Alles waarvoor mensen een podium betreden.
At last. The Nation, the hyperactual theatrical serial with which the revamped Nationale Toneel, sorry Theatre, presents itself to the country, feels like a refreshing splash of water on a soggy day. Newly appointed boss Eric de Vroedt lives up to his reputation by delivering a work that will no doubt draw new audiences into the theatres. An audience spoiled by...
Boris Charmatz has been a guest at many editions of the Holland Festival with impressive, provocative, socially engaged, finely composed and conceptually strong dance performances: Aatt enen tionon and Con forts fleuve (both in 2001); 50 years of dance (2010), Enfant (2011) and Manger (2015). His latest choreography, danse de nuit, premiered in Geneva last September. During the Holland Festival...
Traditionally, the AVROTROS Friday Concert marks the festive end of the season with a joint concert by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor. On 9 June, American star conductor David Robertson leads them through Maurice Ravel's compelling ballet Daphnis et Chloé in the final concert. In addition, the orchestral work L'Ascension by his compatriot Olivier Messiaen and a selection of...
A prologue, two dialogues and a long interlude. All clearly connected. In a performance by Romeo Castellucci - it doesn't have to get any crazier. Italian playwright Castellucci prefers to make theatre that is not easily or even misunderstood. He does not shy away from shock effects. Visually overwhelming, but a clear line is often hardly recognisable. So that promises...
It is just about the most beautiful music written. Claudio Monteverdi's Marian Vespers have enchanted even the most untrained listener since their premiere in 1610. Raphael Pichon is a young French conductor acclaimed for his shimmering yet refined musicality and more than absolute hearing. Everything director Pierre Audi touches usually turns to gold
'Everyone has an Apple. Everyone has a Corneille. Nobody has a Van Merwijk. So the question is whether Van Merwijk is any good. Nobody knows that. Then the challenge is for a few great people to buy a Van Merwijk. After that, everyone wants to have a Van Merwijk. When that happens, I'll go back to making other work, because I want...
Veel dansstudenten hebben een eenzijdig beeld van wat een succesvolle danscarrière inhoudt. Namelijk: dansen bij het dansgezelschap van je dromen, in een theater, op een podium. Dat vertelt Ulrika Kinn Svensson, artistiek adviseur van de Fontys Dansacademie in Tilburg tijdens Inclusive Dance Event. Maar wegens de zwakke arbeids- en inkomenspositie, mede door wegvallende subsidies, gaat die droom niet altijd op. Er is…
Roaring warriors, pomp and circumstance, a tough drama set against the historical background of the Viking era. That goes down like cake (or beer) with the Danes who see themselves as direct heirs of the Vikings, the organisers must have thought. And that is why the play Røde Orm is being presented as one of the highlights in...
You have punk. You have performance art. Best Gaap, because often little remains of that ferocious wildness that dominated the European scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Marina Abramovic we now see mainly as that silent lady on that chair opposite her long-lost lover. We have forgotten that she once offered her audience razors to cut her...
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.…
Vorig jaar barstte een kleine rel los toen het Holland Festival bekendmaakte in 2019 een grootschalig project op te tuigen rond de opera Licht van Karlheinz Stockhausen. Modernemuziekhaters schreeuwden moord en brand, want wie zit er nou te wachten op de akelige piepknor van de Duitse notensmid? Toch ontstond er meteen een run op de kaarten. Ook na zijn dood…
Een van de hoogtepunten van het jaar is altijd de presentatie van ‘de cijfers’ door de Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwdirecties (VSCD). Die zijn namelijk onverminderd positief. Al jaren. En dus is het al jaren een uitdaging om uit te zoeken waarom die positieve cijfers zo lastig te rijmen zijn met het beeld van de werkelijkheid. Dat helemaal niet zo…
Sinds 2012 organiseert Yoram Ish-Hurwitz elke zomer het Oranjewoudfestival in Friesland. De even ondernemende als avontuurlijke pianist maakt daarbij de natuur tot onlosmakelijk onderdeel van de muzikale beleving. Van woensdag 1 tot en met maandag 5 juni verrast hij zijn publiek opnieuw met concerten op bijzondere locaties. Verspreid over het gebied spelen ruim 120 Nederlandse en internationale topmusici de mooiste…
De wind waait er harder dan elders. Het licht is er grijzer dan verderop. De Londense zuidoever, jarenlang ‘de andere kant’ van de chique binnenstad van de Engelse hoofdstad is in de vorige eeuw onderwerp geweest van diverse vernieuwingsgolven. Het begon in 1951met de bouw van concertgebouw ‘Southbank Centre‘, na jaren van gesteggel in 1976 gevolgd door het in dezelfde…
In de serie (On)gehoord presenteer ik elke maand buitengewoon geluid dat niet onopgemerkt en onbesproken blijft. In deze aflevering: Plan Kruutntoone, Horse Lords, Luc Ferrari, Anemone Tube, Jaap Vink en Kraftwerk in 3D. Plan Kruutntoone – Wat Doen de Handen (LP op esc.rec.) “weer wakker geworden. xenakis is er niks bij. mezelf en spullen schuiven op zoek naar veiligheid. hoe…
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....
Using a television interview as a libretto for an opera? Quirky composer Huba de Graaff does not shy away from it. On 22 June, her opera The Naked Shit Songs will have its world premiere. It is based on a 1996 conversation by Theo van Gogh with British artist duo Gilbert & George. Due to lack of interest, De Graaff wanted her opera with a...
Een vervaarlijk geronk kondigt de opkomst van action-hero Chuck aan. En er is werkelijk niemand die zo cool in een karretje op kan komen rijden, half terreinwagen en half golfkar, als Ko van de Bosch. Met zijn te lange, te grijze haren in een staart en een te bruin lijf in een zwartleren motorpak, belichaamt hij onmiddellijk de jeugd op…
Netflix and HBO are now purveyors of our conversations with friends, family and colleagues. The ultimate icebreaker at a party with strangers is talking about series, about beloved characters. Is Jon Snow still alive? Where is Barb? Having seen the first two working performances of 'The Nation', I have a strong impression that in Eric de Vroedt I have a fellow lover...
'Stop it. The fewer awards people give each other, the better.' Ingmar Heytze, poet, is clear: 'Within every conceivable genre, there are already big enough prizes. If you ask me, they should restrict that Nobel Prize to science from now on.' So on the final evening of the International Literature Festival in Utrecht (ILFU) next Saturday, it will be all about those...
Friday 12 May kicks off the twelfth edition of Operadagen Rotterdam. Titled Lost & Found, the ten-day festival is dedicated to current refugee issues. I selected three operas by Calliope Tsoupaki, Annelies van Parys and Claron McFadden, strong women whose work deserves to be heard (and seen). The fear of the unknown is as old as the...
In the Volkskrant of 8 May 2017, Sarah Sluimer lets loose. The opinion maker (for Volkskrant and De Correspondent, among others) used to be a theatre maker and now wonders aloud why she is a bit done with theatre. Because she actually writes that down. I quote: 'I breathed theatre. I ate performances and was convinced that what was there,...
The play La Democrazia in America (to be seen at the Holland Festival on 4, 5 and 6 June) is of course about democracy in America, but actually more about The Democracy in America. And the two should not be confused. For The Democracy in America is a 1,200-page book by French jurist De Tocqueville. This...
It is dark. Basses thump. An intoxicatingly sweet female perfume hangs in the air, a child cries. AquaSonic has just started, and already I want to leave. What possesses a musician to go head-to-head? Our Danish correspondent went to find out. AquaSonic is an ode to water, played by Between Music, a collective of five Danish musicians. They make...
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