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We are the forest. Christiane Jatahy achieves maximum impact at #HF16

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 June 201630 March 2022
4 min read
VISUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

There are countries in the world, where the boundaries between art disciplines are not as sharply drawn as they are here. The Holland Festival, under the new leadership of Ruth MacKenzie, is catching us up. She is bringing events here where the boundaries between visual art, performance, video, film and performing arts can no longer be drawn. Events that generate meaning in ways that are quite new to us, such as The Encounter, last week, and Gardens Speak, later this week.

'The European is an orphan' - Milo Rau on The Dark Ages #HF16

by Daniel Bertina
13 June 201620 February 2017
8 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Swiss playwright Milo Rau created a theatrical trilogy about the demise of the European ideal. The second part The Dark Ages is now at the Holland Festival. Rau combined his actors' painful, personal life stories with themes from the works of Chekhov, Shakespeare and the Greek tragedies. With a Freudian sauce: 'Countless people who are The Dark Ages have seen ask me: 'Milo, is something wrong with your father?'

Secrets of Karbala: The Crusades in oriental light and glass marionettes #hf16

by Helen Westerik
9 June 201630 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

How can you rewrite an intensely complicated history from a different perspective? By using grotesque glass puppets and not actors. This revolutionary invention was shown at the Holland Festival on 8 June, and can still be experienced there 9 June. In that film, Egyptian artist Wael Shawky takes us back to bygone centuries and shows us...

Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

by one of our members
19 May 201630 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, DANS, FILM, LITERARY, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Champagne at BAK in Utrecht, deep disappointment at The New Institute in Rotterdam: the Council for Culture has spoken. Today, Thursday 19 May 2016, the first advice after the draconian art cuts by the first Rutte cabinet came out, and heads are rolling. Amsterdam loses prestigious presentation institution De Appel, in The Hague fellow institution Stroom has to redo its homework. The Orkest van het Oosten and the Gelders Orkest have to come up with merger plans within two years....

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This was Something Raw 2016: less rebellious, more social

by Fransien van der Putt
21 February 201629 March 2022
14 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC, THEATER

The raw in Something Raw can mean all sorts of things. The first thought might be something rough, as in the effect of sandpaper on skin or the havoc left by an elephant in the china shop. But rough is a derivative meaning. Raw first of all means unprocessed and fresh. There is a certain hope in the combination of rough and raw: artists who like...

Contemporary trends in theatre and performance at Something Raw Festival 2016

by Fransien van der Putt
12 February 201613 February 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, THEATER

Three mongols playing Mongols. Dschingis Khan, the opening performance of Something Raw, is provocative and consequential. With this performance by German theatre collective Monstertruck, or the also Berlin-based Man Power Mix by Sheena Mcgrandles and Zinzi Buchanan, the festival Something Raw lives up to its name. Something Raw is a festival in which Amsterdam theatres Frascati, De Brakke...

Loïc Perela and Jan Martens: As a spectator, you are finally faced with a question again

by Fransien van der Putt
21 October 201530 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, THEATER

As I wrote in my earlier article about the Nederlandse Dansdagen, choreographer Loïc Perela won this year's Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht Prize. It earned him 12,000 euros to put into his new project HASHTAG. The award has helped some previous winners on their way (Monique Duurvoort, Joost Vrouenraets, Erik Kaiel, Muhanad Rasheed, Joeri Dubbe,...

Liesbeth Gritter creates 'through-composed' pop musical based on Top 2000

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 October 201529 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, THEATER

"It's all right." In how many songs of the Top 2000 does that phrase appear? Too many to mention. So now the task is to sing all those different "It's all right"'s in the melody in which every audience will recognise them. The four actors in 'Total Eclipse of The Heart' by Theatre Group Kassys fill a thick hour in this way....

Photo: Milena Abreu

Brazilian Chekhov adaptation is sensual and oppressive at the same time #HF15

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 201520 February 2017
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Had Anton Chekhov lived now, he would have written for television. Not drama, and certainly not film. Indeed, innovative as the great Russian playwright was during his short life (1860-1904), he would now have done something with selfie sticks and contact microphones. The result would probably have been something like what Brazilian artist Christiane Jatahy has now created. She took the text...

The Great War Machine and Swamp Club: contemporary activist theatre

by Fransien van der Putt
12 March 201529 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, DANS, THEATER

In early March, The Great War Machine, director Joachim Robbrecht's new play, premiered at Theater Frascati. A week earlier, the Rotterdam Schouwburg showed Swamp Club, by French director Philippe Quesne. Both performances address the current political climate. Whereas Swamp Club is explicitly silent about the world it calls into question, The Great War Machine is instead a rhetorical spectacle, constructed from quotes from TEDtalks. Both performances show mech...

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Don't miss it. PIPS:lab brings the future into the theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 February 20152 April 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands is one of the few countries where Science Fiction plays no role in mainstream media, let alone in the arts. If we look upwards at all, it is through Govert Schilling's disarming Duplo bricks, or Vincent Icke's mildly ironic commentary in DWDD. Or turning 'Mission Earth', a failing soap opera with bickering comedians, into...

The perennial topicality of Bambie

by Maarten Baanders
28 January 2015
7 min read
THEATER

There will be another Bambierambam. Every few years, the two core members of theatre group Bambie (Jochem Stavenuiter and Paul van der Laan) and guest actors move into a theatre in the Netherlands for a few days to re-enact some old shows.

