festival is cancelled. These editions were planned from  March 20-22 in Theater Rotterdam – Location Schouwburg and in the Pauluskerk, and in Arnhem from March 25 – 27 in Stadstheater and Theater aan de Rijn.  In line with the guide lines of the government at this point […]

Andreas Hannes is part of Moving Futures with the four-headed Tremble. We were curious about what moved him, so we took the time to ask this young choreographer some questions: What inspires you when making choreography? I am frequently moved by music and rhythm. I often find myself decoding images into rhythms or losing myself […]

The first edition of Dans Magazine of 2020 includes an article about HOPE, the theme of this year edition of Moving Futures. In it, choreographers Annemijn Rijk, Ruben Chi and duo Kim Jomi-Fischer & Marta Alstadsæter⁠ are interviewed about their new projects and the presence of Hope in their works. In the article, Marta Alstadsæter […]

        Annette Embrechts wrote for de Volkskrant about TREMBLE: “four springy bodies navigate through white space. They build an architectural work of art, an invisible map that dissolves as soon as it is ‘drawn’… Footwork jumps rhythmically and ingeniously – this is where the percussionist shows himself. And they keep the ecstasy precisely […]

Moving Futures travels from 20 March 2020 along nine cities! Experience the opening of the Festival for three days in Theater Rotterdam. Be surprised by the involved, cheeky and barrier-breaking dance makers and performers of today. See how the future moves them. As a foretaste, discover our new trailer, also made this year by Fanny […]

This year there will be extra attention for Hope and how the artists on tour give it a contemporary interpretation. “Hope as an indestructible human value, indispensable to be able to face the future in the first place. Hope not as a passive and perhaps naive trust, but as an active and decisive cherishing of […]

We all agreed on one thing right away: Sigrid had to become our new poster girl. Photographer Mark Engelen built an ad hoc photo studio at Dansateliers and Sigrid Stigsdatter shone in front of his lens. This time no scenes from the travelling performances on the poster, but a brand new campaign image based on […]

The new tour is confirmed, from 20 March 2020 the festival will travel to 10 cities in the Netherlands with new, exciting, eccentric or compelling work. Put the dates in your agenda and we hope to meet you in the theatre near you or somewhere else in the country. Rotterdam 20–22 maart, Theater Rotterdam Arnhem […]

During the Nijmeegse Kunstnacht Moving Futures Festival will be represented by CollectivePRIME. Choreographers and dancers Daniel Barkan & Enrico Meijer will perform Second. In second two people try to come closer together. They fight with the stigmas of digital culture and the way it blocks their humanity. Through the means of dance and sound they […]

After a tour of 11 cities in the Netherlands with 28 festival days, we conclude this edition 2019. Not without looking forward to a new edition. It will start in March 2020. We’ll already give you a look at the provisional tour agenda, maybe your favourite theatre will be among them as well. Be sure […]

Next up for 5 questions: Charlie Prince, today he tells us everything about work, free time and plans for the future.     What is indispensable during your work? ”Tea.”   What do you prefer doing after a long day of work? ”As working in a studio can become quite a hermetic process: I find […]

This spring we ask all the makers 5 questions. Today it is up to Leon Franzke. What is indispensable during your work? ”Safety! Only a well educated and trained body can find creative capacity in extreme physically challenging situations. Only in a studio that feels safe, surrounded by open and kind colleagues I can find creativity in […]

𝗠𝗙𝗙 𝗩𝗟𝗢𝗚 #𝟮 Hallo Den Haag! De tweede vlog van Moving Futures Festival 2019 door theatermaker Inge Wannet. Kijkjes achter de schermen, praatjes met de makers, allemaal live vanaf het festival! Tijdens de tweede vlog is Inge op het Moving Futures Festival bij Korzo in Den Haag. Ze bezoekt eerst de voorstelling 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙤 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 […]

Today we ask Judith Clijsters everything.   What is indispensable during your work? ”At the moment it seems to me that looking for a contrast in how we relate to ourselves and each other. Strength and energy are absolutely essential in my movement language, but also softness and harmony. A deep collaboration with a composer […]

