Under the flag of Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten [FHK], hundreds of students follow vocational training. It is the Brabant cradle for directors, choreographers, actors, dancers, performers, musicians and teachers. Extra joy: for years Boulevard has been the place of choice for their graduation performances and encounters with the public.

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Are there places where the outside world can coincide with the inside world? Without earplugs or a sleeping mask? Yes, performer and theatre maker Salomé Mooij [1990] knows they exist. 

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

Emotions run high in the humorous circus theatre performance BONJE. Three characters are wrapped up in a wrangle. Until they escape from themselves.

You step into a glass container. Twilight. Meet the eyes of the person who is sitting across from you. A comforting performance about heavy thoughts and silent communication.

Theatre Festival Boulevard has sustainability high on its agenda, across the board. We limit the flight movements of our programme team and we use a 'green printer' for communication tools. Also, a green battery provides by far the most power for the festival, replacing diesel generators.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

Talk show maker Oscar Kocken [1983] and writer Lucas de Waard [1984] explore loneliness. Dark comical storytelling theatre, partly autobiographical.

In the Zuiderpark, Juup Luijten [1992] challenges children and youngsters as well as adults to play dice. After your throw you may enter the giant board game Onvoorzien. Extravagant geese share the game with you. As you roll the dice, everyone finds their way. In goose step. Final destination? Discover it yourself. 

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

Was my father a hero or a traitor? In the moving musical theatre solo Borboletas, Gery Mendes [1984, Cape Verde] butterflies along possible answers.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

De Metselarij is a learning network, a group of young programme makers and producers who meet monthly to share knowledge, meet and exchange. We are going on a MetselaReis, and may land in De Dom on Boulevard. Together with several guests, we will investigate the word 'polyphony' from the perspective of programme making. 

A hilarious mini-operetta by Sarah Moeremans [1979], full of bossy ladies-in-waiting, heated encounters and dancing wigs. Especially for redheads!

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A run-down holiday park-with- houses in Hoek van Holland will be shut down. Barry and Herman shed shared tears. A theatre performance about small happiness, big money and rebellion.

Theatre maker Cor Langerak fed a self-learning A.I. system numerous Dutch-language plays. Every day the computer coughs up a new text, which is performed on the spot.

The feminine energy unleashed in a sensual total experience. Celebrate the body: Schweigman& and DOX celebrate the female body. In Eros, five women go in search of the power and pleasure of their sensuality. In a contemporary ritual, social taboos are ignored and womanhood is celebrated in all its facets.

From choirboy to superstar: Sylvester [1947-1988] was an American disco legend and LGBTQ activist. In Queen of Disco, he embodies the tempestuous rise, tragic fall and miraculous resurrection of disco music. Moving, over the top and unsuspectedly topical.

The music theatre performance Down the Rabbit Hole is the largest and most amazing diorama in the oeuvre of Fleming Benjamin Verdonck. A physical showdown with hundreds of ropes, nose flute solos, armpit sweat, screams, a pas-de-deux and screaming guitars. The result? Something between a balanced ballet of figures and a rock concert running wild.

Amsterdam singer-song rapper with jagged lyrics about NL, the world and 'doing normal'. Danceable beats. Influences: Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Noname. 500k streams on Spotify.

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

There are thousands of unwritten rules. Give birthday treats to your classmates, don’t jump the queue, say “Bless you!” when someone sneezes. But the two klutzes in the dance theatre performance DUMMIES are unaware of all those silent agreements. ‘Long live disruption!’ is the motto of collective dOFt from Leuven [BE].

Last summer, Festival Cement organised a work session on youth in cooperation with Boulevard. It was instructive and pleasant, and according to many it tasted like more. A year has passed and we have all gained new insights about young people and art & culture. This calls for a sequel!

Schippers&VanGucht believe that playing belongs to all ages and all bodies. Especially for Boulevard 2022, they developed SPEELVELD, a demarcated space on the festival site in the Zuiderpark where visitors are invited to play. The field contains soft objects that the players themselves can place and move. 

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

In the Zuiderpark, Juup Luijten [1992] challenges children and youngsters as well as adults to play dice. After your throw you may enter the giant board game Onvoorzien. Extravagant geese share the game with you. As you roll the dice, everyone finds their way. In goose step. Final destination? Discover it yourself. 

