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'El Djoudour' is interesting as a cultural-political project, but does not convince artistically @Holland Festival

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

Men and women together on the dance floor, it is still forbidden in large parts of the Muslim world. Two years ago, the dance performance 'Nya' was at the Holland Festival, a piece written on the skin of nine Algerian dancers, mostly B-Boyz from the streets, but also the son of a ballet teacher from Algiers participated. This year, French choreographer Abou Lagraa, his wife Nawal Ait Benalla and much of the Algerian cast returned to the Holland Festival with a piece in which women also dance.

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Death Grips is 20 min of breathtaking frenzy

by Daniel Bertina
9 November 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, MUSIC

The experimental hip-hop / noise band Death Grips plays frothy twang noise. But very exciting, interesting branch noise with paranoid, surreal lyrics. Live, it was a breath of fresh air. In their concert in Bittersweet (presented by Paradiso), vocalist MC Ride (Stefan Burnett) and drummer Zach Hill unleash a 20-minute hurricane of breathtaking fury.

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'FATFORM is fat enough for all free radicals'

by Daniel Bertina
28 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Two years ago, a number of artists from collective FUCK and production company Finger.co.uk the roof of Kraaiennest shopping centre in Amsterdam Southeast, and stomped FATFORM out of the ground. An elusive art project, rooftop party and free state. Now they have moved up a hundred metres.

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Discussing the value of reviews in the night

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 May 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We at culture press have nuanced views on reviewing. Once upon a time when there were only newspapers, reviews were fairly unique pieces of writing by people appointed by the newspaper to proclaim The View to its so many hundred thousand readers. Since then, those so many hundred thousand readers have become newspapers themselves, and so have about as many reviewers.

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Pollesch and Hinrichs turn opening night The Choice into a theatrical philosophical happening #The International Choice

by one of our members
17 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

For the opening night of The International Choice, the Rotterdam Schouwburg was briefly transformed into Berlin's Volksbühne. The same black plastic rags on the walls, the same ugly yellow front curtain and - most strikingly - the seats in the auditorium have been replaced by white beanbags. Those beanbags, by the way, are widely despised and mocked in Berlin. They should...

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The Dodo revives for Holland Festival edition 2011 #HF11

by one of our members
30 May 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

This week the Holland Festival erupts and we are there. We are producing a Dodo Festival Day newspaper with a sizeable team of professional journalists, as we did before for Springdance and The International Choice of the Rotterdam Schouwburg, for example. We follow the festival closely to bring news as it happens. We go to see performances where others...

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'They want to put everything on the line. In Western Europe, that desire is stupidly lacking': Algerian B-Boyz vulnerable and unyielding in Nya

by Fransien van der Putt
24 May 201130 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

This year, the Holland Festival brings the extraordinary French-Algerian co-production Nya, which combines achievements of modern and classical dance with hip-hop and, in addition, Ravel's Bolero sounds alongside Houria Aïchi's Algerian evergreens.

You won't believe with your eyes what you hear with your ears with drum machine Savion Glover

by Fransien van der Putt
17 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"I don't care about the body, I make music," Savion Glover said last night, leaning against the doorframe of his dressing room after the performance Bare Soundz. The dance audience at Utrecht's Stadsschouwburg theatre struggled to master the mores of a jazz audience. As the concert progressed, it increasingly produced encouraging yells when the three tap dancers loosened up

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