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Playwrights and cultural exploration (2) Sophie Kassies: 'A pool of plays that don't find an audience is an erosion of the profession'

by Fleur Jansen
4 February 201829 March 2022
12 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

The previous cultural exploration among playwrights gives cause for further exploration. From the earlier article, we take away that further privatisation only partially captures public money and objectives. See also from elevation ideals to efficiency thinking. We also take away that a public as all-important leads to one-sided popular culture, entertainment and false competition with the free circuit. It all has very little...

Julia Bullock sings Anne Truelove in #TheRakesProgress: 'Anne is a very mature woman'

by Thea Derks
31 January 201830 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, OPERA, PODIUM ART

At the first opportunity, he abandons her. He leads a debauched life, marries another and ends up in the madhouse. Yet Anne Truelove continues to love Tom Rakewell, the protagonist in The Rake's Progress. The National Opera will present its fourth production of Stravinsky's opera from 1 February, in collaboration with Aix-en-Provence. There, last July, the...

Keith Haring, Untitled (velum), 1986. Installation 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

I call on the cultural sector of the Netherlands: put 80% of your marketing budget into cultural education.

by Karin Sommerer
29 January 201829 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, Leadership in Culture, PERSONAL, SPECIALS, SPONSORED

In my work, I entice people to come into contact with art. And especially art with a big K. The art that is often marketed as 'difficult' or, in an attempt to get rid of its negative image, as 'vulnerable'. Liberal politicians would perhaps say art that 'doesn't act normal'. It is the kind of...

Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya on her feminist western. 'I never saw Marlina the Murderer as a revenge story.'

by Leo Bankersen
27 January 201827 January 2018
7 min read
For members only, FILM

Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya on her feminist western Marlina the Murderer. The image of the heroine trudging around with the head of her rapist proved quite confrontational. It is a film that also says a lot about men and women in today's Indonesia.

Whether thriller writer Tomas Ross (73) has now mastered writing after dozens of books? 'Sometimes I shudder at my own sentences'

by A Quattro Mani
26 January 20182 August 2020
10 min read
For members only, LITERARY, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Tomas Ross, also called the godfather of Dutch 'faction', concludes his trilogy on the Dutch East Indies with his new thriller Het verdriet van Wilhelmina. ,,Readers often say: with you, we never know what is true and what is false. You might find that an objection, but I think it's a compliment.'' Arnie Springer The new thriller by Tomas...

Why it is good that the Holland Festival is putting the focus on Africa, rather than opting for a single artistic director.

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula. Remember those names, if you didn't already know them, because they are going to help shape the face of Holland in the coming year. They have been appointed by the Holland Festival as 'associate artist'. In doing so, the festival puts the phenomenon of 'artistic director' out of business. A necessary choice at a time when the price for that kind of figure is faster...

Jesper Ganslandt filmed himself and his 4-year-old son in an intense escape story. 'It made the bond between us stronger.'

by Leo Bankersen
24 January 201830 March 2022
8 min read
For members only, FILM

The 47th Rotterdam Film Festival opens with Jimmie, a flight story upside down. Director Jesper Ganslandt on filming with his infant son and the connections to his debut Falkenberg Farewell.

We spend less time reading, but the bookseller doesn't notice. Is the government doing enough to promote reading, or too much? (Why e-books are still far too expensive)

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 January 201829 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY

'Good literacy is a prerequisite for functioning - now and in the future - in our information society and knowledge economy.' This was stated in the press release sent out by KVB Boekwerk last week. The occasion was a SCP study which showed that we in the Netherlands are again spending less time reading than a decade ago. It listed impressive percentages. 'Over...

Jens van Daele: 'The power of women is greater than that of men'

by Maarten Baanders
22 January 201830 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

'I admire the strength of women. I experience it as greater than that of men. Women's strength lies in the dedication with which they can deal with things. The courage to push boundaries.' Jens van Daele, in his latest theatre show 'Nighthexen 1: Jeanne', pays tribute to the strength of women and highlights their heroism from...

Winternachten 2018 ended up being a beautiful ode to anger. #wu18

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 January 201829 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, Writers Unlimited

She is 14, heavily veiled and bespectacled, with a voice that can be heard in the farthest corners of The Hague. She wants to be a surgeon but first wins the preliminary round of the school competition for young poets at Winternachten. What anger there is in that person. What maturity sounds from her cry...

Symphony of Psalms Igor Stravinsky: away with romantic sentiment

by Thea Derks
21 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

On Wednesday 24 January, the Nederlands Kamerkoor presents an adventurous concert at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ to kick off a short tour. On the lecterns are rarely heard music by Lili Boulanger and Ton de Leeuw. The highlight is Igor Stravinsky's famous Psalm Symphony in a version for choir and piano four hands by Dmitri Shostakovich. Ralph van Raat and Bobby Mitchell sign...

Is Emmanuel Macron's long arm sowing discord at a Hague Literature Festival? Just not. (But should we all speak French again someday?) #wu18

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, LITERARY, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, Writers Unlimited

Leïla Slimani, de Marokkaans-Franse auteur die met haar roman Een Zachte Hand de prestigieuze Prix Goncourt in de wacht sleepte, heeft ter elfder ure afgezegd voor Winternachten. De reden was niet de storm van donderdag. DE reden was persoonlijk. Maar zou ook te maken kunnen hebben met iets anders. De hoofdgast van het Internationale Literaire Festival in Den Haag, Alain Mabanckou,…

Opening Night at Winternachten celebrates the power of perseverance, and supports writers in captivity. (Why sometimes a cardboard TV can help)

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201830 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, Writers Unlimited

'Writing and reading, like sex, are a form of fusion. Literature is the practice of impurity'. Pakistani-American author Mohsin Hamid can formulate. In his Free the Word speech at the opening of Winternachten in The Hague, the man, who wrote an international bestseller with The Fall of a Fundamentalist, made a case for impurity. 'Purity,' he told the...