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

A theatre performance with perhaps the longest entrance ever. That is the aim of Flemish maker Elias De Bruyne. He’ll succeed, bookmakers think.

Five people gather at a funeral. Who or what died? A tragicomedy full of absurdities, inappropriate slapstick, physical antics and spastic crying fits.

Is playing football like dancing? Yes, says the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Guilherme Miotto [1979]. For a few festival days he is going to work with young people in the Kruiskamp area. With the help of seven dancers, seven football players and two musicians. Location: a sports hall. After every rehearsal, audiences from the neighbourhood and elsewhere are welcome.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

Dark rooms and gay bars have been driven out of the relative safety of city centers. With the living installation The NarcoSexuals, theatre maker Dries Verhoeven puts gay men in the spotlight who – in anonymous living rooms – surrender to sexual drug use. Not without risk, but they take care of each other. Does ‘society’ allow them to put their lives on the line?

In the theatre performance Infinity Chan, a woman seeks security in the darkest cellars of the internet. Certainly, a strong stomach helps. But how strong should the mind be? Theatre maker Eva Line de Boer [1988] logs on to an uncanny world inspired by anime – Japanese animation art.

A run-down holiday park-with- houses in Hoek van Holland will be shut down. Barry and Herman shed shared tears. A theatre performance about small happiness, big money and rebellion.

Theatre maker Cor Langerak fed a self-learning A.I. system numerous Dutch-language plays. Every day the computer coughs up a new text, which is performed on the spot.

“Impossible,” everyone said. “A show orchestra cannot consist of just one person.” Ha ha, tell that to the people of Theater Artemis. Long live the seven-in-one orchestra!

In the performance Nothing Ontploffing, rapper Elmer [Merel Pauw] treats us to rock-hard hiphop tracks about delicate issues, such as obsessive infatuation and self-loathing.-PREMIERE-

From choirboy to superstar: Sylvester [1947-1988] was an American disco legend and LGBTQ activist. In Queen of Disco, he embodies the tempestuous rise, tragic fall and miraculous resurrection of disco music. Moving, over the top and unsuspectedly topical.

British theatre maker and choreographer Ben Duke likes to put classic novels on the chopping block. Next victim: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a novel about flaming revolution, torching love and searing revenge. Duke goes the extra mile in this delightful mix of [English spoken] theatre, dance and live camera work. 

During the performance K.U.S. [Kinaesthetics of Union and Surrender] theatre makers Marijn Graven and Iris Carta offer a ritual sanctuary. For what? Reconciliation and more beautiful things.

The music theatre performance Down the Rabbit Hole is the largest and most amazing diorama in the oeuvre of Fleming Benjamin Verdonck. A physical showdown with hundreds of ropes, nose flute solos, armpit sweat, screams, a pas-de-deux and screaming guitars. The result? Something between a balanced ballet of figures and a rock concert running wild.

Crisp electropop with a rock'n'roll vibe by singer/guitarist from Deventer. Addictive and danceable. Frequent 3FM guest, Stenders Egotip, supporting act of Anneke van Giersbergen.

On 8 March, it is International Women's Day. A day dedicated to combativeness and solidarity. Boulevard and MINOUX, want to breathe new life into this day in 's-Hertogenbosch. Who are the fighters, with whom are we in solidarity, and what are we fighting for? After a first exploration of wishes and possibilities, we will take further steps in this work session. Who will participate?

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Are there places where the outside world can coincide with the inside world? Without earplugs or a sleeping mask? Yes, performer and theatre maker Salomé Mooij [1990] knows they exist. 

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

There are thousands of unwritten rules. Give birthday treats to your classmates, don’t jump the queue, say “Bless you!” when someone sneezes. But the two klutzes in the dance theatre performance DUMMIES are unaware of all those silent agreements. ‘Long live disruption!’ is the motto of collective dOFt from Leuven [BE].

You step into a glass container. Twilight. Meet the eyes of the person who is sitting across from you. A comforting performance about heavy thoughts and silent communication.

Schippers&VanGucht believe that playing belongs to all ages and all bodies. Especially for Boulevard 2022, they developed SPEELVELD, a demarcated space on the festival site in the Zuiderpark where visitors are invited to play. The field contains soft objects that the players themselves can place and move. 

