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PODIUM ART

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Alain Platel deelt in #hollandfestival ferme doodsklap uit aan traditionalisten

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Met talent alleen kom je er niet. Je moet ook een beetje geluk hebben. Dat geluk overkwam Alain Platel inmiddels zo vaak dat je bijna gaat twijfelen aan je eigen goddeloosheid. Maar toch. Wie niet alleen een componist als Fabrizio Cassol tot zijn vrienden mag rekenen, maar ook het zangwonder Serge Kakudji een kans heeft gegeven, verdient wel een beetje geluk. Wat het drietal nu met 13 muzikanten uit Kinshasa voor elkaar heeft gekregen is ronduit revolutionair. En een doodsklap voor wie gelooft dat noord en zuid elkaar nooit echt kunnen ontmoeten. Ik maakte hem maandag 16 juni mee. En hij dreunt nog na.

Bittere tranen, schreeuwende eenzaamheid. Kušej doet Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
16 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Lekker ‘ouderwets’ Holland Festival: een bijzondere opstelling die het publiek confronteert met de implicaties van heur eigen positie en kijkgedrag. En dat mag ook wel bij Fassbinder’s ‘Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant’. Melodrama was de Duitse theater- en filmgeweldenaar niet vreemd. De bittere tranen zijn van een modekoningin en haar entourage, klinisch is de setting, flinterdun het verhaal, en toch ongemeen spannend hoe dit damestoneel zich ontwikkelt.

Tis Pity! Holland Festival brengt de beste voorstelling voor het kleinste publiek.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Taal is muziek. Soms vergeten we dat. Dan denken we dat taal een manier is om objectieve betekenissen over te brengen. Beetje dom. Taal is voedsel voor alle zintuigen. Daar hoeft geen getokkel onder. Dat is pure opera zonder opsmuk. De Engelstalige voorstelling ’tis Pity she’s a whore’ die ik gisteren in het Holland Festival zag, bewijst dat. Zelfs als je geen moer verstaat van de zeventiende-eeuwse zinnen is het een genot om naar te luisteren.

Warhorse is bijna perfect: 6 redenen om te gaan. Of weg te blijven.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Zaterdag 14 juni ging in een vloed van avondjurken, smokings, bekende Nederlanders en Gooische Tanks War Horse in première. Een stuk over een oorlog waarin Nederland neutraal was, en waarvan in elk dorp van de rest van de wereld gedenkstenen staan. U kunt gaan kijken. Of niet. We hebben zes argumenten op een rijtje gezet.

'I did not have sexual relations with that woman', no way: surprising Don Juan at Theaterschip Deventer

by Henri Drost
15 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, OPERA

In an immaculate virginal white uniform, Don Juan gives a slick press conference for his marriage to Elvira. We hear the famous words with which Bill Clinton denied the Lewinsky affair. Actor Ischa den Blanken's grin speaks volumes when he says: 'These allegations are false.' We know: he is lying.

On M2M and genius theatre makers who completely miss the mark

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, THEATER

One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is either fantastic or dies of its own pretensions. At Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m) is the latter.

Ragged ritual defies permanent display: Germaine Kruip at the Stedelijk @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
11 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

"You know ma'am, that big red painting? Turn right before that". A young attendant shows us the way. At first glance, it's nothing. A man in semi-uniform, black trousers, white shirt, slowly turns on his axis. Sol Lewitt's mural, number 1084 from 2003, lends him the necessary decorum. Around the corner hang Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol. Would the man care? In this 'hall of fame' of conceptual art, the man's spinning stands out a little timidly. Some visitors remain standing, leaning against white walls or sinking down on the polished wooden floor. Those who take their time watch the spinning of the man and his fellow dervishes slowly take possession of the Stedelijk.

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Dance course explodes. Sudden vacancy management dance course Royal Conservatoire

by Ruben Brugman
11 June 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

The dance course at The Hague Conservatory has exploded. Sort of. Nancy Euverink, director of dance education is in fact stepping down from the Royal Conservatoire (KC). And not only that. Deputy director Tom Bosma is not staying on either. Who will take over after the final performances and in the new season is still unclear. An international vacancy has been posted.

Zinging: Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch

by Thea Derks
11 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Jubilation and cheers echoed last night in the sold-out Great Hall of the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ after the Dutch premiere of Delusion of the Fury of Harry Partch at the Holland Festival. No wonder, as the performance directed by Heiner Goebbels was titillating and the performance by the - conductorless - MusikFabrik perfect.

4 ways to quiet a room: Jelinek strikes at Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 June 20142 April 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's trip will go to India and Nepal. Because that seemed nice to him. Visitors to the Dutch premiere of Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlene were looking forward to the summer. Next year they would visit a friend in Vietnam. Little hassle to get a visa. As a white European, the whole world is yours. You can go anywhere. The man did not realise how privileged he was.

3 reasons why Orlando has been sold out for weeks and 3 reasons why that is justified

by Henri Drost
10 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

Even before the Holland Festival had begun properly, all tickets for the three performances of Handel's Orlando sold. What a crisis. However, it is not hard to guess why.

Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

by Henri Drost
8 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

After partially or even completely failed productions of Falstaff The National Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.

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Kylián Festival. 8 ways to stay on top as a choreographer

by Ruben Brugman
2 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Jiří Kylián is not at the Holland Festival. He has his own festival. The small Korzo theatre hosted ten days of intimate works by the great choreographer. Varied and still impressive. Next year, Kylián will have been a choreographer for 45 years. How do you keep performing at the world's top for so long?