Why a universal basic income is necessary for the survival of the arts

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201829 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Leadership in Culture, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

A hopeful experiment has begun in Finland. The Netherlands is also trying to get something off the ground, although the government is thwarting the plans for now. Why is unclear. Because even big-capitalists like Elon Musk (Tesla) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) are now saying it: a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the only way we can advance our society, and with it our civilisation...

Last 7 Words Dutch Don't Dance

'This is God'. Choreographer Thom Stuart sets Haydn's Last 7 Words to dance.

by Ruben Brugman
18 January 201830 May 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART

First there was Kinder Matteüs: an interactive musical production with the Holland Baroque Society and the Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor. Now The Dutch Junior Dance Division with the Matangi Quartet brings Last 7 Words to music by Haydn. You came to church every day, didn't you?" I ask Thom Stuart. No, the choreographer firmly denies. 'I never come to church.'

Carmien Michels, European Poetry Slam champion: 'I hope I can give many people that extra push to go on their own journey of discovery'

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 January 201830 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, LITERARY, Literature House, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, APPRECIATE & DONATE!, Writers Unlimited

The best performers are a few heads taller on stage than in real life. This also applies to Carmien Michels. I knew the writer, performer, slam poet and jack-of-all-trades in cultural life mostly from her legendary performances at the 2016 NK Poetry Slam and the Night of Poetry in September 2017. Radiance and presence, which...

Film tip: There's a running gag in Le Redoutable that's too much fun to give away. (And why I finally want to see Godard's La Chinoise)

by Leo Bankersen
17 January 20182 April 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

With guts and a sense of humour, Michel Hazanavicius filmed the artistic crisis of iconoclastic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. A liberatingly sprightly ode to a difficult genius in the form of a tragic love story. And, of course, Godard reviewed at EYE.

Ton de Leeuw by Groot Omroepkoor & RFO brass ensemble: music of 'being' versus music of 'becoming'

by Thea Derks
17 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

At the end of the nineteenth century, Western music gradually began to come apart at the seams. Composers used more and more dissonances so that the familiar tonality hardly fitted into its shell. From a constant desire for even more expression, the orchestra was expanded with ever new instruments. This led to monster productions such as Gustav Mahler's 'Symphony of the Tausend', with more than a thousand...

ZEP takes on the sacred cows of love with comedy HABIB. (Why Rascal should just come and watch)

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 January 201829 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED, THEATER

So certain words are taboo. Moroccan Said explains that his ideal woman has to be a virgin, chaste, and so should not let him ... well, that is. That word you are not allowed to say. The Turkish Evrim thinks that's big nonsense again. Why not call a spade a spade? In Habib, the latest performance by theatre group ZEP, it is all about...

'We are too little aware of how well things are going at the moment'. HRM professor Paul Boselie on the future of our labour market.

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 January 201830 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, SPONSORED

Next Thursday, at Utrecht's TivoliVredenburg music palace, it will not be about music for once, but about work. During the event The Future of Work, internationally renowned professor Paul Boselie will throw a big punch. According to the author of the international handbook 'Strategic Human Resource Management', employees and employers lack the much-needed sense of urgency about...

When words become weapons, listening is pointless. Frank Westerman at festival Winternachten on negotiating with terrorists.

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 January 20183 February 2019
7 min read
For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, Writers Unlimited

In the 1970s, a wave of terror swept through Europe. A wave that claimed far more victims in our regions than the Islamic violence to date. During literature festival Winternachten, from 18 to 22 January in The Hague, it is about the struggle for freedom, about us against them. On Saturday afternoon 21 January, Frank Westerman and Mohsin Hamid will discuss the...

Composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas: 'Music has no nationality'

by Thea Derks
12 January 201829 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

The most recent achievement of Russian-Swedish composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas (b. 1969) is Dracula. This opera based on Bram Stoker's book of the same name premiered at Royal Opera Stockholm in October 2017. A 'colourful and highly atmospheric musical score', it included 'one of the most emotional scenes in the history of Swedish opera', wrote one critic. Seven years earlier,...

Cinema attendance rises for tenth year: we outperform the US, France or Germany, but no Dutch film makes the top 20

by Leo Bankersen
10 January 201830 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The growth of the Dutch cinema sector continued in 2017, but Dutch cinema remains a problem child. Despicable Me 3 was the most visited. Soof 2 was, as in 2016, the most successful Dutch title. How is the Netherlands doing internationally? And what are we looking forward to in 2018?

José Maria Sánchez-Verdú composes musical Hell's Gate for choir and string quartet

by Thea Derks
6 January 201829 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The string quartet is considered Joseph Haydn's invention; Goethe considered it the nec plus ultra of instrumental music. 'One hears four intelligent people conversing with each other' said the poet. 'One believes to understand something of their conversation and to know the idiosyncrasies of the instruments.' We get plenty of that opportunity from 27 January to 3 February, during...

In Bruges, everything that could go wrong went wrong. Painter Pieter Pourbus escaped by marrying conveniently. (And being stone-faced.)

by Harri Theirlynck
2 January 201830 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, IMAGING, HERITAGE

The (in Flanders) famous portrait painter Pieter Pourbus is from Gouda. You have never heard of him. Soon you will. Museum Gouda is bringing the first Pieter Pourbus exhibition to the Netherlands from 17 February 2018 to 17 June 2018. In preparation for this, you should first visit the Groeninge Museum in Bruges. In the unabashedly burgundy World Heritage city, the exhibition Pieter Pourbus and...

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