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

In the Zuiderpark, Juup Luijten [1992] challenges children and youngsters as well as adults to play dice. After your throw you may enter the giant board game Onvoorzien. Extravagant geese share the game with you. As you roll the dice, everyone finds their way. In goose step. Final destination? Discover it yourself. 

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

British theatre maker and choreographer Ben Duke likes to put classic novels on the chopping block. Next victim: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, a novel about flaming revolution, torching love and searing revenge. Duke goes the extra mile in this delightful mix of [English spoken] theatre, dance and live camera work. 

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

A theatre performance with perhaps the longest entrance ever. That is the aim of Flemish maker Elias De Bruyne. He’ll succeed, bookmakers think.

“Impossible,” everyone said. “A show orchestra cannot consist of just one person.” Ha ha, tell that to the people of Theater Artemis. Long live the seven-in-one orchestra!

Five people gather at a funeral. Who or what died? A tragicomedy full of absurdities, inappropriate slapstick, physical antics and spastic crying fits.

Is playing football like dancing? Yes, says the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Guilherme Miotto [1979]. For a few festival days he is going to work with young people in the Kruiskamp area. With the help of seven dancers, seven football players and two musicians. Location: a sports hall. After every rehearsal, audiences from the neighbourhood and elsewhere are welcome.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

Dark rooms and gay bars have been driven out of the relative safety of city centers. With the living installation The NarcoSexuals, theatre maker Dries Verhoeven puts gay men in the spotlight who – in anonymous living rooms – surrender to sexual drug use. Not without risk, but they take care of each other. Does ‘society’ allow them to put their lives on the line?

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!

For seven days, Willy Kristus will be looking for materials in the Zuiderpark – with you and yours! – to build a meeting place. Long live the messianic instigator of this new movement!

A run-down holiday park-with- houses in Hoek van Holland will be shut down. Barry and Herman shed shared tears. A theatre performance about small happiness, big money and rebellion.

During the performance K.U.S. [Kinaesthetics of Union and Surrender] theatre makers Marijn Graven and Iris Carta offer a ritual sanctuary. For what? Reconciliation and more beautiful things.

Who was his Surinamese grandfather? Mathieu Wijdeven [1991] finds answers in an ingenious montage of performance, clippings, photographs, paintings and sound bites.

Few understand the art of healing. But language artist Lisette Ma Neza [1997] closes wounds with words. Your daughter heals wounds is a theatrical mix of poetry, music and dance. Lisette’s strong asset: pinkish, sooty and rebellious texts, in which fighting spirit and china-likepreciousness go hand in hand.

In the performance Nothing Ontploffing, rapper Elmer [Merel Pauw] treats us to rock-hard hiphop tracks about delicate issues, such as obsessive infatuation and self-loathing.-PREMIERE-

The feminine energy unleashed in a sensual total experience. Celebrate the body: Schweigman& and DOX celebrate the female body. In Eros, five women go in search of the power and pleasure of their sensuality. In a contemporary ritual, social taboos are ignored and womanhood is celebrated in all its facets.

In Het Indisch Interieur, a pater familias tries to divide his inheritance among his children, grandchildren and supporters. A tough challenge. With light-heartedness, writer and theatre maker Tarenskeen investigates how the war history in the former Dutch East Indies still resonates in The Netherlands.

In the sea, Tursiops truncatus [dolphin] reaches an average age of twenty years. On springy, beer-soaked stages much older. For thirty years, De Dolfijntjes have been the terror of every tent rental company and contents insurance company. Like crazy shamans, they play a gritty mix of rock & roll, funk, punk, smartlap, noise, polka, disco, jazz and blues. The singing accordionists/actors Wim Opbrouck and Wim Willaert are flanked by the fuzzy horn duo Fernandez and De Maeseneer and rock icon Serge Feys, former keyboard player of TC Matic - the connoisseur knows enough. Boulevard is welcoming this musical juggernaut for the fourth time since 1997. And with good reason.

FOMO FATALE – A-LIVE is a club night in which acts and bands play their sets without interruption. At last, another chance to lose yourself in instrumental electro energy! A night full of drums, keys, psychedelic beats and groovy baselines. Location: Bossche Brouwers, n the Tramkade behind the Verkadefabriek.

