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BEST RELATED SECRET #1: Susanne Marx, Karin Spaink and Girl Loos in Eastern Bloc

by Fransien van der Putt
20 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Susanne Marx is at Oostblok, the former Muiderpoort theatre in Amsterdam, for two days with the performance 'Girl Loos'. You could call 'Meisje Loos' a critical family performance: for young and old, about growing up and playing with obligatory roles, male-female, white-black, dancer-rapper, harp or beatbox. Genderbending as a theme for the whole family, with a fringe programme featuring Karin Spaink, Linda Duits, Machteld Zee, Rickie Edens and Alex Bakker perform and engage in conversation.

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Isabella Rosselini is endearing with her animal stuff. 4 missed opportunities in Bestiaire d'amour at @hollandfestival

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Every Holland Festival there is at least 1 performance which a lot of people wonder why it is programmed. This year, that honour falls to 'Bestiaire d'Amour' by and starring Isabella Rosselini. We take a moment to look for answers.

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7 confusing reasons why the stage version of The Fountainhead rattles, but you should still go.

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Topical again, now that Toneelgroep Amsterdam is reviving the play, my review from 2014. This week, the stage adaptation of The Fountainhead premiered. The book is terrible, the performance rattles, the actors win only narrowly. The content, however, creates even more confusion, which is why I won't stop you from going to see it. And Hans Kesting, of course. I put it this way.

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Disappointed dinner guests get money back. Yummy gesture from the Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 June 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Visitors to the film Napoleon, last Sunday at Ziggo Dome, who had thought of booking dinner at one of the intervals, will get their money back. This was decided by the Holland Festival after a commotion arose on the internet, and beyond, about the caterer's lousy service, and the rather poor quality of what was on offer. Visitor Marc Veerkamp said the following on facebook:

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Wandering through the dunes with literature @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
18 June 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, THEATER

Literature is starting to conquer its place at Oerol, which makes sense because poetry and prose are everywhere. The landscape inspires writers and poets to write beautiful texts and at the same time, through literature, visitors take in the environment in a poetic way. What forms of literature can you encounter on Terschelling?

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National Ballet performs enchanting Tempest

by Thea Derks
18 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC

To commemorate the 450th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Krzysztof Pastor created a full-length choreography for the National Ballet, loosely based on The Tempest (1611). The performance is part of the Holland Festival. Dramaturge Willem Bruls adapted Shakespeare's last play about the prince Prospero, exiled to an island, and his daughter Miranda into a script in which the story is told four times, from as many perspectives. The result is ...

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78 M€ download damage and 6 more things I learned about copyright

by Leo Bankersen
18 June 201429 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

78 Million euros is the turnover lost by the film and DVD industry in the Netherlands due to illegal downloading. This was recently announced in a press release. Yesterday, it was also one of the topics at a discussion afternoon organised by Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) on copyright developments.

Once upon a time, in the book age, everything was simple. Now, in the image and internet world, everyone is mad at each other, says copyright expert Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm. An ini...

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Two weeks with feet in the sand @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
17 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Experience is unnecessary and there is no upper age limit. At Sharon Fridman, professional dancers and amateurs dance together to create a performance on the beach. Daily guests can also learn about the dance routine.

Bare feet, windswept faces and a tired sigh here and there. The twenty dancers of Caída Libre are debriefing in the tent on the beach. These are not only the five professional dancers of Compania Sharon Fridman, but also 15 'guests' like...

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Alain Platel deals firm death blow to traditionalists in #hollandfestival

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Talent alone won't get you there. You also need a bit of luck. That luck happened to Alain Platel so often by now that you almost start doubting your own wickedness. Still. Those who not only count a composer like Fabrizio Cassol among their friends, but who also gave singing prodigy Serge Kakudji a chance, deserve a bit of luck. What the trio has now achieved with 13 musicians from Kinshasa is downright revolutionary. And a death knell for those who believe d...

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Bitter tears, screaming loneliness. Kušej does Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
16 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Nice 'old-fashioned' Holland Festival: a special set-up that confronts the audience with the implications of their own position and viewing behaviour. And that's just as well with Fassbinder's 'Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'. Melodrama was no stranger to the German theatre and film wizard. The bitter tears are of a fashion queen and her entourage, clinical is the setting, wafer-thin the story, and yet unusually exciting how this lady drama develops.

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Tis Pity! Holland Festival brings the best show to the smallest audience.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Language is music. Sometimes we forget that. Then we think language is a way of conveying objective meanings. Kind of silly. Language is food for all the senses. No strumming is needed under that. That's pure opera without embellishments. The English-language performance 'tis Pity she's a whore' I saw at the Holland Festival yesterday proves that. Even if you don't understand the seventeenth-century phrases, it is a joy to listen to.

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Warhorse is almost perfect: 6 reasons to go. Or stay away.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Saturday, June 14, went off in a flood of evening gowns, dinner jackets, Dutch celebrities and Gooische Tanks War Horse premiered. A play about a war in which the Netherlands was neutral, and of which there are memorial stones in every village in the rest of the world. You can go and see it. Or not. We have listed six arguments.

