Alles waarvoor mensen een podium betreden.
Dit schrijfsel mag dan ietwat vreemd beginnen, het eind gaat heel andere beelden oproepen: Er wordt van alles intern in gang gezet als ik me in het kleinste kamertje van mijn huis bevind. Dat komt doordat er – naast leuke, lieve kaarten van vrienden en familie – ook knipsels op de deur hangen, theatergidsen, krantenkaterns en slimmige magazines rondslingeren. Zo…
The longer I walk around in the theatre industry, the more I find out that these so-called crisis in the performing arts is not down to the people who make theatre, nor to the people who may or may not come to watch it. Good will is omnipresent. The only real cause for a breach of trust between actors and audiences that I can point to is the nineteenth-century invention we call 'theatre'. Let me explain.
De videoclip trok ooit beroemde regisseurs naar muziek en andersom bleken videoclipregisseurs later ook grote filmmakers. Maar ondanks youtube en vimeo, heeft de videoclip het laatste decennium aan impact en belang verloren. Verwonderlijk is dat niet, want waar eens MTV bepaalde welke (muziek)beelden we te zien kregen, bepalen we dat nu zelf. MTV zendt alleen nog maar op themakanalen muziek…
Het Orkest van het Oosten mag een half miljoen rood staan. Dat is de uitkomst van de ‘Stedelijke commissie’ in Enschede. Over twee weken neemt de gemeenteraad formeel het besluit, maar met de toezegging van een ruime meerderheid is elk debat dan verspilde tijd en kan het voorstel beter meteen aan de lijst hamerstukken worden toegevoegd. Dat had een maand…
This was our April fool's joke for 2016. Thanks for sharing! During renovation work at the Stadsbank van Lening building on Amsterdam's Oudezijds Voorburgwal, a manuscript of a work of poetry that has since been attributed by literary historians to Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) has recently turned up. It is a rough, unfinished version of a play entitled 'Alva' and is dated around...
At five, he started playing the violin, and after only six months he gave his first performance. At 17, he was the youngest participant ever to win the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 2002, Vadim Repin, born in Novosibirsk in 1971, played at Willem-Alexander and Máxima's wedding concert, together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Three years ago, Repin started his own...
'Write about that!' How many times have I heard or read that as a cultural journalist. From very good and interesting people, of course. People who make beautiful things, too. But also people who assume that I, as a writer on a website, will therefore immediately hop on a train to a remote corner of the country...
Op 4 maart 2016 verscheen haar debuut-cd Varmints, een mengeling van nieuw-klassiek, elektronica en avant-pop, waarna de Schots-Canadese Anna Meredith (1978) met lof werd overladen. ‘Een van de meest vernieuwende geesten in moderne Britse muziek’, schreef een criticus. ‘Levendig en caleidoscopisch’, schreef een ander. ‘Uitzonderlijke soundscapes van synthesizers, beats en andere dingen’ repte een derde. Een vierde had het gevoel…
As soon as soprano Miah Persson enters the stage, we hear a loud, electronic crack. Is a branch breaking here, one of composer Michel van der Aa's (Oss, 1970) favourite sounds? Or is it a stone crashing into another after all? Boulders play a major role in his latest opera Blank Out; at the end, they crush with thunderous roar
Grzegorz Marciniak, een muziekmaker die het volgen waard is. En dat doe ik sinds 2006. Toen zag en hoorde ik zijn werk voor het eerst in Den Haag uitgevoerd door het toenmalige Woof-collectief. Ik maakte contact, het klikte. In 2007 ging Picca in première. Een werk dat Marciniak voor ondergetekende schreef (blokfluit-solo). En ook bij mijn meest recente ervaring, februari…
How far can you go in using Shakespeare's name for a theatre production? Or rather, when does an adaptation of a classic stop being an adaptation, and when should you just come out and say that you have written your own play? And then, if you've reported in your four-year plan that in 2016 you will be doing a Shakespeare...
Last weekend's workshop The Relevance of Dance, organised by Dansmakers Amsterdam and the European Dance House Network, sought to answer the question: What is the relevance of contemporary dance art for audiences? Suzy Blok, general director of Dansmakers Amsterdam, opened the atelier by talking about the desire of production houses to bring dance more to the...
