Programme 2026

Let's get in the mood for August

The wait is over! From now on, we’ll be announcing more programme highlights for the 36th edition of Noorderzon (20–30 Aug) every week. We’re kicking things off with the main international dance & theatre programme.

Ticket sales for the main programme start on 6 June at 12:00 (Friends get access 24 hours earlier).

First announcements

Dead Centre (Ireland)
Deaf Republic
We open the festival with an epic, contemporary fable about war, humanity and collective resistance, told through spoken English, sign language, creative surtitles and silence. Dead Centre return to Noorderzon for the fourth time.

Mario Banushi (Greece/Albania)
RAGADA
A raw, poetic exploration of birth, the body and memory that gets under your skin: a reworking of the debut piece by one of Europe’s most exciting emerging theatre-makers, Mario Banushi.

Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions (Belgium/Greece)
Every Second of Downtime
Audience favourite Hampton explores our age of advanced automation, life in a consumer society, and what remains of our humanity in a world that is steadily dismantling itself.

Louis Vanhaverbeke (Belgium)
Tractor Rhapsody

A raw, musical ode to labour and restoration, in which Louis Vanhaverbeke, together with his agricultural machines, reconnects with the rhythm of the land.

Oulouy (Spain)
Black
A story that traces the heartbeat of Black liberation movements across generations, through a masterful choreography inspired by Afrodiasporic street dance.

Losinformalls (Spain)
Extra Motivated People

They bring the sun with them. The rest they make up as they go.

Cabosanroque (Spain)
Trànsit

A mesmerising installation with traffic lights on the water. What happens when the rules dissolve?

Jo Fong & George Orange (United Kingdom)
The Rest of Our Lives

The body slows, time ticks on: two performers turning the almost-end into something worth looking forward to.

Marco D'Agostin (Italy)

Asteroid

A scientific lecture about dinosaurs derails into a moving musical about loss, and it feels completely logical. And absurd.

Marco Mendonça (Portugal)
Blackface

A sharp, funny and confrontational late night show about blackface, history and the blind spots of today.