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In de serie (On)gehoord presenteer ik elke maand buitengewoon geluid dat niet onopgemerkt en onbesproken blijft. In deze aflevering: Plan Kruutntoone, Horse Lords, Luc Ferrari, Anemone Tube, Jaap Vink en Kraftwerk in 3D. Plan Kruutntoone – Wat Doen de Handen (LP op esc.rec.) “weer wakker geworden. xenakis is er niks bij. mezelf en spullen schuiven op zoek naar veiligheid. hoe…
In de opdracht die kunstenares Elisa Pesapane kreeg van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden kwamen haar passies samen: tekenen, de oudheid, onderzoek en portret. Vanaf vandaag zijn er in het RMO twaalf tekeningen te zien over ‘le solitaire des ruines’: de militair ingenieur Jean Emile Humbert, op zoek naar de stad Carthago. Portret De Italiaans-Nederlandse kunstenares Elisa Pesapane (1977) is onder meer…
What does it mean for a dancer with an intense career when she decides to choreograph as well? March saw the premiere of Battle Abbey, Heather Ware's first full-length choreography in collaboration with Swedish cellist Jakob Korányi. Heather Ware, a dancer with LeineRoebana since 2003, embarked on the path to creating her own choreography without a plan....
Laatst ging deze einzelgänger mee met een groepsevenement hier in Den Haag. Voor het eerst. Met bussen vol buurtbewoners richting het Gemeentemuseum. Benieuwd met welke buren ik kunst zou gaan zien, weer ervaren hoe een museum na sluitingstijd voelt en een workshop of lezing volgen. Ter inspiratie. Dat is gelukt. Ervaren Wat ontzettend leuk om buren in het museum tegen te…
In de jaren tachtig, toen ik een paar jaar leraar speelde op Curaçao, trok er een siddering van bewondering en huiver door de intellectuele bovenlaag van het eiland. Dubbelspel verscheen, de inmiddels klassieke Curaçaose roman van Frank Martinus Arion. Het was een klapper. Gerrit Komrij was gek op de roman. [bol_product_links block_id=”bol_5924039b33ad6_selected-products” products=”9200000057138048,9200000005225011″ name=”harri” sub_id=”arion” link_color=”003399″ subtitle_color=”000000″ pricetype_color=”000000″ price_color=”CC3300″ deliverytime_color=”009900″…
The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....
Using a television interview as a libretto for an opera? Quirky composer Huba de Graaff does not shy away from it. On 22 June, her opera The Naked Shit Songs will have its world premiere. It is based on a 1996 conversation by Theo van Gogh with British artist duo Gilbert & George. Due to lack of interest, De Graaff wanted her opera with a...
Wat krijg je als je schaduwspel, Weimar cinema, gamelan en Javaanse mythes combineert? Een mix die veel vraagt van het publiek, maar die een genot is als je je er aan over wilt leveren. De Indonesische regisseur Garin Nugroho maakt geen gemakkelijke films. Vaak zijn ze visueel prachtig, zoals Opera Jawa, maar zit de plot een beetje in de weg…
Schrijver en televisiepresentator Arjen Lubach is al jaren fan van de Noorse schrijver Johan Harstad, van wie net het megadikke Max, Micha & het Tet-offensief in het Nederlands is verschenen. Hij heeft hem zelfs in Noorwegen opgezocht. Lubach: ‘Ik was bang dat we zoveel op elkaar leken dat we elkaar niets te zeggen hadden.’ Dat viel reusachtig mee. Logisch dus dat hij…
En dan blijkt er toch een festivalthema te zijn. Komt helemaal vanzelf. Wellicht niet van tevoren bedacht door de directie van het International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU), maar na drie dagen onderdompeling glashelder. Schrijven gaat over dat waarover we niet spreken. Tijdens de laatste festivalavond, zaterdag 13 mei, heb ik me voor de gelegenheid ondergedompeld in een onderdeel waarmee ‘Utrecht’…
Waar je op het IlFU vorig jaar luchtdicht zat weggestopt in de hermetische zaaltjes van het voormalig postkantoor op de Utrechtse Neude, is het weidse uitzicht van Tivoli/Vredenburg een verademing. Het lijkt wel of dat iedereen een beetje losklopt. Het resultaat is meer humor en betere gesprekken op het dak van de wereld. Het Bureau van Voskuil verjaart niet.…
Dutch, ladies and gentlemen, is just about the most difficult language in the world, and any committee that wants to improve it only makes it worse. As a professional language user, I have thought so for years, and it has now been happily confirmed by people who really know about it: translators. The first day of the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU)...