Aaltje van Buuren enjoys her busy life. She is the wife of successful star conductor Jaap van Zweden. She dedicates her charm and energy worldwide to non-profit organisations that improve the daily lives of autistic children. Music and art are forces that run like a thread through everything she touches. The family can be seen every week...
Pierre Audi is the creator of the first edition of the Opera Forward Festival - OFF for short - which is being presented to the public for the first time as part of De Nationale Opera and its 50th anniversary. Opera as an art of inspiration is the supporting idea behind the ten-day festivities. The School During the Pre Launch OFF...
On Monday 14 March, Theatre Rotterdam will present its plans for the upcoming arts plan period. On Thursday 10 March, Bianca van der Schoot already told about it during a public meeting with a class of Utrecht theatre scholars. What became clear from her story is that she has little desire to start bringing world repertoire with the old Ro theatre share in Theatre Rotterdam. She has a lot of...
The Zuiderstrandtheater in The Hague premiered Ballet Blanc on 8 March. It is the new full-length performance by The Dutch Junior Dance Division. The young dancers tour the country with a collage of fifteen short pieces. Blanc is the unifying factor in a fresh mix of classical and modern ballet, with tragedy, poignancy and humour. The juniors...
The stupidest question I come across all too often is THE question: what is the tangible outcome of your projects for audiences? Or more broadly drawn: what can art & culture measurably add to lives? Add that question together with the current clamour for 'utility in art' and I get accutely red pimples from these non-answerable questions. And I...
Mothers and daughters: is there a closer bond? Their lives are an extension of each other. Mother treads the same path her daughter will later follow. She is a friend, to whom one can always fall back. But underneath, a suffocating power struggle rages, in which they hold and attack each other. Jealousy and competition gnaw at the domestic idyll. Escape is impossible. It is a...
What does the future of opera look like? The National Opera tries to answer this in the Opera Forward Festival: new visions new voices, organised for the first time this year to mark its 50th anniversary. The ten-day festival kicks off 15 March with the world premiere of Only the Sound Remains by Kaija Saariaho. About...
1. Kwatta, Mariken (youth) The question was not whether Nijmegen youth theatre company Kwatta would ever venture into Mariken van Nieumeghen, but when. The bar was set high with successful previous book and film adaptations, but where the medieval Mariken needs two miracles, Jibbe Willems' adaptation is thrilling even without a fall from great heights and the miraculous release of iron rings...
Huge, deep black shadows fall on a backdrop of calligraphic foliage in every conceivable shade of grey. Director Peter Sellars intently follows the movements of the three main characters during a run-through of 'Feather Mantle' at De Nationale Opera. Together with 'Always Strong', this short opera forms the double-bill Only the Sound Remains by Kaija Saariaho with which 15 March's Opera Forward Festival...
The great thing about visiting openings is that sometimes you get to experience something that no one expected. Like at the mini-exhibition 'Bep Rietveld, daughter of...' at Kunstruimte Kuub in Utrecht. It features 72 paintings by the daughter of Gerrit Rietveld, the man who gave De Stijl its furniture and houses. This Bep, not without merit with the paintbrush, created a...
On 30 January, choreographer Erik Kaiel was presented with the prestigious Victor Award at IPAY, an international youth theatre fair in Canada, for his performance Tetris. "It's a kind of Buchmesse for youth theatre. If you get picked up there, you go around the world" says Kaiel. Kaiel (1973) has been working in the Netherlands since 2003 and has so far produced his work at...
'The most important thing is to bring music to the audience,' says Daniele Gatti on Thursday 25 February during the presentation of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's new season. 'Amsterdam meets Gatti' we read on large posters behind him. This does not appear to be a word too many: the brand-new principal conductor will be involved in all the series, travels on the tour RCO meets Europe,...
When such a broad-minded prof (composer, poet and more) as Hamel, along with allies, offers his thoughts on a subject close to my heart, I can't help but run to the bookstore (fortunately, one of them ordered without my purchase guarantee, because hey, imagine if it turns out to be a dry fact summary)....
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