Alles waarvoor mensen een podium betreden.
Learning is less about what you learn than from whom you learn it. Not that what you learn doesn't matter, but you simply learn more from an inspired person than from a teacher running down his list. Fortunately, I have had many good teachers. Some of them are now demented or dead, with almost all of them...
Some 400 virtual metres we go up with the dancers. Beforehand, we are warned to look straight ahead if we are afraid of heights. For me, this was unnecessary, I loved flying along in the huge circular space, knowing I was safely ensconced in a chair. Choreography, avatars, architecture and Blixa Bargeld. Those are a few...
De erfgoedsector is niet de meest sexy sector van de Nederlandse cultuurwereld. Ook al vliegen de bloottenstoonstellingen je dit seizoen om de oren, je denkt toch eerder aan duistere musea, monumenten, postzegelverzamelingen, oud spul. Zo kon het gebeuren dat de stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland al bijna 25 jaar kon bestaan zonder dat iemand in de ‘populairdere’ kunsten (podium, film, literatuur)…
Water and dance have agility in common. Yet there is much more to be gained from this interface. Two choreographies in the New Adventures series give audiences a water experience that is both playful and reflective. Under the title New Adventures, Dansmakers Amsterdam presents work by selected dancers and choreographers that they created during a four-week study residency at the production house,...
Is production house Dansmakers Amsterdam losing its housing? Together with other institutions in the dance sector, it has made every effort to align and further develop the whole spectrum of dance facilities in Amsterdam. In 2018, for example, the joint plan Danswerf was developed and submitted as an application for a two-year development grant to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)...
'Please stop the show!", shouted an 83-year-old former reviewer from the back row. Theatre Frascati fell silent for a moment. There had never really been such an interruption at the Holland Festival's traditionally festive press conference. And that while Faustin Linyekula had just got into his stride, telling about the projects he is carrying out with his Studio Kanako in Kisangani. They provided...
As the weather was record beautiful, I walked from Amsterdam Centraal to Theater Bellevue on Sunday 17 February 2019. I was going to see the performance 'And so I shall go again.' going to see, by Ilay den Boer, someone I used to follow intensively but had lost track of since I am no longer a paid opinion seller. I considered the title of the performance as...
Wat er precies gezegd is, blijft vooralsnog onbekend. Dat er flink gesproken is, is duidelijk. In ieder geval is het resultaat helder: de Philharmonie Zuidnederland (die niet met hoofdletters geschreven wil worden) doet weer netjes mee met de kunsteducatieprojecten in Noord Brabant. De fanfare en ketelmuziek, waarmee het Limburgs-Brabantse fusie-orkest eerder aankondigde alle kindertjes, samen met drie kleinere jeugdtheaterinstellingen, in…
Cultural summit will take place Friday, February 1, 2019, at the North Brabant Provincial House. Reason: The 'Orkexit', or, the decision by the Philharmonie Zuid Nederland to cease all education activities in North Brabant with immediate effect. This not only deprives thousands of children of culture, but also puts a number of small youth theatre companies in dire financial straits. The Philharmonic, a merger orchestra, formed...
Oratorios are notoriously undramatic because they only tell a story for one second and do not zoom in on human emotions. Juditha Triumphans is no exception and the narrative itself has little to it. To rid her town of its assailants, Judith gets their general drunk and then cuts off his head. This could make for a compelling story, were it...
Peaks and valleys right from the opening night of CaDance, the festival of contemporary dance. From embarrassingly long dance to sky-high drama. Highlights: dancer Sammie Hermans and the entire Mom:Me. Crushing New artistic director Stacz Wilhelm, in the presence of the minister during his opening speech, names the harsh years of austerity since 2013. The so-called obviousness of art he wants to...
There is an artist café in Utrecht that few Utrechters know about. And I don't mean Theatercafé De Bastaard, where by now a whole generation of actors, filmmakers and writers come from, but the artists' foyer of TivoliVredenburg. I've eaten and hung out there a few times, as an embedded reporter of De Nacht van de Poëzie, when it's very late into...
The Performing Arts Fund is failing to professionalise and make the music theatre sector sustainable. So says the Council for Culture in an advice leaked yesterday on the future of music theatre in the Netherlands. The advice presented today to the rest of the Netherlands therefore wants to transfer more different music theatre makers and companies from the Performing Arts Fund to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure. This partly...