  What is indispensable during your work? ”Self – research within a system.”   What do you prefer doing after a long day of work? ”Produce more work and powernaps.”   What do you want to tell/communicate to people? ”I Don’t have an answer for that. My own work becomes more and more autobiographic, which […]

Lois Alexander is going on tour right now with the Moving Futures Festival, but did you know this about her?     What is indispensable during your work? ”Discovering the pulse within that connects me with a larger thought or idea; it lands differently with each work.”   What do you prefer doing after a […]

5 questions for all the Moving Futures makers. Today we ask Keren Rosenberg everything. Photo: Emotional Porn: Exhibition of the Self © Alwin Poiana   What is indispensable during your work? ”My g-string :)”   What do you prefer doing after a long day of work? ”A lot of things, the thing that I love the […]

Jesús brings his Choreopop to the festival. The name says it all, in this work he is fusing a pop concert, music video and choreography to a visually spectacular whole. Some things you did not know yet:     What is indispensable during your work? ”Honesty, connection, trust.”   What do you prefer doing after […]

What is fake, real or digital, and if life is as fun as we all make believe on social media, and this current fitness culture where we ask so much of our body …. the new generation of dance makers gets its inspiration from all the millennial issues. Their dance and performance art is brought […]

Niet één, niet twee, maar maar liefst drie premières luidden op 20 februari de Rotterdamse editie van het Moving Futures Festival in! Na een inspirerende meeting met professionals uit het veld was het tijd om het resultaat van het harde werk van onze choreografen Ingrid Berger Myhre, Joseph Simon en Ibon Salvador Bikandi te bewonderen. […]

  Classical ballet and urban dance. For some these might be two different worlds, but choreographer Joseph Simon feels home in both. In Chameleon he researches the different movement languages he himself embodies. He asks himself the question: Can I be a chameleon?   What is indispensable in your work? ”A funky element, an element […]

Lisa Reinheimer spoke with Kirsten Krans, Director of Random Collision, for Dansmagazine, about the fusion of science and dance. How can art and science really inspire each other? ‘Science will always find answers where art doesn’t need to give them, because it is an experience that shows our perspective is a Starter to thinking. Art […]

  To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we ask the choreographers 5 questions.    What is indispensable in your work? ”The relationship between movement, light, and sound. It’s magic. It’s everything.. It’s life.” What do you love to do after a day of hard work? ”Fantasize. Eat. Melt.” What would you like to tell people? ”In […]

In the playful duet Panflutes & Paperwork, choreographer Ingrid Berger Myhre and composer Lasse Passage research what we expect of the relation between dance and music and how these expectations can be broken. What is indispensable in your work ? Ingrid: Supportive colleagues. Games. Deadlines. Internal humour. Lasse: To have a nap during the day. It’s […]

This spring we ask our makers five questions. Today in the spotlight: Sophie Mayeux What is indispensable in your work? “A good sorter that helps me to organize the hundreds of notes that I take during rehearsals!” What do you love to do after a day of hard work? ”I love going out for a drink with the team.” What would you want to tell people? ‘Don’t […]

 Throughout the country you can see five glorous premieres during the festival. Quickly find out more about them! Sophie Mayeux wrapped with Die Verwandlung the evolutionary process of life in shimmering and creaking reflective coatings on survival blankets. 8.02, 20:00, Theater aan de Rijn in Arnhem >>>.   In Rotterdam, the festival festively starts with the […]

This spring we ask our makers five questions. First in line: Igor Vrebac, read here what he told us What is indispensable in your work? ”Music, movement, sweat and a tear, humor and being sexy.” What do you love to do after a day of hard work? Naar de film gaan, vooral rare art-house films […]

During the opening weekend of Moving Futures Festival 2019 in Arnhem, the (extended) piece Die Verwandlung (Sophie Mayeux) will première in Theater a/d Rijn in Arnhem. Sophie Mayeux explores in this new performance the evolutionary process of the species using bright golden emergency blankets. After the short version of Die Verwandlung, Sophie Mayeux (Choreography Award […]

From 7 February 2019 the innovative dance festival Moving Futures travels for the fifth time along different cities in Netherlands. In an equally refreshing as diverse program of performances, installations, films and parties, a wayward generation passes by, provoking the the dance discipline. These newly and more advanced dance and performance artists shine just as […]

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 […]