The music theatre performance Down the Rabbit Hole is the largest and most amazing diorama in the oeuvre of Fleming Benjamin Verdonck. A physical showdown with hundreds of ropes, nose flute solos, armpit sweat, screams, a pas-de-deux and screaming guitars. The result? Something between a balanced ballet of figures and a rock concert running wild.

Energetic ten-man band. Goes loose on pop, dance, house and hiphop. Trumpets [4!], trombones, tenor and baritone sax, sousaphone, drums. A success at Liberation Festival and Paaspop.

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Are there places where the outside world can coincide with the inside world? Without earplugs or a sleeping mask? Yes, performer and theatre maker Salomé Mooij [1990] knows they exist. 

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

There are thousands of unwritten rules. Give birthday treats to your classmates, don’t jump the queue, say “Bless you!” when someone sneezes. But the two klutzes in the dance theatre performance DUMMIES are unaware of all those silent agreements. ‘Long live disruption!’ is the motto of collective dOFt from Leuven [BE].

You step into a glass container. Twilight. Meet the eyes of the person who is sitting across from you. A comforting performance about heavy thoughts and silent communication.

Schippers&VanGucht believe that playing belongs to all ages and all bodies. Especially for Boulevard 2022, they developed SPEELVELD, a demarcated space on the festival site in the Zuiderpark where visitors are invited to play. The field contains soft objects that the players themselves can place and move. 

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

In the Zuiderpark, Juup Luijten [1992] challenges children and youngsters as well as adults to play dice. After your throw you may enter the giant board game Onvoorzien. Extravagant geese share the game with you. As you roll the dice, everyone finds their way. In goose step. Final destination? Discover it yourself. 

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

A theatre performance with perhaps the longest entrance ever. That is the aim of Flemish maker Elias De Bruyne. He’ll succeed, bookmakers think.

“Impossible,” everyone said. “A show orchestra cannot consist of just one person.” Ha ha, tell that to the people of Theater Artemis. Long live the seven-in-one orchestra!

During the performance K.U.S. [Kinaesthetics of Union and Surrender] theatre makers Marijn Graven and Iris Carta offer a ritual sanctuary. For what? Reconciliation and more beautiful things.

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!

Five people gather at a funeral. Who or what died? A tragicomedy full of absurdities, inappropriate slapstick, physical antics and spastic crying fits.

Is playing football like dancing? Yes, says the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Guilherme Miotto [1979]. For a few festival days he is going to work with young people in the Kruiskamp area. With the help of seven dancers, seven football players and two musicians. Location: a sports hall. After every rehearsal, audiences from the neighbourhood and elsewhere are welcome.

Ten festival visitors dine together. With the use of [drinking] games and thinking exercises, the duo Radicale Gezelligheid guarantees a unique conversation about death and transience.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

Who was his Surinamese grandfather? Mathieu Wijdeven [1991] finds answers in an ingenious montage of performance, clippings, photographs, paintings and sound bites.

In may 2021 we began a creative research together with Elmer Kouwenberg, a visual artist, whose body had been paralyzed due to a car accident 28 years ago.As artists and care-workers we took our practices into this physical research to explore movement, from and with limitations. 

Dark rooms and gay bars have been driven out of the relative safety of city centers. With the living installation The NarcoSexuals, theatre maker Dries Verhoeven puts gay men in the spotlight who – in anonymous living rooms – surrender to sexual drug use. Not without risk, but they take care of each other. Does ‘society’ allow them to put their lives on the line?

Ready to discover the talent of today - and tomorrow? The winners of Kunstbende (13-18 years) can be found at festivals in North-Brabant throughout the summer. Get ready for a varied programme of music and spoken word from the latest generation of makers from Noord-Brabant and the rest of the Netherlands. 

For seven days, Willy Kristus will be looking for materials in the Zuiderpark – with you and yours! – to build a meeting place. Long live the messianic instigator of this new movement!

A run-down holiday park-with- houses in Hoek van Holland will be shut down. Barry and Herman shed shared tears. A theatre performance about small happiness, big money and rebellion.

In the alphabet of love, the Q often comes last. But not in the performance Countersex Education, a humorous cabaretlike mix of TED-talk, workshop and performance.

