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Something Great is a non-profit organisation and centre for contemporary performing arts.

09/05/2026

From 14–23 May, our associate artists Daniel Kok and Luke George will transform Neude Square in Utrecht into Home Bound — a growing participatory installation made from rope, stories, movement and community.

Created during the SPRING Performing Arts Festival, the project brings together artists, craftspeople, local residents and visitors to collectively weave, knot and build a monumental installation exploring multiculturalism, migration and belonging.

Over ten days, communities from across Utrecht — from knitters and carpet weavers to circus artists, bell ringers and rope practitioners — will gather daily to share knowledge, stories and practices.

Participation is free and open to everyone.

📍 Neude Square, Utrecht
📅 14–23 May
🕛 Daily from 12:00

More information via SPRING Festival

08/05/2026

Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
Repertório N.1
08—10.05, 12.05, 13.05
, Brussels
📍 Théâtre Les Tanneurs

How to create a dance of self-defence?

Developed from gestural codes circulating within Black and q***r communities in Rio de Janeiro, Repertório N.1 unfolds as a choreography of protection, visibility, and resistance.

Surrounded by the audience, naked and without music, Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira move between synchronicity and suspension. The sound of sneakers against the floor becomes rhythm, language, and collective force.

Originally conceived in 2018 as the first chapter of a trilogy, the work could not be realised during Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Only now does this long-awaited opening chapter come into being.

⧖ 45 min
Contains nudity
Accessible for wheelchair users

Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts & Théâtre Les Tanneurs

Concept & performance: Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
Management & distribution: Something Great

Co-commissioned by Serpentine and Dance Umbrella, Something Great, Wiener Festwochen – Freie Republik Wien, Arsenic, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Festival DDD – Teatro Municipal do Porto

Photos: Joao Octavio Peixoto, 2026

25/10/2025

Today 🔥 STILL LIVES: GLASGOW
by Daniel Kok & Luke George
🌀 25 October 2025 · 2–4 PM · Tramway Glasgow
🎟 Tickets via Take Me Somewhere

Still Lives is a performance-installation series that captures — with ropes — the tensions of a place and its culture. Each edition binds movement, history, and bodies in site-specific acts of stillness and suspension.

For Glasgow, Daniel Kok & Luke George enter the charged world of professional wrestling — its drama, choreography, and cult devotion. Using Japanese sh***ri rope technique, they’ll collaborate with local wrestlers to tie bodies mid-tackle, suspended above the mat.

📸📹 Previous iteration of Still Lives in Melbourne during Rising festival.

21/10/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊
📅 22, 23, 24 October 2025
📍 Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
👁 part of Festival d'Automne à Paris

A solo figure stands at the edge of the stage, shifting silently from one pose to the next. Strength and vulnerability merge as Hassabi reveals what it means to be uncovered, to be on stage.
With her signature stillness, slowness, and precision, she invites us to witness images as they unfold — iconic and everyday, fragile and powerful.

On Stage is one of Maria Hassabi ‘s most radical and personal works: a feminist reflection and a piercing insight into her artistic trajectory.

📸 On Stage by Maria Hassabi. Performance at Kunstenfestivaldesarts , May 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Photos: Beniamin Boar

17/10/2025

World premiere 🔥☄️ Repertório N.1’ by Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira.

🗓 Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October 2025, 7pm
📍 Porchester Hall, London

Presented by Serpentine Galleries & Dance Umbrella

Repertório N.1 is the final piece of a trilogy by Brazilian artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. Drawing on postcolonial, gender and race studies, the Repertório trilogy, a long-term performance project, interrogates the mechanisms of brutality and attempts to dismantle them. Through a vocabulary of poses, gestures and collective actions, Repertório N.1 creates an experimental space where the body becomes a site of protection, carrying histories, pleasures and vulnerabilities into the performance space.

Repertório N.1 is co-commissioned by Serpentine Galleries and Dance Umbrella (UK), Something Great (Germany), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Switzerland), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER(Belgium) and DDD - Festival Dias da Dança/ Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). The world premiere will take place in London, on the 18 and 19 October 2025 during Frieze Week and as part of Dance Umbrella, before touring internationally in 2026.

07/10/2025

🎸 STILL LIVES: BRISBANE 🎸

A tribute. A disruption. A knot in time.

From 15 October to 9 November 2025, Still Lives by Daniel Kok & Luke George lands in Brisbane, Australia. This new iteration — created specifically for the city and presented in the Turbine Platform of Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Melt Festival dives into Brisbane’s punk and counterculture roots, with a nod to The Saints and their iconic track (I’m) Stranded.

Still Lives is a performance-installation series that captures — literally — significant moments and movements using rope 🧵. Each edition is a durational, site-responsive act of binding cultural objects in place, opening up conversations around local history, political tension, social connection, and personal memory.

