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During her lifetime, Astrid Lindgren received almost seventy-five thousand letters from fans all over the world. The creator of headstrong characters such as Pippi Longstocking, The Lionheart Brothers and Ronja the Robber's Daughter was at least as headstrong herself. This is clear from the voluminous biography This Day, One Life. Back to Näs, where Astrid Lindgren grew up and still lives on. Playing, playing, playing...
In art, you work because of your passion, not because of the money. That's so, that was always so. In art, it's even suspicious if you care about money. And if you do worry about money once, it immediately comes out rotten. Are you going to shout about culture, march der your...
Tomorrow, Culture in View, the annual OCW conference for the cultural sector, is dedicated to diversity. Although the topic was already raised by Rick van der Ploeg in the late 1990s, diversity within the cultural sector anno 2016 still lags far behind the changing demographic composition of the population. Diversity should no longer remain just an agenda item. Under the motto: No...
I tell you here why you should go to see Parsifal, and not even just because of the object by Anish Kapoor that plays a part in it. And you could also go to theatre one day, by the way. With The Girls. Fel theatre by our very best theatre company (according to Americans). The National Opera, Parsifal (opera) Four years ago, I attended Pierre Audi's...
De kosten van de crisis Kleine helden is de titel van de nieuwe roman van Almudena Grandes, een van de grootste schrijvers van Spanje. En om kleine helden gaat het: de roman is eigenlijk een bundeling van verhalen die met elkaar samenhangen en over mensen gaan zoals wij allemaal, alleen wonen deze mensen allemaal in Madrid. Rijk en arm, jong…
Yesterday, the chamber made €10 million available for the arts. This brings the tally of government cuts to at least €190,000,000 still. This hard-won extra is the last that could be asked for. Everyone agrees, the new system has been definitively embraced. The protest has made itself redundant now that the compromise has been made. And what have we got...
This month, early music pioneer Marijke Ferguson turned 89. She led the adventurous ensemble Studio Laren for 30 years and has been making radio for over 50 years, the last 23 for the Concertzender. Time and again, she manages to intertwine old and new music with pop and world music in an appealing way. On Sunday 11 December, the Concertzender puts her centre stage during...
Zeemonsters, verslindende draaikolken en verleidende sirenen – de oerkracht van de zee is voor de mens al eeuwenlang een bron van ontzag, angst, fascinatie en mythes. Over miljoenen jaren bestaat het getij niet meer, maar tot die tijd hebben we nog volop te maken met de schoonheid en de gevaren ervan. In Het getij, dat afgelopen maand verscheen, neemt de Britse…
From 6 December, theatre Kikker will show a week-long anthology of talented and diverse young theatre makers. We looked ahead to this Winter Collection. Hannah Roelofs, herself just over 30, issues five warnings for people over 29. 1. Twenty-somethings! 'This is the generation that's losing his or her...
Kleine opstandige meisjes, daar weten schrijver Jaap Robben en illustrator Benjamin Leroy wel raad mee. Suzie Ruzie, het meisje met een stinkvinger, gaat naar het zwembad. Niet in het kleuterbad – welnee, in het diepe! A Quattro Mani’s gastrecensente Afke Bohle, moeder van drie, ging met haar mee. Het eerste boek dat wij hier in huis hadden liggen van Jaap Robben…
As a boy, I loved visiting the Egyptian department of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Half in the twilight, the mysterious mummy coffins there stared at me. We are now several decades and exhibits further on. Since this week, the newest Egypt display has been open. Even in brilliant light, the collection appears to retain its fascinating power. At the same time, the museum tells in Queens...
In de serie (On)gehoord presenteer ik elke maand buitengewoon geluid dat niet onopgemerkt en onbesproken blijft. In deze November-editie: Jacob Kirkegaard, Oren Ambarchi, Glice en N.M.O. Jacob Kirkegaard – Munk (Cassette, Phinery Tapes) De Deense geluidkunstenaar Jacob Kirkegaard onderzoekt de impact van geluidsresonantie op onze oren én de rest van het lichaam. In Kirkegaard’s werk staat direct, intiem contact via…
With Austerlitz, Sergei Loznitsa made a documentary about tourists in former concnetration camps that was as rigorous as it was unsettling. This year, he is guest of honour at IDFA and gave a master class there.
