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Aluin leerde het vak in de kroeg, de beste plek voor elk theatertalent

Theatergroep Aluin bestaat 25 jaar. Het gezelschap, ontstaan op de Utrechtse acteursopleiding, vierde dit op de plek waar het allemaal begon: het Utrechtse Theatercafé De Bastaard. Zondag 23 oktober hernamen ze hun eerste voorstelling ooit, een toneelstuk getiteld ‘Het’, gebaseerd op de novelle Het beest in de jungle van Henry James. Over een man die denkt dat hij voorbestemd is… 

Cello Biënnale opent spectaculair: Maarten Mostert pakt het graag groots aan

De Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, het grootste cellofeest ter wereld dat zich van 20 tot en met 29 oktober afspeelt in het Amsterdamse Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, is begonnen en het loopt er nu al storm. Tien dagen lang geven 27 internationale cellosolisten, 6 orkesten, 11 ensembles, 1 koor en vele musici uit 26 landen ruim 800 optredens. Van ‘s ochtends… 

Koele Manon Lescaut bij De Nationale Opera

Voor een uitverkochte Stopera presenteerde De Nationale Opera maandag 10 oktober zijn nieuwe productie van Manon Lescaut van Giacomo Puccini. Voor de regie tekent Andrea Breth, de muzikale leiding is in handen van Alexander Joel. De hoofdrol wordt gezongen door de Nederlandse sopraan Eva-Maria Westbroek, die na afloop luidruchtig werd toegejuicht. Het slechte nieuws Eerst maar het slechte nieuws. Het… 

Ronald Wintjens. Photo: Tycho Merijn Roest

Ronald Wintjens: 'More face for youth dance and performance art at Dance Days'

'Not only work has disappeared, but also knowledge and craft - the whole perspective is disappearing. While the Netherlands as a dance country was renowned in the world precisely because it had the luxury to research, to build, to stimulate.' Ronald Wintjes, the brand-new director of De Nederlandse Dansdagen, worries. What about the future of dance?.... 

Our actors are burnt out, audiences have lost their way. Save the theatre!

Dit stuk gaat me heel veel vrienden kosten, maar het moet er even uit. Het gaat namelijk slecht met de toneelsector. En ik zie steeds beter waar dat aan ligt. En dat is nu eens niet Halbe Zijlstra. Of de VVD, of de bevolking, of Nederland in het algemeen, dan wel de tijdgeest. En het ligt ook niet aan Netflix… 

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Maartje van Weegen brengt als enige beweging in ‘Dagboek van een cello’

Naar een idee van Marieke Stordiau, fagottiste in het Hexagon Ensemble, schrijft Joost Galema, journalist en programmeur, teksten die over boomdromen, muziek en tijd gaan. Zo ontstaat het Dagboek van een cello, een stuk dat de luisteraar uitdaagt tot nadenken over de verbanden tussen natuur en muziek. De première van Dagboek van een cello vond plaats in het Amesfoortse theater De… 

'Eyes Wide Shut': Film and book battle on stage, and music wins

'Let me lament my fate in tears. And let me long for freedom.' What would my preference be: book, film or play? That question fascinated me when it turned out that Toneelgroep Maastricht had adapted Arthur Schnitzler's book Droomnovelle and Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut based on it into a new play. Actually, it was not a fair... 

‘D3US/X\M4CHIN4’: bijzondere lichtheid in nieuw werk van Fernando Belfiore/Dansmakers

Een prachtige voorstelling vol hilariteit, spanning en lichtheid, maar die me toch met een droevig gevoel de wereld instuurt. Het lijkt of de vier vrouwen in D3US/X\M4CHIN4 van choreograaf/regisseur Fernando Belfiore zich in het land van de oneindige mogelijkheden bevinden. Alles kunnen ze. Willen ze ook alles? Zijn ze nog zichzelf als ze alles kunnen? Hoe voelt het als de aarde… 

Ode aan zieldoorklievende klanken van György Kurtág

Op 19 februari 2016 vierde György Kurtág zijn 90e verjaardag. Hoewel broos, werkt de Hongaarse grootmeester van zieldoorklievende noten nog altijd aan zijn eerste en enige opera, Fin du Partie (Endgame), naar het gelijknamige toneelstuk van Samuel Beckett. De proloog ging alvast in première tijdens een groots verjaardagsfestival aan de Liszt Academie in Boedapest waar hij ooit zelf studeerde. Donderdag 13 oktober presenteren… 

NDT 1 in topvorm met seizoensopener ‘Stage One’, maar einde stelt teleur

Nederlands Dans Theater 1 opent het seizoen met Stage One. Een drieluik zonder huischoreografen Léon & Lightfoot, maar met drie merendeels jonge, avontuurlijke dansmakers. Muziek is een belangrijke factor in alle drie de balletten. De avond opent met Thin Skin, de ode van choreograaf Marco Goecke aan punkicoon Patti Smith. Cultuurpers recenseerde het stuk vorig jaar (€). De nu flemende,… 

Blistering music on new CD Calliope Tsoupaki

The Greek-Dutch Calliope Tsoupaki (1963) strings one magnificent piece together with another. In 2008, she broke through for good with her impressive Lucas Passion, in which she organically incorporates Greek Orthodox chant into an otherwise modern idiom. Six years later, she scored equally high with the oratorio Oidipus at Kolonos, composed for the Nederlandse Bachvereniging. And recently she released the CD Triptychon on the... 

