Reisopera 2.0 presents itself and blows dust off gala
With a real gala, the Reisopera 2.0 presents itself. And immediately strips the gala of its stuffy image. With thanks to the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble.
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Solid fare for royal couple at opening @hollandfestival
Holland Festival
Our king is not yet known as a lover of culture of the less bite-sized kind. The kind of performances, like the opera Quartett, with which the Holland Festival opened on 1 June. So it may have been a bit of a letdown for him, his
Jan Lauwers with musical folk theatre at @hollandfestival: 'It's forbidden to memorise lyrics'
Holland Festival
An explosion in a crowded market square claimed 24 lives, including seven children. When the village commemorates that tragedy a year later, a little boy falls out of a window and a girl disappears before
Blood, sweat and candle wax in Fabre's Wagner vision at @hollandfestival
Holland Festival
Delusions of grandeur, self-mutilation, forced cannibalism, a gruesomely realistic rape scene and to top it all off: a candle being spat out.
A chamber opera blown up to impressive proportions at @hollandfestival
Holland Festival
,,The special thing about Quartett is that an intimate story between two people is blown up to impressive proportions. The characters find themselves in a room, which seems to float. In this seclusion, an isolated game between a man and a woman plays out. Giant video projections
Peter Blok does a Don Draper
Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men....
Dutch dance acrobats stand a chance at final Britain's got talent
The booking agency is sending around enthusiastic emails, and some British newspapers don't seem to like it, But still. Martin and Mariëlle are through to the semi-finals of the ITV show Britain's Got Talent. And that seems to be quite an achievement. Judge for yourself.
Social media and art connect people, but Egypt stays away for a while #vvu
Treaty of Utrecht
Experiments can sometimes have a different outcome than you hope for beforehand. The Community Arts Lab, through its Face to Face project, is now discovering that the world of the internet still has to deal with
Minicourse Opening @HollandFestival, part 1: Total theatre on slippery communication
Holland Festival
This year's Holland Festival opens with a performance of the opera 'Quartett'. It is a piece with a story, which needs some explanation. Maarten Baanders gives a short course on this performance. Also interesting for those who didn't happen to be able to buy a ticket.
Simon Stone adapts Ibsen for Australians: 'And why would you even go to the theatre if you live in Sydney?'
Holland Festival
Simon Stone (28) wrote a new play based on Henrik Ibsen's 1884 stage classic The Wild Duck. The Swiss-born Australian provided the Norwegian play with entirely contemporary language and dressing. The actors sit
'Cineastas' mixes theatre, film and everyday life
Holland Festival
In 'Cineastas', the Argentine director shows Mariano Pensotti (1972) a multi-layered story about four Buenos Aires filmmakers, each struggling with their new films. It is partly a portrait of the city, through the eyes of four Argentine filmmakers, says
No work by Kylián at NDT: a masterstroke?
The announced change of course at NDT is keeping minds busy. Starting with The Hague Central, to the Volkskrant to
The French are coming, but are these choreographers that good?
France, the birthplace of ballet, is producing top choreographers by the continuous stream. At least six of them are coming to the Netherlands soon:
Cannes opens with The Great Gatsby, but the novelty is already off
Would Gilles Jacob, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, see it as a godsend or a knee-jerk reaction to American studios? That Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby Wednesday's opening film certainly means spectacle and a lot of attention. But it is not a world premiere,
Selection Theatre Festival 2013 marked by audience-friendly performances
De Verleiders, last season's big theatre hit, heads the jury selection of The Theatre Festival 2013. The by a group of actors and cabaret artists, including Pierre Bokma and
Wagner in Düsseldorf: opera jewel or publicity stunt?
When both nu.co.uk, BBC news and virtually every German newspaper simultaneously cover an opera, something must be going on. And there is: Nazis! Wagner! Outraged spectators! More than that: doctors had to be called in!
NDT opens door to future without Kylián with 'School of Thought'
Programme V is NDT1's last programme this season. It seems to be a final chord in more ways than one.
On the premiere day, an official announcement went out that choreographer and former artistic director Jirí Kylián is washing his hands of NDT after 36 years of involvement. In addition, from September 2014 to 2017, no work by
VPRO honours Reinbert de Leeuw
On 8 September next, pianist, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw hopes to turn 75 and this will be celebrated with a range of events. These include a three-day festival dedicated to him in The Hague and Amsterdam at the end of September, and next season he will be
Research shows: nothing so immutable as the art public
More people go to popular art than 'high' or 'canonical' art. Researcher Andries van den Broek has researched this. Therefore, there are now figures explaining the word 'popular' and 'elite'. So
Heiner Goebbels works with Slovenian girls' choir: 'In the space between question and answer, imagination lives on
Thirty-eight singing Slovenian girls. We might expect something with colourful costumes against a backdrop of a sunny village scene. Instead
Dance and music merge in Gesamtkunstwerk SHIROKURO
Holland Festival ,,I like to use the word 'Gesamtkunstwerk'. Light, space, matter, body, sound: it all belongs together. Each aspect forms an essential part of the whole."
Choreographer Nicole Beutler prepares with pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama and
Will broadcast library collection be saved?
Hilversum, 1-5-2013 - On Labour Day, the VARA programme spent The Guide on Radio 1 focused on the impending abolition of the library of the broadcaster, resulting in some 10 highly specialised and dedicated staff losing their jobs. Although this immense and unique archive, which houses some five kilometres of scores, parts and books, can be kept afloat for half a million euros, it will still be disbanded from 1 August.
NSB officer Tobie Goedewaagen and subsidies: the faulty founder of a good system
The Dutch system of art subsidies was set up in 1942 by NSB leader Tobie Goedewaagen, who also founded the Kultuurkamer. Typical of a fact that
Moritz Eggert: 'I want to give Wagner back his innocence'
With Tragedy of a Friendship commemorates Flanders Opera the bicentenary of Richard Wagner's birth. It is a production by controversial artist Jan Fabre, author Stefan Hertmans and composer Moritz Eggert. When I approach the German tone poet for a conversation about this opera, he reacts with shock: there is ab-so-lutely no question of an opera! Could I please clear up this misunderstanding once and for all?
Finally another Dutch film in competition at Cannes: Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam
A major frustration of the Dutch film world has come to an end. After 38 years, we again have a film in the main competition at Cannes. The new film by
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