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‘Meedoen aan een invasie is duizend keer lastiger dan er een boek over schrijven’

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games… Zouden jongeren nog geïnteresseerd zijn in geschiedenis? Schrijfster Anke Manschot gelooft van wel. Aan de vooravond van de Kinderboekenweek, die vandaag begint, verscheen haar spannende en aangrijpende historische boek De sprong op Normandië, de eerste jeugdroman ter wereld over D-Day. Vijf vragen aan de schrijfster. Historische jeugdroman Tijdens een vakantie in Normandië… 

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Chantal Akerman: 'I cannot see myself, because I am myself'

Niet veel regisseurs zijn heel jong al heel iconisch geworden. Chantal Akerman was dat, zowel voor de experimentele film, als voor de feministische. In 1975 brak ze door met Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, een film die even ontregelend als ingetogen is. Het is haar belangrijkste werk, en ook haar meest radicale. De protagoniste leidt een bestaan van… 

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Eline van Ark makes dance not to watch especially

Those who go to a dance performance want to enjoy beautiful movements, expression, movement composition and a fine stage setting, wrapped in music or a soundscape. But there is something, which is always overlooked: the sound of dance itself. Dancer and choreographer Eline van Ark discovered that this forgotten aspect holds great richness and subtle expressiveness. The sound... 

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Recognition at Dutch Dance Days for plodding 'Swans' 2015 winners

During a festive dinner at Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, 'Zwanen' were awarded to dancer Jorge Nozal of NDT 1, Ann Van den Broek for The Black Piece and to Roel Voorintholt (Gouden Zwaan), artistic director of Introdans. The annual highlights festival De Nederlandse Dansdagen hosted this successful 'Swan Dinner': posh sponsors and stakeholders ate side by side with messy dance artists. This is how it should be... 

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Ad hoc dance in Nederlands Dans Theater's slick Netflix series

Bodies are dragged away to loud applause and cheers: a more symbolic beginning Nederlands Dans Theater could not have imagined. With Start Again, the international ballet company highlights an exile until 2019 at the harbour in Scheveningen. A tricky location, because remote. But also a dynamic place. A Dutch choreographer would surely invent a choreography there with ferries, cutters and lifeboats. NDT, however, chooses the... 

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HET Symphony Orchestra won't get its 2016 budget done

THE Symphony Orchestra does not have a balanced budget for 2016. Without additional money from the province, it can no longer perform its core task, nor can it fulfil all the commitments it made earlier. That is the gist of the letter CDA deputy commissioner Hester Maij sent to Provincial Council, ahead of its meeting on 7 October. The subject of the letter: "progress business plan/redemption subsidy HET Symfonieorkest".... 

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Monks and hippies in search of enlightenment

Among the dozens of film festivals in this country, there is one that forms a small island of tranquillity and contemplation. The Buddhist Film Festival Europe, now in its 10th year, is a multi-day festival with, about and by Buddhists, or Buddhist-inspired. Now that everyone is all mindful, we go back to the source with festival director 

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240 Pubers stil krijgen bij Shakespeare? Een gebruiksaanwijzing.

Veel theatermakers smeken heimelijk om de invoering van lijfstraffen voor scholieren met CKV. Scholieren met CKV zijn er namelijk op uit om het leven van acteurs te verwoesten. Ze worden daarin bijgestaan door ongeïnteresseerde docenten, die op hun vrije avond meer moeite doen om in de smaak te vallen bij hun pupillen dan bij de aanbieders van cultuur. Als compromis gelden… 

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Autumn of reflection

Movies that Matter will not only see you at the festival in March. The film event, organised by Amnesty International, will also tour several film houses in the Netherlands this autumn. It kicks off in October with the screening of Hubert Sauper's documentary We come as friends. In his earlier film Darwin's nightmare, this award-winning Austrian showed... 

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Powerladies in Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ

In 1989 plaatste het Holland Festival componisten uit de Sovjet-Unie centraal. De muziek van Galina Oestvolskaja en Sofia Goebaidoelina sloeg in als een bom. De dames bleken here to stay, hoewel zij zich bewegen op twee uitersten van onze klankperceptie. Oestvolskaja beukt haar boodschap met monomane gedrevenheid onze trommelvliezen in, Goebaidoelina bedwelmt ons met geheimzinnige ritsel- en fluisterklanken. Voor mij behoren… 

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Vlaams Niveau of GeenPeil? Burgerkabinet stuurt cultuurbeleid Vlaamse regering bij

Terwijl in Nederland haatblog GeenStijl de stemmen van 400.000 bezorgde Nederlanders naar eigen anti-Europese hand zette, kwam Vlaanderen met iets nieuws: het burgerkabinet. Duizend gewone Vlamingen hebben drie maanden on- en offline gewerkt aan aanbevelingen voor het cultuurbeleid van cultuurminister Sven Gatz. Uiteindelijk werd een groep van honderdvijftig burgers uitgekozen om met een tekst te komen. Die is gisteren aan de… 

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Soviet design - does it exist?

