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Laat je verrassen en inspireren door persoonlijke verhalen met een lach en een traan. Delft, donderdag 15 mei – Het is bijna zover! Op dinsdag 27 mei om 19.30 uur opent de 14e editie van het Delft Fringe Festival met een feestelijke avond in Theater de Veste. Met 30 artiesten dit jaar op het festivalprogramma tot en met 8 juni is er heel wat…
Deze editie van het Holland Festival bevat minstens 1 voorstelling waarvan je je als man uiterst ongemakkelijk gaat voelen. Toch daag ik de mannenbroeders die dit lezen, uit om te gaan kijken. Ik heb het ook gedaan, ben ervoor helemaal naar Brussel gegaan en heb er breinvoer voor de komende jaren voor terug gekregen. Dat komt omdat de maker een…
Mei, Utrecht – Dinsdag 27 mei is ‘de Orde van de Dag’ voor het eerst als huisprogramma te zien in de Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. Onder leiding van Yara Piekema en Roán ten Cate van het NUT biedt een diverse groep makers met hun satirische actualiteitenshow een unieke kijk op het nieuws. Verser van de pers kan niet, want ze maken de…
Ruimte voor literatuur buiten het boek, Friese taal en voor jonge (noordelijke) makers Productiehuis Explore the North uit Leeuwarden vaart naar Terschelling met een schip vol makers die nieuw werk én werk in ontwikkeling tonen binnen de Explore the North Hub op Oerol. Van 13 t/m 22 juni is verspreid over het gehele eiland werk van zowel gevestigde namen als…
In minder dan anderhalve maand barst het Holland Festival los op 16 locaties in Amsterdam en 1 in Den Haag. Dit jaar zijn er 10 coproducties die in wereldpremière gaan. Van grote internationale producties met thema’s als ecologie en vrouwelijke autonomie, tot een eerste ontmoeting tussen twee kunstenaars die elkaars werk bewonderen. We zetten ze voor je op een rij:…
Vredenburg Open Stage Concerten & OrgelWoensdag – vanaf mei & juni 2025 Wegens het succes van de gratis lunchconcerten en de Rabo Open Stage concerten komt TivoliVredenburg met twee nieuwe series:orgelmuziek op woensdagochtend in de Grote Zaal en intieme concerten op dinsdagochtend op de Vredenburg Open Stage. De gratis lunchconcerten zijn een begrip in Utrecht en een vaste traditie voor…
From 16 to 25 May, ZID Theatre organises the international ExploreZ Festival in Amsterdam: a ten-day programme full of groundbreaking dance, theatre and storytelling. At various outdoor locations and theatres, the festival celebrates the power of creativity, diversity and encounters, with performances by established and emerging makers. Explore with us?
Hoogtepunten zijn onder meer de première van ZUURSTOF, een poëtische locatietheatervoorstelling over de band tussen mens en natuur, en de presentatie van twee publicaties door ZID Theater in de Centrale OBA. Ook op het programma: persoonlijke en actuele voorstellingen als de Double Bill bij het Plein Theater, de ontroerende voorstelling MAAF/SORRY van Ista Putranto en Daan Bosch en diverse premières van jonge talenten binnen Explodium – het podium voor nieuw talent.
ExploreZ is consciously committed to inclusive storytelling and cultural dialogue, with creators highlighting current, relevant themes from their own backgrounds.
During the weekend of 3, 4 and 5 May, you can visit the PleinTheater and its surroundings for various programmes in the context of 80 years of peace. As a theatre in Amsterdam Oost, in the middle of a neighbourhood full of history and trip-stones, we commemorate and celebrate together with the neighbourhood and the city every year. We present special theatre programmes, serve all three...
The groundbreaking ensemble for new music is breaking new ground. From season '25/'26, Asko|Schönberg will be called The Music - with a powerful promise: The New Sound. The new name reflects the ensemble's role in the musical landscape: not following, but guiding. The Music moves forward - idiosyncratic, unpredictable and keen on what music is today and dares to be tomorrow. "The...
There is nothing wrong with just being really good at what you do. Nothing more beautiful than a single artist on an empty floor with nothing but their music, body and voice. The top three of my legendary art moments: All old-school stuff, I admit, but that's it with top moments: once established, it's...
Asko|Schönberg and the Belgian wind ensemble I SOLISTI turn music into a spatial experience in a performance of Pierre Boulez's Répons and James Tenney's In a Large Open Space. Pierre Boulez is an icon of the musical avant-garde of the 20th century. As a composer and conductor, he left his mark on the new musical practice. His monumental Répons is rarely...
