Cinedans festival: the images move. So.
Fransien van der Putt, dance expert from Culture Press, and Helen Westerik, film expert, attended the opening of Film Festival Cinedans and were amused, but not always by the programme.
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Underdog Argo winner at the Oscars
The big story of the 2013 Oscars, of course, is how underdog Argo eventually surpassed initially-dead favourite Lincoln. When Sunday night Ben Affleck picked up the statuette for best film, he did so not as director but as producer. He wasn't even nominated for the Oscar for best director, and that comes with a film that...
'A lot of art is too much about pleasing'
It started with an email out of the blue. Artist Joncquil had Googled my website and was struck by the name. I myself had almost forgotten how I had ever come up with the name, Joy of Irony: a song by the legendary, highly underrated English noise/metal band Fudge Tunnel. Joncquil came to my site because of his expo at the time, Himmel und Joy. He had read some of my pieces and introduced himself. Maybe one day we could have coffee to talk a bit about art.
Thus it happened.
Dutch dance audience chooses Belgian dance
The Dutch Dance Audience Award 2012 was awarded on Saturday 9 February 2013 to the Belgian performance Et Après By Isabelle Beernaert. During the festive ceremony on the closing night of The Hague CaDance Festival, awards were also presented to
Choreographer Cecilia Moisio: scared to death of the 1950s
''You would think: women are emancipated. But people long for the clichés and prejudices about women from the 1950s again. If you dress super-feminine, you get whistled at like a dog. But how should
Crystal Pite: 'The most exciting choreographer on the planet'
Advertorial Mysterieuze schaduwen. Poppen, bestuurd door tientallen onzichtbare handen en muziek die juist de stilte benadrukt. Een avond met Crystal Pite is een avontuurlijke reis naar de onbekendere regionen van onze verbeelding. Op 7 februari 2013 brengt
Only in final scene does Guillaume Tell bathe in golden sunlight
After more than four hours, it happens: emotion. Free Switzerland is bathed in golden sunlight and the choir swells over the most beautiful orchestral sounds Rossini composed. Unworldly sounds, which have little to do with the best-known sounds from Guillaume Tell - The canter from the overture.
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.
'Mogadishu' fits into zeitgeist of moral confusion
Ooit was gesubsidieerd theater een linkse hobby. Inmiddels zijn we twee jaar verder, en heeft het gesubsidieerde theater zich zonder enige moeite gevoegd naar de heersende, veel rechtsere trend.
'Jeremiah Runnels expelled for stunt': hoax by Brussen&Co
UPDATE 17:45 Thanks to Dimitri van der Werf (in the comments) The composer in question does have to leave the country, but not because of this stunt, but because he did not fulfil his reporting obligation, which he
'Oh, it's being torn apart a bit' #wu13
At 1 strip or 1,000 words blogger and columnist Peter Breedveld spoke to three influential illustrators, Barbara Stok, Peter van Dongen and Thé Tjong-Khing using projected images from their beautiful work. The relaxed conversation was a breath of fresh air among the other ferocious debating violence at the festival.
Blogging vs demons #wu13
"We don't use social media because it's cool," says Tunisian internet activist Sami Ben Gharbia. "But in a dictatorship, it is the only way to inform people about what is really going on. To fight the demons in society. I am not a techny Became because it's fun. I just needed useful knowledge about internet codes, to improve my civic activism possible."
Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13
John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mainly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in
'For me, only the text exists' - Alberto Manguel & Hans Goedkoop on black pages #wu13
Met een bomvol programma zoals Writers Unlimited 2013 wil het wel eens gebeuren dat je, ook als professioneel journalist, ondanks alles toch ergens té laat komt binnenvallen, en dan nog net een glimp opvangt van iets heel moois. In dit geval, na de krachttoer van Amos Oz en Adriaan van Dis, was dat het spoken word optreden van de Keniaanse Ngwatilo Mawiyoo. Mea culpa daarvoor.
Does it luckily still involve sex on #wu13
How many male genitals Yasmine Allas had weighed in her hand. For a while, that was the question during Writers Unlimited's most shameless programme to date. This latenight talk show addressed the question of how shameless writers actually dare to be these days. Kristien Hemmerechts, always good for a few firm statements, met her peers in
A lot of Oz & a little Van Dis on impossible dreams and ideals #wu13
Tijdens de aftrap van Winternacht 1 bracht publicist Bas Heijne de twee literaire giganten Amos Oz en Adriaan van Dis nader tot elkaar. Wat is er van hun vroegere idealisme overgebleven? Oz’ spervuur van prachtige oneliners bleek lastig te temmen en zorgde voor een hilarisch, maar beetje onevenwichtig gesprek.
Heartfelt plea against Arab shame culture #wu13
De Libanese schrijfster Hanaan as-Sjaikh (Beiroet, Libanon, 1945) opende donderdag 17 januari Wrtiters Unlimited met een vlammend betoog tegen de Arabische schaamtecultuur. Deze is volgens de schrijfster wier boeken Het verhaal van Zahra, Vrouwen tussen hemel en zand, Beiroet blues and Alleen in Londen in het Nederlands zijn vertaald, zo diep in
'Readers need to be approached in a different way'
Writers Unlimited Special – Een van de belangrijke gasten op Writers Unlimited is Roland Colastica. Deze Curaçaose schrijver debuteerde in 2012 met het jeugdboek ‘Vuurwerk in mijn hoofd’. Het boek is enthousiast ontvangen, en groeit inmiddels uit tot een bescheiden bestseller. Grote kracht van het verhaal is de kleurrijke en ritmische stijl, maar minstens zo belangrijk is
Theatres take matters into their own hands
Omdat de regering het hele circuit van productiehuizen en vervolgopleidingen om zeep heeft geholpen, zijn zeven theaters in het gat gesprongen. Zij slaan de handen inéén om een aantal ‘jonge’ makers in staat te stellen om toch hun werk te ontwikkelen. Door van tevoren al een aantal voorstellingen
Inktspot award 2012 for 'naive citizen'
No offensive prominent, well-known world citizen or tricky topic, but ordinary people play the leading role in the print that was awarded this year's Inkstspot Prize. The prize for the best political cartoon published in the national and regional press in the past year goes to
Arthur Japin makes theatre out of his novel Vaslav
'Everseller' author Arthur Japin is to make a stage adaptation of his novel Vaslav, about the legendary Russian dancer Nijinksi. He is making the adaptation at the request of theatre patron Joop van den Ende, who is a big fan of the book. The theatre production goes into
'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 Theatre Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which
David Bowie back from among the stars
Some artists age beautifully. Johnny Cash aged beautifully, Bruce Springsteen remains young in an absurd way and all members of the Rolling Stones turned into convincing zombies after their unnoticed deaths in the seventies
Legislation follows at an appropriate distance from technological developments
What does a dissertation on a forgotten Victorian novelist have in common with a rushrelease from multinational Sony?
Rotterdam Theatre: more music, more visitors
Everywhere, arts attendance is falling dramatically, except, for now, in Rotterdam. There, the Rotterdamnse Schouwburg managed to keep the number of paying visitors the same, or even increase slightly to over 147,500, in its first real cultural disaster year 2012. In its own press release, the management (currently in the hands of Jan Zoet) attributes this to sharper programming and revivals of successful productions, and an increase in the number of concerts:
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