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Always wanted to learn Old Irish or Sranan Tongo? Still prefer to learn to rap with Nitrogen? Do you wonder how aid workers communicate when they are deployed? In a couple of days, the Drongo Festival will start, two days covering all facets of language. You can take crash courses in Chinese, as well as listen to all kinds of lectures. We take a sneak preview with...
How is Dutch film doing beyond its borders? Just before the Dutch Film Festival breaks loose, its big international brother in Toronto (TIFF) kicked off. Red carpets, big stars and ditto premieres. It may be slightly less well-known here than Cannes, but TIFF is at least as important. For example, in the run-up to the Oscars. Not a bad thing, then...
Cimbalom and harmonium are not the first instruments you immediately think of when you think of classical music. Yet, the ever-adventurous Ludwig collective puts precisely these mavericks at the centre of two concerts, on Saturday 26 September at the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert in Utrecht and on Sunday 27-9 at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. In 1915, Igor Stravinsky and a friend visited a...
Listening to a short poem is sometimes hard work. This was evident during the Night of Poetry, held for the 33rd time on Saturday 19 September. At a poem that ends in brief toneless silence from the poet after four short sentences, the experts separate themselves from the amateurs in the audience. Clap quickly, before the next poem is over. Or.
Eating on stage. That's the standard 'Theatre Dinner', but more exciting. Especially if Shakespeare's Richard III is played during dessert. Toneelgroep Oostpool, the Arnhem-based company that has been going strong in recent years with striking performances, goes one step further again in exploring the ultimate audience experience. Sjim Hendrix, not only a chef but also an artist and...
Last weekend 250 years ago, nine-year-old Mozart arrived in The Hague with his parents and sister Nannerl. He arrived on 11 September 1765 to perform at the stadholder court. Due to illness, the Mozarts ended up staying for nine months and the young composer wrote several works here. Harpsichordist and conductor Jörn Boysen organised the festival Mozart in The...
He had gone out to smoke a cigar that evening, 15 September 1945, but curfew had already begun. As he lit his smoke, a US soldier subititively fired three bullets. Fatally hit, 61-year-old Anton Webern stumbled into the home of his daughter and son-in-law, where he collapsed and died. The bullet was probably...
'Young people can very well decide for themselves where they want to go or not go. And it just so happens that most of the time it is not to the theatre. So what? That will come naturally. Young people make their own choices, and that more often includes a house party than a play. Dragging them inside is counterproductive. And above all, no compulsory book-list performance,...
Those who do not want to open the theatre season in 'Black Tie' and with a gala would do well to go to the Fringe Festival. Already in its tenth year, the festival is bouncing in all directions, this year with 80 performances. Unselected, untamed and unjudged, as they call it themselves. In other words, sometimes you see something wonderful and sometimes you...
We had already announced it. This period is all about positive framing by the arts sector. Good news has to be spread, although people don't really know why. After all, there are no shareholders to be kept happy, only concerned art lovers. Anyway. On Wednesday 9 September, NRC journalist Daan van Lent presented the result of an investigation into the...
A Korean in a military suit singing karaoke, a crotchety dancer mewling with her knees kneading the floor, eight elderly people sweeping in and a son who turns out to be the father. Don't try to interpret this performance, the line of believability is miles behind you. Welcome to Father. 'Nothing is taken for granted anymore, boundaries blur, the old...
From Thursday 17 September onwards, Maastricht will be dominated by four days of arts festival Musica Sacra. Started in 1983 as the European Festival of Religious Music, other art disciplines are now also presented, in atmospheric churches and other historical venues. This year's theme is 'The Way', loosely inspired by the pilgrimage route to pilgrimage site Santiago de Compostela, with the central question of whether...
New: a veritable serial in words and pictures. Trip to Scandinavia was initially performed as a spoken column commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir (April 2015- premiere at Theatre De Harmonie Leeuwarden). Trip to Scandinavia is a variation on that in three parts. Now with animation.
