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Pauline de Groot Festival: Performing the Archive

From 13 to 17 November 2024, the Plein Theatre will host the Pauline de Groot Festival. A unique occasion where the legacy of dance pioneer Pauline de Groot will be put in the full light. The significance of her work as a dance innovator in the Netherlands deserves special attention: radically and self-willed, she helped shape the dance landscape from the 1960s onwards.... 

Festival Circolo makes more than 10,000 hearts beat faster during 12th edition

Festival Circolo can look back on a sunny and smooth 12th edition. During the autumn holidays, the Netherlands' largest circus festival took over the heart of Tilburg to make people's hearts beat faster. More than 10,000 paid visitors plopped down in the plush and stands to enjoy contemporary circus in beautiful, funny and blood-curdling performances. With extra... 

Circolo turns the growing pains between sport and theatre into something beautiful

Large spinning steel behemoths, mowing blades or relentless hands of a clock, which grind you as a human being if you don't duck, or jump, or roll away in time. There were two of them during Festival Circolo in Tilburg, this year, and it always impresses. It happened at Un Loup pour l'homme in the Spoorpark and at La Chute des Anges in... 

Holland Festival celebrates Amsterdam 750 with performance Otemba - Daring Women 

Music theatre brings 17th-century painting from the Rijksmuseum to life in a conversation about female indomitability On the occasion of the kick-off of the anniversary year Amsterdam 750, we are pleased to announce in advance a festival performance focusing on the complex history of the city and the country. With this performance, the Holland Festival aims to explore from the arts - painting, music, theatre and design -... 

Antigone a timeless tragedy of resistance: What sacrifices are we willing to make for our morality?

Theatre Group Alum will tour from 4 December 2024 with the famous tragedy by Sophocles. In a world where power, principles and justice clash daily, Antigone poses questions that are more urgent today than ever. The play, directed by Erik Snel exposes the eternal struggle between laws and moral obligations, touching on themes that directly address contemporary... 

Guilherme Miotto: "Dance is an evolution, not a revolution" 

"We all want to play, but labels sometimes make that difficult. Then you start doubting your qualities." Instead, Dutch and Brazilian choreographer Guilherme Miotto (45) wants to break down boundaries and make art accessible to everyone. On Thursday 24 October, his double performance 'Unpunished Youth x Poles' can be seen at Festival Circolo in Tilburg. Guilherme Miotto is more interested in what makes us... 

A month of dance at the Square Theatre

This November, the Square Theatre is the meeting place for dance lovers! With four different programmes, we will show the versatility of modern dance, ranging from adventurous performances to intimate stories. We start the month with two multidisciplinary Triple Bills, performed and curated by young, promising makers. And from 13 to 17 November, we present a tribute to dance pioneer Pauline de Groot with... 

Southern romance and hushed high spirits: Circolo kicks off in style

Biogas. It works. In Tilburg, they have taken a big step in making circus romance more sustainable. The campfires, from the first edition the anchor of Circus Festival Circolo, have been modified. No longer fuelled by increasingly soggy firewood, beautiful yellow flames now play around glowing chunks. The wood fire became a gas fire, but designed by a pyrotechnician with circus experience. The flames... 

Wendell Jaspers and Lotte Dunselman shine in (tentative) last by Madeleine Matzer

Quantum entanglement, supersymmetry. The nerd in me could not get around the mystery of cosmic twins, which hundreds of billions of light years apart yet simultaneously take over each other's state when one of them is seen. Or something like that. In Blood Sister, Matzer's latest play, it's not billions of parsecs, it's an Atlantic Ocean and 17 years of life that those two identical sisters... 

Meisner Theatre Festival brings together unique performances

From 24 to 27 October, you will find the Meisner Theatre Festival in 's-Hertogenbosch. Over four days, you can enjoy 17 acts at the theatre on Lucas van Leydenstraat. The performers come from the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Taiwan. Better-known names include Flemish Boris-Johannes De Keyser, who previously competed in the Camerettenfestival, and Iris Heusschen and Ksenia Marasanova.... 

Anika Baines: "Burlesque and striptease are a power play for me" #circolo

She sometimes sees people drop out when she tells them that her performance is inspired by burlesque. "They often have certain preconceptions about this and think it's 'something only dirty men want to see'." It remains difficult to convince people to take the first step and attend a burlesque show, says Baines. The twenty-two-year-old South African loves... 

Grandma Final Boss: A loving and light family show about loss 

On tour along Dutch theatres - for young and old from 6 years old After a successful premiere in spring 2024 and performances for more than 1,600 children at primary schools in and around Utrecht, the light and loving family show Oma Eindbaas, produced by the NUT (text: Floor Leene, direction: Lara van Hoof), is now touring throughout the Netherlands. This extraordinary performance... 

'Scenes' only now no longer appears in print. Why that's pretty special.

I remember it well, it was during a meeting of the magazine industry, sometime in 2012 or 2013. A grave mood hung in the Amsterdam debate centre De Balie, because the circulation and turnover figures of the major magazine publishers (plural at the time) had just been announced. The downward trend that had started years back had nothing to do with the crisis, but... 

