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Yasmeen Godder lets contrast between frightened individual and roaring group animal linger too much in dancers' minds

by Daniel Bertina
20 April 201129 March 2022
3 min read
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storm end come Itzik Giuli — Dancers by Yasmeen Godder - photo Itzik Giuli

She is on her knees. Shaking and trembling, she jerks backwards. With clawed fingers that seem to grasp at the void. Like a frightened cat. Shuffling, the dancer moves backwards in a semicircle on the white stage floor of Theatre Frog. One by one, the five others step onto the empty open stage, while the first dancer keeps looking anxiously at the audience. Thus begins 'Storm end come'. With this performance, Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder shows the overwhelming effects of fear on the bodies of her dancers. But it doesn't really get scary.

De Dodo doet verslag van de 27e editie van Springdance

by Madeleine Red
18 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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De 27e editie van Springdance in Utrecht is in volle gang. De recensenten van het Cultureel Persbureau zijn erbij en wonen dansvoorstellingen uit alle hoeken van de wereld bij. Zo bezocht Fransien van der Putt de openingsvoorstelling Sideways Rain van de Braziliaan Guilhermo Botelho en de jazzy tapdansvoorstelling van Broadwayster Savion Glover. Maarten Baanders woonde Studium van het Belgische danscollectief…

Parade maakt zich in schitterend weer op voor een nieuwe zomertoer

by one of our members
18 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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Terts Brinkhoff , oprichter van De Parade, heeft een stel loodsen aan de rafelrand van Weesp waarin alle tenten van het reizende festival opgeslagen liggen, als ze niet worden verhuurd. In april verzamelt de directie (nu Ray van Santen en Nicole van Vessum) daar alle artiesten van de aanstaande zomertournee voor een kennismaking. Persmomentje natuurlijk. En met het weer zoals…

Also at the Imagine festival: film fans become film financiers

by Leo Bankersen
17 April 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

In 1945 kon een groep Nazi’s dankzij gevorderde rakettechnologie naar de maan vluchten. Daar hebben ze zich schuilgehouden en binnenkort komen ze terug om de macht weer over te nemen. Op Imagine, het Amsterdamse festival voor de fantastische film, was daarvan alvast een voorproefje te zien. Als de voortekenen niet bedriegen belooft Iron Sky, zoals deze Finse productie heet, een…

“What’s wrong with ‘dark’?” Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir maakt je bewust van de donkere zijde van het toeschouwersbestaan

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir onderzoekt de ongelijke machtsverhouding tussen toeschouwers en danser. En gaat daar heel ver in. ‘Ongemakkelijk’ is nog wel de mildste omschrijving voor het werk ‘Soft Target’. Wat dus weer helemaal niet geldt voor een gesprek onder vier ogen.

“Op je knieën, gouverneurtje!” David Byrne wint rechtszaak tegen misbruik ‘Road to nowhere’

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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Het was zo fijn, het nummer ‘Road to nowhere’ van de jaren tachtig-band Talking Heads gebruiken om je politieke boodschap over te brengen. Nu ja. Ex-Senator en Gouverneur van Florida Charlie Crist dacht ermee weg te komen, en dat is hem in politieke zin misschien gelukt, financieel gaat hij er flink op achteruit. Het schadevergoedingsbedrag is niet bekend gemaakt, maar…

Je gelooft met je ogen niet, wat je met je oren hoort bij drummachine Savion Glover

by Fransien van der Putt
17 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
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“I don’t care about the body, I make music,” zei Savion Glover gisteravond, geleund tegen de deurpost van zijn kleedkamer na afloop van de voorstelling Bare Soundz. Het danspubliek in de Utrechtse Stadsschouwburg had moeite zich de mores van een jazzpubliek eigen te maken. Naarmate het concert vorderde, produceerde het steeds vaker aanmoedigende yels wanneer de drie tapdansers los gingen…

Dancers of Busy Rocks combine rigour with lightness and humour in 'Studium'

by Maarten Baanders
16 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
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Springdance 2 — Studium by Busy Rocks - photo Teodora Mihai

It is nothing new that simple movements, close to the everyday, are given a place in dance performances. But the particular way they are constructed and highlighted in 'Studium' by Belgian group Busy Rocks makes you look at them with fresh wonder.
Three of the four dancers, darkly dressed, lie down on the floor against each other in carefully crafted poses. On this construction of bodies, a dancer, dressed bright white, takes her place in a horizontal position. The lighting makes the body lying above seem to float. The underlying figures push up the limbs in such a way that the white figure moves as if she is walking. The manipulation is done with great precision. Looking at it with tilted head, one sees perfectly natural steps.

