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Twee jonge vrouwelijke choreografen vervullen belofte met Batsheva Dance Company tijdens Springdance Festival

by Ruben Brugman
22 April 20128 July 2016
4 min read
DANS, SPECIALS

Met twee voorstellingen, ”The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act” en ”House” laat Batsheva Dance Company indrukwekkende, sublieme dansbeheersing zien en frisse dynamiek. Maar ook onrust, zoeken en verwarring. Het tijdperk van happy, harmonieuze dans is voorbij. Tijdens een lezing over dans, voorafgaand aan de voorstelling, wordt benadrukt dat hedendaagse dans zich niet compulsief hoeft af te zetten tegen andere dansstromingen. Deze artistieke…

Inertia and extreme duration make Ibrahim Quraishi's "Wild Life Take Away Station" a mysterious still life

by Daniel Bertina
22 April 201230 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Upon entering, Wild Life Take Away Station has been going on for four hours. Two performers - Diego Agulló and Ria Higler, a young man and an old woman - stroll through the Central Museum's project studio like drowsy zombies. They are pale and muscle-naked, apart from their weird slippers and wigs. The two lie sprawled across the sofa,...

Springdance Journal: "Dutch dance is very well behaved compared to what we have seen here"

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 April 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, DANS, SPECIALS

Our team agrees: Springdance really took off on Saturday. With Ibrahim Quraishi's installation 'Wildlife Take Away Station' for sure. Reviewer Daniel Bertina made his own recordings, which will appear in his review. And it was even more tasty for him at '(M)imosa. Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)....

Ruben Brugman interviewt Russel Maliphant over the Rodin Project

by one of our members
20 April 20128 July 2016
1 min read
DANS, SPECIALS

“I love it when movement moves people”, zegt de Britse choreograaf Russel Maliphant in dit interview na afloop van de voorstelling The Rodin Project. In de Hekmanfoyer van de Utrechtse Stadsschouwburg voelde onze collega van Danspubliek.nl de maker ven the Rodin Project aan de tand over zijn drijfveren. Interessant is wat Maliphant te zeggen heeft over het eerste deel van…

Zelfs verstilde Ivo Dimchev maakt razende indruk met “I-on” tijdens openingsavond Springdance Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
20 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

Ivo Dimchev is als performer zo snel en wreed in zijn schakelingen tussen botte bravoure, kinderlijke lol, erotische impertinenties en snijdende eenzaamheid, dat je er als toeschouwer normaliter niet meer tussen komt. Zodra Dimchev zijn publiek in de klauwen heeft, kan het hem alleen nog verbijsterd volgen. “I-on” is opnieuw een ogenschijnlijk losse verzameling acties. Alles speelt zich af rond een…

Opening Springdance explores the two extremes of what the festival has to offer

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 April 201230 March 2022
2 min read
SPECIALS

Experts in particular were upset with the official opening performance of Springdance 2012. "The Rodin Project" by Russel Maliphant was special for that reason alone. Rarely has there been so much talk about an opening performance, especially since it is also Springdance's last opening performance. The 30-year-old festival of innovative dance and performance is ceasing to exist. Partly due to pressure from subsidy cuts from...

Een scène uit ''The Rodin Project'' van Russell Maliphant.

Maliphant neemt Rodin als rijke inspiratiebron voor dans, maar maakt teleurstellende opening voor laatste Springdance Festival

by Maarten Baanders
20 April 201230 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Het festival opent teleurstellend met ‘The Rodin Project’. De beeldhouwer Rodin mag dan een uitdagende keuze zijn, helaas beperkt choreograaf Russell Maliphant zich tot het imiteren van sfeer en uiterlijke plaatjes. Rodin werkte vanuit een uitgesproken idee over materie. Hij was op zoek naar hoe vormen en bewegingen zich uit materie losmaken. Met zijn menselijke gestalten en hun gebaren liet…

The Cultural Press Bureau goes full on for ten days with The Dodo at Springdance

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

It may be a crisis and the cultural winds may also be blowing from the wrong right corner, but that doesn't stop The Dodo from flying. The festival day newspaper we launched two years ago as a new commercial product is ready for another 10 days of Springdance. We're going to review a lot of performances, and compare even more. And we're going to make a journal. It...

