PODIUM ART

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Why it is good that the Holland Festival is putting the focus on Africa, rather than opting for a single artistic director.

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula. Remember those names, if you didn't already know them, because they are going to help shape the face of Holland in the coming year. They have been appointed by the Holland Festival as 'associate artist'. In doing so, the festival puts the phenomenon of 'artistic director' out of business. A necessary choice at a time when the price for that kind of figure is faster...

Maarten Baanders watched 'Nachthexen 1: Jeanne'. 'The music works its way right through you. At first, this gives me an uneasy feeling. But gradually it pulls me along.'

by Maarten Baanders
24 January 2018
4 min read
DANS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Is she on a podium of honour or a scaffold? Joan of Arc holds a monologue. She shouts out her words. The beat of the music propels an ominous atmosphere into the room. On the floor, five dancers make resolute movements. In a long series of statements and confessions, Jeanne speaks out what moved her to seek the battlefield. And.

Good news for Urban artists in need of money. Three cultural funds are proposing eight 'Matchmakers'. (But at least 12 are needed)

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 January 201822 January 2018
3 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART

Opinions differ on the size of the pot of money waiting for them, but 'urban' makers in particular do not yet know how to find their way to our art subsidy system. That is why the three cultural funds that deal mainly with performing arts have appointed ambassadors in a number of Dutch cities. These 'Matchmakers' should narrow the gap between The Hague and 'the region'....

Jens van Daele: 'The power of women is greater than that of men'

by Maarten Baanders
22 January 201830 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

'I admire the strength of women. I experience it as greater than that of men. Women's strength lies in the dedication with which they can deal with things. The courage to push boundaries.' Jens van Daele, in his latest theatre show 'Nighthexen 1: Jeanne', pays tribute to the strength of women and highlights their heroism from...

Symphony of Psalms Igor Stravinsky: away with romantic sentiment

by Thea Derks
21 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

On Wednesday 24 January, the Nederlands Kamerkoor presents an adventurous concert at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ to kick off a short tour. On the lecterns are rarely heard music by Lili Boulanger and Ton de Leeuw. The highlight is Igor Stravinsky's famous Psalm Symphony in a version for choir and piano four hands by Dmitri Shostakovich. Ralph van Raat and Bobby Mitchell sign...

Last 7 Words Dutch Don't Dance

'This is God'. Choreographer Thom Stuart sets Haydn's Last 7 Words to dance.

by Ruben Brugman
18 January 201830 May 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

First there was Kinder Matteüs: an interactive musical production with the Holland Baroque Society and the Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor. Now The Dutch Junior Dance Division with the Matangi Quartet brings Last 7 Words to music by Haydn. You came to church every day, didn't you?" I ask Thom Stuart. No, the choreographer firmly denies. 'I never come to church.'

Ton de Leeuw by Groot Omroepkoor & RFO brass ensemble: music of 'being' versus music of 'becoming'

by Thea Derks
17 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

At the end of the nineteenth century, Western music gradually began to come apart at the seams. Composers used more and more dissonances so that the familiar tonality hardly fitted into its shell. From a constant desire for even more expression, the orchestra was expanded with ever new instruments. This led to monster productions such as Gustav Mahler's 'Symphony of the Tausend', with more than a thousand...

There will be a hotline for sexual violence and harassment in the arts. Question remains as to who will... er... staff it.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 January 2018
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, MEDIA, PODIUM ART, TELEVISION

Good news! The hashtag #metoo has finally led to action. There will be a hotline. The press release came today. 'The performing arts, film and television sectors have joined forces to launch an independent and umbrella hotline for sexual harassment.' This is more unique than you might think. In the performing arts, and certainly in the film and television sector, the situation is disastrous with the...

ZEP takes on the sacred cows of love with comedy HABIB. (Why Rascal should just come and watch)

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 January 201829 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED, THEATER

So certain words are taboo. Moroccan Said explains that his ideal woman has to be a virgin, chaste, and so should not let him ... well, that is. That word you are not allowed to say. The Turkish Evrim thinks that's big nonsense again. Why not call a spade a spade? In Habib, the latest performance by theatre group ZEP, it is all about...

Composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas: 'Music has no nationality'

by Thea Derks
12 January 201829 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

The most recent achievement of Russian-Swedish composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas (b. 1969) is Dracula. This opera based on Bram Stoker's book of the same name premiered at Royal Opera Stockholm in October 2017. A 'colourful and highly atmospheric musical score', it included 'one of the most emotional scenes in the history of Swedish opera', wrote one critic. Seven years earlier,...

Krisztina de Chatel in A frenzied mastery

Truly something to look forward to. Krisztina de Châtel's emotions come unstuck in A frenzied mastery

by Ruben Brugman
10 January 2018
3 min read
DANS

'A frenzied mastery' is the name of the documentary that Manon Lichtveld and Bas Westerhof made about Krisztina de Châtel. The emotions really hit home when visiting their parents' home in Hungary. We met them in the Rabozaal of Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. They were also filming. Bas Westerhof and Manon Lichtveld. Cameraman Leo van Emden and I followed Koert...

José Maria Sánchez-Verdú composes musical Hell's Gate for choir and string quartet

by Thea Derks
6 January 201829 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The string quartet is considered Joseph Haydn's invention; Goethe considered it the nec plus ultra of instrumental music. 'One hears four intelligent people conversing with each other' said the poet. 'One believes to understand something of their conversation and to know the idiosyncrasies of the instruments.' We get plenty of that opportunity from 27 January to 3 February, during...

2018 in the arts: the year we finally choose our bubble and let the masses be the masses.