Cesc Gelabert revives dance innovation

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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Cesc Gelabert is a distinct figure in the world of modern dance. The Catalan with German roots makes a habit of keeping repertoire from the hot period of dance innovation alive, touring theatres and festivals with it for decades. So no Cinderella and Swan Lake for this engaging perfectionist, but dance steps from a Berlin...

Even voorstellen: het Dodo-team voor Springdance

by one of our members
16 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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We hebben voor deze tien dagen dansvernieuwing het puikje van de Nederlandse Dansournalistiek verzameld. Fransien van de Putt, bekend in België en Nederland, Maarten Baanders, bekend in de wijde omgeving van Leiden en Daniël Bertina, bekend in de wijde omgeving van Het Parool waren ij de opening van Springdance en waren zowaar blij met wat ze te zien kregen. …

How do you bring a river on stage?

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
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The opening of Springdance was a beautiful, continuous movement, from left to right across the stage of Utrecht's Stadsschouwburg theatre. Before the performance, Wijbrand Schaap spoke to choreographer Guilherme Botelho about this special dance piece.

Springdance opens with Botelho's Sideways Rain: fascinating intensity of dance, but lack of consistency

by Fransien van der Putt
15 April 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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Normandy 2010 — Scene from Sideways Rain by Botelho. Photo by Jean-Yves Genoud

From left to right, single people move across the stage, unceasingly and in droves sometimes, for an hour. It is addictive, this locomotion in Sideways Rain, the endless forward motion in one and the same direction of what appear to be ever-new people. Through subtle costume changes, a dark lighting scheme and Murcof's dramatic drones, it is very difficult at first to tell the 15 dancers apart. They become a fascinating stream of passers-by, on their way from somewhere to nowhere. Unlike the view along the public road, the dancers do not carry the usual bags, umbrellas and hats and, moreover, they move mainly on four legs.

'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
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Ik ben geen kenner van de uitvoeringspraktijk van Bachs Johannes Passion en ken dat andere stuk, de Mattaheus Passion, vooral van een paar tv-fragmenten en verregaande bewerkingen zoals die bij Platels Pitié. Verwacht van mij dus geen oordeel over hoe goed de versie was, die op 5 april 2011 in het Concertgebouw te zien en te horen was, in verhouding…

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 waren even diep in de Amsterdamse grachtengordel. Immers, prominent inwoner van deze stad Rudi Fuchs kreeg een nieuw boekje aangeboden, door hemzelf bij elkaar geschreven op de pagina’s van De Groene Amsterdammer. Dit weekblad, in alle opzichten het oudste van het land, biedt de kunstkenner en voormalig museumdirecteur onderdak op de pagina’s. Hij maag daarop schrijven over kunstwerken die…

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
ACTUAL, For members only

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 U 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) chose the latter and in a day and a half, with the best Dutch actors, shot Na U, a small drama about unconditional love and...

Ondertussen in Damascus (Syrië): theaterproject Adelheid Roosen uitgesteld ‘wegens studentenprotest’

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 March 201130 March 2022
2 min read
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De Nederlandse theatermaakster Adelheid Roosen, die op dit moment samen met regisseuse Merel de Groot aan een theaterproject werkt met Syrische kunststudenten, ziet haar project gehinderd wegens studentenprotesten, al weten we dat niet helemaal zeker in het totaliteire land, waar we maar zelden nieuws uit ontvangen. De universiteit van Damascus, waar ze aan het 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

Zijn Nederlands is nooit zijn sterkste punt geweest, en hij houdt ook al niet van speechen. Toch is een persconferentie van het Holland Festival iets om bij te zijn, dus nemen we Pierre Audi’s mindere performerskwaliteiten voor lief. in februari presenteerde hij het programma van de editie 2011, die een hele mooie belooft te worden, en die hopelijk niet de…

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 zakelijk directeur van het Holland Festival. Ze zet met een subsidie van ruim vier miljoen euro een festival van zes miljoen neer.

Taboo perpetuates health problems in music industry

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

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
ACTUAL, For members only

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
ACTUAL, For members only

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...

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