Anything for which people enter a stage.
On Saturday 17 December 2022, The Ozard of Wiz will have its premiere at the Maaspodium in Rotterdam. This moving and quirky theatre production with an all-queer cast & crew presents vogue, pop music and melancholy in a seventies sauce. For this production, Maas theatre and dance enthusiastically joins forces with ROSE stories, with dance by Kiki House of Angels and...
Goed rouwen om het verlies van een dierbare leidt niet naar Prozac of een zielenknijper. Integendeel, een beetje levenskunst helpt, zoals in ‘Verdriet is het ding met veren’ van Max Porter, Jacob Derwig en Erik Whien. Nadat vroeger eens een tragedie m’n familie trof, troostte ik me met het voorlezen van het prentenboek Kikker en het Vogeltje voor van Max…
De Amerikaanse zangeres, componist en choreograaf Meredith Monk presenteert in de 76e editie van het Holland Festival de wereldpremière van haar nieuwe werk Indras Net. De Belgische regisseur Lisaboa Houbrechts ensceneert een familie-epos dat drie generaties overspant: Vake Poes; of hoe God verdween. De Mexicaans-Chileense choreograaf Amanda Piña blaast met voorstelling EXÓTICA nieuw leven in werk van de in vergetelheid…
Directeur Alida Dors zet bij Theater Rotterdam in op inclusie. Wat betekent dit voor een 44-jarige witte regisseur met groot succes met een traditioneel publiek, zoals nu met ‘Verdriet is het ding met veren’? Een vraaggesprek. “Het theater van Erik Whien draait om de mens. Om het hoofd en alles wat daarin gebeurt. Elk mens heeft gedachten, in de geest…
Before, when I used to write about theatre for a national morning paper, my travel schedule was partly determined by the reach the paper had in a particular region. So, if I necessarily wanted to write about a theatre performance in Enschede, about Enschedean states, my chief's question was: how many subscribers do we have in Twente? So usually it didn't get there
Hoe krijg je jonge mensen in je zaal? Vrijwel ieder theater worstelt met die vraag. Bran Remie (35), programmeur en theatermaker bij Wilminktheater en Muziekcentrum Enschede, lukt het. Met de online en offline theaterserie Huize Enschede, over het studentenleven in die stad. Studenten zijn moeilijk naar het theater te krijgen. Theaters doen hun best, met gerichte marketing en speciale acties…
Experience mime at the Zéro - Mime & Performance Festival: the first two-day festival in the Netherlands entirely devoted to physical and visual theatre. Expect new and established makers, location performance alongside large hall productions, comforting alongside abrasive, inside and outside de Meervaart 15 and 16 December 2022. Including turboslapstick performance Knock-Out and Erosion, winner of the BNG Bank Theatre Prize. The...
Op 8 december brengt Asko|Schönberg Islands, het nieuwste werk van componist Richard Ayres, in première. Samen met kunstenaarsduo Nest schept Ayres tien imaginaire eilanden, waarin live muziek, elektronica, beeldende kunst, fotografie, video en performance samengaan. ‘Eén van de meest eigenzinnige en originele componisten van dit moment. Het enige voorspelbare aan zijn premières is dat ze onvoorspelbaar zijn’. – The Times…
Op zondag 13 november sloot November Music in ’s-Hertogenbosch de 30e editie van het festival af met de bekendmaking van de composers in focus voor 2023: Aart Strootman en John Zorn. Bosch Requiem wordt dan gecomponeerd door Aart Strootman op een tekst die Jan Rot speciaal hiervoor schreef vlak voor zijn betreurde overlijden eerder dit jaar. Daarnaast komt John Zorn…
Marietje d'Hane Scheltema, her name be praised. How corny I used to think she was, with her neat rhymes with which she managed to transform classical Greek and Roman drinking bouts into Kralings-judged bake sale parties. And how wrong I could be. Because how well her translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses works in the hands of the people at Alum. Yesterday was the premiere...
A trombone screeching like an elephant, violins like imploring songbirds and an oboe rippling a scale like a stream: so opens A Skin of Sound, a performance featuring winds, string instruments, percussion, a South African poet and a pop singer. With bated breath, dozens of visitors in the Great Hall of the Bossche Verkadefabriek listened to the premiere of this shimmering piece....
