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Bitter tears, screaming loneliness. Kušej does Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
16 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Nice 'old-fashioned' Holland Festival: a special set-up that confronts the audience with the implications of their own position and viewing behaviour. And that's just as well with Fassbinder's 'Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'. Melodrama was no stranger to the German theatre and film wizard. The bitter tears are of a fashion queen and her entourage, clinical is the setting, wafer-thin the story, and yet unusually exciting how this lady drama develops.

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Tis Pity! Holland Festival brings the best show to the smallest audience.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Language is music. Sometimes we forget that. Then we think language is a way of conveying objective meanings. Kind of silly. Language is food for all the senses. No strumming is needed under that. That's pure opera without embellishments. The English-language performance 'tis Pity she's a whore' I saw at the Holland Festival yesterday proves that. Even if you don't understand the seventeenth-century phrases, it is a joy to listen to.

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Warhorse is almost perfect: 6 reasons to go. Or stay away.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Saturday, June 14, went off in a flood of evening gowns, dinner jackets, Dutch celebrities and Gooische Tanks War Horse premiered. A play about a war in which the Netherlands was neutral, and of which there are memorial stones in every village in the rest of the world. You can go and see it. Or not. We have listed six arguments.

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'I did not have sexual relations with that woman', no way: surprising Don Juan at Theaterschip Deventer

by Henri Drost
15 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, OPERA

In an immaculate virginal white uniform, Don Juan gives a slick press conference for his wedding to Elvira. We hear the famous words with which Bill Clinton denied the Lewinsky affair. Actor Ischa den Blanken's grin speaks volumes when he says: 'These allegations are false.' We know: he is lying.

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Hunting for art in the Bijlmer with Google Maps

by Daniel Bertina
14 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL

After co-organising FATFORM, a radical series of art events in Amsterdam Southeast - with furious crossover exhibitions and performances on the roofs of an abandoned shopping centre and a car park, the collective around creative production agency Vinger.nl has thrown itself into the new edition of the Open Art Route 2014. And it will be something.

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On M2M and genius theatre makers who completely miss the mark

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, THEATER

One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is either fantastic or dies of its own pretensions. At Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m) is the latter.

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Ragged ritual defies permanent display: Germaine Kruip at the Stedelijk @HollandFestival 2014

by Fransien van der Putt
11 June 201430 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

"You know ma'am, that big red painting? Turn right before that". A young attendant shows us the way. At first glance, it's nothing. A man in semi-uniform, black trousers, white shirt, slowly turns on his axis. Sol Lewitt's mural, number 1084 from 2003, lends him the necessary decorum. Around the corner hang Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol. Would the man care? In this 'hall of fame' of conceptual art, the man's spinning stands out a little timidly. Some visitors remain standing, leaning against white walls or sinking down on the polished wooden floor. Those who take their time watch the spinning of the man and his fellow dervishes slowly take possession of the Stedelijk.

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4 ways to quiet a room: Jelinek strikes at Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 June 20142 April 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's trip will go to India and Nepal. Because that seemed nice to him. Visitors to the Dutch premiere of Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlene were looking forward to the summer. Next year they would visit a friend in Vietnam. Little hassle to get a visa. As a white European, the whole world is yours. You can go anywhere. The man did not realise how privileged he was.

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3 reasons why Orlando has been sold out for weeks and 3 reasons why that is justified

by Henri Drost
10 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

Even before the Holland Festival had begun properly, all tickets for the three performances of Handel's Orlando sold. What a crisis. However, it is not hard to guess why.

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4 faces of Abel Gance, creator of Napoleon

by Leo Bankersen
10 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Holland Festival presents Abel Gance's restored film epic on Sunday Napoleon, with live orchestra. A rare event, for the first time in this form on mainland Europe. In 1927, Gance had performed with Napoleon delivered a groundbreaking and monumental piece of work that made unusual demands on the projection (three canvases) and went out into the world in a variety of severely shortened versions after the first performances.

Napoleon at Ziggo Dome promises to be spectacular, but who was That ambitious loner Abel Gance?

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Art training no return? It's just what your goal is.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In school, we used to have a very good way to check the quality of wine: the yield. Wine with 14% alcohol was better than wine with 12% alcohol. After all, the goal was clear: to get drunk. Wine of 14% was more effective at that. So we preferred to drink wine with a yield of at least 14%.

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Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

by Henri Drost
8 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

After partially or even completely failed productions of Falstaff The National Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.

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Tonight we listen to the voice of god

by Daniel Bertina
6 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Like many of my contemporaries, I have played Jeff Buckley's CDs grey, but know next to nothing about Pakistani Sufi music. Except that it's great. And that Abida Parveen is the queen of that genre. Tonight, this Voice of God and her ensemble are on stage at the National Opera & Ballet.