Het begon allemaal met een tweet. Leoni Jansen, zangeres, stapte na een optreden in Winsum in de auto, en keek nog even om zich heen. Ze zag dat de sterrenlucht, ver van de grote lichten in de Randstad, mooi was. ‘Net aan de terugreis begonnen uit Winsum, mist laag bij de grond, heldere hemel. Op rechts denk ik Castor en…
On Wednesday 16 January, Reinbert de Leeuw will present his cycle Im wunderschönen Monat Mai at Paradiso. A unique opportunity to see him at work once more in his globally believed masterpiece. In 2003, he surprised friend and foe alike with this composition inspired by songs by Schumann and Schubert. Was that not swearing in church? Arnold Schoenberg had the Romanticism...
‘Ik werk vijf avonden in de week en dus moet ik speciaal uitzoeken wanneer ik naar een concert kan. Soms neem ik er vrij voor. En dan zeggen ze wel: “hé, ga je alweer naar een concert?”, en dan zeg ik: “Natuurlijk ga ik weer naar een concert”. Maar ik vind het ook niet extreem.’ Petra Gerritsen is proces expert…
'When I look in the auditorium at a classical concert now, I do think: it's full now, but in 20 years eighty per cent will be dead. So the bottom has to be fed, and TivoliVredenburg does that well. They do it, for example, with Out of the Blue, which is a programme where you get great food and by a special host
Nooit geweten dat ik een traantje zou voelen opwellen om het lot van een 17e eeuwse Raadspensionaris. Toch gebeurde dat op vrijdag 21 december, bij de première van ‘1619, maak het kort…’. Met dit slotdeel zet auteur Erik Snel een kroon op zijn trilogie over de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Was deel 1 (1600, slag bij Nieuwpoort) vooral een vrolijke opeenstapeling van…
Peter Vossen says he experiences a live concert twice a week on average. Not just in TivoliVredenburg, although he visited there almost 40 times last year. 'I also see a lot of free concerts on the streets and in cafés, of course.' Jazz is his great love, but he also attends soul, funk, Latin or pop concerts. Regularly, he can be found
The end of the year is approaching. So the lists fly around our ears again with 'most beautiful', 'best', 'most unforgettable', 'most moving'... fill in the blanks. I think compiling top-soaps is actually a typically male thing, but come on, I'm not that bad. Here are three CDs you wouldn't have wanted to miss this year - in no particular order. Louise Farrenc: Variations for Piano Biliana Tzinlikova,...
In het kader van ‘Hoi, Cijfers!’ kwam het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek vandaag met de geüpdatete cijfers over de podiumkunsten in Nederland. Die laten een voorzichtig herstel zien, al zijn de gevolgen van de ingrepen door de VVD en PVV in 2011 nog steeds pijnlijk zichtbaar. Uit de cijfers blijkt dat vooral het toneel het moeilijk heeft. Daar nam…
Linda Huijsmans en Wijbrand Schaap praten je in een dik half uur bij over de achtergronden van het grotere Cultuurpers Nieuws van de afgelopen weken. Het gaat nog even over de bloot/naakt-toestanden in de kunst, maar het gaat natuurlijk ook over geld, dat miljoen dat de podiumkunstenaars door neus werd geboord door een ruzie in het bestuur van het Sociaal…
Eenieder die de toegangspoorten van Thebe wil passeren moet het raadsel oplossen van de Sfinx. Wie faalt sterft een onherroepelijke dood, zijn botten verbleken in het knekelveld rondom haar. Oedipus daagt haar uit, vastberaden de stad te redden. ‘Noem iemand of iets dat machtiger is dan het Lot!’, orakelt de Sfinx vanaf haar eenmotorige vliegtuigje. ‘De mens!’, jubelt Oedipus. Waarop…
'Indecent and rude,' is how Miep van Diggelen, former chairman of the board of the Performing Arts Social Fund (SFPK), calls the actions of the board of that same fund. That board, or at least about five members of the seven-member board, decided - outside the official meeting - to withdraw a subsidy application they had initiated earlier, without having read it. The promising...
The Utrecht Centre for the Arts is bankrupt after a long ordeal. It was axed. There is no more room in the Netherlands' fourth city for a large, centrally organised music and culture school. Nor for pottery, painting and video filming. The city council has found a solution. For the soon-to-be homeless UCK students, the municipality thinks...
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