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Theatre tour Eefje de Visser: tears, looks of love and seated dancing
The music of Eefje de Visser comes in. In the silence of the theatre even more than in clubs, where enthusiastic fans sing along to her words out loud. One spotlight and her guitar, that's all this 26-year-old singer-songwriter needs to touch the room. I see tears, gazes of love and attempts at seated dancing during the official premiere of her theatre tour in the Melkweg.
Rutte 2: No real recovery holes, but different tone
There it is: the coalition agreement of the new cabinet of the man who previously managed to associate the terms 'subisidy slave' and 'empty halls' with the fine arts. The tone is different now, and we owe that to the input of the PvdA, just as earlier we apparently owed the sneering tone to Martin Bosma's PVV.
NFF - 'The rules of Matthijs' mandatory curriculum for emergency workers
The crop of feature-length documentaries screened at the Netherlands Film Festival is good. They are extraordinary stories, sometimes startling, sometimes penetrating, sometimes fodder for much discussion, and almost all very beautifully filmed. We wish the jury much wisdom. The nominated documentary 'The Rules of Matthijs' is interesting for everyone, but should be compulsory reading for social workers,...
Milestone in sight
We slaan onszelf eigenlijk nooit op de borst, maar zo eens in de zoveel jaar mag het. Wanneer je bijvoorbeeld binnen een uur ’top story’ bent op de wereldwijde twitterverhalenwebsite ‘storify.com’. We hebben natuurlijk wel vaker een plotselinge bezoekerstoeloop, en zeker afgelopen september was met 15000 bezoekers een topmaand, maar zoiets, meer dan 500 bezoekers in niet eens een uur…
Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music
What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...
Halbe Zijlstra: 'nothing to do with local arts policy'
Halbe Zijlstra is proud of his policy, and keen to come and tell it in front of the entire cultural sector. So on Sunday 26 August, he appeared on stage during the annual 'Paradiso Debate' to reiterate how well things had gone with the 200 million cut in the arts sector. He praised the resilience of the affected art world, and would be happy to do the same again.
Stories to be proud of. Young new Dutch people and the Community Arts Project 'Ik ben Hier' #vvu
Documentary filmmakers Femke Stroomer and Sanne Sprenger will make two films in the coming year with two classes of the International Switching Class (ISK) entitled Me am here.
Culture Council hands out in second round
Yet money for the National Academy of Visual Arts, money for an orchestra merger in the south of the Netherlands and 4.7 million for a knowledge institute for amateur art. The clear-cutting of the Dutch cultural sector has become a little less extreme thanks to a second advice from the Council for Culture. Besides the aforementioned positive assessment, there is also money for a knowledge institute for the creative sector
Europese bezuinigingskaart raakt vol
The Guardian, de krant die voorop loopt met crowdsoursing, heeft een interactieve kaart beschikbaar gesteld waarop de bezuinigingen op cultuur zichtbaar zijn die regeringen in heel Europa doorvoeren. Dat Nederland voorop loopt, weten we al, maar in Spanje gaat het ook niet best, zoals we hadden kunnen verwachten. Je kunt zelf meewerken aan de opbouw van de kaart, en dat…
Halbe Zijlstra should fund Culture Card after all.
It was the issue on which he lied the hardest, as we demonstrated a year ago, but the country's most hated secretary of state did not care. Despite its great success, the culture card for schoolchildren had to be killed off, and on spurious grounds. Now the card has been saved by the chamber. A majority voted in favour of a motion by CDA and PvdA,...
Strauss with muscle by Gustavo Dudamel, the sizzling South American. #hf12
The young conductor of Venezuelan descent brought his Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra to the Concertgebouw for the final concert of the Holland Festival last night for the first time. While Hollanders braved the tropical weather in the corridors, Venezuelan beauties walked to the stage vivaciously on their stilettos. After Máxima and Willem-Alexander had also taken their seats on the balcony, Gustavo Dudamel came dancing down the stairs.
"Why Wagner is beautiful? Give me an hour to explain that. At least..." #HF12
Daniel Bertina took a look around the Oosterpark in Amsterdam with his iPhone, where thousands of people attended the live broadcast of the opera Parsifal, Monday 25 June 2012.
"Janine Dijkmeijer to National Ballet"
The message below has since been confirmed. But we like to cherish our firsts. Hence. Of course, the merger event in and around Amsterdam's Muziektheater, where ballet, opera and theatre will work in unison, also produced a game of musical chairs. Stijn Schoonderwoerd, for instance, announced a month or so ago that he was going to do something else, and so the Dutch National Ballet was looking...
Less is more? No, less is FAR too much, by Michael Nyman's Potemkin. #hf12
Two days later... Sometimes you don't quite know what to write: even reviewers have writer's block from time to time. Fortunately, Jenny Diski of London Review of Books published a blog just Friday about the functionality of not being able to write (yet). Apparently, more time was needed. Anyway, at some point you have to tie the knot. ...
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