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Voices from the realm of shadows - retrospective Luigi Nono at Holland Festival

by Thea Derks
23 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

After impressive retrospectives dedicated to John Cage (2012) and Edgard Varèse (2009), the Holland Festival this year put Venetian composer Luigi Nono in the spotlight. Under the title 'Trilogy of the sublime', the imposing Gashouder was the epicentre of three full-length concerts, short 'Nono interventions' sounded in the Rijksmuseum's subway, a two-day symposium was organised around Nono, and his widow Nuria set up an exhibition entitled 'Maestro di suoni i silenzi'.

'Fix it yourself.' Culture minister puts fate of amateur arts in hands of municipalities and citizens

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 June 201429 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In March this year the Culture Council sounded the alarm. Unique under the new leadership, which is usually extremely docile when it comes to cultural cuts. But what happens to music schools, children's drama schools, libraries and amateur orchestras is otherwise entirely up to the citizens themselves, and their local councils. This is the minister's response to the chamber.

BEST RELATED SECRET #1: Susanne Marx, Karin Spaink and Girl Loos in Eastern Bloc

by Fransien van der Putt
20 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Susanne Marx is at Oostblok, the former Muiderpoort theatre in Amsterdam, for two days with the performance 'Meisje Loos'. You could call 'Meisje Loos' a critical family performance: for young and old, about growing up and playing with compulsory roles, male-female, white-black, dancer-rapper, harp or beatbox. Genderbending as a theme for the whole family, with a fringe programme featuring Karin Spaink, Linda Duits, Machteld Zee, Rickie Edens and Alex Bakker perform and engage in conversation.

Disappointed dinner guests get money back. Yummy gesture from the Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 June 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Visitors to the film Napoleon, last Sunday at Ziggo Dome, who had thought of booking dinner in one of the intermissions, will get their money back. This was decided by the Holland Festival after a commotion arose on the internet, and beyond, about the caterer's lousy service, and the rather poor quality of what was on offer. Visitor Marc Veerkamp said the following on facebook:

Wandering through the dunes with literature @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
18 June 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, THEATER

Literature is starting to conquer its place at Oerol, which makes sense because poetry and prose are everywhere. The landscape inspires writers and poets to write beautiful texts and at the same time, through literature, visitors take in the environment in a poetic way. What forms of literature can you encounter on Terschelling?

National Ballet performs enchanting Tempest

by Thea Derks
18 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC

To make it 450^e birth anniversary of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Krzysztof Pastor created a full-length choreography for the National Ballet, loosely based on The Tempest (1611). The performance is part of the Holland Festival. Dramaturge Willem Bruls adapted Shakespeare's last play about the island exiled prince Prospero and his daughter Miranda into a script in which the story is told four times, from as many perspectives. The result is enchanting.

78 M€ download damage and 6 more things I learned about copyright

by Leo Bankersen
18 June 201429 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

78 Million euros is the turnover lost by the film and DVD industry in the Netherlands due to illegal downloading. This was recently revealed in a press release announced. Yesterday, it was also one of the topics at a discussion afternoon organised by Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) on copyright developments.

Two weeks with feet in the sand @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
17 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Experience is unnecessary and there is no upper age limit. At Sharon Fridman, professional dancers and amateurs dance together to create a performance on the beach. Daily guests can also learn about the dance routine.

Bitter tears, screaming loneliness. Kušej does Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
16 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Nice 'old-fashioned' Holland Festival: a special line-up that confronts the audience with the implications of their own position and viewing behaviour. And that's just as well with Fassbinder's 'Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'. Melodrama was no stranger to the German theatre and film wizard. The bitter tears are of a fashion queen and her entourage, clinical is the setting, wafer-thin the story, and yet unusually exciting how this lady drama develops.

Warhorse is almost perfect: 6 reasons to go. Or stay away.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Saturday, June 14, went off in a flood of evening gowns, dinner jackets, Dutch celebrities and Gooische Tanks War Horse premiered. A play about a war in which the Netherlands was neutral, and of which there are memorial stones in every village in the rest of the world. You can go and see it. Or not. We have listed six arguments.

Hunting for art in the Bijlmer with Google Maps

by Daniel Bertina
14 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

After co-organising FATFORM, a radical series of art events in Amsterdam Southeast - with furious crossover exhibitions and performances on the roofs of an abandoned shopping centre and a car park, the collective around creative production agency Vinger.nl has thrown itself into the new edition of the Open Art Route 2014. And it will be something.

On M2M and genius theatre makers who completely miss the mark

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, THEATER

One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is either fantastic or dies of its own pretensions. At Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m) is the latter.

