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Exhibit B confronts with probing glimpses @hollandfestival

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A sociable group of ladies who came in laughing and chatting, leave the room bewildered and tearful. Upset, embarrassed, this is how I see all visitors coming out. What is hard to describe in words is written on their faces. Exhibit ...

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Chilean IK generation seeks revolutionary art at @hollandfestival

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Six actors, four years in a bunker. One is dead. Those are the details we have to make do with in Tratando de hacer una obra que cambie el mundo. According to this title, the actors are trying to create a play that will change the world. The characters have locked themselves away in an underground bunker and receive occasional provisions via a packet.

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First children's book ambassador @jacques_vriens on the breach for reading pleasure: 'Frighteningly few Dutch children enjoy reading'

Since two months, the successful children's book author Jacques Vriens can call himself the first Children's Book Ambassador of the Netherlands. For much longer, he has been doing all he can to increase children's reading pleasure. International research shows that only ten percent of Dutch children really enjoy reading. That is shockingly little.'

His theatre production Hoe verzint-ie het toch allemaal? recently added a new scene. Vriens hangs his special children's...

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Peter Blok does a Don Draper

Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men.... 

Dutch dance acrobats stand a chance at final Britain's got talent

The booking agency is sending around enthusiastic emails, and some British newspapers don't seem to like it, But still. Martin and Mariëlle are through to the semi-finals of the ITV show Britain's Got Talent. And that seems to be quite an achievement. Judge for yourself.... You can log in now to continue reading! Welcome to the Culture Press archive! As a member, you have... 

No work by Kylián at NDT: a masterstroke?

The announced change of direction at NDT is keeping minds busy. Starting with Den Haag Centraal, to the Volkskrant to Cultureel Persbureau and today Theatererkrant.nl.

@tmtheatrenews: At the request v Jirí Kylián, Ned. Dans Theater will no longer perform choreographies v him for 3 years from Sept 2014." Huh, what?

- Esther Kleuver (@estherkleuver) 10 May 2013
 
Oh dear. Read in Den Haag Centraal: the Nederlands Dans Theater may not accept any work by Jiri K...

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Culture Council delights ministers with nice note

On Friday 12 April, there will be a 'Film Summit' at Eye, Amsterdam. Government, producers and financiers will spend a day there discussing what needs to be done to help the Dutch film industry get through the winter. This Film Summit came at the request of filmmakers, who hope for a Dutch variant of the 'tax shelter'. Such a tax measure makes it a lot more attractive for financiers to put money into films. In Belgium, very nice Dutch films have been made for a while, such as e.g. ...

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Cronyism at Codarts: 175000 euros.

That things were not going well at Codarts, the Rotterdam School of the Arts, was already known. Board chairman Jikkie van der Giessen had to step down in 2011 after a cesspool of malversations, nepotism and suspicions of outright fraud had opened. The case was already largely settled, but the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's inspectorate still wanted to know how much money was involved. Well: 175,000 euros was what the case cost: 25,370 euros unlawfully, and 150,000 euros un...

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Roland Sohier: 'I push boundaries and sow unrest'

Not miffy herself, but her mischievous and challenging cousins are at the centre of artist Roland Sohier's exhibition At miffy's attic. In the dick bruna house, he created an exciting attic where in every nook and cranny there is something to discover about this intriguing family of rabbits and hares. Think Roger Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Playboy Bunny and Brother Rabbit.

With sloping walls, a slide, viewing boxes, a mezzanine floor where only children can stand and a clothing...

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Thirty thousand euros for young top talents

The concentration is enormous, the mastery great. The boys and girls standing here dancing can do something. The apparent ease with which these 12-year-olds demonstrate their dance moves shows at the same time how difficult ballet is. After all, the movements have to be performed perfectly, and splashily. Moreover, of this group, only a few will make it to the world's top: The National Ballet. Students of the... 

