SPRING Festival is one of Europe’s leading festivals for contemporary performing arts, presenting cutting-edge international theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary projects each year. The festival is known for its focus on new artistic practices, experimentation, socially engaged themes, and support for innovative forms in the performing arts. 

Participation includes attending the festival programme as well as joining one of the thematic trajectories — educational and professional formats that combine performances, masterclasses, discussions, and opportunities for exchange with international participants. 

Three participants will be selected to join one of the following trajectories (depending on applications): 

• Posthumanist Perspectives: Beyond the Human Body 
  This trajectory explores how contemporary art rethinks the role of the human, engaging with technology, the environment, and new forms of embodiment. 
• Decolonial Dramaturgies: Reclaiming the Body 
  This trajectory focuses on decolonial approaches in the performing arts and considers the body as a space of resistance, agency, and reimagination. 

Participants will have the opportunity to attend festival performances, take part in masterclasses and thematic sessions, and engage in international professional exchange. 

Participants will be provided with accommodation and per diems. Travel costs will be reimbursed. 

Apply here.

Deadline for applications: 27 April 2026 

Participants will be selected based on the relevance of their professional profile to the festival themes and selected trajectories, their motivation, and their potential for international collaboration. 

Priority will be given to artists working in cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary practices, open to experimentation and new formats, engaging with current social, political, and ecological themes, and rethinking the role of the body in their work.