Usually without lyrics, often with music, always with movement
Cultuurpers is een onmisbare aanvulling op het cultuurnieuws in je krant, op internet of op tv. Onafhankelijk, eigenzinnig, rebels en vooral: nuttig. Er wordt immers al genoeg onzin verteld over kunst. Je zult begrijpen dat we niet de miljoenen lezers bedienen waar de grote uitgevers en hun adverteerders van bestaan. Daarom doen al die anderen ook zo weinig aan kunst.…
We are real Holland Festival specialists by now. We go and see performances beforehand, interview makers, actors and walk around the halls, in the foyers, just about every day. We hear a lot, we see a lot and we share it here. Cultural journalism as it should be, in short. Cultural journalism that should also be there. And it totally succeeds if you take out a subscription. Then you get...
What does it mean for a dancer with an intense career when she decides to choreograph as well? March saw the premiere of Battle Abbey, Heather Ware's first full-length choreography in collaboration with Swedish cellist Jakob Korányi. Heather Ware, a dancer with LeineRoebana since 2003, embarked on the path to creating her own choreography without a plan....
Joop Oonk (27) maakt dansvoorstellingen met de Misiconi Dance Company, maar niet van een standaard soort. Ze noemt het ook wel: inclusiedans. Dansen met rolstoelen bijvoorbeeld en dat dan in de openbare ruimte. Tijd voor een gesprek met deze bijzondere choreografe. Gelukkig hoef je geen kunstbarbaar te zijn om het woord inclusiedans niet te kennen. Joop Oonk choreograaf, artistiek leider…
Een dansvoorstelling voor de jeugd (6+) zorgde onlangs voor ophef. Leerlingen van groep 5 t/m 8 van de islamitische Aboe Daoedschool in Utrecht bezochten IJspaleis (6+) van danstheatergroep plan d–. Bij een dansje van twee verliefde pinguïns verzocht een van de leerkrachten de voorstelling stop te zetten. Deze scène werd niet geschikt voor de leerlingen gevonden, luidde de verklaring. Het…
What happens when you take someone's head off? Little, you will say, since the accompanying body dies. But then you are wrong. Because at the first GRIP evening at Utrecht's Theater Kikker, Steven Michel showed that the rest of the body then just takes over. Fascinating to notice how you go from a bare back to...
De eerste blote vrouwenborst die ik in mijn leven bewust waarnam was de vrolijk zwabberende tiet van het meisje in de Fa-reclame. Het moet ergens diep in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw zijn geweest. Dezelfde tijd dat de Pacifisties Socialistiese Partij ook zoiets deed met een koe op de achtergrond. Nu, een dikke veertig jaar later is de…
While Jan Martens' latest work, The Common People (2016), was at Amsterdam's Stadschouwburg last weekend, Utrecht's Theater Kikker is showing two older hits this week: Sweat Baby Sweat (2011) and The dog days are over (2014). Sweat and Dogdays are blockbusters and have already toured the world. At Kikker, they can now be seen as part of a...
The South Pole does not score high with holidaymakers. But perhaps that will change, if at least many children see Ice Palace (6+) by youth dance group plan d-. Renamed 'd-travels' for the occasion, plan d- proposes an adventurous trip. It takes the dancer/tour leader with his billboard some effort to get people excited about it, but already...
‘Voor we aan de daadwerkelijke presentatie beginnen, geef ik u eerst wat facts & figures’, zegt Els van der Plas, algemeen directeur van Nationale Opera & Ballet. ‘Nee, niet de alternative facts’, voegt ze er gevat aan toe. De geest van de Amerikaanse president zal deze middag nog vaker door de Stopera waren. Van der Plas memoreert de successen die…
Ruth Mackenzie has achieved an enormous amount in the short time she has been boss of Holland Festival. I've experienced the festival now since the late 1990s and watched it evolve from something very personal and sometimes obscure (under Ivo van Hove), to an ethereal feast of sizzling aesthetics (with Pierre Audi), to what it...
The performance PARA | DISO Revisited is hard to get out of your system. The sneering angel, the ecstasy of the female dancers, the noble classical knight. And sublime dance. Man, man, man. La Divina Commedia revisited PARA | DISO Revisited is a reworking of youPARA | DISO from 2010. The work concludes a series of four volumes inspired by Dante Alighieri's...