Ragged ritual defies permanent display: Germaine Kruip at the Stedelijk @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
11 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

"You know ma'am, that big red painting? Turn right before that". A young attendant shows us the way. At first glance, it's nothing. A man in semi-uniform, black trousers, white shirt, slowly turns on his axis. Sol Lewitt's mural, number 1084 from 2003, lends him the necessary decorum. Around the corner hang Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol. Would the man care? In this 'hall of fame' of conceptual art, the man's spinning stands out a little timidly. Some visitors remain standing, leaning against white walls or sinking down on the polished wooden floor. Those who take their time watch the spinning of the man and his fellow dervishes slowly take possession of the Stedelijk.

dance education

Dance course explodes. Sudden vacancy management dance course Royal Conservatoire

by Ruben Brugman
11 June 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

The dance course at The Hague Conservatory has exploded. Sort of. Nancy Euverink, director of dance education is in fact stepping down from the Royal Conservatoire (KC). And not only that. Deputy director Tom Bosma is not staying on either. Who will take over after the final performances and in the new season is still unclear. An international vacancy has been posted.

Zinging: Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch

by Thea Derks
11 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Jubilation and cheers echoed last night in the sold-out Great Hall of the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ after the Dutch premiere of Delusion of the Fury of Harry Partch at the Holland Festival. No wonder, as the performance directed by Heiner Goebbels was titillating and the performance by the - conductorless - MusikFabrik perfect.

3 reasons why Orlando has been sold out for weeks and 3 reasons why that is justified

by Henri Drost
10 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

Even before the Holland Festival had begun properly, all tickets for the three performances of Handel's Orlando sold. What a crisis. However, it is not hard to guess why.

Art training no return? It's just what your goal is.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In school, we used to have a very good way to check the quality of wine: the yield. Wine with 14% alcohol was better than wine with 12% alcohol. After all, the goal was clear: to get drunk. Wine of 14% was more effective at that. So we preferred to drink wine with a yield of at least 14%.

Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

by Henri Drost
8 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

After partially or even completely failed productions of Falstaff The National Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.

Subsidy goes mostly to the rich. Thanks to austerity.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Dutch museums do not pay for the art they present. Cable companies stick money from writers in their own pockets. Spreading new journalism platforms without permission and without paying the work of small independents. Libraries are closing, and are being replaced by private libraries or school libraries.

Tonight we listen to the voice of god

by Daniel Bertina
6 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Like many of my contemporaries, I have played Jeff Buckley's CDs grey, but know next to nothing about Pakistani Sufi music. Except that it's great. And that Abida Parveen is the queen of that genre. Tonight, this Voice of God and her ensemble are on stage at the National Opera & Ballet.

6 reasons why you should support Culture Press

by one of our members
6 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Recently, you can also become a supporter of Culture Press. For 60 euros a year, you support our work, with no further obligations. That's a great way to further advance a unique news medium! 1: Culture Press is a readers' cooperative. Unlike, say, your favourite newspaper, with us you are not the product, with which we lure advertisers in. At...

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Kylián Festival. 8 ways to stay on top as a choreographer

by Ruben Brugman
2 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Jiří Kylián is not at the Holland Festival. He has his own festival. The small Korzo theatre hosted ten days of intimate works by the great choreographer. Varied and still impressive. Next year, Kylián will have been a choreographer for 45 years. How do you keep performing at the world's top for so long?

Pierre Audi's latest Holland Festival opens with sublime ensemble playing of Rosas and Ictus: Vortex Temporum

by Fransien van der Putt
31 May 201411 July 2016
11 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

It seems like a statement, opening the latest Holland Festival under Pierre Audi's direction with 'Vortex Temporum'. The collaboration between the two top Belgian ensembles Rosas and Ictus does everything that is scarce in the present day.

Win tickets to opera at Paradiso! Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go to The News today

by Henri Drost
31 May 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, OPERA

Win tickets for The NEWS at Paradiso

Big new, small news. News is everywhere, there is no escape. On the street, in one's own living room. What starts at the breakfast table can become world news. So: what is your news today? Let us know, share this page and take a picture, post it on facebook and twitter. Add #thenewsnl and win two tickets to the reality opera that will permanently change your view of the news.

Jubilant reviews. With the 'reality opera' The News, the Nederlandse Reisopera has a hit on its hands. However, the familiar theatre setting is being abandoned for pop temple Paradiso. Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go.

hardwell

Surfer dances against AIDS and now celebrates at The Concertgebouw

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

A surfing Dutch marketing guy noticed in South Africa that a disease was thinning the population indiscriminately. That made him care. Now, as an undisputed highlight, dance4life is celebrating its tenth anniversary at The Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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