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"Theo van Gogh tried so hard to be an enfant terrible that we almost forgot that he was one of the Netherlands' most creative and productive filmmakers." I wrote this for the GPD papers on 2 November 2004, after an editor called me with the terrible news of the filmmaker's violent death. Soon, that murder was exactly ten...
Forty roofless hotel rooms, and then hearing your own story back as you see yourself reflected in the distant ceiling. Or: walking behind a guide through the Lombok district of Utrecht, while being provided with an overload of extra information on your headphones. About your guide. Or not. About yourself. Welcome to the universe of Dries Verhoeven, since a small...
We can make a long story short. September and early October are raining awards. Every performing art form celebrates its own party. Theatre does it with Theo and Louis, cabaret with the Poelifinario, a Cricket is awarded somewhere, and then you have the Musical Awards and of course the Swans and the Dioraphte Prize. You can already feel it hanging: there...
(In Harry Potter, True Detective and Juno, they were better) Actors are like people when they go on a stage as themselves. And just like with ordinary people, I occasionally think 'that could really be better'. Soon we can check it out with the Dutch actors at the Gala of the Dutch Film Festival. With those calves. But first the...
With five nominations, the comedy Aanmodderfakker by Michiel ten Horn most likely to win Golden Calfs. Including those for best film, director and screenplay. Close on his heels, incidentally, are
"Everyone today has a computer in their pocket (smartphone or glass) that gives you considerable computing power and communication technology per person. You can use that computing power and technology, to add augmented elements to entertainment." Just a response to a question. From a theatre. Because that theatre wants to look ahead: What does the theatre of the future look like? That question...
For seven years, Thea Derks worked on her biography of Reinbert de Leeuw. And it did not go unnoticed. Except for the reaction of the person portrayed, unanimously rave reviews and soon a second edition. Rightly so, as the book offers an indispensable description of modern music in the Netherlands, with many composer portraits and an understandable leading role for Reinbert de Leeuw.
Playing in your socks in front of 1,000 people on the Saturday night of the TodaysArt festival? Should be possible, thought musician Nils Frahm. And he has a very logical reason for it.
Two new records in one day? Thirty years after Purple Rain? That involuntarily evokes memories of the days of Guns 'n Roses and Bruce Springsteen in the early 1990s. Back then, Prince was still under contract to Warner, but his quarrels with that company were notorious. Four records in a single year went way too far for Warner at the time, as did triple albums....
At the presentation at the Netherlands Film Festival of the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism will not be handed a Golden Calf, but a Black Mirror. In ancient times a tool for viewing, now a token of appreciation for a contribution to written film culture.
Members of various film trade associations will designate the winner. Some believe there is no such thing,
Wijbrand Schaap: 'The amateur arts. I have personally experienced the cutbacks at the Utrecht Centre for the Arts in Utrecht. First, they were heavily cut back there back in 2001 under Leefbaar. They survived that, and now they were just recovering a bit...' Joop Daalmeijer: ' ...and now everything is going to the schools.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'There are...
23,000 signatures and a host of public meetings have caused Brett Bailey's impressive Exhibit B in London to be cancelled. The show, or rather, the event, has previously been seen with great success in the Netherlands, and garnered nothing but praise in Edinburgh too. We too went to see it, and we were impressed. In...
This Sunday, September 28, the one-day festival Alba Rosa Viva will take place in Utrecht, in honour of the 125th birth anniversary of Alba Rosa Viëtor. Alba Rosa who?!!! Well, Alba Rosa Viëtor was an Italian violinist and composer who was born Alba Rosa in Milan in 1889. In 1919, she married Dutch businessman Jan Freseman Viëtor and in...
Een jaar geleden overleed een van Nederlands meest legendarische danseressen: Ellen Edinoff. Ze danste voornamelijk in de jaren zestig en zeventig maar er hing altijd een zweem van grootsheid en mysterie rond haar en haar man, choreograaf Koert Stuyf. Nu is een fonds in oprichting bij het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds om jonge dansers en makers van eigentijdse dans te ondersteunen. 5 redenen waarom.
Wijbrand Schaap: 'The basic infrastructure was keelhauled by Zijlstra while it was not yet ripe. That, in its smaller version, now runs the risk of leading to further rigidity.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'That's a good observation. We are also working on that in our Culture Exploration. We are having a lot of discussions, which we are also taking out into the country. We are starting...
Wijbrand Schaap: 'Now on the role of cities. One of the reactions on our site is about the role of the randstad in cultural policy. Melle Daamen puts the primacy in the randstad, and goes further than the council in this.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'The council has no position yet.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'But there is something in the Culture Outlook. Cities form...
Wijbrand Schaap: 'Next hot issue. Copyright is mentioned in a few passages of the Cultural Exploration. I am also affected by that in various ways. There is, of course, that new author's contract law, which is going to be discussed in the chamber one day, maybe. Nice about that is that the creator's position in that law has been strengthened.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'Rightly so.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'But.
Hoera! We hebben een nieuwe naam. Nederlands Symfonieorkest mocht niet, *****Orkest vond iedereen een lachertje en terugkeren naar de perfecte naam Orkest van het Oosten kan niet, want gezichtsverlies. Wat dan wel?
Wijbrand Schaap: 'There has been much talk about the change in Council attitudes under your leadership. After the confrontation course under your predecessor Els Swaab, you seemed appointed by Halbe Zijlstra to act as a kind of applause machine.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'I was not hired by Halbe Zijlstra, I was appointed by the queen. Isn't that nice?...
Bij sommige voorstellingen kerm je binnensmonds of het allemaal wel goed komt. Bij andere voorstellingen slaak je een kreun dat het zo goed uitpakt. The Black Piece is dat laatste. De nieuwste productie van Ann Van den Broek is met input van dansers en testpubliek tot stand gekomen. Dan kan het bijna niet mis gaan. De voorvertoning laat een indringende mix zien van versies van het begrip zwart. Alsof je als publiek gedwongen wordt voor een beslagen spiegel te staan waar de wasem langzaam optrekt en iemand zegt: kijk! De choreografe legt na afloop verantwoording af.
Joop Daalmeijer: ‘Ik autoriseer nooit. Dat vind ik zo’n onzin. Een journalist moet gewoon goed zijn werk doen.’ Wijbrand Schaap: ‘Daar zijn we het dan over eens. We schrijven alles integraal op, maar omdat gesprekken over alles nogal eens oeverloos willen zijn, wil ik het ophangen aan de Cultuurverkenning. Dat is het meest concrete stuk en het meest actueel, en het…
Deze vrijdag breken op Radio Futura leden van Dood Paard en tg STAN zich het hoofd over wat kunst is, en hoeveel het mag kosten.
Je moet echt een hardcore debatliefhebber zijn om vrijwillig naar een gesprek over educatie te willen luisteren. Toch wordt de uitzending van Radio Futura deze donderdag interessant, want het gaat over Radicale Educatie en hersenen. Hersenen zijn hot, dankzij Dick Swaab en inzichten uit brain based teaching.
Last night, Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun (1986, Donetsk) won the coveted Gaudeamus Music Prize in TivoliVredenburg. This consists of a cash prize of €4550, which serves as an honorarium for a new composition that will have its world premiere in a subsequent instalment. The international jury, consisting of composers Vanessa Lann (Netherlands), Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland) and Wim Hendericx (Belgium) unanimously chose her...
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