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Alarm in Amsterdam: Dance talent flees the country

Today, Amsterdam Dance City sent a fire letter to funds and policymakers. Because things are going hard in the wrong direction with talent development. Especially independent choreographers lose out in the new subsidy plans. While these artists are already struggling to survive. Their own economic situation is hopeless and there are no good independent facilities to stage performances. 

Bombyx Mori, a brilliant explosion between something and nothing

While things are rumbling in the Amsterdam dance and performance world due to a total lack of solid support for development and experimentation (see Alarm Letter), choreographer Ola Maciejewska is showing the impressive Bombyx Mori at Veem House of Performance this weekend. Maciejewska is a fine example of a talented maker who has taken refuge elsewhere because of the crumbling art climate in the Netherlands. After... 

Dance teacher Lenneke Gentle: 'Dance is seen too much as a performing art.'

'What is the relevance of dance?' Since the conference The Relevance of Dance in March 2016, this question has been haunting my mind. That weekend, the main topic of discussion was the relevance of dance as a performing art to watch. An approach that left me unsatisfied, because my main interest myself is to know what the relevance of dance as an activity... 

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Choreographer/artist Toer van Schayk is an inspired human being

The enthusiasm that characterised Toer van Schayk and his generation of choreographers is disappearing. With the programme Dutch Masters, the Dutch National Ballet is honouring an era. The success of Toer van Schayk and his generation If it is up to the public, the master ballets of the three great Van's (Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen and Toer van Schayk) may stay for a while longer. As one man stood... 

Composer Robin de Raaff makes world perish in 'Atlantis'

Friday 23 September will open the new season of the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert with the world premiere of Atlantis by Robin de Raaff. He composed this fifty-minute piece commissioned for this broadcasting series, for the Groot Omroepkoor and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, augmented by solo soprano and solo baritone. The text is largely taken from the poem of the same name by American Hart Crane,... 

Festival Musica Sacra offers little and big treasures

Festival Musica Sacra concluded on Sunday 18 September with a riveting performance of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Brockes-Passion. Conductor Peter van Heyghen led the Flemish ensemble Il Gardellino through the colourful work of this relatively unknown contemporary of Bach with great dedication and precision. With his lively rhythms, glowing arias and wonderfully beautiful chorales, Stölzel stabs his contemporary to the... 

Salome Dances for Peace Terry Riley: opening hit Musica Sacra

Thursday 15 September saw the kick-off of arts festival Musica Sacra in Maastricht. While I was in a traffic jam, Bobby Mitchell played the eighth and final movement of Frederik Rzewski's piano cycle The Road, who himself was present. It also marked the conclusion of last year's festival, which was dedicated to 'the road', the journey made by pilgrims ... 

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NITS turn sombre TING! into a dance party

TING! is a pitch-black anniversary spectacle by Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. But the NITS give the evening luster. Large billboards along the entrance to the Ferro Dome in Rotterdam still hint at the colourful history of the 70-year-old Scapino Ballet. Once inside the round gas holder, however, choreographer Ed Wubbe cuts straight to the chase with a world dipped in sombre tones. A... 

Hello, here Hilversum

Last weekend, more than 500 monuments in the Netherlands could be visited for free during the annual Open Monumentendag. Every year, this special day has a theme, this year it was 'Icons and Symbols'. After a thorough restoration, Hilversum's Studio 2 in the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep also opened its doors after 85 years. During the same week, a pop-up exhibition... 

Keistad Amersfoort - a kei in classical music?

When you think of Amersfoort, do you think of classical music? Um... A new initiative should change this. At the opening of the cultural season, Amersfoort Klassiek presented itself with a fine ambition: to profile the Keistad as a city of classical music. A great initiative as far as I am concerned, because Amersfoort does indeed have a lot to offer in the field of classical music. For instance, there is Amerfortissimo, the... 

Due to success re-runs: Conversations with my Mother

In 2013, production group Diamantfabriek and ensemble Nieuw Amsterdams Peil presented the full-length performance Conversations with my Mother. Director Matthias Mooij (1976-2014) and composer Benedict Weisser (1967) asked seven male authors to write a fictional telephone conversation with their mother. At the heart of the piece is the fundamental inequality of communication between mother and son. 'I advise all mothers and... 

Ariadne auf Naxos by the Nederlandse Reisopera is making history.

Many a director is at a loss when it comes to Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. This is not surprising. In the prologue, about three quarters of an hour long, the composer is told, via the 'Haushoffmeister' of Vienna's richest man, that he is supposed to perform his opera buffa simultaneously with the opera seria of the commedia dell'arte-like dance troupe of Zerbinetta.... 

Anthony Vine wins Gaudeamus Award #Gaud16

The 70th audition of the Gaudeamus Music Week ended Sunday 11 September in TivoliVredenburg with the presentation of the Gaudeamus Award. Director Henk Heuvelmans presented the prize for composers under thirty to American Anthony Vine (1988). The prize money of five thousand euros is intended for a new composition, to be performed during a subsequent edition. The jury, consisting of... 

Enchanting concert Silbersee in Pieterskerk Utrecht #Gaud16

A creak. A squeak. A plop. A cough. Genuflection. In Utrecht's Pieterskerk, the singers of Silbersee surround us with almost inaudible, mysterious sounds. The fragmentation evokes an atmosphere of a restless nocturnal forest. Does an owl screech there? The fabric condenses and the sound shifts colour as the singers buzz through cardboard tubes, blow mini harmonicas and shrill... 

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