In the performance Nothing Ontploffing, rapper Elmer [Merel Pauw] treats us to rock-hard hiphop tracks about delicate issues, such as obsessive infatuation and self-loathing.-PREMIERE-

Few understand the art of healing. But language artist Lisette Ma Neza [1997] closes wounds with words. Your daughter heals wounds is a theatrical mix of poetry, music and dance. Lisette’s strong asset: pinkish, sooty and rebellious texts, in which fighting spirit and china-likepreciousness go hand in hand.

The feminine energy unleashed in a sensual total experience. Celebrate the body: Schweigman& and DOX celebrate the female body. In Eros, five women go in search of the power and pleasure of their sensuality. In a contemporary ritual, social taboos are ignored and womanhood is celebrated in all its facets.

In Het Indisch Interieur, a pater familias tries to divide his inheritance among his children, grandchildren and supporters. A tough challenge. With light-heartedness, writer and theatre maker Tarenskeen investigates how the war history in the former Dutch East Indies still resonates in The Netherlands.

During BALLROOM BOULEVARD, dragwalks, battles, disco balls, poetry slam and vogue conquer the festival. TREK IETS LEUKS UIT celebrates on stage, but also in the auditorium.

A digital system that you have to obey. Are you up to that live challenge? Performer Courtney May Robertson [1992] is. A performance about autonomy, submission and counterplay.

The music theatre performance Down the Rabbit Hole is the largest and most amazing diorama in the oeuvre of Fleming Benjamin Verdonck. A physical showdown with hundreds of ropes, nose flute solos, armpit sweat, screams, a pas-de-deux and screaming guitars. The result? Something between a balanced ballet of figures and a rock concert running wild.

Amsterdam's Sophie Straat sings wildly beautiful songs about current themes, such as housing shortage, sexism and racism. Sharp and quirky. Winner Edison 2021 Best Album.

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Are there places where the outside world can coincide with the inside world? Without earplugs or a sleeping mask? Yes, performer and theatre maker Salomé Mooij [1990] knows they exist. 

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

Where do you end up when you dig a hole to the other side of the world? In this musical theatre performance, Lev goes on a research trip. He discovers another digger.

Oyun is the Turkish word for game. High game, shows the Spanish juggler Federico Menini. In his universe of pots, pans and kitchen tools, he defies gravity. A show full of innovative juggling, humor and rhythm.

You step into a glass container. Twilight. Meet the eyes of the person who is sitting across from you. A comforting performance about heavy thoughts and silent communication.

Schippers&VanGucht believe that playing belongs to all ages and all bodies. Especially for Boulevard 2022, they developed SPEELVELD, a demarcated space on the festival site in the Zuiderpark where visitors are invited to play. The field contains soft objects that the players themselves can place and move. 

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

In may 2021 we began a creative research together with Elmer Kouwenberg, a visual artist, whose body had been paralyzed due to a car accident 28 years ago.As artists and care-workers we took our practices into this physical research to explore movement, from and with limitations. 

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

A run-down holiday park-with- houses in Hoek van Holland will be shut down. Barry and Herman shed shared tears. A theatre performance about small happiness, big money and rebellion.

The cosiest café on the Zuiderpark festival site, with a barmanager who speaks sign language fluently! This afternoon, various tent performances are accessible to people with a hearing impairment. Some performances have a sign language interpreter and a written language interpreter present, who are also there between the performances.

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

“Impossible,” everyone said. “A show orchestra cannot consist of just one person.” Ha ha, tell that to the people of Theater Artemis. Long live the seven-in-one orchestra!

In the alphabet of love, the Q often comes last. But not in the performance Countersex Education, a humorous cabaretlike mix of TED-talk, workshop and performance.

Five people gather at a funeral. Who or what died? A tragicomedy full of absurdities, inappropriate slapstick, physical antics and spastic crying fits.

Is playing football like dancing? Yes, says the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Guilherme Miotto [1979]. For a few festival days he is going to work with young people in the Kruiskamp area. With the help of seven dancers, seven football players and two musicians. Location: a sports hall. After every rehearsal, audiences from the neighbourhood and elsewhere are welcome.

Ski poles ready, a big shot of tea with rum and ready for the white track! Skiing Odyssey by The Trick Brothers from the Czech Republic is street theater in which two skiers encounter objects during their descent, but above all themselves and each other. Long live the black run of self-mockery!

