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.
Funds for 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.
This dance season 24/25 FIND presents:
In Until We Sleep, Seva and his dancers ask what race and culture mean in today's world.
Botis Seva, an Olivier Award-winning dance artist, choreographer and director, works at the intersection of contemporary dance, hip-hop, physical theatre and film. With his choreographies, he chooses to go off beat, creating groundbreaking performances and visual works of art. With a range of dance styles, from popping to breaking and from krump to contemporary dance, Seva shows the gravity of oppressive leadership.
The work of his dance company Far From The Norm is original, vital and fearless. Until We Sleep mixes dance with other disciplines such as film, and it invites debate on social political issues and the contemporary world.
Botis Seva / Far From The Norm | Until We Sleep
Tue 17 December 2024
LOVETRAIN2020 is a choreographic ode with music by Tears For Fears to the exuberance of the glorious 1980s.
The performance reads like a contemporary musical and celebrates themes of connection, life and love, with the interaction between music and movement coming together perfectly. French choreographer Emanuel Gat created a great whirlwind of colour and energy with LOVETRAIN2020! Set to the music of British pop duo Tears For Fears, the stunning group of dancers makes the utopian drive and epic groove of the 1980s palpable. A group choreographed to music from 40 years ago that feels more contemporary than ever before with hits like Mad world, Shout, Everybody wants to rule the world and Change. LOVETRAIN2020 is a feast for the senses, won many awards and can now be seen in the Netherlands for the first time.
Emanuel Gat Dance | LOVETRAIN2020
Thu 13 & Fri 14 March 2025
Sutra, a stunning and internationally award-winning blend of contemporary dance and kung fu.
In the simple but sublime set of 21 wooden boxes, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui makes the most of the strength, agility and mastery of China's Shaolin monks specialising in kung fu. The scenery is constantly ‘rebuilt’ - sometimes a wall, sometimes a bridge or temple. In Sutra, spectacular acrobatics alternate with humorous and touching scenes. Already over 250,000 people around the world have crowned the performance with standing ovations and it can now also be seen in Amare, The Hague.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui | Sutra
Wed 28 t/m Fri 30 May 2025
A special two-part retrospective featuring Jiří Kylián's most successful works.
In June 2025, Holland Dance Festival turns the spotlight on master choreographer Jiří Kylián. His most successful works Forgotten Land, No More Play, Petite Mort, Symphony of Psalms, Bella Figura, Wings of Wax and Gods and Dogs will be on show. With dedication and great skill, the dancers of Norwegian Opera Ballet will portray Kylián's vision.
In the first programme, Day After Yesterday, Norwegian Opera Ballet takes us on a journey through the roots of both mankind and Kylián. In the second programme Day Before Tomorrow, the choreographies show us the complexity of the borderland between art and artificiality, reason and emotion, health and disease.
Norwegian Opera Ballet | Wings of Time
Day After Yesterday: Wed 18 & Thu 19 June 2025
Day Before Tomorrow: Sat 21 & Son 22 June 2025