The opening of Amare is a good reason to establish the Fonds Internationale Dans (FIND), a collaboration between Amare, Holland Dance Festival and Nederlands Dans Theater. FIND aims to facilitate high-profile international dance productions in Amare and further raise The Hague's profile as the dance city of the Netherlands.
Fonds Internationale Dans (FIND) come from the budgets of Amare and the Holland Dance Festival supplemented by contributions from sponsor and donors. This guarantee fund makes it possible to show larger and often multidisciplinary high-profile dance productions in Amare than would be possible for the institutions individually. One can think of international productions where live music or audiovisual plays a role in addition to dance. Each season, FIND's programme council chooses five different productions. Besides Amare and Holland Dance Festival, Nederlands Dans Theater is also represented on this programme council.
Jan Zoet (former director of Amare): ‘Amare gets the most beautiful dance theatre in the Netherlands. And The Hague loves dance. FIND will make it possible, together with our partners, to show more and bigger international productions in Amare and bring our dance audience in touch with them.’
Samuel Wuersten: ‘We are looking forward to this special collaboration. Making international dance visible in this beautiful new theatre is a great challenge. Stronger together is at the heart of it and makes it possible.’
With FIND, dance institutions from The Hague join forces to bring dance productions to The Hague that would otherwise pass our country by. From Amare, executive director Leontien Wiering and head of programme Geesje Prins take part in the programme council, from Nederlands Dans Theater artistic director Emily Molnar and from Holland Dance Festival, artistic and executive director Samuel Wuersten.
In dance season 25/26, FIND presents:
Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde is a performance about the power of encounter, about fading boundaries and stories that come together.
In Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde, choreographer Hervé Koubi takes you on a personal and poetic journey along the shores of the Mediterranean. Koubi reveals how supposed opposites, such as ‘us’ and ‘the other’, dissolve in the light of a shared past.
With a cast of fourteen powerful dancers, Koubi blends influences from hip-hop, capoeira, contemporary dance, and traditional music into a striking physical language full of energy and vulnerability.
This visually and emotionally overwhelming performance is a powerful plea for unity in a divided world—an ode to cultural fusion, human connection, and the strength of shared narratives.
Compagnie Hervé Koubi | Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde
Fri 3 & Sat 4 April 2026