The first weekend of October saw the Netherlands Dance Days (NDD) take place in Maastricht. As Ruben Brugman reported, important prizes for the dance world are awarded there. But the Dance Days seem mainly meant to promote Dutch dance, more than to be a critical evaluation or artistic boost. At the Dance Days, no pithy speech on the State of Dance as...
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...
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...
Olson Lamaj runt met drie vrienden een galerie: van hun eigen geld en in hun vrije tijd. Ze moeten wel want het is de enige manier om jonge, hedendaagse Albanese kunstenaars een kans te geven. Lamaj studeerde fotografie in Milaan en beeldende kunst in Florence en verdient nu zijn geld als grafisch ontwerper. Hij staat mij na werktijd te woord…
Last week, graduates of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague showed their graduation projects in an exhibition. An exhibition that every year is far too big to see everything in one week. But this year, above all, an exhibition that provoked: to think, to wonder, to smile and to come back again and again.
Got that. Do I get increasingly impressed during the National Ballet's evening Cool Britannia, turns out it's not that good at all. Because connoisseurs react lukewarmly afterwards. Am I that dumb, or are they that smart? There is actually very little British about Cool Britannia. Except that the choreographers are from there. An obvious...
Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten rehearse their new performance Extremalism in Marseille. The two dance companies under their direction, ICKamsterdam and Ballet National de Marseille, have merged for this occasion: 30 dancers on stage, six authors and designers in the auditorium, and the crew of technicians is also made up of Amsterdamers and Marseillais. They are working together on the biggest production that Greco and...
It is a special year for Ann Van den Broek as she celebrates a 15-year anniversary as a choreographer. That the performance Q61 Cemetery of dance collective WArd/waRD would cause so much noise she probably did not foresee.
It's dance, but not as we know it. That's the best way to describe Korzo and Nederlands Dans Theater's current edition of dance festival Spring Awakening. With two wonderful standouts, by choreographers Tom Weinberger and Kenzo Kusuda.
Nederlandse Reisopera, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (opera), 1 mei t/m 6 juni Verpletterend debuut van regisseur Floris Visser bij de Nederlandse Reisopera. Hij toont geen eeuwenoude opera over een nog veel oudere mythe, maar legt de kern van Glucks opera bloot. Het resulteert in een hartverscheurende voorstelling over rouw en het onvermogen te accepteren dat je geliefde er niet meer is.…
Woensdag was de openingsavond van de driedaagse conferentie What’s Art Got To Do With It? Over kunst, politiek, en Israel/Palestina. Hoe open je een conferentie over een beladen onderwerp waar iedereen, zeker vanaf de zijlijn, een mening over heeft? Met muziek. Want hoe kun je daar tegen zijn? De avond begon gemoedelijk met een kort optreden van het Amsterdams Andalusisch…
Festival Rumor 80, onregelmatig regelmatig in Utrecht op steeds drie verschillende locaties, toont aanstaande vrijdag in Theater Kikker het nieuwe werk van choreograaf Marc Vanrunxt: Real, So Real. Uitgangspunt is Three Voices, een compositie van Morton Feldman uit 1982. Een prachtige Vlaamse samenwerking van Kunst/Werk en ChampdAction. Danseres Marie De Corte en zangeres Els Mondelaers schitteren in Real, So Real. De…
In juni komt Boris Charmatz naar het Holland Festival met manger. Hij introduceerde in 2011 in het voormalig pauselijk paleis het thema aanraking van kinderen door volwassenen. Een uitspraak over een heikel actueel punt. Waarom spreken choreografen zich niet vaker uit over schrijnende actuele kwesties? Ga langs nieuwe werken van de afgelopen maanden en het valt op dat er nauwelijks choreografen tussen zitten die…
Ukraine, Boko Haram, IS, the economic crisis. The world resembles a borderline patient, as Ricardo Semler states. Dance festival CaDance also likes to hold a mirror up to politicians and power. With Exhausting Space by Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez succeeds just fine.
Hedendaags choreograaf Sibi Larbi wordt de nieuwe directeur van Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerpen. Een opvallende en onorthodoxe keuze. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker mag ondertussen wegblijven uit De Munt in Brussel. What’s up België?
Recently, a choreographer in England lay under fire. As artistic director, he would not be able to judge his own work objectively. Promptly afterwards, a debate ensued under the title Do choreographers need editors? On seeing Strike Root of NDT, that question lingered: do choreographers need a dramaturge?
More than 10,000 lines of verse comprise Englishman John Milton's poem Paradise Lost (1667). It cannot be easy to capture that in an hour-long dance performance and yet that is what choreographer Samir Calixto set out to do. Earlier, the young Brazilian cut his teeth on Schubert's Winterreise and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. On Friday, he opened with Paradise Lost the...
After a nerve-wracking final and precise assessment of votes, the winners of the 2014 Dance Audience Award have been announced. Favourite Dance Performance is FADO of International Dance Theatre, Favourite Dancer is Merel Janssen of Introdans Ensemble for Youth.
The Official Nominations for the first Dance Photo of the Year election have been announced. From 43 entries, Hans van Manen (choreographer) and Thomas Cott (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) compiled a top six. We couldn't think of a better jury for a preselection. Now we are curious to hear your vote. The Dance Photo of the Year election puts dance photographers and their work in the spotlight. Because.
Danseres en choreografe Truus Bronkhorst instigeerde een samenwerking tussen het Antwerpse Kunst/Werk en het Tilburgse T.R.A.S.H. Het dubbelprogramma en duet combineert choreografiën van Marc Vanrunxt en Kristel van Issum. Ende der Zukunft is een wonderbaarlijke enscenering van gapende kloven geworden: van tijd van leven, van artistieke ervaring, maar vooral ook van artistieke opvatting. Intergenerationaliteit (oui, c’est un mot) betreft verhoudingen die…
Among the audience at Korzo theatre in The Hague at the performance 'Here We Live And Now' are a striking number of dancers from Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). No wonder, as many of their colleagues are involved in this performance. This annual programme featuring young choreographic talent is a co-production of NDT and Korzo. The addition 'The Hague' talent, by the way, may be taken with...
On 10 November, the White House announced that President Obama is selecting choreographer Alvin Ailey for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The recognition is for Alvin Ailey's contribution and dedication to civil rights and dance in America. Interestingly, Obama is now awarding the prize.
At Bare toont choreograaf Kenzo Kusuda als in een choreografische documentaire portretten van zes musici van het New European Ensemble. Die komen in het duister op je af en klimmen ten slotte over je stoel heen. Duidelijker kun je je boodschap niet maken.
A year ago, one of Holland's most legendary dancers died: Ellen Edinoff. She danced mainly in the 1960s and 1970s but there was always a hint of grandeur and mystery surrounding her and her husband, choreographer Koert Stuyf. Now a fund is being set up at the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund to support young dancers and creators of contemporary dance. 5 reasons why.
When someone speaks in sentences with words that repeatedly rhyme with 'art' or in which the syllable 'art' keeps popping up, you have to adjust to a different logic than that of everyday communication. If it is also a woman dressed in bright red who pronounces those words eloquently and with many mannerisms, suggesting that she is hyper-sensitive to anything to do with art, your thoughts balance between:
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