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In the Netherlands, the Canadian-British Russell Maliphant is best known for the choreographies he has created for the French super-ballerina Sylvie Guillem. Now he has taken a second ‘French inspiration’ as the starting point for a new creation: the work, and parts of the life, of the famous sculptor and artist Auguste Rodin. After having premiered in Paris and having been presented a few times in London, The Rodin Project will now be the opening show at SPRINGDANCE. “The robust…

Thibault Maillard (1989), a choreographer and dancer from Courroux (Jura), Switzerland, and a participant in Europe in Motion. Maillard started out as a football player, but soon became more interested in theatre and music. In 2008 he graduated from theatre school in Switzerland and was first introduced to the world of dance by accident - when he had to dance in a theatre project. This launched his dancing career and in the following years he performed…

This year’s Springdance will once again be offering young dance makers an opportunity to present their work. Europe in Motion (EIM) will be giving dance makers from the UK, the Netherlands, Turkey and Austria the opportunity to exchange their expertise, their fascinations and their working methods. And the twelve dance makers will be presenting their work at one of our three EIM nights. During the final weekend of SPRINGDANCE 2012 there will be a For Your Eyes…

‘In his unsettling solo performance I-on, the Bulgarian choreographer and performer Ivo Dimchev is fighting an absurdist battle with Franz West’s portable works of art.



‘What the fuck is this supposed to mean?’ was the first thought that entered Ivo Dimchev’s (1976) mind when he saw Franz West’s art. After a performance of his solo Some Faves (2010) in Vienna, Dimchev was approached by the award-winning Austrian artist with the strange request to create a video…

Composer Ari Benjamin Meyers (New York, 1972) and visual artist Tino Seghal (London, 1976) both live in Berlin. Jack-of-all-trades Meyers works with visual artists such as Saadane Afif and Anri Sala and bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten and The Orb, but also with the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Sehgal creates live situations in galleries and museums in which the visitor becomes part of the art work. In 2010 he had a solo-exhibition at the New York Guggenheim and from…