Ten festival visitors dine together. With the use of [drinking] games and thinking exercises, the duo Radicale Gezelligheid guarantees a unique conversation about death and transience.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

Birds is an acclaimed choreography by the Brussels company Ultima Vez, in which nineteen performers and musicians interrupt the course of things in the public space. This creates interaction between performers and the audience. The source of inspiration is the legendary art film Der Lauf der Dinge. Choreography by Seppe Baeyens [1981].

Dark rooms and gay bars have been driven out of the relative safety of city centers. With the living installation The NarcoSexuals, theatre maker Dries Verhoeven puts gay men in the spotlight who – in anonymous living rooms – surrender to sexual drug use. Not without risk, but they take care of each other. Does ‘society’ allow them to put their lives on the line?

What is it like growing up with different 'labels'? Without going crazy? Theater maker Soula Notos, member of Comedyhuis Utrecht, plays a piece from her strong story solo Wie ben je als niemand kijkt?, in which self-mockery and society meet.

For seven days, Willy Kristus will be looking for materials in the Zuiderpark – with you and yours! – to build a meeting place. Long live the messianic instigator of this new movement!

Few understand the art of healing. But language artist Lisette Ma Neza [1997] closes wounds with words. Your daughter heals wounds is a theatrical mix of poetry, music and dance. Lisette’s strong asset: pinkish, sooty and rebellious texts, in which fighting spirit and china-likepreciousness go hand in hand.

A digital system that you have to obey. Are you up to that live challenge? Performer Courtney May Robertson [1992] is. A performance about autonomy, submission and counterplay.

In the performance Nothing Ontploffing, rapper Elmer [Merel Pauw] treats us to rock-hard hiphop tracks about delicate issues, such as obsessive infatuation and self-loathing.-PREMIERE-

The feminine energy unleashed in a sensual total experience. Celebrate the body: Schweigman& and DOX celebrate the female body. In Eros, five women go in search of the power and pleasure of their sensuality. In a contemporary ritual, social taboos are ignored and womanhood is celebrated in all its facets.

During the performance K.U.S. [Kinaesthetics of Union and Surrender] theatre makers Marijn Graven and Iris Carta offer a ritual sanctuary. For what? Reconciliation and more beautiful things.

In Het Indisch Interieur, a pater familias tries to divide his inheritance among his children, grandchildren and supporters. A tough challenge. With light-heartedness, writer and theatre maker Tarenskeen investigates how the war history in the former Dutch East Indies still resonates in The Netherlands.

From shrinkage comes cramp, cry conservative economists. But Club Gewalt takes a broader view. In her performance Mini Miss Miraculous, shrinkage is salvation.

The music theatre performance Down the Rabbit Hole is the largest and most amazing diorama in the oeuvre of Fleming Benjamin Verdonck. A physical showdown with hundreds of ropes, nose flute solos, armpit sweat, screams, a pas-de-deux and screaming guitars. The result? Something between a balanced ballet of figures and a rock concert running wild.

Club night FOMO FATALE – DECKSTRO looks for the edges. The raw edges, the shiny edges and those of the BPMs: with a scorching hot trip mix of funk, dancehall, trance, electro, pop and rave-minded mythical creatures. A night with, among other things, The Netherlands’ most vicious vinyl veteran. Location: Bossche Brouwers, on the Tramkade behind the Verkadefabriek.

Contemporary version of Ethiopian 60's & 70's funk. Eight-piece. Saxophones, soulful vocals, groovy rhythms. The dancefloor of Addis Ababa is yours!

Antifragile Body is an installation/performance that investigates the influence social media and digital communication have on us. Welcome to the pink Blockbox!With a ticket you can visit the exhibition at any time of the day.Free entrance between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Bloom, which literally means to blossom, is what Marein Plu, Fefen Stanlos and Ellis van der Velden want to bring out in the user. This mechanism that derives from a flower symbolises blooming. Each flower makes its own unique sound that together forms an orchestra. This brings people together to make music and thus to bloom.

Two garbage collectors fill their truck to the brim. Press the button, done! That is how adults and children end up in the belly of a garbage truck. But voices are heard within. De Volle Vuilkar is an amazing expedition by Schippers&VanGucht, who are renowned for their play with time, generations and the concept of shelf life.-PREMIERE-

Are there places where the outside world can coincide with the inside world? Without earplugs or a sleeping mask? Yes, performer and theatre maker Salomé Mooij [1990] knows they exist. 

