Theaterfestival Boulevard

's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Since 1985, during the month of August, Theaterfestival Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch has been a stage for passionate performances and inspiring encounters. It presents non-conformist theatre, dance and musical theatre and artistic forms at the festival’s centre stage and at unique locations in and around ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The audience is wide and inquisitive. Boulevard is for novices and fervent fans, for young and old, for an art professional and for a family that wants to go out for the day. Boulevard combines various voices and narratives and wants to be accessible to everyone. Every year, they receive 140,000 visitors from all places, including around 450 international professionals.

Find who was locally involved through Performing Gender dance practices, co-creation and co-production.

Community of ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Staff on the project

Artistic Director

Nina works as programmer and festivaldramaturg for Theaterfestival Boulevard. She co-programs the festival, is co-responsible for contextualising the program and curates BLVR&D, the research&development section. On behalf of Boulevard she participates in the network for the development of new theatre, dance and circusmakers in Noord-Brabant, called PLAN. Nina participated as dance dramaturg in Performing Gender Dance Makes Differences. Nina sporadically publishes articles and works as an advisor for dance and theatre at the National Performing Arts Fund.

Project Manager

Audience Developer

Coralie works for Theaterfestival Boulevard as well as other cultural institutions in The Netherlands. She finds herself lucky to be partnering up in some truly inspiring projects while networking with many influential and creative individuals along the way. As an energetic and inquisitive allrounder she unites communication, community building and audience development in one person. For Boulevard she reaches out to new audience groups and diversifies existing audiences by developing a fitting and engaging context around the festival’s performances and programmes. She was involved as a communication manager in the European project Performing Gender 2, and joins PG-Dancing in Your Shoes as an audience developer.