Audiences are essential to the work of performing artists. During OFFSPRING, we open the doors to creative processes for audiences curious about new developments in the performing arts. Come see, meet, and exchange ideas with artists, fellow audience members, or (new) peers in the field. The evening includes a break with a warm bowl of soup. In the afternoon, you can join a workshop on queering artistic feedback.
OFFSPRING is part of SPRING Academy and is organized in collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant, VIA ZUID, and FAAM.
Featuring work by Yoko Haveman, Boris de Klerk, Anthony van Gog & Nienke Coers, Freija Roos, and Freke Vos.
Yoko Haveman
“Pain doesn’t always scream. Sometimes it’s just there. In silence.”
A Tribute to Everything That Breaks is an interdisciplinary unveiling of violence—physical, emotional, aesthetic, and symbolic—through the lens of the female-coded anime body. This work in progress explores the fractured psyches and hypersexualized frameworks of archetypal figures—the innocent, the seductress, the tragic antagonist—whose stories are often shaped by implosion or sacrifice.
Yoko Haveman (1994, Brazilian/Japanese) is a Dutch interdisciplinary artist: director, choreographer, and performance maker working across both theatre and film. Her work exists at the intersection of movement, visual poetry, and raw human expression. With over ten years of experience in dance, visual arts, and photography, she pushes the boundaries of experimental physical storytelling to explore themes such as human flaws, idealism, and eroticism.
Her artistic language—often combining multiple media and supported by theoretical frameworks—is immersive and unfiltered. With the body as a central element, she continuously challenges and redefines autonomy, drawing from personal and intercultural experiences.
Through performance, voice, and live guitar, this work doesn’t just depict violence—it listens to it, gives it space, and traces its pulse through gesture, embodiment, and tone. A new character begins to emerge, forming a physical language of rupture and resistance. Vocal experiments range from high, constricted frequencies to deep exhalations, layered with live guitar and shifting physical states. Movement, live sound, and scenography—infused with the heightened drama of anime and its visceral, ever-changing landscape—come together to reveal that we need not fear intensity, but move through it.
This is a tribute to what breaks under pressure—and an invitation to view breaking not as failure, but as a form of intelligence, clarity, and re-entry into the world.