'Everyone is happy to be part of something so beautiful.' Stut Choir and Irish performers sing together for the first time. #vvu

Radiant faces and swinging bodies filled the Utrecht Stut Choir's rehearsal room in Overvecht on Sunday. For the first time, the members collaborated with Irish singer Lorna McLaughlin of The Henry Girls and conductors Neil Burns and Anna Nolan of the Inishowen Gospel Choir. On 21 June, the two choirs will join the three Henry Girls sisters on stage at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.

In high concentration, the group practises the subdued song 'Home' by The Henry Girls, only to ...

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Culture Council with two new women on business tour.

Two new members of the Council for Culture are once again showing how thinking about art is changing: Jessica Mahn and Annick Schramme are women, which was necessary in this white male stronghold, but they are mostly business-minded. Mahn is a partner at global player KPMG, Schramme is a professor at the University of Antwerp and specialises in Culture Management.

The council, once established as an advisory board in which mostly people from the art world itself zi...

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Film project makes lives of ISK students visible: 'That's my grandmother, that's my heart'

Treaty of Utrecht Munira has written a letter in Somali. Before reading it out in her own language, she has to say something about it in Dutch.
Another student interviews her and asks who the letter is for.
Munira: 'It's a letter for my grandmother.'
Classmate: 'What does it say?'
Munira: 'I love you dear grandma. I miss you.'
Classmate: 'Why your grandmother?....

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Mini festival of extremes at Nederlands Dans Theater's young guard

ADVERTORIAL They could hardly be further apart. Alexander Ekman and Sharon Eyal both make dance pieces, and are both children of Nederlands Dans Theater, but that's about where the similarities end. The new programme of NDT2, the young makers' house of the internationally leading dance company from The Hague, features world premieres of new w...

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Crystal Pite: 'The most exciting choreographer on the planet'

Advertorial Mysterious shadows. Puppets controlled by dozens of invisible hands and music that emphasises the very silence. An evening with Crystal Pite is an adventurous journey into the unknown regions of our imagination. On 7 February 2013, Nederlands Dans Theater will present two pieces by this Canadian choreographer: a reprise of the 2008 piece Frontier and a n...

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Utrecht deploys army at opening of festive year

200 military personnel and JunkieXL are expected to cause a spectacle on the A2 motorway near Utrecht on 13 April. The roof of the new tunnel trench will be the stage for a battle of medieval proportions, in which peace will be conquered by our army over something with a wall and 'war' on it.

It has to be big, that much is clear. To add to the atmosphere, spectators will also be transported by army truck from the centre of Utrecht to the performance area.

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Theatres take matters into their own hands

As the government has killed the entire circuit of production houses and further education, seven theatres have jumped into the gap. They are joining forces to enable a number of 'young' makers to still develop their work. By buying a number of performances in advance and making a small development budget available, the seven of them can put two makers to work per season.

It involves The Rotterdam Theatre, Frascati in Amsterdam

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'Anti-Greek' facade banner Theatre Frog destroyed after protests

We received this via Facebook: "During the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 January at 1.30am, a group of about seven young men destroyed a large canvas hanging on the facade of Theater Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which had a size of about 7 by 7 metres, referred to the Greek flag and served as an announcement of the project 'De NUTtige Winkel, Greece in de uitverkoop' that the Utrechts Toneel is performing at Theater Kikker from 8 to 26 January. The poli...

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Disbanded Tilburg dance innovators go into fitness for parkinson's patients

Sat another note in the post. One of many, these weeks. About a club that had only just been set up by the government. With the accompanying millions, which because of the PVV's vindictiveness have now been dumped in the local ditch. Its creators have already found a new purpose for themselves a few months ago: to improve the well-being of Parkinson's patients. But Dance House Station South is now thus a thing of the past. We quote:

Another necro. Sort of: Theatre Institute Netherlands to continue as TIN Foundation

We are just reporting the press release in full. For your information. Every now and then, more news like this comes along. We don't post them all, because that would make the world very bleak. The world as many people knew it, and thought it was the pride of the Netherlands, is coming to a squeaking halt to make room for. Well. We will report on that in the years to come. Of what comes in its place.
Theatre Institute Netherlands to be dismantled from 31 December ...

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