Throwback Lijn73 projects

Previous collaborations since 2020 include: Shailesh Bahoran (IRC), Alexandra Broeder, Schweigman&, Benjamin Verdonck, Jija Sohn, Melanie Demers, OTTOBOSCO by Chiara Bersani, A True Story by 71BODIES, Papa was a rolling stone by Minoux and Corpo Máquina Society with It takes a child to raise a village/free. They engaged with specific groups as audiences or co-creators within different projects. This way, Theaterfestival Boulevard continues to delve into and connect with the city and its residents.  

A forest may seem still, but beneath the ground trees communicate constantly through their roots. They share nutrients, send signals and support one another. That image forms the foundation of 'Dancing with the Trees'. Choreographer Guilherme Miotto creates dance as a living landscape in which every movement sets something new in motion. Guilherme worked with children from the Kruiskamp who also performed during the festival.

We are increasingly living separate lives. The Zing Ontbijt, however, brings people together at a single breakfast table. While the table is being set and the coffee is being poured, the King Sisters warm up their voices together with the audience. You don't need to have a beautiful voice – every voice counts. The theatrical breakfast concert took place in the Antoniegaarde, with the residents of the residential care center and the neighbors.

Under the name Stormkamer, Hanna van Mourik Broekman organizes a stage for local stories with a broad appeal and great social urgency. Stormkamer is a specialist in creating encounters. About themes that deserve everyone's attention, such as social security, thinking differently and work. She worked with Boulevard in the Kruiskamp district of Den Bosch, her starting question was: how do you care for someone who has less than you? In 2026 she organized a Table at which she will speak and eat with her conversation partners about the organization of care for family members. She invited these people after a preliminary investigation in the Kruiskamp during Boulevard. 

Since 2019, there has been a connection with a representation of the Moluccan and Indian community in 's-Hertogenbosch. This resulted in the dance performance But First We are Going to Eat in 2023, led by choreographer Jija Sohn, as part of the European partnership Performing Gender: Dancing in your Shoes (DIYS). 

The intensive collaboration has taught us and the participants a lot and that is why we will continue to work with this group from 2024. Together with choreographer Cheroney Pelupessy, whose research focuses on Dutch, Moluccan and Indonesian women, in particular the relationship between mothers and daughters. She is set up a process with the group that delivered a presentation in 2025 (Dansa Bersama), the year in which we commemorate and celebrate that 80 years ago, with the capitulation of Japan, the Second World War ended in the entire kingdom. 

In Mondo Perfetto, choreographer and Corpo Máquina's artistic director Guilherme Miotto investigated how our thinking influences movement and how movement shapes the mind. 

In the simplicity of movement he looked for an entrance to share a layered reality with the audience. In the run-up to the premiere at our festival, dancers Guilherme and Julia and a classical percussionist - on the marimba - conducted an exploratory study with participants. Guilherme used music as a bridge to another dimension, of which you as participants became part. In Huis73 in 's-Hertogenbosch, the participants spent three afternoons listening, experiencing and playing the marimba, within a participatory context.

Visitors and fellow citizens were also welcome to participate during Boulevard: In the week of July 29, the company provided four free and open workshops.

Between the trees on the Parade you will find a small village of wooden houses. For a few years the Stichting Stadshout Den Bosch invited you to come and build. Under the guidance of professional carpenters, children saw and made furniture or toys. The little ones made small paintings on wood. Wood was used from fallen trees from the city. In 2025 the little houses became part of IK MAAK MEE, the new place for children and their caretakers to meet, play, follow workshops by artists and discover activities.