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Garin Nugroho

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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Learning and moving: The Planet, a lament by Garin Nugroho. #HF21

by Helen Westerik
22 June 202130 March 2022
4 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Some art you don't quite understand, but touches you deeply. Paradjanov's films, for instance, or The Planet, a Lament by Garin Nugroho. Nugroho has chosen not to provide his performance with surtitles, so your rational brain has to be sidetracked for a while. What are they singing, what exactly is happening, what is it about? After a few minutes of this same...

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HOLLAND FESTIVAL 2021 with associate artists Ryuichi Sakamoto and Gisèle Vienne

by one of our members
20 April 202130 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

From 3 to 27 June 2021, the 74th edition of the Holland Festival will take place in and around Amsterdam. This year's associate artists are American-Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and French-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne - notable artists with wide-ranging interests, as evidenced by their collaborations with Hollywood directors, techno artists, visual artists and rock bands. During the...

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HOLLAND FESTIVAL 2020 CONNECTS CREATORS AND AUDIENCES IN FRAGMENTED TIMES

by one of our members
24 June 202030 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PRESS, SPECIALS

The Holland Festival 2020 had an exceptional year; due to the corona pandemic, it did not physically go ahead for the first time in its history. Instead, it was given an online programme as its fulfilment. Holland Festival online programme 2.0-2.0 was the 73rd edition of the festival and the second to work with an associate artist. This year, that was choreographer, director,...

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Holland Festival opens online with Memories of my body. About the body as a battlefield

by Helen Westerik
9 June 202030 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

In the pre-corona world, Garin Nugroho would open the Holland Festival with his performance The Planet - A Lament. It would no doubt have been as impressive an experience as his Setan Jawa staged in 2017. We would be enchanted by his dancers and purified by the story. In the stripped-down online version of the Holland...

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HOLLAND FESTIVAL ONLINE PROGRAMME 2.0-2.0

by one of our members
2 June 2020
4 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, INTERNET, MUSIC, OPERA, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

From 11 to 21 June, the Holland Festival will present an online programme as close as possible to the core and essence of the original programme, which was cancelled due to the corona crisis. Together with artists from around the world who were due to perform in the 2020 festival, an alternative online programme has been put together. The festival theme, suggested by...

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HOLLAND FESTIVAL 2020 WITH BILL T. JONES IN SEARCH OF A 'WE'

by one of our members
11 February 2020
6 min read
Holland Festival, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

From 4 to 28 June 2020, Amsterdam will host the 73rd edition of the Holland Festival. Associate Artist this year is American choreographer, director, writer and dancer Bill T. Jones. His work will include the new show Deep Blue Sea, in which Jones himself dances and, assisted by a hundred mostly local...

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Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya on her feminist western. 'I never saw Marlina the Murderer as a revenge story.'

by Leo Bankersen
27 January 201827 January 2018
7 min read
For members only, FILM

Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya on her feminist western Marlina the Murderer. The image of the heroine trudging around with the head of her rapist proved quite confrontational. It is a film that also says a lot about men and women in today's Indonesia.

Our readers' list. What we should all never forget from 2017.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 December 201713 February 2019
15 min read
ACTUAL, HERITAGE, FILM, Holland Festival, In Memoriam, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Well, we're not big on hypes and traditions here, but still. The dark days around Christmas are very dark this year, so why not something with lists. This year, no list of toppers from the editors, but random entries from random readers, in random, if slightly alphabetical order. Motto of the readers' question was: which things...

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This is why Setan Jawa was such a special highlight of the Holland Festival #HF17

by Fransien van der Putt
23 June 201719 August 2019
7 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Setan Jawa is the latest film by prominent Indonesian director Garin Nugroho (b. 1961). It is a 'silent' film, shot in black and white by Teoh Gay Hian. It was shown at the Muziekgebouw aan t IJ during the Holland Festival last weekend. The music to the film is played live by Rahayu Supanggah Gamelan Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Inspired...

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Setan Jawa challenges you. That alone is reason to go watch #HF17

by Helen Westerik
16 May 201729 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

What do you get when you combine shadow play, Weimar cinema, gamelan and Javanese myths? A mix that demands a lot from the audience, but is a delight if you are willing to surrender to it. Indonesian director Garin Nugroho does not make easy films. Often they are visually stunning, like Opera Jawa, but the plot gets in the way a bit...

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