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'Are all priests gay?" and six more questions to the director of In The Name Of

by Leo Bankersen
5 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

In cinemas this week: In the Name of, an old-fashioned solid Polish drama about a priest who tries in vain to escape his homosexuality through celibacy. He works in a village in the province with difficult-to-educate teenagers. "I would like to fuck all those boys," he exclaims

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7 ½ times: looking surprised at 'Playing Cards: Spades'

by Maarten Baanders
4 June 201411 July 2016
6 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

1. Gene-shifting theatre doesn't have to be difficult.

Breaking new ground in theatre is the aim of Canadian director Robert Lepage and his group Ex Machina. It seems like everything is unusual about 'Playing Cards: Spades': playing floor, lighting, seating around the stage, the stories, the acting and the surprising denouement.

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Pierre Audi's latest Holland Festival opens with sublime ensemble playing of Rosas and Ictus: Vortex Temporum

by Fransien van der Putt
31 May 201411 July 2016
11 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

It seems like a statement, opening the latest Holland Festival under Pierre Audi's direction with 'Vortex Temporum'. The collaboration between the two top Belgian ensembles Rosas and Ictus does everything that is scarce in the present day.

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Surfer dances against AIDS and now celebrates at The Concertgebouw

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

A surfing Dutch marketing guy noticed in South Africa that a disease was thinning the population indiscriminately. That made him care. Now, as an undisputed highlight, dance4life is celebrating its tenth anniversary at The Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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Only submarine shed is big enough for 'Mirror Mirror'

by Maarten Baanders
27 May 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It will be a total experience, as if you were briefly in another world. 'Mirror Mirror' by Conny Janssen Danst is set in a former submarine hangar of the Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM). The audience is taken there by boat.

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Requiem for the Red Box

by Thea Derks
27 May 201430 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, MUSIC

After seven concert seasons, the broadcasting series takes 'The Friday of Vredenburg' farewell to emergency venue Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, better known as 'The Red Box'. From September, the concerts will again take place in the restored Great Hall of the otherwise brand-new TivoliVredenburg. The concert on 6 June will feature the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor, conducted by Antony Hermus. They will play music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and a brand new piece by Wim Laman, Requiem Songs.

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Forsythe gone from Forsythe Company in September 2015

by one of our members
24 May 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

William Forsythe, dance innovator, and widely regarded as one of the most important choreographers of our time, is quitting the company to which he attached his name on September 2015. The New York Times reports that. He will still remain associated with the company as an advisor, but the real management will probably be taken over by Jacopo Godani, a former student of the legendary choreographer.

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Volksopera is a celebration of Ondiep, but what will be left when the cameras are gone?

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Barely five months between first audition and first performance. That was all the time the makers and local residents had for the Volksopera Ondiep, which experienced the first of two performances on Friday 23 May. It was a warm May evening, touching at times, sometimes dreadful, but fun anyway: classics by Verdi (most of them), Bizet, Puccini and Offenbach, set to Dutch text and sung by complete amateurs. Accompanied, for once, by the Groot Omroepkoor.

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'Youth didn't need to be in it'. Thea Derks talks about the biography that wasn't supposed to be there'

by one of our members
20 May 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Much has been written about it. And much talked about: the Reinbert de Leeuw biography by Thea Derks, which Reinbert de Leeuw did not allow to be published. Now Thea Derks, a member of the Cultuurpers cooperative, gets to explain her side of things to Peter Gielissen, also a member of the Cultuurpers cooperative. Nice story turned out. On Lezen.tv

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From packaging for fish to opera: JacobTV's The News

by Thea Derks
20 May 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

The news: today it is hot, tomorrow the fish will be wrapped in it. In his video opera The News gives Jacob ter Veldhuis/JacobTV it a second life by putting it in a new context. 'These days, news is infotainment, dipped in sentiment.' Next Friday, the Dutch Travel Opera the premiere at the Wilminkteather in Enschede.

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'The funeral' causes commotion around Willibrordus Church, but breaks ground for Catholic Church and its rituals

by Madeleine Red
20 May 201430 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Nobody had foreseen, let alone wanted, the commotion caused by the performance series 'The Funeral' in the St Willibrordus Church in Utrecht. The apostolate of St Willibrordus Church feels that the church has been 'desecrated' and no longer wants to hold Masses there, now that Dries Verhoeven is performing 'The Funeral' there for ten evenings with the help of Sens Uitvaarten. These are theatrical funeral masses, with which he has buried the welfare state and social support for art, among other things. But hurting someone with this was never his intention: ''If I seek provocation at all in the project, it is the one with the spectator.''

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More films in cinemas due to digitalisation, says survey

by Leo Bankersen
15 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The digital canvass battle in cinema is still some time away. For now, moviegoers are benefiting, according to research.

About two years ago, the digitisation of the Dutch cinema business was completed. All cinemas and film houses have been projecting digitally since 2012. In the projection booth, the disappearance of 35mm equipment meant a landslide.

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