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‘We dachten dat het een goed idee was om na anderhalf jaar ellende niet meteen te beginnen met het meest kritische perspectief, maar juist te benadrukken hoe goed het was om weer bij elkaar te zijn.’ In deze podcast blikken Marijn Lems en Wijbrand Schaap met Guy Weizman terug op zijn ‘Staat van het Theater’, de traditionele opening van het…
Ja, het is waar, ook dit jaar de try-out van de oudejaarsconference in Concordia.
Als je in onbekende wateren wilt navigeren is het goed om een kaart mee te nemen. Mijn vader was een visser, hij las nauwelijks, maar dat is wat hij me vertelde. Nu ik naar Amsterdam kom is dat ook het eerste wat ik doe: een kaart maken. Welke musea zijn er, is er een cool restaurant, is er nieuwe architectuur?…
Art should challenge. The National Theatre explores the limits of virtual child pornography with The Nether: can you live 'without consequences'?
We hebben het over de niet-bezoeker van theater. Omdat het er vorige week over ging op Theaterfestival Boulevard en daarna op sociale media naar aanleiding van dit bericht. Wie zich daarover heel sterk uitliet, was toneel- en scenarioschrijver Jan Veldman (o.a. Theatergroep Jan Vos). ‘Ik denk dat het elitair vinden van theater een elitair idee is, en in ieder geval…
According to Linde van Schuppen, philosopher and linguist, medics do not really listen to people with psychosis. At least, they do listen to someone suffering from obvious delusions, but that is to establish that the person is indeed off the track. 'But, how then?" is the question a psychiatrist or neurologist is not trained to answer, she argues. That is why she is doing her PhD.
One of the very best things about Festival Boulevard is the variety of programming. Theatre, dance, music, youth performances, mime, comedy, it all mixes together. And the festival offers just as much space to young makers as to the old hands. So you get a good overview of what the up-and-coming generation of theatre makers has to offer....
The permanent site of Boulevard's festival centre has largely turned into a construction site this year. This forced the organisers to move to Zuiderpark. Although this is a bit outside the city centre, it is much more spacious and green than the Parade square. It gives the festival a nice feeling of air, space and proximity to the...
The vast majority of Dutch adults never go to the theatre. Interestingly enough, the question among theatre people is never really about why people don't go to the theatre. After all, our arts sector is a supply market. At an art school, you are not trained to please the public, but to express your most individual emotion. And then preferably...
Bosses start to look like their dogs. Or vice versa. Or owners like dogs who look like them. Or vice versa. Either way. If you want proof of this statement, rush to Theatre Festival Boulevard where John Buijsman plays the gem 'Cosmic Cowboy', assisted by Kees, a labradoodle. Or something that should pass for that. John Buijsman is one of the...
I have seen a lot of genre mash-ups in my lifetime. But I think a danced documentary about a musician was a first for me. The focus of choreographer Jan Martens in his new dance solo Elisabeth Gets Her Way is the famous harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka. The Polish left for Paris at the age of 23. There she set her sights on...
One of the things that make Boulevard so special in the Dutch festival landscape is its generous focus on Belgian performances. Where Dutch theatres programme less and less work from across the southern borders, Boulevard continues to offer a stage to a large number of Belgian makers. Learning to live together This produces very varied work again this year. At the heart of the festival is...
There is a huge amount happening in theatre, this summer, as many summer festivals have special corona editions where they show a lot of what was made in attic rooms last year during the forced closure of theatres. One such show was Die Hexe, by Club Gewalt, a fresh point theatre band/theatre collective that is/was showing at Theatre Festival Boulevard this summer. Nerd...
Think Pussy Riot, think Rammstein, maybe think Nina Hagen before she found Jesus and mix that up nice and fierce. Then you get something that is basically an insane festival act. Raging female punk in a beer- and smoke-soaked nightclub, ferocious moshpits full of people who really have something to dance out of their souls. It's all in there...