Enjoy the future of performing arts with personalised performances throughout the city Delft, Monday 31 March - From 27 May to 8 June, you can experience Delft Fringe Festival at 30 locations throughout the city - from historic gems to the raucous Cable District. For nine days, Delft will be all about performing arts such as cabaret, dance, family theatre, cabaret,...
When your evening starts with a stripping festival director and ends with pole dancing, you know you are not in a regular theatre. True, I was at the opening of the Queering Puppets Festival at Amsterdam's Plein Theater and it was a party. The Plein Theatre largely owes that to that stripping director Berith Danse, who was in...
That the Dutch performing arts, especially in relation to our neighbouring countries, are in a spread, may seem like a lame pun, but it is true nonetheless. Yesterday we presented a rather alarming calculation example on the consequences of the emphasis on spreading in the assessment of grant applications by the Performing Arts Fund. Today, a follow-up response from the same fund reveals that...
There has been quite a fuss about subsidies in recent months, especially for the performing arts. A few beloved middle groups with a fine track record were no longer getting subsidies, in favour of newcomers. The reasons for the shift were many. The anger over it was mainly about the emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion and regional distribution in the assessment by Fonds Podiumkunsten ...
Amsterdam, 26 March 2025 - With the publication in the Staatscourant of 20 March 2025, the collective labour agreement for theatre and dance 2025-2026 has been declared generally binding (AVV). This means that all professional Dutch producers producing theatre and/or dance performances must apply this collective labour agreement for their staff.Collective bargaining parties Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten (NAPK) and Kunstenbond applied for the AVV to regulate the terms of employment for...
We are proud to share that our founder and former artistic director Madeleine Matzer is this year's recipient of the Culture Award of the North Brabant Cultural Fund. The jury praised her performances that touch on social themes and make audiences think. 'She gives a voice to the unspeakable,' said jury chair Machteld Postma. The award will be presented by Queen's Commissioner Ina Adema. To...
Asko|Schönberg presents Study for Life with Tero Saarinen Company at the Holland Festival. Tero Saarinen's new choreographic work is an ode to the music of Kaija Saariaho. In Study for Life, the nuanced and delicate world of Kaija Saariaho is brought to life by a group of six dancers, the musicians of Asko|Schönberg and soprano Raquel Camarinha. An innovative...
Holland Festival 2025 opens on 11 June at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam with the European premiere of Cyber Subin by Thai choreographer Pichet Klunchun. Dancers and avatars dance together in a co-created by AI choreography that reinterprets the traditional Thai Khon dance. For the first time in 35 years, the Holland Festival is back in The Hague
March 2025 - Theatre Sonnevanck and the NUT return in 2025 with the remake of the successful play Roos & Ariadne. The 'plea for emotions of all shapes and sizes' (Theaterkrant, 2020) is a co-production, in which traditionally Floor Leene's stage text finds inspiration in ancient, Greek myths: this time the story of Ariadne's thread. Directed by...
It is delightful when big newspapers clumsily overwrite small media, and that they do it for free? Oh well, they struggle too. For instance, the small niche weblog Jazzenzo has been rehabilitated after more than a year thanks to an article the Volkskrant's art chief had copied from this site last year. What was it about? The reviewer and columnist of the...
Owners of a U-pas can go to almost all concerts, festivals and other programmes in TivoliVredenburg for 5 euros in the coming months. The Utrecht music venue thus wants to further lower thresholds for culture attendance and make live music accessible to everyone in the city - including Utrechters with a small wallet. TivoliVredenburg's mission statement is: a lifetime of music for everyone. The music venue...
Asko|Schönberg and the Muziekgebouw honour composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, with the Saariaho Festival. When she died, she was at the height of her fame and was honoured as the composer who gave modernism a face that was as human as it was fairy-tale. At the opening concert, her latest work Hush will be played for the first time in the Netherlands. Dutch premiere ...
After its success at Oerol Festival 2024, the dance and musical theatre performance Waste Me returns in a theatre version. On Friday 14 March at 20:15, co-producers Maas theatre and dance and Cecilia Moisio Company will celebrate the premiere of the theatre tour at Maaspodium, Rotterdam. Waste Me by choreographer and theatre maker Cecilia Moisio, is a robust commentary on the out-of-control...
STIPcast is a podcast series that gives an insight into behind-the-scenes theatre life in the Netherlands. Six episodes cover important aspects of theatre-making, such as artistic vision and innovation, talent development, writing texts and programming. Dutch youth theatre is currently at an unprecedented high level. More than 16 BIS companies, several production houses with talent development programmes and a stage infrastructure for...
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