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Go see how Romana Peace takes The Nation to the highest level. #HF17

At last. The Nation, the hyperactual theatrical serial with which the revamped Nationale Toneel, sorry Theatre, presents itself to the country, feels like a refreshing splash of water on a soggy day. Newly appointed boss Eric de Vroedt lives up to his reputation by delivering a work that will no doubt draw new audiences into the theatres. An audience spoiled by... 

With the Mariavespers as the opening of the Holland Festival, nothing could really go wrong #HF17

It is just about the most beautiful music written. Claudio Monteverdi's Marian Vespers have enchanted even the most untrained listener since their premiere in 1610. Raphael Pichon is a young French conductor acclaimed for his shimmering yet refined musicality and more than absolute hearing. Everything director Pierre Audi touches usually turns to gold 

Cate Blanchett in Manifesto: 13 films and raunchy humour #hf17

In the dark Middle Ages, an artist was still sometimes quartered for being out of line. In the 19th century, those lines were no longer important. In the early 20th century, artists started deciding for themselves where the lines were and punished those who did not stick to them. It was the time of artists' manifestos. Cate Blanchett, the... 

Inclusive Dance Event Fontys Tilburg

Dansers willen geen tweede carrière! Op zoek naar de ’transferable skills’ van de danskunstenaar.

Veel dansstudenten hebben een eenzijdig beeld van wat een succesvolle danscarrière inhoudt. Namelijk: dansen bij het dansgezelschap van je dromen, in een theater, op een podium. Dat vertelt Ulrika Kinn Svensson, artistiek adviseur van de Fontys Dansacademie in Tilburg tijdens Inclusive Dance Event. Maar wegens de zwakke arbeids- en inkomenspositie, mede door wegvallende subsidies, gaat die droom niet altijd op. Er is… 

Saint Genet in #HF17: Be afraid of Americans. Very afraid. But go watch.

You have punk. You have performance art. Best Gaap, because often little remains of that ferocious wildness that dominated the European scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Marina Abramovic we now see mainly as that silent lady on that chair opposite her long-lost lover. We have forgotten that she once offered her audience razors to cut her... 

Dramatische toename vrijwilligerswerk in theaters en concertzalen.

Een van de hoogtepunten van het jaar is altijd de presentatie van ‘de cijfers’ door de Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwdirecties (VSCD). Die zijn namelijk onverminderd positief. Al jaren. En dus is het al jaren een uitdaging om uit te zoeken waarom die positieve cijfers zo lastig te rijmen zijn met het beeld van de werkelijkheid. Dat helemaal niet zo… 

Rufus Norris maakt theater van Brexit: ‘Theaters zijn de echokamer van de linkse bubble.’

De wind waait er harder dan elders. Het licht is er grijzer dan verderop. De Londense zuidoever, jarenlang ‘de andere kant’ van de chique binnenstad van de Engelse hoofdstad is in de vorige eeuw onderwerp geweest van diverse vernieuwingsgolven. Het begon in 1951met de bouw van concertgebouw ‘Southbank Centre‘, na jaren van gesteggel in 1976 gevolgd door het in dezelfde… 

Don't miss anything from the Holland Festival with our special #HF17 subscription!

We are real Holland Festival specialists by now. We go and see performances beforehand, interview makers, actors and walk around the halls, in the foyers, just about every day. We hear a lot, we see a lot and we share it here. Cultural journalism as it should be, in short. Cultural journalism that should also be there. And it totally succeeds if you take out a subscription. Then you get... 

Waarom ik blij word van jonge mannen (en van het Gemeentemuseum).

Laatst ging deze einzelgänger mee met een groepsevenement hier in Den Haag. Voor het eerst. Met bussen vol buurtbewoners richting het Gemeentemuseum. Benieuwd met welke buren ik kunst zou gaan zien, weer ervaren hoe een museum na sluitingstijd voelt en een workshop of lezing volgen. Ter inspiratie. Dat is gelukt. Ervaren Wat ontzettend leuk om buren in het museum tegen te… 

Sheila Hicks, Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands -2016-2017- Arsenal-End-wall

Venice Biennale emphasises soft forces in art

The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?.... 

Jordi Lammers, of: het geheime wondertje van een Utrechts Literatuurfestival #ILFU17

En dan blijkt er toch een festivalthema te zijn. Komt helemaal vanzelf. Wellicht niet van tevoren bedacht door de directie van het International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU), maar na drie dagen onderdompeling glashelder. Schrijven gaat over dat waarover we niet spreken. Tijdens de laatste festivalavond, zaterdag 13 mei, heb ik me voor de gelegenheid ondergedompeld in een onderdeel waarmee ‘Utrecht’… 

Noodzakelijk en prachtig kijkje in de Chinese ziel dankzij Utrechts festival #ILFU17

Goede timing van het International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) om bij de editie van dit jaar China centraal te stellen. Nog net op tijd voordat de Chinezen op eigen initiatief de Betuwelijn hebben aangesloten op hun eigen spoorwegnet, met de van hun bekende daadkracht. Hoog tijd om de Chinese ziel te leren kennen, dunkt me, en dat lukt niet direct… 

Lesson 1 of a Literature Festival: translators are really nice people. #ILFU17

Dutch, ladies and gentlemen, is just about the most difficult language in the world, and any committee that wants to improve it only makes it worse. As a professional language user, I have thought so for years, and it has now been happily confirmed by people who really know about it: translators. The first day of the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU)... 

