Biotope in collaboration with Teater Fluks

Festuge Festival - Old Slaughter house
Aarhus/Denmark

august 28-29-30, 2025

During the last week of Janauary 2025, we were in Aarhus Denmark, to host workshops in preparation of a monumental biotope that will be build and performed at  Aarhus Festuge. In collaboration with Rasmus M.L. Skov, Sarah Fink Søndergaard and Michelle Bach from Teater Fluks, we put together a beautiful group for this occasion, consisting of partly United Cowboys' dancers and performers, and partly Danish, that were selected form the workshops.

The Biotope* will be performed at The Old Slaughter House, a location situated near Sandhaven - an area in full development as new a cultural hotspot.

*In the last years, United Cowboys has built 18 biotopes in 10 different countries

Concept and Artistic Management: United Cowboys | Direction and Scenery: Maarten van der Put | Live sound scapes: Pauline Roelants
Created with- and performed by: Florencia Martina, Jef Stevens, Conor Doherty, Hanne Schillemans en guest performers Anders Freestone, Marta Pajares, Lucas Kruse, Anne-Sofie Pi Carlsen, Nana Anine Jorgensen and Rasmus M.L.Skov

Thorny Rose Hedge - GothenbUrg Fringe Festival

Theater Trixter - Gothenburg / Sweden
septEMBER 3 & 4, 2025 (3 performances)

Within the frame of our International Promotion Tour (supported by Dutch Performing Arts - FPK) we will perform a solo* - duration version of Sleeping Beauty on September  3 - 4 during the 10th anniversary of the Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2025. The performance will be shown under the title Thorny Rose Hedge - the title of one of the first versions of Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.  
*with interventions by Florencia Maritna 

United Cowboys has re-created two ballet classics in the last three years: The Swanlake and The Nutcracker; ballets that are both originally based on the music of Tsjaikovski. These monumental productions were created by invitation at the State Theater Kassel (DE).

To round-up the Tsjaikovski’s trilogy, United Cowboys decided to create an intimate, personal yet monumental performance based on the Sleeping Beauty. Under the title Thorny Rose Hedge – History of the Times gone, United Cowboys will artistically explore the soIeness and romantic notions of a rose against the unexpected harshness of its thorns. These are contradictions and contrasts United Cowboys can and seeks to work with.

The subtitle History of the Times Gone relates to the human need to be in the moment, to reflect and to be more radical in present times.

Conor Doherty; a very experienced, talented, beautiful, strong, yet vulnerable dancer / performer, who has been connected to United Cowboys for many years, has happily accepted our invitation to become our very own Sleeping Beauty.

Creation: United Cowboys
Live-Music: Pauline Roelants / Live Camera: Maarten van der Put
Performed by: Connor Doherty, Florencia Martina

Another Sleeping Beauty - History of the times gone

Parktheater - Philipszaal
Eindhoven / Netherlands
September 29-30, 2025

As repertory company of Parktheater, United Cowboys is regularly invited to take over the Philipszaal of the theatre to create and present special performances. The possibilities of this multi-functional space are happily taken advantage of. The ballet, originally created for the music of Tchaikovski will be re-framed in poetic images and strong physical language, audiences most likely know from United Cowboys. Another Sleeping Beauty translates the fairy tale into this day and age: a deep-sleep in which the alternation between reality and truth will bring the viewer into another dimension. United Cowboys has re-created two classics in ballet in the last 3 years: Swanlake and The Nutcracker; ballets that both are originally based on the music of Tsjaikovski. These monumental productions - Reminition Swanlake and The Nutcracker - were created on invitation by the director dance of Tanz_Kassel of the State Theater Kassel (DE).

With Sleeping Beauty as starting point, United Cowboys finishes her trilogy around Tsjaikovski and bundles her iconic approach into an intimate, personal, yet monumental experience: Another Sleeping Beauty.

INFORMATION & TICKETS

More performances scheduled 2026:
March 14, 2026 Verkadefabriek Den Bosch
May 8, 2026 State Theatre Kassel (DE); reprise season 2026-2027

ALL OF US - DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2025
EINDHOVEN - ART HOUSE UNITED COWBOYS

October 18-26, 2025

OPENING NIGHT October 18

During this year’s edition of the Dutch Design Week United Cowboys participates yet again as one of the main locations of the largest design events of Northern Europe. We presents a 9-day, curated exhibition and program under the Title ALL OF US - consisting of a wide range of conceptional work - design, installations, performances - by local and international visiting designers. The works presented have a strong focus on how humans are so different, yet so alike. ALL OF US encourages individuality and identity within the aim of generosity and solidarity. 

Free entrance for all DDW ticket holders.
General opening hours: Daily 11am-6pm
Opening Night: October 18
Seasoning Fall Special Edition: October 24 & 25 (see more below)
More infos HERE.

SEASONING FALL - SPECIAL EDITION DUTCH DESIGN WEEK

ART HOUSE UNITED COWBOYS
OCTOBER 24 & 25

During the second weekend of DDW, Seasoning Fall will take place. 

Every change of the season United Cowboys invites audiences to witness new developments in the field of live-art.  Local, national and international guest artists develop and show their new work and research in a transdisciplinary program. An artistic dialogue with dance, music, performance and fine arts, in which physicality predominates.

The upcoming special edition of Seasoning Fall will show a line-up of work in development, placed in an international context of performances. The program is being curated by the artistic team of United Cowboys: Maarten van der Put en Pauline Roelants.

Amongst others, Seasoning Fall presents the durational piece:
Boys Just Want to Have Fun by ILDance (Sweden) is a durational multi-disciplinary dance-performance-art piece of 6 to 8 hours presenting in white exhibition/gallery spaces. The work explores deconstruction of masculinity and challenges taboos surrounding male sensuality and sexuality  within mainstream Western culture. 
Supported by Perform Europe.

More artist to be announced soon…

TICKETS HERE
(DDW ticket holders receive student discount)