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Eight by Michel van der Aa: hallucinatory mixed reality at Holland Festival. - But don't forget to take off your pumps

Ietwat misselijk en met wankele benen verlaat ik de corridor waarin ik zojuist Eight van Michel van der Aa heb beleefd. ‘Heb je het circuit gevolgd op die hoge hakken?’, vraagt een medewerker van het Holland Festival ongelovig. Inderdaad had ik mijn pumps beter bij de ingang achtergelaten. Het mixed realityproject Eight beleeft dinsdag 4 juni zijn wereldpremière in Muziekgebouw… 

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Parliament Debout: round of Bijlmer mostly results in discomfort for Holland Festival audience.

The Bijlmermeerpolder is still known as a district where you don't go unless something or someone forces you to. A stigma the apartment neighbourhood acquired in the 1980s when it served as a drain on society. And still its reputation is bad. A single incident of violence keeps damaging the entire district, though that is... 

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Antony and Cleopatra, Tiago Rodrigues. Photo: Magda Bizarro.

'I have no problem at all if spectators want to see Anthony and Cleopatra. But for me, it's about something else.' Tiago Rodrigues writes theatre for dancers.

Anthony and Cleopatra is exactly the kind of repertory piece that people look forward to during the Holland Festival, or any other prestigious stage. Director and writer Tiago Rodrigues manages not so much to deflate that grandiose expectation as to reduce it to the intimacy of a duet and a play with extremely basic theatrical gestures. His two actors are dancers, an experienced choreographer duo 

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Los Incontados: a bizarre terrarium of small-human suffering in a cloud of cocaine and confetti.

Colombia's biggest export not only allows Urk fishermen to work long hours, or Amsterdam Zuidas lawyers to keep up with the global 24-hour economy. The white gold also dissolves the nasal septum of the cream of world culture, and costs thousands of lives in the country itself. That had to lead to a theatrical performance, and it did 

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‘Mijn kat heeft me van de dood gered.’ Zeven levensvragen aan schrijfster Jeanette Winterson

Toen bleek dat ze verliefd was op een meisje ontvluchtte ze haar ongelukkige jeugd bij haar strenggelovige adoptieouders. Het boek dat ze daarover schreef, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, maakte haar in één klap wereldberoemd. Maar als volwassene kreeg ze alsnog de rekening gepresenteerd. Het was haar kat die haar redde haar van een zelfverkozen dood. Zeven levensvragen aan… 

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What a broken-down bus has to do with liberation and feminism. Dancer Djino Alolo on Piki Piki at the Holland Festival

Djino Alolo Sabin (1990) sits there, relaxed, in the morning at the hotel in Brussels. The night before, he has danced his solo Piki Piki for the first time, which will also be shown at Theater Frascati during the Holland Festival. The performance touches on many intense themes, but is anything but melodramatic. Rather, it expresses a relentless optimism.... 

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In the greatest spectacle, ultimately the smallest detail touches your heart (which is why The Head and The Load had to be the royal opening of the Holland Festival).

Some stories are too big to tell. Too big, but no less important or true for that. Like the story of the millions of Africans who died in World War I in the service of the warring factions there: Britain, France, Italy and Germany. No one knew that last story. At least, nobody I knew knew about it, and neither did I myself. It... 

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At Festival Woest, young people figure out for themselves how they want to play life (Why you can't avoid Zwolle in early June)

Woest is a cultural education festival for and by young people and offers a place for experimentation outside education. Woest is a unique partnership between education, culture providers and young people. In fact, what makes Woest unique is that young people themselves come up with new things that can make education more fun and better. The pupil's voice is always the starting point. In recent months,... 

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'There's a limit to crowdfunding, you can only do it twice' - Growing pains of the dance film, part 2

The dance film occupies a unique place among the film offerings. Not driven purely by psychologising or text, it offers every opportunity for experimentation in form and content. But that also means it is difficult to place. And therefore difficult to make. The second part on the growing pains of the dance film features 2 dancers and performance artist.... 

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‘Ik ben niet de discriminatiepolitie.’ Romana Vrede over haar rol in het team van Gloria Wekker op SPOT-LIve.

‘Hoe maak ik de wereld een beetje mooier? Dat vraag ik me af bij alles wat ik doe.’ Romana Vrede, bekroond actrice bij Het Nationale Theater, ’tafeldame’ bij De Wereld Draait Door en Zomergast, kijkt graag positief de wereld in. Zal haar bijdrage aan SPOT-Live, het symposium voor de podiumkunsten dat op 28 mei in Rotterdam plaatsvindt, dan ook optimistisch… 

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Naked men and black bronzing under philosophical veneer. Is Angelica Liddell overshooting the mark with The Scarlet Letter? (Why the Holland Festival can expect a riot)

That you cannot shamelessly treat a black man as a rutting primal beast and a faceless object for your unlimited lust fantasy as a white woman? Seems logical to me, but for Angélica Liddell, world-renowned performance artist, it is typical of the new puritanism that threatens free art. She now brings The Scarlet Letter to the Netherlands, a theatrical performance that is rather... 