Until 31 December, classical music lovers can browse the unprecedented amount of sheet music, CDs and music books at Broekmans & van Poppel. The iconic shop, stately located next to Brasserie Keyzer and the Concertgebouw on the Van Baerlestraat in Amsterdam, will close its doors after 102 years. The family-run business will continue in Badhoevedorp, where the central warehouse is already...
In 1975 organiseren de jazzmusicus Misha Mengelberg en de kunstenaar Wim T. Schippers Een behoorlijk kabaal in het Amsterdamse Mickery Theater. Een week lang onderzoeken ze in ‘onnavolgbaar muziektheater’ de verschillende betekenissen van een concert. Jacqueline Oskamp koos het als titel van haar recent verschenen boek waarin zij de Nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis van de afgelopen eeuw beschrijft. Treurige conclusie: er is…
De afgelopen tijd werd de westerse moraal weer eens goed op de proef gesteld. Dit keer was het door een paar flinke piemels in Brussel. Red Pers-auteur Roxy Jongewaard heeft genoeg van de ophef die genitaliën telkens weer teweeg weten te brengen in de (kunst)wereld. Hide your kids, hide your wives! Het is weer zover: iemand tekent een piemel op…
The National Opera & Ballet is among the showpieces of Dutch cultural policy. And rightly so. Like the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Rijksmuseum, the opera and dance company is among the absolute world's best. That comes with a price tag. A hefty price tag. In the case of The National Opera: €24,420,000, in the case of The National Ballet: €6,950,000. Soon there will be a...
Meg Stuart's two-hour heroic epic Until Our Hearts Stop, showing at the Rotterdam Schouwburg this week, does not engage in dramatic construction according to the rules of Aristotle's Poetics. We don't know who those people are there on stage. Nor do they seem to have been given any special assignment, although they are clearly being...
It is around 11 o'clock on Sunday evening. Jlin taps a rattling beat in the air with her index fingers. When the relentlessly sucking bass kicks in, she accompanies it with an elbow down. Her grin from ear to ear is met with cheers from the audience. Le Guess Who? 2016 (hereafter LGW) is coming to an end, but that's what these...
Hij heeft meer dan vijfentwintig boeken geschreven, waarvan de helft voor de jeugd, maar eigenlijk wilde Jan Terlouw helemaal niet schrijven. Hij was wis- en natuurkundige, deed kernfusieonderzoek en werd later ook nog politicus – dat was meer dan genoeg. Bovendien was rechtshandig schrijven (zoals het op school werd aangeleerd) voor iemand die linkshandig is, een kwelling. Het had dan…
Afgelopen weekend bezocht ik een koffieconcert van het barokgezelschap The Continuo Company. Met m’n 53 jaar was ik een van de jongste bezoekers. Om me heen gerimpelde gezichten en grijze haren. Steeds vaker hoor ik dat vergrijzing van het publiek voor klassieke muziek een probleem is. Ik vind dat grote onzin en begin me steeds meer te ergeren aan deze…
In the presence of Amnesty International and Edward Snowden - via a video link from Moscow - Oliver Stone's new film Snowden premiered at Tuschinski on Thursday night. The dramatised story of the young, gifted public servant who is troubled by his conscience and decides to go to the press is not very original or compellingly portrayed. But on the wave of...
In turbulent times, an evening of dance works therapeutically. Especially when three former Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) dancers show new work in Here we live and now. Only, anyone expecting a sharp look at current affairs by the programme title will be disappointed. Here we live and now refers mainly to choreographers living or working in The Hague and shows a snapshot of their...
'It took me 18 years to make a new recording,' Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich (1958) says with a modest smile. 'Just as much time as it takes a baby to come of age.' It is Wednesday, November 2. A special moment, because on that day Pogorelich's CD-less new recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas No 22 and No 24 will go on...
If the shock of 9-11 in 2016 highlighted anything, it was the yawning gap between the higher and lower educated in our neoliberal society. White, less-educated and angry male America elected a racist and war hitter as president. We can't help but conclude that democratic, liberal, highly educated and bigoted America refused to see the blow coming. In the spring ...
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