Komend weekend, van vrijdag 11 tot en met zondag 13 september, viert het Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ zijn tienjarig bestaan met een bomvolle festival driedaagse. Van een rondvaart over het IJ met muziek van John Cage, een slaapconcert van fagottist Bram van Sambeek, een wereldpremière van Componist des Vaderlands Willem Jeths, tot een muzikale picknick in de entreehal. Liefst acht…
Het is het best zichtbaar in de podiumkunsten. De laatste tijd verschijnen er opvallend veel vacatures voor ‘zakelijk leider’ in de cultuursector. We hebben tijdens het theaterfestival eens wat oren te luisteren gelegd, en dan hoor je wat. Openlijk reageren wil niemand, daarvoor zijn de belangen te groot en de reputaties te kwetsbaar. We vatten het daarom hier maar globaal…
The Netherlands Film Festival has tinkered considerably with some programme elements. New is the scintillating competition Forum of Directors with films that explore boundaries.
Ola Mafaalani en relativering. Dat gaat niet samen. Donderdag 3 september 2015 mocht de artistiek leider van het Noord Nederlands Toneel het theaterseizoen openen met een toespraak, de Staat van het Theater. Ze deed dat op een manier die we eigenlijk van haar hadden kunnen verwachten, maar die desondanks insloeg als een bom. Er gaat hopelijk nog jaren over gepraat…
Museum Escher in het Paleis has acquired an unknown early work by M.C. Escher. The museum announced this today. In the print, a depiction of the Italian town of Montecelio, the famous graphic artist experimented with a variety of techniques. The museum is delighted. Because it's not every day you find an unknown but important Escher anymore. It must have been quite a marriage,...
Just after the end of the Early Music Festival, the Gaudeamus Music Week, the Mecca of cutting-edge notes for seventy years, starts in Utrecht. Five nominated composers under 30 compete for the coveted Gaudeamus Award, previously won by now established composers such as Unsuk Chin, Yannis Kyriakides and Michel van der Aa. For the second year, the...
Mad Max: Fury Road gets FIPRESCI Grand Prix. Action spectacle favourite with international film critics.
Met het voltooien van de trilogie Een verhaal van liefde, ziekte en dood, over de aidscrisis in de jaren tachtig, viel er voor de Zweedse schrijver Jonas Gardell een zware last van zijn hart. Als een van de weinigen van zijn vriendenkring ontsprong hij de dans des doods. Puur geluk, zegt hij. ‘Ik sliep met de dood.’ Ook het laatste…
There is turmoil in the performing arts. This is because Culture Minister Jet Bussemaker has implemented a couple of motions from the opposition. The minister has also ignored the advice of the Council for Culture for a more balanced budget distribution. So, after much agitation on social media, we received a letter on Friday 28 August 2015. From the festivals, addressed to the minister,...
Gerard de Kleijn, sinds 2010 voorzitter van de Amsterdamse Kunstraad, maakt zijn tweede termijn, die in 2018 zou eindigen, niet af. Vandaag kondigde hij zijn vertrek aan per 1 januari 2016. Dat is twee jaar eerder dan de bedoeling was. Het heeft te maken met de keuze van de Amsterdamse gemeenteraad voor een nieuw stelsel van cultuursubsidies, waarin de rol…
In het Amsterdamse Compagnietheater werd gisteravond de Amsterdamprijs van het Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst uitgereikt. Een 020 feestje dus, waar ‘tout kunst en cultuur’ feestelijk opgedoft aantrad om de eigen culturele pareltjes in het zonnetje te zetten. De Bijbelse stortregen buiten weerhield AFK directeur Clayde Menzo geenszins ervan een zonnig toekomstbeeld te schetsen van het Amsterdamse culturele leven in 2020. Oude…
Vanaf 22 november is de vijfdelige NTR-serie ADO danst te zien. Het is niet de eerste keer dat voetbal en dans fuseren. Het meest bekende voorbeeld van voetbal en dans is toch wel Schijnbewegingen: een NOS-film van Piet Erkelens en Pim Marks over de overeenkomsten tussen de twee verschillende werelden. Dit lieten ze zien aan de hand van gesprekken met…
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