'It felt a bit like the first time sex: way too direct, rushed, overactive and largely based on insecurity': Ivo Dimchev in battle with Franz West's wearable art

by Daniel Bertina
15 April 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

"What the fuck should I do with this?" was choreographer and performance artist Ivo Dimchev's (1976) first thought when confronted with the artworks of Austrian artist Franz West. After Dimchev's solo performance Some Faves (2010) in Vienna, West, a multi-awarded creator of bizarre sculptures and objects, sought contact with the choreographer. He asked him to make an improvised video based on his...

‘Soms slaat het verlangen niet gezien te worden om in een overdaad aan exhibitionisme.’ – Yasmeen Godder over The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act

by Daniel Bertina
11 April 201230 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Ze heeft het druk gehad. Hoogzwanger werkte Yasmeen Godder (Jeruzalem, 1973) aan haar eerste choreografie voor Batsheva Dance Company. In een maand tijd stampte ze onder de vleugels van Batsheva haar nieuwe voorstelling The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act uit te grond, en beviel tussendoor van een gezonde dochter. Voor de derde keer presenteert de Israëlische choreografe Yasmeen Godder haar werk…

Too full or not too full at subsidy theatre

by one of our members
3 April 201229 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Hein Janssen (Volkskrant) wrote a column in response to a couple of performances with BN stars in the subsidised circuit in which he argued that subsidy was not meant for that. The association for actors thought this was reason enough for a debate. We made a short film to go with it. We formatted it in storify, a feature that allows you to put tweets and other social media messages together and...

'No shit, everybody rich', but also: 'alarm, alarm, all poor'

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 March 201230 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Art subsidies are better abolished if artists have to reach large audiences. Because then, after all, you distort the market. Logical. You could also decide to subsidise everyone. And that sounds stranger than

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De Dodo gaat opnieuw Dappere Dansers in de gaten houden

by one of our members
29 March 201230 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, DANS

Dit jaar wordt Springdance voor het laatst gehouden. Na bijna 30 jaar werd het tijd voor iets nieuws, al was het alleen maar omdat de wind in Den Haag opeens van rechts komt en dat is bad for business. Als je tenminste vernieuwende kunst wilt laten zien. Daarom fuseert Springdance in de loop van dit jaar met het andere Utrechtse…

Their carnival is already more fun, too. Brazilian arts budget grows by 10% a year.

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 March 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Brazil has 10% more every year for arts, sports and entertainment, plus an extra 600 million this year. If we in the Netherlands ever start growing the economy again, we can choose between the Chinese and Brazilian models. In China, growth goes mainly to puissant wealthy entrepreneurs, and wealthier citizens buy mass-produced luxury goods. For...

'No idea what the consequences of my policies are'

by one of our members
19 March 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

“Het is momenteel niet mogelijk om de ontwikkeling van deze kenmerken van de cultuursector betrouwbaar te voorspellen, laat staan wat de invloed van de bezuinigingen daarop is. Bewegingen in de zaken die in de vraag zijn genoemd zijn van veel factoren afhankelijk. Ten eerste ontbreken

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Wednesdays winner of Dutch competition Go Short

by Leo Bankersen
18 March 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Last night the awards for best short films were presented at festival Go Short in Nijmegen. Winner of the Dutch competition is Woensdagen by Aaron Rookus, a small feature film that approaches the heavily charged subject of sexual abuse in the most subtle way. What begins as an emotionally stunningly well-struck impression of eight-year-old Kris' weekly outing...

Boiling Frog is a beautiful stage story

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 March 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Peter de Graef is not only a wonderful actor, he can also tell compelling stories. He also brings that talent with him as a writer. So in Boiling Frog, the show now on tour in the Netherlands, there are six Peter de Graefs on stage, and that is no punishment. Especially not because those six Peter de Graefs also...