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Hoe erg is de zelfmoord van een opblaaspop? Chileense meiden spelen zich vrij in Paisajes para no colorear op het Holland Festival

‘Ik ben het afgelopen jaar op weg naar school twee keer lastiggevallen.’ De jonge actrice, krap 15, zegt het met flink wat woede in haar stem. Het is de ochtend na de Berlijnse première van het Chileense stuk Paisajes para no colorear, waarin ze meespeelt, met 8 leeftijdsgenoten. Die woede was er de voorgaande avond, tijdens de voorstelling die 14… 

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She became famous for things she didn't want. Doris Day may have been bigger than we think

My generation probably immediately gets the famous Doe Maar song in its head at the obituary of Doris Day. There is no ball on TV, only a film with Doris Day. And you really didn't want that, your mother's goody-goody heroine. The wholesome star with whom you think of a glass of milk rather than wild... 

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Nieuw publiek voor gesubsidieerd theater? Nederland werkt dat tegen.

Samen met twee 12-jarige kids ga ik naar een toneelvoorstelling. Naar een toneelvoorstelling met het label ‘volwassen voorstelling’. De kaarten kosten 25,- per stuk. Korting voor studenten. Korting voor CJP. Geen korting voor kinderen, excuus,  jongeren, want ja, die twee brugklassers zijn al 12. Is deze voorstelling gemaakt voor kinderen? Nee. Ze is gemaakt voor de nieuwsgierige, open kijker, voor… 

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Faustin Linyekula and the tearfulness of the travelling artist

'Aid workers come to my city to leave again. I come there to stay.' You cannot get Faustin Linyekula any more concise. 'Aid workers do not create a bond with the people they want to help. Their work is gone as soon as they leave. I don't come to help, but because I want to be there. If that makes me a few... 

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'We have become spectators rather than actors'; Philipp Blom tells performing artists on SPOT-Live what is at stake.

'We are on the brink of a new cultural revolution. We need to move away from our paradigm and art can play a role in this. Art can show us images of a different future, a different thought. Artists can help bring that realisation in.' Speaking is writer and journalist Philipp Blom. In 2017, his... 

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Podcast! Vier strijkers live in vier helikopters, voor Stockhausens ‘Aus Licht’: ‘We moeten qua planning nog iets aan die postduiven doen.’

In 2016 sloegen het Holland Festival, De Nationale Opera, het Koninklijk Conservatorium en de Stockhausenstiftung de handen ineen ineen om het magnum opus van de Duitse avant-gardist op de planken te brengen in de Amsterdamse Gashouder. Licht steekt in ambitie en omvang Wagners Ring des Nibelungen ruim naar de kroon. Tegenover de vier avondvullende opera’s van zijn oudere collega plaatst Stockhausen ‘Sieben… 

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Why you should come see 'Struggle! 100 Years of Women's Suffrage' should come and see it

In the struggle for women's suffrage, the 'ordinary' housewife from Ten Boer in Groningen played just as vital a role as the widely praised Aletta Jacobs. She too walked in demonstrations, appeared in her grandmother's costume during protests and sewed a banner for the movement in her kitchen or living room. Like her peers from the rest of the Netherlands, she fought... 

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Jesús de Vega makes Choreopop: 'There must always be something that causes friction.' (What a childhood in Gran Canaria does to a dancer)

'I have broken every bone on the left side of my body at least once. My knee ten years ago, my elbow five years later, a toe, a finger, and under my left eye I have a scar from a stone someone threw at me when I was a kid.' Jesús de Vega, dancer, choreographer, videographer and teremin player, has had the requisite... 

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Eric de Vroedt (Het Nationale Theater)curates at SPOT-Live: 'Let's talk about love.'

'What we so often forget is to just talk about our love for theatre.' Eric de Vroedt, artistic director of The National Theatre, wants to talk about substance for once. And then with the entire performing arts sector. Soon there will be SPOT-Live, the renewed Congress of Performing Arts, and there he wants to talk about love. 'Quite by chance, it happened a month ago.... 

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PODCAST! Beware the one-armed piano teacher. Bellevue presents comic show about Paul Wittgenstein.

Playing the piano without hands is quite difficult. With one hand it is already almost impossible, although Paul Wittgenstein came a long way. The pianist - and elder brother of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein - lost his right arm in the First World War trenches. He set about training his left arm with some dogged determination and was able to... 

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Composer Sander Germanus: 'Don't use drugs, listen to my music!'

'Don't use drugs, listen to my music!' This is what Sander Germanus (Amsterdam, 1972) writes confidently on his website. Words you don't immediately expect from a composer of modern-classical music. After all, in this context, many think of incomprehensible 'plink-plonk' rather than mind-blowing sounds. A refreshing sound from someone who designed his own method of composition, so-called 'horizontal harmony'. Ehm... What should we... 

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'I now understand how complex "guilt" actually is': Takis Würger wrote novel about Jewish betrayer (and put his email address in it).

'That I have perpetrators in my family gives me the responsibility to keep remembering. Many of my contemporaries say we should never forget and that it should never happen again, but do nothing else. Being a writer gives me the opportunity to do something. To write about it, make readers feel... 

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Crash Park: Armageddon is child's play. At the Holland Festival, Philippe Quesne cheerfully lets us survive any disaster.

‘Ik ben totaal niet optimistisch over de planeet. Ik ben ook niet optimistisch over het optimisme waarmee de mensen in mijn voorstelling steeds weer opnieuw een oplossing vinden om door te leven ondanks de rampspoed die hen overkomt.’ Philippe Quesne heeft van die wanhoop een prachtig theaterstuk gemaakt. Vol niet-cynische overlevers die van alles een avontuur maken. Hoe hij dat… 

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