30 theatres in The Netherlands and 2 in Belgium are part of the network of Stichting Raamwerk. You can find their names on the right site of this page, click on Ledenoverzicht.

The Foundation stimulates the presentation of international performances in The Netherlands and Belgium with financial contributions for international scouting and international tours.

Raamwerk works as an intermediate between agencies, producers and the theatres that are part of the Raamwerk network. Raamwerk takes an active role in facilitating and stimulating that theatres continue to program (more) international performances.

Raamwerk stimulates that programmers visit productions abroad, by providing information about interesting shows and contributing to travel costs and hotel accommodation.

At home, we organize discussions about urgent topics concerning the programming of international shows.

Recent tours Raamwerk has supported directly:

Italian choreographer Giulio d’Anna with his dance performance Parkin’son.

Cirque Inextremiste with Extrêmités (France).

Trygve Wakenshaw with his physical comedy Squidboy.

Catalan group Agrupación Señor Serrano with the visual performance A House in Asia.

German photographer Volker Gerling with Portraits in Motion.

Gravity & Other Myths and their circus production A Simple Space has been financially and promotionally supported by Raamwerk.

The programmers of the theatres decide independently. The Raamwerk website, newsletters and meetings help them to make a choice. The private part of the website functions as a platform where the board and programmers share their reviews about performances they have seen.

What Raamwerk has to offer to international festivals, producers and companies:

The programmers prefer to see your performance live to get the best impression and to judge if this would work for their audience and fit into their theatre.

Ellen Blom is the coordinator of the network. She makes a selection of all shows available. You can send your information and agenda about upcoming activities to her, so she can inform the programmers.

The Raamwerk programmers have a preference for (mostly) nonverbal shows: dance, visual theatre, puppetry, circus or interdisciplinary forms.

contact: ellenblom@stichtingraamwerk.nl