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'I want to make the perpetrator relive the death of his victim.' Jens van Daele makes dance out of cruelly disturbed art project

by one of our members
14 April 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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Jens van Daele concludes his series of choreographies on the seven deadly sins with the performance Brides for Peace. The piece is based on the art performance Brides on Tour by Italian artists Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro. Hitchhiking and dressed in wedding dresses, with a text 'Peace' on their chests, they travelled from Milan to Jerusalem in 2008. The journey went...

So up close, and so small occupied as at La Petite Bande, Bach's St John Passion comes in in a very distinctive way.

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

I am not a connoisseur of the performance practice of Bach's St John Passion and know that other piece, the St Matthew Passion, mainly from a few TV excerpts and far-flung arrangements like the one by Platel's Pitié. So don't expect me to pass judgment on how good the version, which was seen and heard at the Concertgebouw on 5 April 2011, was, comparatively...

Current 93 survives music industry malaise on a diet of lots of love and dog-eared fans

by one of our members
4 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
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Reports of the collapsing music industry have been rife. Apparently, as a musician, you no longer survive on the basis of record sales (alone). In niche genres, however, it is easy to survive. So proves the band Current 93, which performed in Stadtgarten, Cologne, last week. Playing live a lot and selling merchandise seems to be the golden rule for...

In the Empire, a man always writes the same book and others wear the same shirt

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 March 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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We were deep in Amsterdam's canal belt for a while. After all, prominent resident of this city Rudi Fuchs was presented with a new booklet, written by himself together in the pages of De Groene Amsterdammer. This weekly magazine, by all accounts the oldest in the country, hosts the art connoisseur and former museum director in its pages. On it, he stomach writing about artworks that...

Arts sector comes up with its own interpretation of culture cuts: more money to venues and assessment by 'professionals' on 'objective grounds'.

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 March 201130 March 2022
6 min read
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After the cry, now the official piece. With a fitting, tad Den Uyl/Van Agt-like title: 'Less where it can be done, better where it must be done.' But let's not laugh too hard. It is quite brave what they have done. Gitta Luyten, Marianne Versteegh, Joke Hubert, Henk Scholten, Siebe Weide and Ben Holvast, together as bosses of arts umbrellas and cultural sector institutes also...

Death Horse puts on bold shoes and waves goodbye to Shakespeare in 'Bye Bye'

by one of our members
21 March 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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Amsterdam-based company Dood Paard itself translated Shakespeare's 'Othello' and waves goodbye to the bard with 'Bye Bye'. The quirky collective performs a one-and-a-half-hour topical comedy of manners and soul mirror, in which pointing at 'The Other' is central. Shakespeare's plays are quite often performed quite reverently. . Moreover, the adored 'bard' from Stratford-upon-Avon has bestowed on the English language countless expressions that have come to...

After You with Monic Hendrickx and Jaap Spijkers opens third edition of Go Short

by Leo Bankersen
16 March 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

To protest against the cuts in culture, you can of course shout loudly, but as an artist you can also just do what you are good at - make something really beautiful. Dutch film director Danyael Sugawara (Alles stroomt) opted for the latter and in a day and a half he and the best Dutch actors shot Na U, a small drama about unconditional love and...

Meanwhile in Damascus (Syria): theatre project Adelheid Roosen postponed 'due to student protest'

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 March 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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Dutch theatre-maker Adelheid Roosen, who is currently working with director Merel de Groot on a theatre project with Syrian art students, sees her project hindered because of student protests, although we are not entirely sure in the totalitarian country, from which we rarely receive news. The University of Damascus, where she is working on the project To tell You I call...

From Broadway musical to Lebanese Nightingale: Pierre Audi proudly shows the programme of the 2011 edition

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 March 20118 July 2016
1 min read
SPECIALS

His Dutch has never been his strongest point, and he doesn't like to speak either. Still, a Holland Festival press conference is something to be at, so we take Pierre Audi's lesser performing skills for granted. in February, he presented the programme of the 2011 edition, which promises to be a very nice one, and which hopefully will not be the...

One of the biggest Holland Festivals ever: 'patronage cannot exist without subsidy.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 March 20118 July 2016
1 min read
SPECIALS

Annet Lekkerkerker is business director of the Holland Festival. She puts on a six-million euro festival with a grant of over four million euros.

Taboo perpetuates health problems in music industry

by one of our members
4 March 201130 March 2022
3 min read
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Trouble with your voice? You don't talk about that. Because competition is so high in the music industry, there is a taboo on showing weaknesses. While the consequences would be much smaller if attention was given to it sooner. Time for the Muziek Centrum Nederland to ask the question at its music café on 3 March where...

Bettina Masuch on 'her' Springdance: 'Sometimes you wonder if you want to watch it, but then you watch it anyway....

by one of our members
3 March 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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Bettina Masuch (1964) has been artistic director of Springdance since 2008 and presents its third festival programme this year. We asked the woman behind this leading festival for innovative dance about this season's highlights. One of the performances she describes already makes us very curious: the Japanese street fighters of Contact Gonzo. Could just happen that somewhere between 14 and...