Netflix and HBO are now purveyors of our conversations with friends, family and colleagues. The ultimate icebreaker at a party with strangers is talking about series, about beloved characters. Is Jon Snow still alive? Where is Barb? Having seen the first two working performances of 'The Nation', I have a strong impression that in Eric de Vroedt I have a fellow lover...
'Stop it. The fewer awards people give each other, the better.' Ingmar Heytze, poet, is clear: 'Within every conceivable genre, there are already big enough prizes. If you ask me, they should restrict that Nobel Prize to science from now on.' So on the final evening of the International Literature Festival in Utrecht (ILFU) next Saturday, it will be all about those...
Friday 12 May kicks off the twelfth edition of Operadagen Rotterdam. Titled Lost & Found, the ten-day festival is dedicated to current refugee issues. I selected three operas by Calliope Tsoupaki, Annelies van Parys and Claron McFadden, strong women whose work deserves to be heard (and seen). The fear of the unknown is as old as the...
The play La Democrazia in America (to be seen at the Holland Festival on 4, 5 and 6 June) is of course about democracy in America, but actually more about The Democracy in America. And the two should not be confused. For The Democracy in America is a 1,200-page book by French jurist De Tocqueville. This...
It is dark. Basses thump. An intoxicatingly sweet female perfume hangs in the air, a child cries. AquaSonic has just started, and already I want to leave. What possesses a musician to go head-to-head? Our Danish correspondent went to find out. AquaSonic is an ode to water, played by Between Music, a collective of five Danish musicians. They make...
Vincent Macaigne is uncomfortable. He looks around nervously every time the waitresses run past with trays full of clinking glasses and slam the doors. He has hardly slept, and the previous evening he had walloped the audience of the Swiss Theatre Vidy with his brutal, inimitable performance En Manque. Braced, he sat down for the interview. "Sorry, I...
For new music, the primal performance is often also immediately the last time a piece is played. The scores await the archive or dusty drawer; recordings are nowhere to be found. David Dramm searches for these gems of stilted notes. He presents them in the Holland Festival's Orphanage: three evenings of forgotten compositions from the rich...
He finds himself lazy and under-ambitious, and struggles with acceptance - of himself, of others, of the world. Because his grandparents had experienced the Holocaust, there was a taboo on being unhappy in his youth. Eight life questions to Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. 'Between what I could do and actually do, there is a big gap.' 1....
Arjan Peters talks 12 May 19.30 during ILFU in Utrecht with Paulien Cornelisse, author of the office novel De verwarde guia, and Gerd Busse, who translated Voskuil's ultimate office novel Het Bureau into German. There, office workers are usually not portrayed too positively. High time to change that. Office worker and writer Suzanne Brink takes...
Sheila Sitalsing went to work as a journalist after studying economics. After the weekly Elsevier, she joined the Volkskrant, in which she now has a column three times a week on page 2. Sitalsing won the Heldring Prize for best Dutch columnist in 2013. She also appears with some regularity in the foam & ash section of the TV programme Buitenhof....
One of the most wonderfully successful programmes on Dutch radio is Radio Kunststof. Every weekday on Radio 1, between seven and eight o'clock, it attracts a bizarre number of listeners, especially for that time of day. And especially for an art programme. On TV then is DWDD, also called art programme on its public broadcasters, but with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and millions of viewers. How...
Something is changing considerably in the world of literature. Libraries are closing or turning into flex spaces for poor freelancers. The sold circulation of an average successful novel remains in four figures. Young people no longer watch TV or listen to the radio, but make their own well-watched and generously paid films on YouTube. Or they sit the...
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often accused of driving audiences out of the hall with his drive for innovation. After all, his twelve-tone system swept away the foundations of tonality, which had offered listeners a safe haven for centuries. Deprived of its foothold, it would have turned its back on contemporary music forever. Nonsense, because not only did Schoenberg write fantastic works, but also...
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