Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the hardliner Onno Hoes, who works as the mayor of Maastricht. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days on Friday evening, 7 October, he expressed the new credo of the steeled body culture thus:
"Dance as a cultural form, but also as a 's...
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