Province investigates: 'Utrecht worth 1 billion more thanks to arts sector'

by one of our members
28 February 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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Art costs money. The current Rutte administration has hammered that into it: it's expensive, no one but a small club of insiders goes there, and either way those are leftists or pseudo-leftists who can easily pay for it themselves. So much for the government's opinion. The opinion of the art world can be guessed: it is...

Superior played-in recordings are no guarantee of delivering a reference CD

by one of our members
24 February 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra currently has an unprecedented luxury: it is releasing CDs on two labels at the same time. How is that possible? The orchestra signed under its own name with BIS Records, the label with which the eccentric owner Von Bahr releases one extraordinary recording after another, while chief conductor Yannick Néze-Séguin is old-fashionedly under contract as maestro with EMI....

Sleeping on the stand, it happens in the best families.

by one of our members
15 February 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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Sometimes this is not about hard news, subsidy stress or downplaying for a while, but about other matters of art. Director and writer Erik Snel sent us the following sigh, now made topical again by

Yannick spurs his orchestra to a memorable and historic performance of Prokofiev's fifth symphony

by one of our members
12 February 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra is rated differently by conductors. Either you can get along with it and then it's a party, or it never becomes anything and then it stays at the occasional conducting session. Moreover, the musicians' enormous responsiveness is feared.

Reviewers on the fortieth Rotterdam International Film Festival: lots of Chinese loneliness and that Russian needs to hit the cinemas

by one of our members
6 February 201129 March 2022
2 min read
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OK. A pilot. When Jeroen Stout lost his Wednesday film fork in Radio Kunststof on Radio 1 in December 2010, we made him an offer he could easily refuse: to do something like that with us. But that we would then look for a way that suits The Dodo. After all, audio online may be the...

The deeper caverns of an adult film festival. Sven Schlijper on safari during IFFR 2011

by one of our members
5 February 201130 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, Literature House, SPECIALS

The International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its fortieth edition with a fitting XL programme. That Roman numeral XL not only indicates respectable age. It also says something about size: this fortieth also bursts with the intiguing programme, with screenings at no less than forty locations throughout the inner city of Rotterdam. Inside the festival walls is...

IFFR 2011 - Slotted screening of high-profile Egyptian drama 678

by Leo Bankersen
3 February 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

With a last-minute added screening of the Egyptian drama 678, which caused quite a stir in Cairo in December, Rotterdam was still able to catch up a little on Egyptian current events. 678 dispenses with the myth that Egyptian women can protect themselves from handsome men by wearing a headscarf. In the loosely fact-based...

NRC, Vandenende Foundation and Erasmus University show shocking lack of knowledge of art world

by one of our members
31 January 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Imeanwhile, the website has been updated, but since this post prompted that update, we are leaving it up.

Always good to support a new initiative. That's why we also welcomed the constructive plan from

IFFR 2011 - Tiger Eyes is beautiful ode to personal cinema

by Leo Bankersen
31 January 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Those who did not attend the first cinema screening of Tiger Eyes yesterday would do well to tune in to Nederland 2 on Tuesday night. That is the television premiere of this Frank Scheffer-directed anniversary film with which the Rotterdam Film Festival celebrates its fortieth edition. In Tiger Eyes, seven directors who together represent the kind of cinema that Rotterdam strongly...

"The VVD always stands up for the arts" - Guest column by Jeffrey Meulman on Rutte's bold statements

by one of our members
30 January 201129 March 2022
6 min read
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Jeffrey Meulman, director of The Dutch Theatre Festival TF, reacted to Rutte's statements in Buitenhof, which also seen on this site his. He then received a letter back

Read More ""The VVD always stands up for the arts" - Guest column by Jeffrey Meulman on Rutte's bold statements

Liszt's music is too important to ignore

by one of our members
30 January 201129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Fransz Litszt, born in 1811, explored every nook and cranny of the piano in his work, trying to incorporate every conceivable technique. As this contemporary of Carl Czerny, Niccolo Paganini and Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago this year, so there is a Liszt year. The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra bit the bullet of that on Friday 28 January,...

Ifigeneia had to die, according to the reconstruction by the jubilee Theatre Group Alum

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 January 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"That looks like a book series!" my wife spoke with some horror upon seeing the cover of 'The Revenge of Iphigenia'. And yes, it has to be said: in book format, the poster of Theatre Group Alum's latest theatre production is a bit too much of a stretch. From the A0 poster, you would never have thought so. Indeed: those posters of Alum, which...

Greek debutant and Polish veteran open International Film Festival Rotterdam (XL edition)

by Leo Bankersen
26 January 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

There are great skateboarding scenes in the Greek Wasted Youth with which the Rotterdam Film Festival opened its 40th edition tonight. Lyrical, but with that hearty dose of raw nervousness that suits this attempt to capture the sense of life of a city or perhaps an entire country in crisis. Wasted Youth, selected for the Tiger Competition for budding filmmakers, is the ostensible...

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