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'I did not have sexual relations with that woman', no way: surprising Don Juan at Theaterschip Deventer

by Henri Drost
15 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, OPERA

In an immaculate virginal white uniform, Don Juan gives a slick press conference for his wedding to Elvira. We hear the famous words with which Bill Clinton denied the Lewinsky affair. Actor Ischa den Blanken's grin speaks volumes when he says: 'These allegations are false.' We know: he is lying.

Or is it?

Clinton's statement ended in a heated debate about what exactly should be understood by 'sexual relations'. In Really Not! too, everything is not...

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Hunting for art in the Bijlmer with Google Maps

by Daniel Bertina
14 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL

After co-organising FATFORM, a radical series of art events in Amsterdam Zuidoost - with ferocious crossover exhibitions and performances on the rooftops of an abandoned shopping centre and a parking garage, the collective around creative production agency Vinger.nl has thrown itself into the new edition of the Open Art Route 2014. And it will be something.

Visiting on the weekend of 21 and 22 June, the Open Art Route is an open studio tour of five (!) major art incubators in the Bijlme...

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On M2M and genius theatre makers who completely miss the mark

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, THEATER

One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is fantastic, or dies of its own pretensions. With Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m), the latter is the case.

In 2012, I saw an earlier performance by dancer/choreographer Trajal Harrell, titled (M)imosa. A fascinating, disruptive and be...

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Ragged ritual defies permanent display: Germaine Kruip at the Stedelijk @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
11 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

"You know ma'am, that big red painting? Turn right before that". A young attendant shows us the way. At first glance, it's nothing. A man in semi-uniform, black trousers, white shirt, slowly turns on his axis. Sol Lewitt's mural, number 1084 from 2003, lends him the necessary decorum. Around the corner hang Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol. Would the man care? In this 'hall of fame' of conceptual art, the man's spinning stands out somewhat timidly. Some...

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Dance course explodes. Sudden vacancy management dance course Royal Conservatoire

by Ruben Brugman
11 June 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

The dance course at The Hague Conservatory of Music has exploded. Sort of. Nancy Euverink, director of dance education is in fact stepping down from the Royal Conservatoire (KC). And not only that. Deputy director Tom Bosma is not staying on either. Who will take over after the final performances and in the new season is still unclear. An international vacancy has been posted.

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Zinging: Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch

by Thea Derks
11 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Jubilation and cheers echoed last night in the sold-out Great Hall of the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ after the Dutch premiere of Delusion of the Fury of Harry Partch at the Holland Festival. No wonder, as the performance directed by Heiner Goebbels was titillating and the performance by the - conductorless - MusikFabrik perfect.

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4 ways to quiet a room: Jelinek strikes at Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 June 20142 April 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's trip will go to India and Nepal. Because that seemed nice to him. Visitors to the Dutch premiere of Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlene were looking forward to the summer. Next year they would visit a friend in Vietnam. Little hassle to get a visa. As a white European, the whole world is yours. You can go anywhere. The man did not realise how privileged he was.

Then the hall lights went out and suddenly there were all these people on the stage without visas or residence permits....

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3 reasons why Orlando has been sold out for weeks and 3 reasons why that is justified

by Henri Drost
10 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

Even before the Holland Festival had begun properly, all tickets for the three performances of Handel's Orlando sold. What a crisis. However, it is not hard to guess why.

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4 faces of Abel Gance, creator of Napoleon

by Leo Bankersen
10 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Holland Festival presents Abel Gance's restored film epic on Sunday Napoleon, with live orchestra. A rare event, for the first time in this form on mainland Europe. In 1927, Gance had performed with Napoleon delivered a groundbreaking and monumental piece of work that made unusual demands on the projection (three canvases) and went out into the world in a variety of severely shortened versions after the first performances.

Napoleon at Ziggo Dome promises to be spectacular, but who was That ambitious loner Abel Gance?

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Art training no return? It's just what your goal is.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In school, we used to have a very good way to check the quality of wine: the yield. Wine with 14% alcohol was better than wine with 12% alcohol. After all, the goal was clear: to get drunk. Wine of 14% was more effective at that. So we preferred to drink wine with a yield of at least 14%.

The Court of Audit has now calculated the return on investment of all kinds of studies. What turns out? An economics degree gives a higher return than an art degree, or a philo...

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Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

by Henri Drost
8 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

After partially or even completely unsuccessful productions of Falstaff, De Nationale Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.

And that for a dramatic comedy, a genre that is notoriously difficult to stage. All too often, the opera about the old, fat knight Sir John Falstaff, for whom life revolves around eating, drinking...

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Subsidy goes mostly to the rich. Thanks to austerity.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Dutch museums do not pay for the art they present. Cable companies stick money from writers in their own pockets. Spreading new journalism platforms without permission and without paying the work of small independents. Libraries are closing down, and are being replaced by private libraries or school libraries.

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Tonight we listen to the voice of god

by Daniel Bertina
6 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Like many of my contemporaries, I have played Jeff Buckley's CDs grey, but know next to nothing about Pakistani Sufi music. Except that it's great. And that Abida Parveen is the queen of that genre. Tonight, this Voice of God and her ensemble are on stage at the National Opera & Ballet.

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