Festival Tweetakt 2026 has begun

Utrecht, 6 June 2026 - Until Sunday 14 June, Festival Tweetakt can be found in Utrecht city centre and at Fort Ruigenhoek. This international festival offers a wide range of theatre, dance, visual arts and much more. Tweetakt is aimed at children, young adults and adults who want to experience how appealing and fulfilling youth art can be. The full programme can be found at tweetakt.co.uk

Festival centre Theater Kikker is the meeting place for theatre makers and festival visitors. In addition to a varied theatre programme, Theater Kikker also goes into the Late Hours by. Special performances can also be seen at the Stadsschouwburg, Podium Hoge Woerd and Het Filiaal.

Fort Ruigenhoek

Fort Ruigenhoek is a green, historic fort island on the edge of the city. The Fort is open to the public only during Tweetakt. Here, Tweetakt presents visual arts and theatre performances for young and old, there are workshops and all kinds of games. In and around the Fort there is a real festival atmosphere and of course you can also get a bite to eat.

Performances

Some of the performances to be seen at this year's Festival Tweetakt:

• At Silly Symphonies of Three is a crowd, 3 players make sounds with objects, creating a fantasy world
• Bridge builders At which The World Repairs welcomes everyone to the yard where construction of a new city is in full swing.
• Antes de... Company Tea Tree & Bronks interweaves dance and acrobatics in a poetic toddler performance.
• At Wow! From Bonte Hond, three dancers use loose set pieces for delightful games of hide-and-seek and peekaboo.
• At The Lava Forest by Ingri Fiksdal, strange, limp creatures crawl up from a mountain of coloured rags and stuffed fabric.
• The terrified disco ball by Mats Hoogland is a theatrically funky song programme about wanting to make yourself small. Or just really big.
• The Ethereal Paradox by dancer Zoë Chungong shows in three parts how women have found their strength dancing through time.
• Brian and the Sugar Rush by Zenzi Alwart is about Brian who loves hide-and-seek, singing, dancing, her imagination, and also loves sweets very much.
• Here was created by HKU students under the guidance of creator duo Plankton. It promises to be a playful and slightly absurd performance packed with ingenious tricks, visual humour and surprising sets.
• At Grip dancer Carli Gellings makes tangible how thoughts can sometimes make you very powerful, and sometimes make you waver.
• At L'enfer Jotka Bauwens shows that anyone can dance.

Domplein and Neude

Utrecht's city centre buzzes during Tweetakt. Like on Domplein: Spanish dancer and choreographer Quim Bigas takes the audience into the feeling of total happiness on Sunday 7 June in Molar. Next weekend you can enjoy Hugs and Handshakes, a show in which six acrobats let the audience join in with their tricks. It starts very simply. At the shaking of hands, a pat on the back, and a tentative embrace with whoever is up for it. Those who want can join in on Saturday 13 June with a workshop by Hugs and Handshakes.

Several artworks by Herman Lamers and Lavart including the Eyes Wide Open Church.

Campaign image

This year, Tweetakt did not use a modelling agency for the campaign images, but invited a number of residents of the Overvecht district for a photo shoot at Fort Ruigenhoek. In their best clothes, at a special location.