World premieres at the Holland Festival

In less than a month and a half, the Holland Festival will burst into life at 16 venues in Amsterdam and 1 in The Hague. This year, 10 co-productions will have their world premiere. From major international productions with themes like ecology and female autonomy, to a first meeting between two artists admiring each other's work. We list them for you:...

Dance

• Welcome to Asbestos Hall by Trajal Harrell and his dancers is a project in which they transform Likeminds into a space for experimentation and development.
• New to the Holland Festival is the HF Lab, which actively involves young people in the festival. This year, 15 young people will work together with DEGASTEN create a performance based on Harrell's work. 
• Study for Life, the collaboration between choreographer Tero Saarinen and Asko|Schönberg to music by Kaija Saariaho, makes everyone move.

Music and musical theatre

• Forty musicians from different cultures are on stage together for the first time with the Atlas Orchestra, Initiated by Joël Bons.
• At Forbidden Echoes will have its world premiere, alongside Hani Mojtahedy's existing song cycle, a new work for Ney, Iranian percussion and strings by Nader Adabnejad.
• One Ocean is a new project in which artists from Pacific and Indian Ocean islands pay tribute to the resilience of their culture.
• Otemba - Daring Women, the musical theatre performance composed by Misato Mochizuki, is based on the painting Portrait by Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their two daughters Catharina and Hester, the enslaved Surapati and an enslaved woman (Batavia, 1665) by Jacob Coeman.
• Ring of our Timeis an epic, ecological story for the 21st century, in which myths, rituals and music of five civilisations meet.
• In the residency of jazz pianist Craig Taborn at the BIMhuis, he will collaborate with local musicians. He will also engage in an improvisational blind date with Trajal Harrell in Welcome to Asbestos Hall in which both respond to each other.

Theatre 

• The seasons by Het Nationale Theater directed by Eric de Vroedt is an adaptation of Ali Smith's books about the seasons, nature, Brexit, and the comfort of unexpected encounters.