CaDance Festival is The Hague’s leading celebration of contemporary dance and movement. From 16th – 25th May the city becomes a vibrant stage for bold, genre-blending performances, transforming spaces like Korzo, Amare, and even skate-parks into dynamic dance arenas. Featuring renowned creators like Astrid Boons, NDT1, and Zino Schat, the festival showcases 22 diverse performances spanning dance, circus, physical theatre, and film. With themes ranging from Hypnotic to Reflective to Energetic, CaDance offers a multi-sensory journey through the language of movement.
SIVER LINING
Silver Lining by Constantin Trommlitz is a visceral, hauntingly intimate portrayal of the body in pain—and its resilience. The performance unfolds with raw physicality, drawing on breaking, krump, and contemporary dance to craft a powerful, non-verbal narrative of chronic pain and transformation. The four dancers—Lara Szymanski Canaro, Filippo Gualandris, Virginia Lewerissa, and Trommlitz himself—move with intense emotional clarity. Their strong, deliberate movements pulse with tension, strength, and vulnerability, allowing the audience to feel the atmosphere rather than simply observe it.
Moments of body-to-body communication evoke support and shared struggle, blurring the line between individual pain and collective endurance. The choreography doesn’t seek to resolve pain but rather inhabits it fully, using it as a motor for discovery. Hypnotic and abstract, Silver Lining offers no easy answers—only the profound truth that pain, when expressed physically, can connect us beyond words. Migle Duncikaite 16th May
DEEP TIME
Five words: Philosophical, Self-reflection, Delaying, Detailed, Body Awareness
In Deep Time, Astrid Boons crafts a haunting, cerebral experience that lingers long after the final movement. The performance unfolds like a meditation on human evolution, identity, and adaptation in a world that feels increasingly unfamiliar. Boons’ choreography, performed with remarkable control and nuance by three dancers, evokes alien and animalistic forms—bodies shifting and contorting in response to imagined environments. The effect is unsettling, intimate, and deeply thought-provoking.
The dancers move with both strength and subtlety, embodying a physical language that echoes Boons’ philosophical questions: Is our ability to adapt infinite? What happens when the body becomes the last frontier of selfhood in a digitized world? These questions are not asked aloud, but are instead deeply felt—etched into every slow bend, every tense pause, every fluid metamorphosis on stage.
At times, the bodies appear almost otherworldly—part creature, part human—tracing a line through time that calls into question our place in the evolutionary narrative. The performance mirrors the fragility and resilience of existence, offering a soft yet powerful reflection on what it means to inhabit a body in transition. Deep Time is both a physical journey and a quiet philosophical reckoning—introspective, beautifully detailed, and profoundly human. Migle Duncikaite 16th May
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