The first thing I think of when I think of Soviet design are the magnificent posters showing muscular men with bared bodies and sturdy women in wide skirts harvesting immense fields of grain, or enthusiastically operating heavy machinery in huge factory halls. So the first question that the Moscow Design Museum asks in its press release is right on target: why do we know so little about design... 

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How cool is it to be fluent in Berber and Dutch as a five-year-old?

Always wanted to learn Old Irish or Sranan Tongo? Still prefer to learn to rap with Nitrogen? Do you wonder how aid workers communicate when they are deployed? In a couple of days, the Drongo Festival will start, two days covering all facets of language. You can take crash courses in Chinese, as well as listen to all kinds of lectures. We take a sneak preview with... 

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Dutch Film Special (3): Beauty film, eh! Dutch in Toronto

How is Dutch film doing beyond its borders? Just before the Dutch Film Festival breaks loose, its big international brother in Toronto (TIFF) kicked off. Red carpets, big stars and ditto premieres. It may be slightly less well-known here than Cannes, but TIFF is at least as important. For example, in the run-up to the Oscars. Not a bad thing, then... 

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Spotlight on Chopping Board and Psalms Pump

Cimbalom and harmonium are not the first instruments you immediately think of when you think of classical music. Yet, the ever-adventurous Ludwig collective puts precisely these mavericks at the centre of two concerts, on Saturday 26 September at the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert in Utrecht and on Sunday 27-9 at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. In 1915, Igor Stravinsky and a friend visited a... 

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Farewell and nostalgia define 33rd Night of Poetry

Listening to a short poem is sometimes hard work. This was evident during the Night of Poetry, held for the 33rd time on Saturday 19 September. At a poem that ends in brief toneless silence from the poet after four short sentences, the experts separate themselves from the amateurs in the audience. Clap quickly, before the next poem is over. Or. 

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Cooking for Richard III: 'Of course we tie off our sauces with a little blood'

Eating on stage. That's the standard 'Theatre Dinner', but more exciting. Especially if Shakespeare's Richard III is played during dessert. Toneelgroep Oostpool, the Arnhem-based company that has been going strong in recent years with striking performances, goes one step further again in exploring the ultimate audience experience. Sjim Hendrix, not only a chef but also an artist and... 

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Masses in the Kloosterkerk (photo Christiaan de Roo)

Mozart, Kortjakje and the princess

Last weekend 250 years ago, nine-year-old Mozart arrived in The Hague with his parents and sister Nannerl. He arrived on 11 September 1765 to perform at the stadholder court. Due to illness, the Mozarts ended up staying for nine months and the young composer wrote several works here. Harpsichordist and conductor Jörn Boysen organised the festival Mozart in The... 

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Matthijs Rümke (1954 - 2015): inspired and committed theatre talent will not go to waste

'Young people can very well decide for themselves where they want to go or not go. And it just so happens that most of the time it is not to the theatre. So what? That will come naturally. Young people make their own choices, and that more often includes a house party than a play. Dragging them inside is counterproductive. And above all, no compulsory book-list performance,... 

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My Fringe 2015 in 3 performances

Those who do not want to open the theatre season in 'Black Tie' and with a gala would do well to go to the Fringe Festival. Already in its tenth year, the festival is bouncing in all directions, this year with 80 performances. Unselected, untamed and unjudged, as they call it themselves. In other words, sometimes you see something wonderful and sometimes you... 

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The figures are in. And they don't say anything at all.

We had already announced it. This period is all about positive framing by the arts sector. Good news has to be spread, although people don't really know why. After all, there are no shareholders to be kept happy, only concerned art lovers. Anyway. On Wednesday 9 September, NRC journalist Daan van Lent presented the result of an investigation into the... 

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Father - Tom Grec

Standoffishness in Peeping Tom's Father at Dutch Theatre Festival

A Korean in a military suit singing karaoke, a crotchety dancer mewling with her knees kneading the floor, eight elderly people sweeping in and a son who turns out to be the father. Don't try to interpret this performance, the line of believability is miles behind you. Welcome to Father. 'Nothing is taken for granted anymore, boundaries blur, the old... 

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The 5 concerts not to miss at Musica Sacra

From Thursday 17 September onwards, Maastricht will be dominated by four days of arts festival Musica Sacra. Started in 1983 as the European Festival of Religious Music, other art disciplines are now also presented, in atmospheric churches and other historical venues. This year's theme is 'The Way', loosely inspired by the pilgrimage route to pilgrimage site Santiago de Compostela, with the central question of whether... 

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