The theme of this final day of the Moving Futures festival sounds and somewhat theoretical: self-reflection and cultural identity. But in the abundant programme, it becomes clear how directly these words touch everyone. Macho Macho That is immediately clear in Macho Macho by Bosnian-Dutch playwright Igor Vrebac. In it, two performers seek their way in a world of male idealism....
Choreographer Arthur Rosenfeld bid farewell (for now) to a long dance career on 5 February 2017. One that relies mostly on his wife, dancer Ana Teixido. Such a farewell does not go without a fight with Rosenfeld. Leaving the field for another, who really wants that? Exit pursued by a bear, based on an eccentric directorial cue from Shakespeare, continues until the...
If there is one subject that has been endlessly elaborated on in dance, it is the many ways in which people form relationships with each other. Nevertheless, it is good that Moving Futures has put this theme firmly at the centre of the third day of the festival. It is inexhaustible, can always inspire in new ways and even in a...
Dance and technology. That is the theme on the second day of the Moving Futures festival. After seeing this broadly composed programme, I no longer doubt that there is such a thing as 'progress in art'. This is not just about the new means artists can use to shape their work. The...
The Amsterdam version of the Moving Futures festival 2017 has begun. For four days, young dance makers show all sides of their creativity. I experienced a cosmic journey with (SHIFT), was cheered by Third Culture Kid by Joseph Simons and saw the excitement slumped a little by a piano at the end of Your Mother at my Door by Timothy and...
Dance artist Amos Ben-Tal and songwriter Spinvis put together an intriguing talk show. And it does not go at all as you expect. Because what happens when you get a very Dutch songwriter and an Israeli choreographer with a ballet past to produce a joint performance? Right. The talk show The light in the room stays on. We the audience, are a talk show audience. Also on stage are...
‘Veel mensen vinden hedendaagse dans moeilijk. Vooral voorstellingen van jonge makers die experimenteren en nieuwe wegen zoeken. Op het Moving Futures festival kan iedereen ontdekken hoe dans je kan raken. We doen dit niet alleen door goede voorstellingen van jonge makers te laten zien. We bieden ook activiteiten eromheen, contextprogramma’s. Daarmee geven we het publiek handvatten om een verbinding te leggen met…
In contemporary dance, artistic leaders are often in place for decades, at least in the Netherlands. This week, Leo Spreksel announced his departure from Korzo, as of September 2017. After 29 years, the director and programmer of dance at the theatre and production house in The Hague is calling it a day, because "in the Netherlands, commercialisation is pushing away the voice of artists: procedures and formats are...
On 20 December, the general membership meeting of Coöperatief Cultureel Persbureau unanimously decided to accept a cooperation offer from The Co-operative/House of Journalism and Reporters Online. This is an important step in the development of independent cultural journalism. Culture Press, as the Cooperative Cultural Press Agency is known on the internet and social media, is growing significantly as a result. The...
Het Veem is a small but important theatre and unofficial production house overlooking the Houthavens in Amsterdam. The house has long been home to internationally operating contemporary performing arts. A place where the artist and his or her experimental work are still central. Since Anne Breure became director in 2014, it bears the addition House of Performance. With...
You instinctively flee from death, but in 'Have I been here before' choreographer Marie Goeminne actually brings death close. Not threatening, but close to your skin and hand in hand with life. She shows death and life in an intimate entanglement. Three dancers merge in a stream, concentrated and vulnerable, in which life arises,...
Ik vertel je hier waarom je naar Parsifal zou moeten gaan, en niet eens alleen vanwege het object van Anish Kapoor dat erin een rol speelt. En je zou trouwens ook een keer naar toneel kunnen. Met De Meiden. Fel theater van ons allerbeste theatergezelschap (volgens de Amerikanen). De Nationale Opera, Parsifal (opera) Vier jaar geleden bezocht ik Pierre Audi’s…
'What is the relevance of dance?' Since the conference The Relevance of Dance in March 2016, this question has been haunting my mind. Above all, I want to know why more people should dance. Therefore, I decide to put the question to inspiring and progressive dance teachers. The second one I question is Andrew Greenwood, who six months ago...
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