Het moest dé grote doorbraak van Ivo van Hove worden op Broadway. En dat driegde het ook te worden, maar het lot heeft anders beslist. Vandaag werd via het Amerikaanse shownieuws van Variety bekend dat West Side Story, in de moderne, rauwe versie van Ivo van Hove, niet weer zal worden hernomen. Ondanks een juichende ontvangst en vrijwel uitverkochte zalen…
Guilherme Miotto is artistiek leider van Corpo Maquina, een bijzonder dansgezelschap dat is gevestigd in Breda en Tilburg. Dit jaar staat hij, onder andere, met de voorstelling Tak. op Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch. Een voorstelling, voortkomend uit een eerder project in een stadswijk van Den Bosch. Zes vrouwen met wie hij daar werkte, vormen nu een ensemble waarmee hij…
White balls are quite in the news, lately. For instance, they molest compatriots as a holiday pastime. Or they shout 'Snollebollekes' at a black champion. So the fact that white balls can also be fine is news. You can experience it at Festival Boulevard, where in a small, narrow tent, thousands of white Styrofoam balls, driven by huge fans, give you a fine massage shower,...
For a year and a half, there was hardly any playing, festival tents remained in mothballs and artists were busy doing living room concerts or attic sessions on Zoom. Now everything is allowed out again and the discharge is just barely there. Unaccustomedness characterises the fresh start of Theatre Festival Boulevard, which has moved to a park south of downtown Bossche for the next few years,...
This podcast is recorded in English. For those who do not speak the language, or who do not have time to listen to the full podcast, here are some quotes. 'Originally I didn't have a title. Someone came up with 'Born to' and then I thought it would be nice to put 'manifesto' after it. After all, it is about appearing,...
Naomi Velissariou (1984) zou tijdens het Bossche Festival Boulevard 2021 eigenlijk met meer voorstellingen staan. Dit jaar zou haar hele trilogie ‘Permanent Destruction’ in een setting als clubrave worden uitgevoerd. Woest muziektheater, gebaseerd op toneelauteurs Sarah Kane en Heiner Müller, en afgesloten met het meer ingetogen werk ‘Pain against Fear’. Alle delen zijn lovend ontvangen door publiek en pers, maar…
Theatre festival Boulevard is going ahead this summer, just like last year. Everything is adapted to 'corona': safe at one-and-a-half metres, placarded, with registration for catering, but still just about a hundred performances. In this podcast, I speak to Nina Aalders and Tessa Smeulers, responsible for Boulevard's programming. They remained at the helm after the much-loved and...
On the day that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the world's Facebook, announced his launch to the 'Metaversum', in order to trounce his collegatechies Bezos, Musk and Branson, who had only had a little sniff of the Universe, I attended the performance 'Never work again' by the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel in Utrecht Leidsche Rijn. In these times of lockdown and...
That Julidans is experiencing a strong edition was actually already evident with the bold and delightful opening night. That performance invited you to think about what dance is. Making Dances - Dancing Replies makes you think about the same question, but in a very different way. Dance On Ensemble, the Berlin-based company with dancers over 40, performed works by...
Met de hedendaagse componisten Kaija Saariaho en Rebecca Saunders, jazzpianisten Brad Mehldau en Vijay Iyer, de groepen Musikfabrik, The Gurdjeff Ensemble en Ensemble Modern en gitarist Julian Lage rolt festival November Music de rode loper uit voor een grote diversiteit aan internationale toppers. Verder is er weer een Bosch Requiem, ditmaal gecomponeerd door Hawar Tawfiq en uitgevoerd door philharmonie zuidnederland…
Je Maintiendrai. Holland's motto of arms ('Ik zal handhaven') adorns the beautiful hall of Utrecht's old Post Office, now Library. The motto also watched over the premiere of the performance 'Solomon's Judgement' with which Ilay den Boer now returns to the public. After all, he was not here for a while. He worked for just under a year at the IND, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service,...
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