Rainer Hofmann is since 2013 artistic director of SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht, The Netherlands. Before he has been artistic director of Huis en Festival a/d Werf Utrecht, which merged with Springdance Festival into SPRING.

Rainer Hofmann has international experience as artistic director, programmer, producer and dramaturg. His professional career lead him to Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Austria and the UK. He has been dramaturg for Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Theater Neumarkt Zürich, Schauspiel Köln and Stadttheater Bern. In 2008 he was artistic director of the 7. Festival Politik im Freien Theater („Politics in Off Theatre“) in Cologne, a festival organised by the government organisation „Federal Agency for Civic Education“. In 2010 he was head of production at Theater der Welt Festival in Essen and Mülheim/Ruhr. Furthermore he has been working for media like Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Theater der Zeit or Kölner Stadtrevue and held positions in several committees and juries.

SPRING is about the world. SPRING means thinking about the world with artistic means. SPRING means looking at the world through the performing arts. SPRING means looking at the world through the eyes of artists. SPRING means looking at the world through the eyes of the artists from different countries, with different cultural backgrounds, with different life experiences, with different artistic, political and social references. SPRING is about the world. SPRING is about the world of today.

SPRING presents new developments within the performing arts internationally today with a focus on crossovers between dance, theatre and performance and on art in public space. SPRING does this by organizing two festivals for open and interested audiences each year; the ten-day SPRING Performing Arts Festival in May and the three-day SPRING in Autumn in the fall.

Dates attending Dance Massive: 12 - 18, 24 March

Rainer Hofmann’s visit is supported by The Australia Council for the Arts.