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fc bergman

Holland Festival celebrated the live arts in corona time

by one of our members
30 June 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS, PODIUM ART

The 74th edition of the Holland Festival closed last weekend with the performances Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou, Age of Rage by ITA-Ensemble and Pierrot Lunaire by Marlene Monteiro Freitas. The festival collaborated with two associate artists, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and French-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne. Twenty-three companies played one hundred and eleven performances in twenty-five days. The festival presented seven world premieres and co-produced 11 international...

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To blaat or not to blaat. FC Bergman puts the sheep on a nice pedestal in The Sheep Song #HF21

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 June 202130 March 2022
3 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Those blessed with the surname 'sheep' not only know that they come from a rich and honourable lineage, but also know by heart all the proverbs, sayings and name jokes, offensive or otherwise. Up to and including comradely blathering chiefs of art. Then the fact that Flemish theatre company FC Bergman is producing a show titled 'The Sheep...

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After a year and a half at home, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot's Fremdkörper with testing access is pretty tough

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 June 202130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

There are reasons not to live in Belgium, but yesterday I was intensely longing for an evening with my southern neighbours. After all, they have 'testing for admission' in the cultural sector just a little better regulated than here. When I attended a 'testing for access' performance in Antwerp, there was a tent in front of the theatre entrance where I walked in, with a time appointment, a...

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Holland Festival presents scalable programme: It's about time.

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 April 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

A night walk where, for once, it is not about talking to each other, or exercising the muscles, but about being very aware of where you are. Mindfulness as a theatre experience, then, and if all the coronagraph remains against us, the only part of the Holland Festival that can go on live because of sufficient distance and outside. It needs to be that bad...

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Stef Aerts directs 3D show JR at @hollandfestival: 'To go from 700 pages of real literature to a manageable stage text doesn't just happen.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 April 201820 April 2018
11 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, THEATER

Listen to an atmospheric impression and the full interview with Stef Aerts here. Children have the ability to turn adults' worlds upside down. Eleven-year-old JR is really getting into it. On a school trip, he learns how the stock market works and then turns it to his will. In doing so, unhampered by a prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain...

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FC Bergman literally and figuratively gives (the) space

by Hannah Roelofs
14 August 201514 August 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

the atmosphere It is 30 degrees in Den Bosch. People with headphones on clap for something we, the passers-by, do not see. At a shopping centre, girls with masks roll on the ground. There is commotion everywhere. Festival Boulevard is in full swing and the whole city seems to join in. The terraces are full and the mood is high. I make my way...

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8 enticing words about Festival Boulevard.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 August 201430 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, DANS, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

It is the most ambitious summer festival in the Netherlands: Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch aims to showcase not only the finest theatre theatre theatre in the low countries, but also the fattest shows, and youngest new creators and the merriest bus drivers. And all that in 10 days, in once tad where the local newspaper does its best to promote culture as scary as possible to make. We briefly summarise it for you in eight enticing words.

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What Bert Hana can do, you don't learn at any school: turn your own life into art. #njc10

by one of our members
31 October 201030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Wonderful though theatre is. The closing night of the Autumn Collection festival made me realise once again that the best actors do not always make the best performance. Expressiveness depends on more than acting talent and a proven literary text.

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Two idols and lots of cute girls at Saturday's Autumn Collection #njc10

by one of our members
31 October 20108 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

It stood out: what a lot of cute girls in Theatre Kikker. Could it be because of the programming? Now there were a lot of cute men to choose from on Saturday night. The tough acting beasts of FC Bergman, for instance, or the androgynous Nik van den Berg, or perhaps the seemingly sweet Bert Hana. And if not, there was always DJ Oscar Kocken,...

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The Homecoming: Matteo Simoni and Greg Timmermans on their club (FC Bergman) and their play. #njc10

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 October 201029 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

The young Antwerp company FC Bergman performs Harold Pinter's classic play 'The Homecoming' in a completely unique, energetic and raw way. The Homecoming can be seen during Autumn Collection 2010 at Theatre Kikker on Saturday 30 October.