Asko|Schönberg: Two world premieres at Cello Biennale

Asko|Schönberg presents two new compositions at the Cello Biennale. Commissioned by Asko|Schönberg, innovative composer Silvia Borzelli creates new work with earthbound that breaks the traditional coordination between left and right hands. Composer Guus Janssen is commissioned by the Cello Biennale to write a new composition for ensemble and four cellists. In addition to these two new works, the ensemble will play the classic Biennale Galop 2016 by... 

What if everyone is the boss? Acrobats find confidence in working collectively on 'Meander'

It is mouse-still in the studio auditorium of Korzo in The Hague. A few dozen spectators in the stands, a tangle of bodies on stage, shuffling, sighing and exerting their utmost strength, sliding, climbing and balancing on, over and under each other. Impressive, sensual too, this continuous movement that does not run from applause moment to applause moment, but rather lets you breathlessly follow how it... 

Special action Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam: 5-year anniversary

Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam celebrates its fifth anniversary this season! To celebrate, we have a special offer: students and professional musicians and composers can go to any Nieuwe Noten concert for only €10. Every month in Plein Theater, you get the unique chance to experience new music in an intimate setting. Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam offers a stage for contemporary chamber music.... 

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Campaign 1TP5Lettheclothnotfall collects over 30,500 statements of support

Amsterdam, 8 October 2024 - The "Don't let the curtain fall" campaign has successfully collected more than 30,500 expressions of support from loyal audiences. The initiative was launched by 59 members of the NAPK (Dutch Association for Performing Arts), which are in danger of closing down due to the lack of multi-year subsidies. Campaign results The signatures were presented on 8 October to the culture spokespersons of... 

Wanted: new creators with disruptive performing arts: Open Call Delft Fringe Festival 2025, until 30 November 2024

Delft, Tuesday, 8 October, 2024 - The 14th edition of Delft Fringe Festival opens its doors to new makers with an open call. In 2025, there are 25 play spaces to be filled at the festival. With exciting, hilarious, moving, surprising, disruptive and innovative performances. The festival loves to be surprised by all the untamed talents, artistic experiments and cool new makers. You can apply until 30... 

Shakespeare lives and comes from Utrecht

The less real theatre is, the better it works. That insight dawned on me again this weekend, in Utrecht's Stadsschouwburg. Twice, in fact. Friday with the reprise of Aluin's Twelfth Night, Saturday with Koning Krump, the masterpiece by Het Nut. Two Utrecht groups, once sprung from the same theatre school, and drunk in the same theatre cafe, where... 

Trajal Harrell associate artist Holland Festival 2025

De associate artist voor de 78e editie van het Holland Festival in juni 2025 is de Amerikaanse choreograaf Trajal Harrell (Douglas, Georgia, V.S., 1973). Harrell is een van de belangrijkste internationale hedendaagse choreografen. Zijn unieke stijl bevat elementen uit verschillende danstradities, mode, muziek en beeldende kunst. Met universele menselijke emoties en thema’s als verbondenheid, tragiek, tederheid en kwetsbaarheid raken Harrells… 

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Conductor turns out to be dancer: Miho Hazama leads KC Jazz Big Band

Op vrijdag 20 september leidde Grammy-genomineerd componist Miho Hazama in de Conservatoriumzaal in Amare de big band van het Koninklijk Conservatorium. En hoe. Dancer in nowhere Een sprongetje. Een plié op een been. Een relevé op de tenen. Een plié op twee benen. Het hoofd opzij en als een klok ritmisch naar de andere kant en terug. Een halve arabesque… 

Wim Landuyt wint NK Poetry Slam 2024

Wim Landuyt won het Nederlands Kampioenschap Poetry Slam 2024 in Utrecht, waarbij hij zeven andere finalisten versloeg. Hij ontving de Gouden Vink trofee en €1000. Het evenement, onderdeel van het International Literature Festival Utrecht, werd beoordeeld door zowel publiek als jury. Het NK Poetry Slam vierde zijn 22e editie.

Press release 20 September 2024: Winfred Voordendag interim business director Maas theatre and dance

Winfred Voordendag neemt per 1 november 2024 het zakelijk directeurschap ad interim over van vertrekkend directeur Bernadette Stokvis. Winfred werkt al 25 jaar als zakelijk leider of directeur in de kunstensector en kijkt er naar uit om aan de slag te gaan bij Maas. Cobi van Beek, voorzitter van de Raad van Toezicht van Maas theater en dans, over de… 

Blood Sister: sharp and humorous musical theatre about identical twins

Van 17 oktober t/m 21 december toert Bloedzus – Hetzelfde en in alles anders door het land. Topactrices Wendell Jaspers en Lotte Dunselman, voor het eerst samen op het toneel, spelen een eeneiige tweeling in deze scherpe, humoristische en muzikale voorstelling van MATZER Theaterproducties. De tekst is van Maaike Bergstra, Madeleine Matzer regisseert. De première is zaterdag 19 oktober in De Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch. Als… 

PRRRT PRRRT FLAP FLAP - New toddler performance by Maas theatre and dance

Op zaterdag 19 oktober gaat de nieuwe peutervoorstelling van Maas theater en dans PRRRT PRRRT FLAP FLAP (3+) in première in het Maaspodium te Rotterdam. Makers Sara Giampaolo en Esther Schouten bouwen voort op de lijn van peutertheater die Maas de afgelopen jaren heeft ontwikkeld: grote thema’s op speelse wijze gebracht. Na de première toert de voorstelling tot februari 2025… 

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