Not everyone thinks music is also something to look at. Not a crazy idea, considering that some music is so layered and complex that you need all your attention for listening. So modern electronic music largely takes place in the dark, I experienced during two evenings of FAQ Festival in Den Bosch. There, I discovered that I...
Squeezing village society and family, escape with harsh deflowering, student pleasures crushed by bloody abortion, inescapable marriage and childbearing, scorching relationships with men, fierce longing with loneliness, and finally resignation with grandchild; against the backdrop of war, reconstruction, stifled revolution, years of hope and finally in prosperity and cynicism extinguished idealism. Time flows through Annie, Annie flows through the...
An orchestra of household appliances, a pop concert with singer Luwten, and a gospel choir accompanied by top Dutch music. Plus a DJ set with lots of Faithless. Those who might think of something sacred when they hear the term 'harp' can be surprised at November Music by Dutch harpist Remy van Kesteren. This 33-year-old genius has, since he was a 5-year-old, been...
In this bleak everyday reality, Theatre Group Alum gives you the opportunity to escape to Ilyria, where audiences will be immersed in a world of romance, music and gender fluidity. From 21 to 30 December, this sneaky queer party takes over Theatre Kikker. Shakespeare Twelfth Night was written by William Shakespeare as a sneaky Queer party within the norms of the seventeenth...
FLEMMING, Remme, Nona, Sanne Rambags and Rianne Wilbers. Names that are not unknown to residents of Brabant. These young artists were supported in their musical and personal development by the Music Hub Brabant programme. This one-year post-master trajectory focuses on the development of ten young creators. Each talent follows a tailor-made development path and is...
Patronisation! Woke terror! These were some of the reactions from the film world when there were calls for the appointment of an intimacy coordinator at Dutch film productions. As if anyone could allow or display sexually transgressive behaviour in a studio with 40 other staff around it. Impossible! Yesterday, the book Wat de Fak! by award-winning actress Maryam Hassouni was published and in it, it states...
On Sunday 30 October, the winner of the BNG Bank Circus Prize 2022 was chosen at the special closing performance of Festival Circolo in Tilburg. Despite sitting at home with corona, Harvey Cobb managed to convince the jury with his video presentation of his hilarious act ' Something about Pink'. A fellow nominee received a cheque for €5,000 for him from the hands of...
Light is the name of the latest production by NUT, a theatre company with close ties to Utrecht's Leidsche Rijn district. It is theatre in a bubble in Utrecht's largest city park, and it starts with good food and drink. I went to see it, and again became even more of a fan than I already was. A few reasons, why that came about.
November Music kicks off on Thursday 3 November with 50 premieres by makers and performers from home and abroad, 21 composition commissions and more than 100 different concerts. November Music's 30th edition showcases the diversity and vitality of cutting-edge music. November Music 2022 takes place from 3 to 13 November at various locations in 's-Hertogenbosch and opens for...
November Music kicks off on Thursday 3 November with 50 premieres by makers and performers from home and abroad, 21 composition commissions and 100 different concerts. November Music 2022 takes place from 3 to 13 November at various locations in 's-Hertogenbosch and opens for the second time with the FAQ Festival for electronic music. About FAQ Festival From 3 to...
Jeroen Spitzenberger lets New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra shine So typically Rotterdam is this performance, just right, because of the space the lauded actor grants to a rather unknown 11-member male orchestra. For weeks, we happily watch Spitzenberger as Tim in the excellent TV series Oogappels, just as we intensely enjoyed The Year of Fortuyn at the same NPO in which he (also)...
Thu 10 Nov, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ / Sat 12 Nov, November Music Asko|Schönberg maintains warm ties with the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. It is a breeding ground for many composers who have since earned their spurs, such as Michel van der Aa, Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz, but also for a whole new batch of young, talented makers such as Petra Strahovnik,...
'I have a special relationship with my stuff. It has to do with certain emotional experiences in my life.' With "The Spot Where I Find Myself", Genevieve Murphy (Scotland, 1988) breaks new ground in exploring her potential as a composer, musician, but above all, a theatrical performer. Those who have been following Murphy for a few years have already noticed her versatility,...
Tilburg-based chamber orchestra Kamerata Zuid, with dancer and choreographer Inez Wolters, performs Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat as a family performance. The performance will premiere this week at Festival Circolo, Holland's largest circus festival, also in Tilburg. Wolters is an all-rounder. With Swarmers, she stages dance on location, with audience participation. She also leads with her wild and...
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