Many phenomena have a second, third or even higher plurality: Second Life, Third Eye, Four Tops, Five Guys. But The Dating Project: First Date is unsurpassed in its adventurousness. The original!

Where do you end up when you dig a hole to the other side of the world? In this musical theatre performance, Lev goes on a research trip. He discovers another digger.

Oyun is the Turkish word for game. High game, shows the Spanish juggler Federico Menini. In his universe of pots, pans and kitchen tools, he defies gravity. A show full of innovative juggling, humor and rhythm.

You step into a glass container. Twilight. Meet the eyes of the person who is sitting across from you. A comforting performance about heavy thoughts and silent communication.

Birds is an acclaimed choreography by the Brussels company Ultima Vez, in which nineteen performers and musicians interrupt the course of things in the public space. This creates interaction between performers and the audience. The source of inspiration is the legendary art film Der Lauf der Dinge. Choreography by Seppe Baeyens [1981].

Before the audience’s eyes, a huge paper model of a sleeping city comes to life. Wordless, playful, absurdist and visual theatre.

A life-size pink box tempts you to go out and explore. Because ‘out of the box’ proves to have a different meaning for everyone. Intriguing dance!

A fascinating installation that interweaves spoken word, images, audio, video and specially composed music.

Every day at 4 p.m. Vincent Wijlhuizen or Jowi Schmitz lead a lively conversation in the Dom about a current topic. Each time, two guests sit at the table: a theater or dance maker of Boulevard 2022 and an external expert. These experts will be announced here at a later date.  

The feminine energy unleashed in a sensual total experience. Celebrate the body: Schweigman& and DOX celebrate the female body. In Eros, five women go in search of the power and pleasure of their sensuality. In a contemporary ritual, social taboos are ignored and womanhood is celebrated in all its facets.

“Impossible,” everyone said. “A show orchestra cannot consist of just one person.” Ha ha, tell that to the people of Theater Artemis. Long live the seven-in-one orchestra!

A digital system that you have to obey. Are you up to that live challenge? Performer Courtney May Robertson [1992] is. A performance about autonomy, submission and counterplay.

Five people gather at a funeral. Who or what died? A tragicomedy full of absurdities, inappropriate slapstick, physical antics and spastic crying fits.

Is playing football like dancing? Yes, says the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Guilherme Miotto [1979]. For a few festival days he is going to work with young people in the Kruiskamp area. With the help of seven dancers, seven football players and two musicians. Location: a sports hall. After every rehearsal, audiences from the neighbourhood and elsewhere are welcome.

Ski poles ready, a big shot of tea with rum and ready for the white track! Skiing Odyssey by The Trick Brothers from the Czech Republic is street theater in which two skiers encounter objects during their descent, but above all themselves and each other. Long live the black run of self-mockery!

Ten festival visitors dine together. With the use of [drinking] games and thinking exercises, the duo Radicale Gezelligheid guarantees a unique conversation about death and transience.

His upper body is bare, and so is his soul. In the musical theatre performance Able To Fuck Love, Gavin-Viano offers songs and musings about love and sex.

Dark rooms and gay bars have been driven out of the relative safety of city centers. With the living installation The NarcoSexuals, theatre maker Dries Verhoeven puts gay men in the spotlight who – in anonymous living rooms – surrender to sexual drug use. Not without risk, but they take care of each other. Does ‘society’ allow them to put their lives on the line?

Elten Kiene, co-founder of the platform Woorden worden zinnen, is spoken word artist. He speaksnbsp;about daring to dream and showing yourself. About finding each other in stories that do not split but connect. A musical performance with a central position for the word.

During the performance K.U.S. [Kinaesthetics of Union and Surrender] theatre makers Marijn Graven and Iris Carta offer a ritual sanctuary. For what? Reconciliation and more beautiful things.

In the performance Nothing Ontploffing, rapper Elmer [Merel Pauw] treats us to rock-hard hiphop tracks about delicate issues, such as obsessive infatuation and self-loathing.-PREMIERE-

In the alphabet of love, the Q often comes last. But not in the performance Countersex Education, a humorous cabaretlike mix of TED-talk, workshop and performance.