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'This is not a love story' is intimate and simple, but takes you on a journey for which the globe is not big enough #International Choice

by Maarten Baanders
19 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

What is your relationship with whales? A. Totally not interested in it. B. Somewhat interested. C. Very fond of whales.
You don't often hear such a question in everyday life. It appears in 'This is not a love story', a narrated, danced and musically performed 'Swedish road movie' by choreographer/filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn. A journey Heilborn took with dancers Johan Thelander and Kristiina Viala from Tromsö to Lisbon provided the material for this performance.

Pollesch and Hinrichs turn opening night The Choice into a theatrical philosophical happening #The International Choice

by one of our members
17 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

For the opening night of The International Choice, the Rotterdam Schouwburg was briefly transformed into Berlin's Volksbühne. The same black plastic rags on the walls, the same ugly yellow front curtain and - most strikingly - the seats in the auditorium have been replaced by white beanbags. Those beanbags, by the way, are widely despised and mocked in Berlin. They should...

Budget note: We put together the cultural haircut percentages

by one of our members
16 September 201129 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Let's start again with yet another sloppiness of the Rutte government: that damned VAT measure on the arts, which are the only ones to be bounced to the 'normal' rate of 19%. VVD doesn't like it, CDA isn't happy about it, but, because tolerance specialist Martin Bosma once had to play a red toadstool in the school play, he has eternal...

Festival 'The International Choice' opens as it should: abrasive, confrontational and tad disturbing #thechoice

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Strange how quickly history detaches itself from your memory. We had gradually come to think here that the camping uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square was a kind of summer of love. That everyone there was cramming roses into cannon shells singing together and that the whole world was just there to give each other love and hugs. Time for a lesson in rebellion....

Superbly performed opera by Rimsky Korsakoff provisional highlight of changeable opening weekend Gergiev Festival

by one of our members
13 September 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"My commitment to the city (Rotterdam) and the orchestra knows no end," Valeri Gergyev spoke on the occasion of the Gergyev Festival taking place in Rotterdam this week. This is good news, as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the former principal conductor still get along well. And to be backed by this global top-five conductor is...

Welcome to the human zoo is an exciting and sometimes oppressive game with real and unreal #DeBasis

by one of our members
11 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Often, publicity texts conjure up an inappropriate image of the performance they refer to. "The airbase as a no man's land: a military state wiped out and where nature has taken over the area," is one such. The text belongs to Welcome in the human zoo, an experiential theatre performance created by Suze Milius and Bram Jansen. Such a sentence evokes associations...

There is crying, screaming and dancing frenziedly in Helium by Davy Pieters on #debasis

by one of our members
10 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

"You are my sunshine," sings a woman very softly. Meanwhile, the audience sits in pitch darkness. We are trapped. Banished to a shelter that, it seems, suddenly has no exit. It is a real shelter in which theatre-maker Davy Pieters holds her performance Helium. Shelter 313 at Soesterberg Air Base once served as a refuge for personnel. Via...

An unfathomable well of sadness in Thousand Yard Stare at #DeBasis

by one of our members
10 September 201130 March 2022
4 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Soesterberg Air Base is full of large hangars, hangars and other massive buildings. All dream locations for theatre-makers, it seems. Director Ilmer Rozendaal made a different choice for her performance Thousand Yard Stare. She placed the solo in a small, airy oak forest containing an old and dilapidated bunker. The timelessness of this place turns out to be ideal for her small and human...

Wonderful combination of stillness and slowing makes one long for more of Daria Bukvic' ' Devastated' on #DeBasis

by one of our members
10 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Een open plek in het bos. Dat zou idyllisch kunnen zijn, maar uit het bos komen verdachte geluiden. Mannen zingen en halen trekkers over. De echo’s van explosies weerklinken. Het is allemaal maar nep. Het is maar theater – dat toch angst aanjaagt. Daria Bukvic, een pas afgestudeerde regisseur van de Toneelschool Maastricht, maakte een voorstelling over haar moeder. Die…

Artists bring paradoxes of Soesterberg Air Base to light at Festival #DeBasis

by Madeleine Red
10 September 20118 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Art at Soesterberg airbase is almost by definition a paradox. So is the natural site that was a military base. And that is why visual art finds a perfect home here. For festival De Basis, artists from five countries were asked to enter into a dialogue with this absurd, until recently forbidden terrain. This results in beautiful contrasts. First of all in...

Hot and sunny weekend at Soesterberg airbase: time for new experiment with The Dodo

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With temperatures above 25 degrees, it will be a sweltering but also unique summer day, that 10th September. The Cultural Press Agency will be present that day and Sunday with four journalists at the former Soesterberg Air Base to report on festival De Basis. When you get there, you will make a lot of nature, even more impressive war history and a theatre performance or two...

The hottest day of this summer is dedicated to Festival De Basis at Soesterberg. Be there. #thebasis

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 201129 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With temperatures above 25 degrees, it will be a sweltering but also unique summer day, that 10th September. The Cultural Press Agency will be present that day with four journalists at the former Soesterberg Air Base to report on festival De Basis. When you get there, you will make lots of nature, even more impressive war history and a piece or two of theatre performances and visual...

