Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Every September, Amsterdam Fringe Festival presents an 11-day mixmash of theatre, performance, and dance by new, emerging, and untamed talent.
We showcase a multidisciplinary programme featuring over 54 makers and groups from diverse backgrounds, origins, and futures. Our festival is a safe haven for experimentation, providing a stage for new creators and unheard stories. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is an ode to theatrical madness, the independent spirit, and a plea for artistic freedom. It is a warm, intimate embrace of true experimentation: one whose outcome can genuinely surprise you.
The entire city is our playground; from gardens to bars to theatres, from North to South, you’ll find us at around 22 locations across Amsterdam for 11 days.
10... 9... Imagine this: for once, you could travel to space. 8... 7... And imagine your deceased father was there too. 6... 5... What would you see? 4... 3... What would you feel? 2... And what would you say? 1... 0... ignition... lift-off...
Imagine that after we die, we live on ‘among the stars’. In The Impossible Astronaut, Astrid Klein Haneveld takes her audience on a journey through space filled with grief and science fiction, in search of her late father.
This solo dance theatre performance blends the imagination of iconic sci-fi films like Star Wars and the series Doctor Who with childhood memories and personal stories. With The Impossible Astronaut, Astrid seeks to create recognition, acknowledgment, and connection for grieving young adults and those who, like herself, lost a parent at a young age.
Astrid Rozemarijn Klein Haneveld (1997, Netherlands) is a dancer/choreographer and dramaturg. Her work focuses on the physical translation of emotion, memory, and personal experience. Astrid creates from an autobiographical approach, aiming to make these stories tangible and deeply felt by the audience. The Impossible Astronaut is her debut as a solo maker, in which she shares her personal experiences with grief after losing her father at the age of eight.
Astrid graduated in 2019 from the Modern Dance Theatre programme at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts and obtained her Master of Arts in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy from Utrecht University in 2022. She has worked as a dancer in projects by Sita Ostheimer, Justin de Jager, and Guilherme Miotto. In 2024, she created and performed in PUINHOOP for Café Theater Festival and was Maker in Residence at Production House Nowhere, where she developed The Impossible Astronaut. Alongside her stage work, Astrid is active in the theatre sector as a programmer, engages with social safety, feminism, and activism, and works towards the sector’s future as a board member of Ensemble Nieuwe Theaterwerkers.
Concept, text, choreography & performance: Astrid Rozemarijn Klein Haneveld
Music composition: Clara Cozzolino
Costume design: Marit Adriaanse
Campaign image: May van den Heuvel
Stage photography: Job Hulsebosch
Final direction/dramaturgical advice: Nilay Ceber
Special thanks to: Ylja Band & Bart Merks
Made possible by: Olland Buisman Stichting, Simon & Theresia Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts & Production House Nowhere