Pierre Audi's latest Holland Festival opens with sublime ensemble playing of Rosas and Ictus: Vortex Temporum

by Fransien van der Putt
31 May 201411 July 2016
11 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

It seems like a statement, opening the latest Holland Festival under Pierre Audi's direction with 'Vortex Temporum'. The collaboration between the two top Belgian ensembles Rosas and Ictus does everything that is scarce in the present day.

Win tickets to opera at Paradiso! Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go to The News today

by Henri Drost
31 May 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, OPERA

Win tickets for The NEWS at Paradiso

Big new, small news. News is everywhere, there is no escape. On the street, in one's own living room. What starts at the breakfast table can become world news. So: what is your news today? Let us know, share this page and take a picture, post it on facebook and twitter. Add #thenewsnl and win two tickets to the reality opera that will permanently change your view of the news.

Jubilant reviews. With the 'reality opera' The News, the Nederlandse Reisopera has a hit on its hands. However, the familiar theatre setting is being abandoned for pop temple Paradiso. Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go.

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Surfer dances against AIDS and now celebrates at The Concertgebouw

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

A surfing Dutch marketing guy noticed in South Africa that a disease was thinning the population indiscriminately. That made him care. Now, as an undisputed highlight, dance4life is celebrating its tenth anniversary at The Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Requiem for the Red Box

by Thea Derks
27 May 201430 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, MUSIC

After seven concert seasons, the broadcasting series takes 'The Friday of Vredenburg' farewell to emergency venue Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, better known as 'The Red Box'. From September, the concerts will again take place in the restored Great Hall of the otherwise brand-new TivoliVredenburg. The concert on 6 June will feature the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor, conducted by Antony Hermus. They will play music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and a brand new piece by Wim Laman, Requiem Songs.

Volksopera is a celebration of Ondiep, but what will be left when the cameras are gone?

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Barely five months between first audition and first performance. That was all the time the makers and local residents had for the Volksopera Ondiep, which experienced the first of two performances on Friday 23 May. It was a warm May evening, touching at times, sometimes dreadful, but fun anyway: classics by Verdi (most of them), Bizet, Puccini and Offenbach, set to Dutch text and sung by complete amateurs. Accompanied, for once, by the Groot Omroepkoor.

Van verpakking voor vis tot opera: The News van JacobTV

by Thea Derks
20 May 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Het nieuws: vandaag is het hot, morgen wordt de vis erin verpakt. In zijn video-opera The News geeft Jacob ter Veldhuis/JacobTV het een tweede leven door het in een nieuwe context te plaatsen. ‘Tegenwoordig is nieuws infotainment, gedompeld in sentiment.’ Komende vrijdag brengt de Dutch Travel Opera de première in het Wilminkteather in Enschede.

Faust: eye- and ear-pleasing, but distant

by Thea Derks
16 May 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

In Catholic Limburg, I was taught catechism every week in primary school. "What are we here on earth for?", asked Mr pastor. With the whole class we droned out the answer: "To become happy here and in the hereafter." A similar question occurred to me last night during the performance of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod at The National Opera. "To what end do we go to the theatre?" For me, the answer is: "To be touched, purified, yes maybe even happy." Given the rave reviews, I expected that this would indeed be the case.

Legendary director Peter Brook (89): Theatre is the field given to me

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 May 20143 July 2022
15 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

The Valley of Astonishment. Titles don't come much prettier than that of 'The Valley of Astonishment'. Theatre legend Peter Brook's tentative last play is coming to Amsterdam. The Holland Festival gave me and two journalists from Parool and NRC, respectively, the opportunity to talk to the already legendary director when he was alive. Pretty special, because the man who enchanted an entire generation of theatre-makers and audiences with performances such as the nine-hour Mahabharata in Avignon, is considered a deity among theatre connoisseurs and enthusiasts.

Is Anne te groot voor recensies? 3 redenen waarom ik het lastig vind om Anne te recenseren

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Iemand merkte op Facebook op dat het een beetje raar stond om in een krant sterren uit te delen voor een toneelstuk gebaseerd op Het Dagboek van Anne Frank. Hoewel ik zelf huiver om zo vroeg al een Godwin te maken, is er toch wel degelijk iets aan de hand met Het Toneelstuk en De Recensie. Recensies over Het Toneelstuk naar Het Dagboek lijken namelijk overbodig. Want hoe recenseer je zo’n stuk, met zo’n geschiedenis? Is gedoe over wel of geen gelaagdheid, wel of geen avontuurlijkheid in de regie niet zelfs een beetje oneerbiedig? Het zijn drie kwesties dus, die me tot een overweging brachten dat het misschien wel helemaal niet moest kunnen. Anne recenseren.

Brotherhood in turbulent times

by Thea Derks
7 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

In 2001, when Rotterdam was European Capital of Culture, a number of institutions joined forces and from this, in 2005, the Rotterdam Opera Days born. The aim is to programme innovative musical theatre in the opera house-less Maasstad after all, often in unusual locations. This year the ninth edition will take place, from 17 to 25 May, with the theme 'brotherhood'.

Juliette Binoche speelt bij Toneelgroep Amsterdam

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 May 201411 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Omdat Nederlandse cultuur de Nederlanders pas opvalt als er gescoord wordt in het buitenland (geldt ook voor voetbal, overigens): Groot nieuws over het eerste gezelschap van Nederland. Bondscoach Ivo van Hove van Toneelgroep Amsterdam heeft niemand minder dan Juliette Binoche gestrikt voor een hoofdrol in een toneelstuk.

Ironing or hitting

by Thea Derks
2 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

It will be hard to choose how we will musically fill our next weekend: will we stay in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Marimba Weekend, or do we travel to The Hague, where Day in the Branding is devoted entirely to the string quartet? In short: are we going to string or strike? Those unable to choose can visit later this month at Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Slagwerk Den Haag - they just both do it!

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