'Only' 800 redundancies, but five thousand jobs will disappear.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 March 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Voor de vakbonden valt het allemaal reuze mee: vanwege de megabezuiniging op de kunst moeten 800 mensen ontslagen worden. Dat is bijna niks in vergelijking met bijvoorbeeld het failliete Nedcar, waar op één locatie wellicht het dubbele of meer aan ontslagen gaat vallen.

Eastern orchestras settle 40% rebate on musicians' salaries and union is sidelined

by Henri Drost
9 March 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

[recap] To avoid having to merge and to bring in an extra half a million each, the orchestras in Overijssel and Gelderland made very ambitious plans. Which bear striking similarities. Both orchestras requested and received money from the province, albeit much less than requested. In theory, this would compensate for the reduction in the state subsidy, but that provincial money is mainly meant to reform the organisation. However, it is not enough for that. Not by a long shot.

How two orchestras sold an international revenue model as regional

by Henri Drost
6 March 201230 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Recap: There are too many orchestras in the Netherlands, the government thinks, and so a few have to go. Or merge. Now that forced merging doesn't seem to go very heartily. But you can make money out of it. In Gelderland and Overijssel, this leads to bizarre scenes. It would have been comical if it hadn't cost so much money.

To bring in an extra five tonnes, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and the Gelderland Orchestra are pulling together. And with success: the provincial governments of Overijssel and Gelderland are absorbing the state's subsidy cut. However, it now turns out that the plans used to rake in that bailout are dubious. Politicians have hardly looked into it. Questions about the business plan came mainly from the PVV in Overijssel, but in Gelderland that same party enthusiastically agreed to the injection of millions after a - remarkably damning - counter-expertise.

Orchestras in eastern Netherlands go slating

by Henri Drost
5 March 201229 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Nearly thirteen million The Gelderland Orchestra (HGO) asked for the province of Gelderland. It got three-and-a-half. Just enough to absorb the reduction in the state subsidy for the next two years and to work towards a new organisational structure and a new revenue model, as described in a very ambitious business plan, which...... wait a minute. We have already written about this, haven't we?

Increase in 'wish headlines' in arts news around grant applications

by one of our members
1 March 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

De laatste mogelijkheden voor subsidieaanvragen voor de periode van 2013 en verder zijn vandaag gesloten. Er zijn talloze fusies aangekondigd, nieuwe samenwerkingen, opvallende verhuizingen (vooral Amsterdam loopt leeg). Veel kunstmedia brengen inmiddels ook nieuws over die plannen. Nieuws dat vaak als feit wordt gepresenteerd, terwijl het in bijna alle gevallen gaat om wensen. De aanvragen zijn nog minder dan ooit…

Diefstal kunst op straat stijgt met 20%

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Koper is duur, en brons, het materiaal waaruit veel beelden op straat worden gemaakt, bestaat grotendeels uit koper. En als het op straat staat, neem je het mee. Ook al zit het vastgeschroefd. De Denker van Rodin in Laren werd verzaagd en gedeeltelijk omgesmolten en hetzelfde overkwam Simon Carmiggelt en zijn vrouw. Op verzoek van Boris van der Ham heeft…

Gratis: Festivaldagboek Writers Unlimited 2012

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Het waren mooie dagen, de vier dagen dat we verslag deden van Writers Unlimited (v/h Winternachten) in Den Haag. We zagen een nieuwe zelfbewuste generatie schrijvers uit Afrika, maakten debatten mee en speelden – in de foyer van het Haagse Theater a/h Spui – voor VJ tijdens de salsadansles. Daniël Bertina en Wijbrand Schaap deden hun best om zoveel mogelijk…

Holland Festival: diary of the 2011 edition

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Op 28 februari presenteert Pierre Audi in de stadsschouwburg het programma van het Holland Festival 2012. Wij zullen dat festival, net als in 2010 en 2011, op de voet volgen met onze online festivaldagkrant op www.dedodo.nl. Die dagkrant heeft inmiddels zijn bestaanrecht bewezen, nu steeds meer festivals met het Cultureel Persbureau willen samenwerken aan dit unieke initiatief. Aan de ‘product-range’…

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