Cinedans festival: the images move. So.
Fransien van der Putt, dansdeskundige van Cultuurpers, en Helen Westerik, filmkenner, bezochten de opening van Filmfestival Cinedans en waren geamuseerd, maar niet altijd door het programma.
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Underdog Argo winner at the Oscars
Het grote verhaal van de Oscars 2013 is natuurlijk hoe de underdog Argo uiteindelijk de aanvankelijk gedoodverfde favoriet Lincoln voorbijstreefde. Toen zondagavond Ben Affleck het beeldje voor beste film in ontvangst nam deed hij dat niet als regisseur maar als producent. Hij was zelfs niet eens genomineerd voor de Oscar voor beste regie, en dat komt bij een film die…
'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
,,Je zou denken: de vrouw is geëmancipeerd. Maar men verlangt weer naar de clichés en vooroordelen over de vrouw uit de jaren vijftig. Als je je supervrouwelijk kleedt, word je nagefloten als een hond. Maar hoe moet
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
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
Once upon a time, subsidised theatre was a left-wing hobby. Now, two years on, subsidised theatre has effortlessly conformed to the prevailing, much more right-wing 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 with 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 mostly 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
With a jam-packed programme like Writers Unlimited 2013, it sometimes happens that, even as a professional journalist, despite everything, you end up dropping in somewhere too late, and then just catching a glimpse of something really great. In this case, after the tour de force of Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis, was that Kenyan Ngwatilo Mawiyoo's spoken word performance. Mea culpa for that.
Does it luckily still involve sex on #wu13
How many male genitalia 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
During the kick-off of Winternacht 1, publicist Bas Heijne brought the two literary giants Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis closer together. What remains of their former idealism? Oz's barrage of wonderful one-liners proved difficult to tame and made for a hilarious but somewhat unbalanced conversation.
Heartfelt plea against Arab shame culture #wu13
Lebanese writer Hanaan Al-Shaykh (Beirut, Lebanon, 1945) opened Wrtiters Unlimited on Thursday 17 January with a blazing argument against Arab culture of shame. This, according to the writer whose books The story of Zahra, Women between sky and sand, Beirut blues and Only in London have been translated into Dutch, so deep in
'Readers need to be approached in a different way'
Writers Unlimited Special - One of the important guests at Writers Unlimited is Roland Colastica. This Curaçao author made his debut in 2012 with the children's book 'Fireworks in my head'. The book was enthusiastically received, and has since grown into a modest bestseller. Major strength of the story is its colourful and rhythmic style, but just as important is
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 develop their work after all. By offering a number of performances in advance
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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