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Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten kaputt (3): a one and a half million corpse in the closet
The Theatre Voucher has been more popular than its publisher suspected. Theatre-goers have certainly used this performing arts book voucher more than expected over the last decade. One and a half million euros more. As a result, the Foundation for the Promotion of Theatre and Concert Attendance SPTC has faced negative assets since 2011.
NJO honours Steve Reich
Ever since the establishment of the NJO Summer Academy in 2001, one composer takes centre stage every year, in the current edition it is Steve Reich (1936). During the NJO Music Summer, two hundred music students from fifteen countries will play a good number of compositions by the American grandmaster.
10 per cent less ticket sales, but Festival Boulevard is still satisfied.
Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch sold 55,000 tickets this year, 5,000 less than in 2012. The festival, which this year was held from 1 to 11 August, did attract more crowds for the free offerings on the festival square. This brought the total number of visitors to the festival this year to 145,000, 5,000 more than in 2012. As the venue occupancy is still nice at 85%, the drop in ticket sales will mainly be due to a smaller offer of performances.
Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten kaputt (2): how 3 per cent turned into 3 x 33 per cent
The Performing Arts Promotion Office which will be disbanded from 1 October, has not fallen victim to cultural cuts or the economic crisis. The Stichting Promotie Theater- en Concertbezoek (SPTC), the BPP's backer, has turned off the money tap for other, unclear reasons.
Performing arts promotion office kaputt
We are far from having all the info, but we have enough by now: the Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten (BPP), funded by the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Managements, is quitting as of 1 October. Reason unknown, but surely the malaise in the cultural sector, and especially the performing arts, will have something to do with it.
Dance pioneer Ellen Edinoff matured the dance world
Danseres Ellen Edinoff is dinsdag op 70-jarige leeftijd in haar woonplaats Amsterdam overleden. Ellen vormde samen met haar man Koert Stuyf in de jaren ’60-’70 een uniek danspaar dat reacties in uitersten opriep. De Nederlandse danswereld werd mede dankzij hen volwassen.
Departure of business leader Nederlands Dans Theater Van Leer for personal reasons
On the day that a vote was to be held in The Hague on the new Spui Forum, it has been announced that Robert van Leer is leaving as business director of Nederlands Dans Theater. Van Leer is resigning for purely "personal reasons", according to the press officer of the renowned dance company.
Music school @uckutrecht spots trend: parents invest more in music education
Despite the crisis, parents invest eagerly and heavily in their offspring's musical development. This is the finding of the Utrecht Centre for the Arts (UCK). Their talent development programmes are running well. "Parents are now more consciously choosing to spend money on this than ever before. They also come along to lessons more often and let their children start at an increasingly younger age," says cello teacher Floris Dercksen.
3D in cinema, how common is it already?
Monsters University provides merry summer entertainment in 3D from this week. Last week World War Z be viewed with 3D glasses. At the end of 2009, Avatar overwhelmingly clear: 3D was back never to leave. We are now almost four years on
Taking young talent into Europe: what the Reisopera and Ajax have in common
Still competing at the top and successfully entering Europe with 60 per cent less budget. Impossible, cries many. Only with a new stadium, argues another. And with extra investments in the winter break. But it can be done, according to a few.
Saving Tropenmuseum paid for from art acquisition budget
The Tropenmuseum has been saved, we already knew that, but the House of Representatives still wanted to know where that was paid from. After all: the government is not going to spend more money, we have to do that. Anyway. Culture minister Jet Bussemaker's answer to the parliamentary questions shows that museums will be able to spend 5.5 million less on art purchases in 2016 at least....
Dutch Dance Days Prize nominations: Cecilia Moisio, Giulio d'Anna and Melissa Ellberger
Young choreographers Cecilia Moisio, Giulio d'Anna and Melissa Ellberger have been nominated for the Prize of the Netherlands Dance Days Maastricht 2013.
I Like To Watch Too is a must for keeping the performing arts in the Netherlands young and fresh
A man and a woman dance passionately in the hall of Paradiso. Such an experimental dance performance is unusual for the Amsterdam pop palace. Yet the festival I Like To Watch Too right here. Many people feel a barrier towards this kind of performance, but here there is just the right 'in and out' atmosphere to make avant-garde art something you can just look at and that always triggers something in you.