Lead artists: Daniel Kok & Luke George
Sound: Nick Roux
Lighting: Katie Sfetkidis
International distribution: Something Great

Photos: Gregory Lorenzutti

Supported by Museum of Brisbane and National Arts Council Singapore.

29/09/2025

This week on tour in Italy, Tunisia and Brazil !

2–3 Oct — Hands Made by Begüm Erciyas at Periferico Festival, Modena, Italy🦋
3–4 Oct — Sham3dan الشمعدانby nasa4nasa at Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia 🦋
4–5 Oct — EXÓTICA - On the Brown History of European Dance by Amanda Piña at Bienal SESC de Dança, São Paulo, Brazil 🦋

📸 Slide 1 — Sham3dan الشمعدان by nasa4nasa © Salma Olama
📸 Slide 2 — Hands Made by Begüm Erciyas © Dirk Rose
📸 Slide 3 — EXÓTICA - On the Brown History of European Dance by Amanda Piña © Tammo Walter

🙏L'Art Rue - الشارع فن
🙏 Sesc São Paulo
🙏Periferico Festival

25/09/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊
📅 27 & 28 September 2025
📍 臺北表演藝術中心 Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan

A solo figure stands at the edge of the stage, shifting silently from one pose to the next. Strength and vulnerability merge as Hassabi reveals what it means to be uncovered, to be on stage.
With her signature stillness, slowness, and precision, she invites us to witness images as they unfold — iconic and everyday, fragile and powerful.

On Stage is one of Maria Hassabi ‘s most radical and personal works: a feminist reflection and a piercing insight into her artistic trajectory.

📸 On Stage by Maria Hassabi. Performance at Kunstenfestivaldesarts , May 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Photo: Beniamin Boar

Next shows in Paris at Festival d'Automne à Paris on the 22, 23 and 24 October 💙

24/09/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓼 by 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐲𝐚𝐬
September 25 and 26, 2025
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore (SG)
Presented by Dance Nucleus
as part of the exhibition Vector #6: The Sound of Intimacy

Free of charge, registration is required: https://shorturl.at/vYAvX

In Voicing Pieces by Begüm Erciyas, one's own voice takes center stage. Within the solitude of the sound booth and guided by a basic score, the audience is invited to become a spectator of their own voice. This act of speaking and listening to one's own voice simultaneously is transformed into a theatrical and choreographic experience, reshaped with each individual's interpretation of the score. The voice becomes a platform for action, a spectacle, or a surprise. Is not one's own voice always a little uncanny and foreign? Who is speaking when one's own voice speaks? Rather than simply recognising oneself in a stranger, Voicing Pieces offers a chance to acknowledge the stranger within.

Begüm Erciyas (she/her) was involved in various dance projects in Turkey, while studying molecular biology and genetics in Ankara. Later, she studied choreography and is now living between Berlin and Brussels. Since 2015, Begüm has been developing transdisciplinary formats, which go beyond the frontal black box setting and which invite singular audience members to be alone with the work. The tension between isolation and togetherness is always a central topic. She also engages artistically with new technologies that define and challenge our sense of collectivity. Her work has been presented internationally in performing arts, music and visual arts contexts. Between 2021 and 2026, she is one of the house artists at DeSingel Antwerp.

📸 Begüm Erciyas - Voicing Pieces © Bea Borgers

23/09/2025

✨ SG Radio Show 002 is out now! ✨

In this second SG radio show, Rui takes the mic as host. First up: another exclusive DJ mix from our resident This DJ Is Wonderful. Then, a conversation with Bolivian choreographer Sharon Mercado Nogales, recorded during her residency at the SG Arts Centre in Ruhner Berge this summer. She speaks about Bolivian folklore dances and their ties to land and agriculture, her exploration of Technocumbia , and her work with the collective Moviendo Territorios , whose projects span greenhouses, solidarity, and community care — showing how art connects with everyday struggles and collective futures.

🎧 Listen now 👉 somethinggreat.de

📸 (1): Sharon Mercado Nogales by Inmensidades Fotografia
📸 (2) Sharon Mercado Nogales by Something Great
📸 (3) This DJ is Wonderful
📸 (4-8) Moviendo Territorios

19/09/2025

If you’re near Lyon, or attending the La Biennale de Lyon / Danse don’t miss out today and tomorrow Repertório N.2 by Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira 🔥 in the Panorama – Brasil Agora! programme at the Biennale.

📅 19 Sept, 18:00 & 20 Sept, 16:30
📍 Grand Hôtel-Dieu, Lyon

In this raw, ritualised performance work, movement becomes resistance. Repetition and imitation turn into tools of survival, and the body confronts violence and stigma with disarming honesty.

📸 Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira at the SG Arts Centre / Schloss Mentin, August 2025. Photos (c) Something Great.

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