5 verborgen juweeltjes in het hoogste literatuurfestival van Nederland #ILFU

Natuurlijk: Hugo Borst, Suzanne Vega, Herman Koch. Genoeg reden om tussen 11 en 13 mei af te reizen naar Utrecht. Maar er is veel meer te beleven bij het Internationaal Literatuurfestival Utrecht. En dat heeft niet eens altijd met boeken te maken. Ik laat u een een paar dingen zien waarop ik me zeker ook verheug in festivalpaleis TivoliVredenburg. De… 

Ingmar Heytze on Joni Mitchell: 'Crushed at seventeen' #ILFU

'Stop it. The fewer awards people give each other, the better.' Ingmar Heytze, poet, is clear: 'Within every conceivable genre, there are already big enough prizes. If you ask me, they should restrict that Nobel Prize to science from now on.' So on the final evening of the International Literature Festival in Utrecht (ILFU) next Saturday, it will be all about those... 

Long live the pedometer! 5 books you'll want to read in May

Bark Skins Annie Proulx We had to gather some courage to start Annie Proulx's Bark Skins. After all, the book is 800 pages long, so you have to make some time for it. But this novel is well worth that. As a reader, you are unceremoniously planted in the wild forest of North America, still called New France in the late seventeenth century.... 

Zvizdal - Chernobyl so far so close, by Berlin/The Zuidelijk Toneel

Do you want the audience back, Sarah Sluimer? Then give it back to the actors.

In the Volkskrant of 8 May 2017, Sarah Sluimer lets loose. The opinion maker (for Volkskrant and De Correspondent, among others) used to be a theatre maker and now wonders aloud why she is a bit done with theatre. Because she actually writes that down. I quote: 'I breathed theatre. I ate performances and was convinced that what was there,... 

7 ways to make art out of US democracy. #HF17

The play La Democrazia in America (to be seen at the Holland Festival on 4, 5 and 6 June) is of course about democracy in America, but actually more about The Democracy in America. And the two should not be confused. For The Democracy in America is a 1,200-page book by French jurist De Tocqueville. This... 

On being Jewish, acceptance and ambition: 8 life questions to Jonathan Safran Foer

He finds himself lazy and under-ambitious, and struggles with acceptance - of himself, of others, of the world. Because his grandparents had experienced the Holocaust, there was a taboo on being unhappy in his youth. Eight life questions to Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. 'Between what I could do and actually do, there is a big gap.' 1.... 

Why Radio Plastic (and the rest) won't survive the self-driving car

One of the most wonderfully successful programmes on Dutch radio is Radio Kunststof. Every weekday on Radio 1, between seven and eight o'clock, it attracts a bizarre number of listeners, especially for that time of day. And especially for an art programme. On TV then is DWDD, also called art programme on its public broadcasters, but with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and millions of viewers. How... 

How to get 10 million young people reading. The story behind Hooked.

Something is changing considerably in the world of literature. Libraries are closing or turning into flex spaces for poor freelancers. The sold circulation of an average successful novel remains in four figures. Young people no longer watch TV or listen to the radio, but make their own well-watched and generously paid films on YouTube. Or they sit the... 

Don't leave respect to the free market

The SER report published on Friday 21 April rubs it in nicely: the cultural sector is on the verge of collapse. It is even worse than a year ago. This shows that the patience of a PvdA culture minister over the past four years has not helped. Indeed, Halbe Zijlstra's multiplier of misery is doing its job entirely as expected.... 

Mira Feticu interviews Mircea Cărtărescu: 'My readers deserve a medal'

Earlier this year, Mircea Cărtărescu, Romania's greatest writer, was a guest at the Winternachten festival. Writer Mira Feticu, who was born and grew up in Romania and even received lectures from Cărtărescu as a student, interviewed her former compatriot and professor for A Quattro Mani. A beautiful conversation about their homeland, truth, literature and poetry. 'My books are... 

Baudet's art vision blamed for old battle between Rotterdam and Leiden

For those who like to be around art, politics has become a bit more fun again, since 15 March. Since the 2017 elections, Thierry Baudet has been in the House of Representatives. Thierry Baudet knows a lot about art, he thinks, and we will come to know it, too. In fact, Thierry Baudet is the best thing about art these days... 

Kunstkritiek in tijden van Facebook en Blendle. (Een overlevingsgids.)

In een discussie (op facebook, waar anders) over het vertrek van NRC Handelsblad uit Blendle, liet een redacteur van die krant zich zeer laatdunkend uit over een lezer die 30 cent had betaald voor een van zijn artikelen. In een recent artikel op Frankwatching concludeerde een deskundige dat onderzoeksjournalistiek alleen nog zou kunnen overleven als we kranten zouden gaan subsidiëren.… 

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