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 January 2018
4 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING, MEDIA, PODIUM ART

We are going to live smaller. It is not only in the popularity of the TinyHouse movement that young people and seniors can shake hands. We want to de-clutter, but we also want to have less to do with the big bad outside world. This applies to older people, but certainly to those in their twenties as well. This movement has been going on in the arts for a while. Small ...

Our readers' list. What we should all never forget from 2017.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 December 201713 February 2019
15 min read
ACTUAL, HERITAGE, FILM, Holland Festival, In Memoriam, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Well, we're not big on hypes and traditions here, but still. The dark days around Christmas are very dark this year, so why not something with lists. This year, no list of toppers from the editors, but random entries from random readers, in random, if slightly alphabetical order. Motto of the reader question was: which things...

Number of overnight stays and good luck city branding as highlights for the Capital of Culture. Goodbye AARHUS2017, hello LEEUWARDEN2018. And: VALLETTA2018, may I have my potato back?

by Inger Stokkink
21 December 201730 March 2022
6 min read
Aarhus 2017, ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, MEDIA, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

An ancient melody floats, crackles and drones through the town hall of Aarhus, Denmark. The city is close to being European Capital of Culture. That is why we hear the same song at the handover ceremony as when it was launched on 21 January. Then Aarhus celebrated the start of Aarhus, European Capital of Culture and 'Jeg drømte mig en drøm i nat' thundered through the Aarhus streets....

Save and destroy: charge against squandering cultural heritage

by Thea Derks
15 December 201730 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, MUSIC

A Saudi prince is paying $450 million for a mediocre painting by Leonardo da Vinci; a Dutch politician is pledging a crate of beer for a new composition. In a nutshell, these two extremes capture our current dealings with culture. Total contempt on the one hand and unimaginable overvaluation on the other are two sides of the same coin. We do not judge art for its...

Scene from The Place To Be. Photo: Jochem Jurgens

Rolling stones, screaming kitchen maids, smoke bombs and noble punk: why the upstarts in Theatre Frogs Winter Collection offer so many surprises.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 December 201721 December 2017
5 min read
PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, THEATER, Theatre Frog

Two men. Not even very muscular, not even very tough. But what dockworkers. And what simplicity to tell something really beautiful. One rolls himself up like a stone and the other rolls that stone up a mountain. That mountain consists of stage sections that are each at least half a metre in height from each other....

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dutch proverbs, oil on panel, 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

'Playwriting is flourishing,' says the Language Union. Time for an exploration among playwrights.

by Fleur Jansen
10 December 201714 September 2018
7 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER

On 6 December 2017, the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs was awarded to poet, writer and playwright Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer. With his play about Bram Moszkowitcz, titled 'The lawyer', he was the preferred original work among 47 submissions. According to the Taalunie, Pfeiffer's play 'balances magisterially on the fine line between tragedy and comedy, realistic drama and meta-thought, slapstick and emotion....

Ensemble 1904: loving CD portrait of forgotten Poldowski

by Thea Derks
9 December 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

Poldowski re-imagined is the name of French Ensemble 1904's latest CD. Poldowski who? Well, like many of her colleagues, this Polish-British composer (1879-1932) is all but forgotten. Her name, too, is problematic. Born the youngest daughter of violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, her official name was Irène Régine Wieniawski. However, she published her first compositions as Irène Wieniawska. After...

Kate Moore wins Matthijs Vermeulen prize - as first woman ever

by Thea Derks
1 December 201730 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

On Saturday 2 December, Australian-Dutch composer Kate Moore (b 1979) will receive the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for her composition The Dam. The prize money is €20,000, made available by the Performing Arts Fund. The prize was established in 1972 and named after the Dutch composer and critic Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967). Until now, it invariably went to men, some even getting it two...

Jouman Fattal, on TV next year, already seen in Frog's 'Winter Collection'

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 November 201729 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, THEATER, Theatre Frog

Called The Winter Collection, it is a five-day mini-festival full of surprises. Utrecht-based Theatre Kikker has now made it a tradition to provide some real surprises every year around Sinterklaas. 10 performances by young creators, from video art, to rowdy dance performance, from a silent monologue to post-dramatic cyberpunk, enough to give any theatre lover a wake-up call....

Publicity image BOG. for KID.

'BOG.' plays 'KID.': how a simple question to the audience can lead to exciting theatre.

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 November 201729 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED, THEATER

A collection of makers they are. A collection, but not a collective. What an 'f' can't already make up. So language is quite a thing. And crowdsourcing is quite a thing. These makers collect words from their audience, and give them back in a performance. That's 'BOG.', a still fairly young group trying to use language to make theatre to get us to...

Performing Arts Fund subsidy leads to more performances for fewer audiences

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 November 201729 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART

Currently, the amount a performing arts company receives in subsidy depends on the number of times it plays. The Performing Arts Fund, which is responsible for that subsidy, has now investigated the effect of this. That research shows that companies are increasingly struggling to sell performances of a single production. This causes companies to...

Aribert Reimann: 'I cherish both musical tradition and modern developments'

by Thea Derks
26 November 201729 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

Despite his advanced age, German composer Aribert Reimann (1936) is still very active. In October 2017, his opera L'invisible had its world premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, based on a play by Maeterlinck. On 14 December, the first performance of his cycle Die schönen Augen der Frühlingsnacht will already be heard at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. He composed it for soprano Mojca Erdmann and...

Mirjam Koen, Adorno, why on earth theatre about Adorno!

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 November 2017
8 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED, THEATER

Beethoven and Bach brought the true music. Karl-Heinz Stockhausen the future. The rest, from Beatles to hoempa, was 'jazz', commercially capitalist and therefore pernicious. Very briefly, this is what we should know Theodor Adorno from. Paul R. Kooij now plays this art-philosophical sharper in a performance by Mirjam Koen. Just when the division based partly on Adorno's thinking between...

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