New Culture Council president? 'Van Klink creates a crisis himself so he can then solve it'

by one of our members
7 September 201129 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Pim van Klink is his name. He has been popping up everywhere lately. Especially when the malign subsidy orientation of the cultural sector needs to be pointed out, every medium calls Van Klink first. Last week, he once again threw his hobbyhorse into the henhouse in the NRC and was invited to join Buitenhof. And according to our trench-coat-clad...

Kick off subsidy addiction requires greater government effort than Zijlstra wants

by one of our members
September 3, 201129 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Arts organisations are subsidy-addicted and so we are withdrawing subsidies. The VVD's approach is clear. On the exact how, they appear to need to think longer about that, now that there is so much opposition from the country. Cold Turkey, the treatment proposed by tolerance partner (nice word in this context) PVV, could well result in deaths. To...

Theatre festival opens with call for new leadership

by one of our members
2 September 201130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Dutch Theatre Festival opened with combative speeches by its director, jury president and patron. Joop van den Ende called for a big lobbyist. We wonder who is strong enough for that.

Rotterdam alderman shocks cultural sector over total lack of knowledge

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 August 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'And why do all these art institutions have to open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and even Thursdays? I don't understand that. I'm far too busy working on those days.' Just a question during the Paradiso debate,

Argentine lives inexorably turn to destruction at Mariano Pensotti's hands

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201130 March 2022
3 min read
SPECIALS

Turntables and theatre have something in common. Especially in recent years, theatre-goers increasingly run the risk of facing a so-called rotating stage. After Johan Simons made use of this technical style figure in his direction of Hiob at the Munich Kammerspiele and Christoph Schlingensief made the stage turn spectacularly in his swan song Mea Culpa, it is now...

Rotterdam Theatre's International Choice has always been a personal choice

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Last year, it was still about 'a sense of belonging': the ability to feel at home somewhere, to know you belong somewhere. This year, the motto of the quirky Rotterdam festival De Internationale Keuze is almost diametrically opposed to that: parallel reality. Instead of one place offering warmth, the festival now says that place is there...

It's final: the format for arts subsidies until 2016 is with the chamber

by one of our members
25 August 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We have another letter from the secretary of state for culture. Halbe Zijlstra has sent it to parliament, to make it official that from 2013 a very bleak wind is going to blow in arts land. That makes cuts of 200 million final, still excluding the probably 150 million in so-called friction costs that the ministry also has to get from somewhere (u...

Cackling fresh location artists prepare for Festival DE BASIS

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 August 201130 March 2022
2 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

With a few creative friends and a nice budget, romp around in a playground of many tens of acres of pristine nature. Surrounded by the remains of military might. It automatically makes you go roaring. But that's how it goes sometimes. With art. So, to get right to the point: cuts are not always bad. For instance, divesting the...

Rutte cabinet answers chamber questions on 'unsupported' VAT measure

by one of our members
22 August 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

That's going to be fodder for chambers exegetes, although the question is whether it will make any difference. But Halbe Zijlstra says he did not say that the VAT measure "was not the most accomplished measure in the coalition agreement. Although that is what that interview with him in NRC Handelsblad of 8 July 2011. At the time, everyone thought that was a funny

This is how pop music 'matures': British group Bitter Ruin reaches Opera charts US.

by one of our members
14 August 201130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Vorige week bereikten ze de Amerikaanse toplijsten. Leuk voor een Britse popgroep die uit de anonimiteit wil komen via een gerichte facebookactie. Opmerkelijk wel is dat de popgroep niet de ‘gewone’ top aan het bereiken is. Met het nummer ‘Trust’ staat Bitter Ruin namelijk in de operalijst. Maar het is minder verbazingwekkend dan het lijkt. Bij Amazon valt de band…

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Small arts initiatives in the US are going to have a very tough time

by one of our members
3 August 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Opponents of government support for arts and culture quite often cite the United States of America as an example of how things can be done differently. There, according to these people, no tax money goes to art and culture, and art is there despite this. Others point out that government support for art does exist in America, and that much of the top art in the US is partly...

Loyal festival-goer doesn't let his festival go down the drain

by one of our members
28 July 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Rain, rain, rain. That looks bad for the festivals. Right? "Weather has less of an impact on a festival than people think," says Noorderzon's Mark Hospers. And they should know. Last year they had a lot of rain, and at the same time sold a record number of tickets. How is it that bad weather seems to bother the festivals little?....

Ingmar Bergman becomes opera at Grachtenfestival

by Daniel Bertina
27 July 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Amsterdam, 1999. Studying Theatre Science, first-year theatre analysis class. I sit with notepad and pen clutched in fingers, making indecipherable notes. Halfway through the lecture, Sjaron Minailo (Tel Aviv, 1979) saunters in, dressed in a huge fur coat, with big Gucci sunglasses and dreadlocks. With a sigh, he plops into the back lecture bench, hears three sentences of the disrupted lecturer's speech

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