Theater Forever: Woman Up!

Friday 6 February 2026

In Paradiso - Main Hall

Doors: 20:00, Main programme: 20:30

Summer Dance Forever is an international hiphop dance festival featuring a 7-day celebration each August, plus a more intimate Weekender every February. From 6–8 February, the SDF Weekender returns to Paradiso for an energetic three-day gathering of dancers and dance lovers, packed with battles, performances, club nights, and workshops. There is an affordable Weekender Package for sale (€51 online) that gives you access to the entire program from 6 February - 8 February, excluding the workshops.

If you stay at Paradiso after Theater Forever, you can attend the club night Afro Beats & Vibes for free, starting at 23:30 (if you leave Paradiso, you have to buy a separate ticket for this event!). Please note that our Club Nights are 18+.

Program is half seated, half standing

This evening, we rewrite the classic European image of womanhood through two choreographic feminist manifestos in Waacking and Vogue Fem! 'EVE88' by Emanuelle Soum (MaisonM) and 'Furiosa' by Viola Chiarini (Made in Whack) both reclaim the body as a site of resistance, transforming the stage into a space of reinvention shaped by movement, rage, femininity, and desire.

Please note: both performances include strobe lighting effects that may cause visual discomfort for some audience members.

Line-up

Main Hall

VIOLA CHIARINI: FURIOSA

In 'Furiosa', Italian choreographer Viola Chiarini gives form to a visceral, ancient anger inspired by the figure of Medea. With three performers, she explores the feverish physicality of Waacking, navigating between tension, pulsation, and liberation. Rage becomes an engine of creativity, an instinctive language, and a space of survival. Anger is transfigured into an uplifting force and a powerful celebration of the feminine in all its intensity.

FURIOSA

TEASER

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EMANUELLE SOUM: EVE88

What if Eve had never sinned? What if biting into the apple were a gesture of emancipation rather than a fall from grace? In 'EVE88', French dancer and choreographer Emanuelle Soum rewrites this foundational myth through a liberated physicality inspired by yoga, somatic practices, and Vogue Fem. Gestures shed aesthetic norms, and disobedience becomes an act of power. A celebration of the feminine as an intuitive, sacred, and plural force.

EVE88 - Maison M - Emanuelle Soum

Hip-Hop | moovance x IADU x La Villette

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How to get to Paradiso

Paradiso is on the Weteringschans 6-8 in Amsterdam. That is very close to Leidseplein. From every part of the city there are trams heading towards Leidseplein. From there on out you can walk to Paradiso. Free and secured underground bike parking is available on the opposite side of Paradiso. Travelling by car is difficult, since there are only a few busy parking lots nearby.

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