Curtain falls on film theatre and stage Provadja in Alkmaar
Al meer dan tien jaar tobt het Alkmaarse filmtheater en podium Provadja – een van de oudste Nederlandse filmhuizen – met een veel te krappe behuizing. Al meer dan tien jaar zijn er plannen gemaakt en gisteravond stemde de gemeenteraad over de herhuisvesting. En koos daarmee voor een optie die bestuur, medewerkers en vrijwilligers van Provadja al categorisch hadden afgewezen. Namelijk
I Like To Watch Too throws open doors to experimental dance
Is avant garde dans niet te hoogdrempelig? Is het nog wel levensvatbaar in deze barre culturele tijd? I Like To Watch Too wil dit misverstand uit de weg ruimen. Het festival brengt experimentele dans dichter bij het publiek dan ooit.
Ech Uterech tour of the Cetraol Stetion and Hoog Ketrijne #callofthemall
“Even doorlopen mensen! Ik wil u voorstellen aan Frans van Montfoort. Eén van de allereerste straatmuzikanten in het oude Hoog Catharijne en zelf bijna een living statue.” Gids Ton van den Berg, vandaag in de gedaante van zijn alter ego Koos Marsman, geeft Van Montfoort een klap op zijn schouder. “Goed om je weer te zien jongen.”
Dutch Symphony Orchestra loses lawsuit and name
We already wrote about the name change of the Orchestra of the East into the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NedSym). The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) was not amused and felt that the Enschede-based orchestra was infringing its trademark and trademark rights and demanded that the orchestra choose a different name. Summary proceedings followed and in April 2012 the court ruled that the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra could only not use the abbreviation NedSO, but did not have to change its name.
Fewer audiences, but fuller halls for @hollandfestival 2013
69,500 visitors, at least 5,000 fewer than previous editions, but the halls were fuller. With 82% audience occupancy, the Holland Festival organisers are satisfied with the 2013 festival. Whether that higher occupancy rate, apart from the smaller number of performances (14 fewer than last year) is also due to smaller halls, is impossible to find out from here, but the fact that the large Theater Carré, with its many unsellable low-visibility seats, was also hardly used this year will certainly have helped.
Katibu di Shon, the first Curaçao opera ánd a universal story
His great-great-grandfather wrote the first poem in Papiamento, winning a bet. Randal Corsen wrote the music for the first Curaçao opera. "It's a small island," laughs the composer, but then, moved: "Baffling to think how short a time this all took."
Nowhere does the sun set so functionally as on Terschelling
Oerol, the festival with Terschelling as its stage, has had two wet, cold and windy days. The streets are coloured yellow, red, blue and black by rain suits. Actors play in transparent rain suits, to make costumes still come into their own. Or have someone standing behind them with umbrella to protect them from the rain.
Art breaks the rut of Hoog Catharijne in Call of the Mall
Je staat er eigenlijk weinig bij stil, hoe raar stilstaan in een winkelcentrum als Hoog Catharijne is. Tenminste: als je niet stilstaat met je hoofd naar een etalage of je vingers in een bak fastfood. De code om met glazige blik door een shopping mall te zweven is zo algemeen dat het ook voor jezelf wennen is wanneer iets je dwingt om opeens
Community art of 'Hidden War' forges bond between Dutch and Guatemalans
Treaty of Utrecht
It is cold, chilly and dark. But also quiet, green and spacious. Visitors were not tolerated here until recently. And now Fort Nieuwersluis, near Breukelen, is opening its doors. From 20 to 23 June, the performance 'Hidden War' can be seen there. In it, Guatemalan players show what it is like to live in a violent country. And Dutch actors add their experiences of what it is like to go from a free country to a country like Guatemala.
Marie on a string: Anja Röttgerkamp stars as an unknown soldier in Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre @HollandFestival
Holland Festival
‘The Pyre’, de nieuwste voorstelling van de internationaal rijzende ster Gisèle Vienne, lijkt aanvankelijk minder verontrustend dan haar eerdere werk. Stukken als ‘Jerk’ (2008), gebaseerd op het waar-gebeurde verhaal van een jonge seriemoordenaar, en ‘This is how you will disappear’ (2010), met een donker bos in de hoofdrol, waren slechts op enkele plekken in Nederland te zien. Hopelijk brengt dit optreden tijdens het Holland Festival daar verandering in. Gisèle Vienne studeerde ooit harp, daarna filosofie en is uiteindelijk als poppenspeler opgeleid. Maar Vienne ziet zichzelf vooral als een beeldend kunstenaar die werkt met tijd, op een podium, waar verschillende ritmes, motieven en figuren samenkomen.
Things were well wrong with Halbe Zijlstra, Jet Bussemaker reveals
Jet Bussemaker, minister of culture since last autumn, is slowly but surely starting to repair the damage done by the previous cabinet, supported by the Dutch culture-hating party PVV.
5 million back for culture card, 2 million for museums, something more soon
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