Super-sympathetic performance by Phillipe Quesne: Next Day

by Fransien van der Putt
20 January 201529 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, THEATER

The children introduce themselves one by one. They build sets, make music and play scenes. A catastrophe is imminent. They speculate loosely: will it be a nuclear or biological attack, a plane or a missile, a tsunami or a bombing? In Next Day, shown last weekend at Theatre Frascati, they rehearse an attack by 'aliens'. That...

Questions, stillness and resistance: choreographer Nicole Beutler's new Echo and earlier work on tour in the Netherlands

by Fransien van der Putt
13 December 201430 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

5:Echo, choreographer Nicole Beutler's most recent production, is a curious show. All focus is on two famous pioneers of Dutch dance in the 60s and 70s: Ellen Edinoff and Bianca van Dillen. Yet Echo mainly shows how impossible (and perhaps undesirable) it is to want to revive past glories. Dancer Kelly...

Meppelgate! (2): Living in Meppel is also a choice.

by Hannah Roelofs
1 November 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

You could wait for it. Meppelgate. Marieke Heebink, top actress with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, had the audacity to say in the newspaper that she is happy to be in a sold-out 'Angels in America' in New York. "Thank God I don't have to go to Meppel" she says. Aj. Aj. How dare she! That is guaranteed to generate angry reactions. And not just from Meppel....

What is art, and what should it cost? Thus Radio Futura

by Daniel Bertina
18 September 201429 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, DANS, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

This Friday on Radio Futura, members of Dood Paard and tg STAN break down what art is, and how much it should cost.

These questions have been asked before. And from Henk & Ingrid and Holland's neo-conservative free-market jihadis, we know the answer by now. But what about the artists themselves? Which art can be cut. And who likes to stab their colleague in the back for more money?

In preparation and illustration, below are 6 small polls. Note: it is pu...

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What does art do to your brain? Mark Mieras explains it in 4 sentences, more on Radio Futura on Thursday

by Daniel Bertina
17 September 201429 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

You really have to be a hardcore debate fan to want to voluntarily listen to a conversation about education. Yet this Thursday's Radio Futura broadcast will be interesting, because it's about Radical Education and brains. Brains are hot, thanks to Dick Swaab and insights from brain-based teaching.

Science journalist Mark Mieras takes a quick preview of his theatre lecture The Playing Man below, explaining what art does to your brain. On Thursday, he will tell more, in sp...

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Why you should listen to Radio Futura for three weeks

by Daniel Bertina
8 September 201411 July 2016
1 min read
SPECIALS

It erupts during the Dutch Theatre Festival and continues even longer. For three weeks, Frascati 4 will be annexed by the live radio show Radio Futura - The Voice of the Future. One of the Radio Futuristas, Heske van den Ende, explains below why you should especially listen in online.

4 old cows in eternal Amsterdam theatre war cause Daamens oekaze?

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 December 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

How can a usually very ordinary, amiable theatre director suddenly come out with the announcement that a few orchestras can go and the National Ballet has to be outsourced? We wondered so and headed to the Concertgebouw car park yesterday. Because at the Concertgebouw there was a get-together due to the celebration of a new grade, and where there are get-togethers, there are loose lips. Especially in car parks. And there, among all the pulmonary emphysema complaints, we heard some news: Melle Daa...

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Boukje Schweigman's wordless philosophy

by Maarten Baanders
5 November 201329 March 2022
7 min read
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Even before she graduated from mime school, Boukje Schweigman swore off language. She worked out a wordless philosophy in her performances. She seeks the mystery of life. However vast and elusive her starting points may be, her performances give the audience the most direct, immediate, skin-tight sensation imaginable in a theatre.

From 12 November, Boukje Schweigman and her group Schweigman& will tour Dutch theatres with their own festival: H...

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The Pyre: taut, disruptive performance by Gisele Vienne @HollandFestival

by Helen Westerik
17 June 201330 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Those who suffer from the misconception that dance is about beauty are mercilessly disabused of the dream by Gisele Vienne ...

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Marie on a string: Anja Röttgerkamp stars as an unknown soldier in Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre @HollandFestival

by Fransien van der Putt
14 June 201330 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival
'The Pyre', the latest show from internationally rising star Gisèle Vienne, initially seems less disturbing than her previous work. Pieces like 'Jerk' (2008), based on the true story of a young serial killer, and '...

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Chilean IK generation seeks revolutionary art at @hollandfestival

by one of our members
11 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Six actors, four years in a bunker. One is dead. Those are the details we have to make do with in Tratando de hacer una obra que cambie el mundo. According to this title, the actors are trying to create a play that will change the world. The characters have locked themselves away in an underground bunker and receive occasional provisions via a packet.

What else are we looking forward to at @hollandfestival?

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

This month is all about the Holland Festival. Culture Press reports almost daily. What are we most looking forward to?

The Dry Piece, Keren Levi, photo © Anne van Kooij

Keren Levi at Theatre Kikker with unique documentary and smart performance.

by Fransien van der Putt
29 May 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Shelly Kling's documentary 'Inside Envelopes' does away with the brave image that dance imposes on itself. 'The Dry Piece', on the other hand, is a performance that goes beyond provocation and seduction with nudity. A

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