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Impressive confrontations in humorous 'K, A Society' by Kris Verdonck #decision
The Dodo International Choice journal, episode 2: Wijbrand Schaap came, saw and was overcome by Kris Verdonck's seven installations about plighted people. It should have ended with terrible bangs, a canned fireworks display a few metres from the spectators. But that's not allowed in the Netherlands since Enschede. And certainly not with Belgian fireworks. Theatre-maker, installation artist and video jockey Kris Verdonck ended up...
Performance 'Metro' gives you a slap in the face #amsfringe #tf2010
A new day, so new chances to find the Fringe's greatest gem. Today, I am taken from Theatre Bellevue into a nearby alley. Suddenly I see her lying there. A junk, like there are more walking around in Amsterdam. I prefer to walk around it quickly. Afraid of smelling them or being accosted. Metro, a piece of...
Apocalyptic location theatre Wunderbaum tantalising prelude to explosive 'International Choice' #he Choice
Zo’n koele nazomeravond als donderdag 9 september 2010 is een perfecte avond voor de try- out van het locatiestuk ‘Natives’ van acteursgroep Wunderbaum. Heldere lucht, mild optrekkende herfstkou en nagenoeg windstil. Locatie: een moerassig grasveld tussen twee verlaten woonblokken in de Rotterdamse wijk Pendrecht. Ooit gebouwd vanuit de naoorlogse idealen van familiegeluk, gemak en bereikbaarheid, maar al snel te benauwd, vergrijzend en…
Prize of (Theatre) Criticism 2010 to musical workshop M-Lab
M-Lab Net nu bekend werd dat het musicalproductiehuis M-Lab in financiële nood verkeert, komt er een handreiking van de Nederlandse theatercritici. De jaarlijkse Prijs van de Kritiek gaat namelijk naar het laboratorium dat musicals produceert die er bijna altijd toe doen. We citeren het juryrapport: Een laboratorium is er niet alleen voor enigszins wereldvreemde wetenschappers die op de vierkante millimeter aan het…
Roaring Lolita in Stallion Ball ends up very small#tf2010
The room is lit in red. This creates a shadowy atmosphere as you might expect at a nightclub. The music starts playing and from the stairs a young lady in a snappy outfit comes down. She serves pieces of sausage and plays with the crowd. She introduces herself as Lolita. A man in the front row may unbutton her zip. She...
The downsides of a Twitter success: trending topic spam on museum action #askacurator
It was a wonderful idea, but it is already, halfway through the day, in danger of falling victim to that same success. #askacurator, The Twitter campaign by more than three hundred museums from around the world, whereby internet users can ask questions to museum directors, is suffering from an onslaught of viagra, porn and other nonsense sellers. After all, that type of internet entrepreneur is figuring out what topics...
Maxima opens new home for Youth Opera House Holland Opera on 3 October
Indeed, the name Xynix was somewhat outdated. And since, thanks to the efforts of its own company and Yo! Opera, which started as a youth opera festival, opera nowadays turns out to be suitable for young people too, a more adult name is appropriate: Holland Opera. The company settled in Amersfoort in a former company building near the railway station: De Verensmederij. The building, after a renovation, is...
Museum Belvedere: 'Floods in Pakistan, forest fires in Moscow, a cabinet tolerated by Wilders. How lousy can a landscape be?'
Olphaert den Otter, De Buitenplaats, 2010, eitempera op doek/paneel, 112 x 210 cm ‘In dit museum hemelen we het landschap zo vaak op, dat we nu eens de destructie, de ontreddering en de dreigende verandering van het landschap wilden laten zien.’ Volgens Han Steenbruggen, directeur van Museum Belvedere in Heerenveen-Oranjewoud, werd het tijd voor expositie die toont wat oorlog, natuurrampen…
Museums' first global Twitter campaign: The Cultural Press Agency is there and reports
1 September is 'Askacurator day'. Already more than a hundred museums in now 14 countries are putting their curators at the computer on that day to answer questions from internet users. It is a first. Never before has such an askacurator day been available worldwide, and never before have internet users been given access to the people behind museums such as the Tate Modern, Van...
On to Theatre Festival TF and International Choice Rotterdam Theatre
The Dodo has had its baptism of fire. We now know what the basics are, and therefore what can be improved. and of course there will be others with even more suggestions. We're going to take all that into our tents this July, think and sleep on that and then go with the new insights....
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