Goede timing van het International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) om bij de editie van dit jaar China centraal te stellen. Nog net op tijd voordat de Chinezen op eigen initiatief de Betuwelijn hebben aangesloten op hun eigen spoorwegnet, met de van hun bekende daadkracht. Hoog tijd om de Chinese ziel te leren kennen, dunkt me, en dat lukt niet direct…
'Stop it. The fewer awards people give each other, the better.' Ingmar Heytze, poet, is clear: 'Within every conceivable genre, there are already big enough prizes. If you ask me, they should restrict that Nobel Prize to science from now on.' So on the final evening of the International Literature Festival in Utrecht (ILFU) next Saturday, it will be all about those...
Misschien is God dood, maar Zijn kerk leeft. In elk geval in Denemarken. Dat heeft te maken met wat je de Deense geloofsparadox zou kunnen noemen: een sterk geseculariseerde samenleving met een Lutherse Folkekirke (=Volkskerk) die door een grote meerderheid van de bevolking wordt gesteund [hints]De Amerikaanse socioloog Phil Zuckerman heeft over dit aspect van Denemarken (en ook een beetje…
Mijn vader stierf in 1997. Hij kwam uit een gezin met tien kinderen, waarvan er vijf inmiddels zijn overleden. Mijn tante Minke schreef daar een boek over: Broederziel alleen? Het boek maakte veel emoties los en kende in korte tijd acht herdrukken. Het verdriet om een overleden broer of zus bleek vergeten rouw. In het Engels worden de rouwenden forgotten…
Something with straight lines and planes and primary colours. We all get that far with De Stijl. But did you know that there was also Style music and that a mechanical figure danced to that, er, Style? Let's get things straight before the Mondrian to Dutch Design exhibition season begins. 1. Mondrian was not the big man of De Stijl Piet...
Dissatisfied with the city's art policy, visual artists are leaving Amersfoort. Not physically, but with their work. In the coming year, they will exhibit together in numerous places in the Netherlands. They largely leave their own hometown behind. They have little faith in the municipality's newly developed cultural vision. Why? You can read about that below. And also that their own...
On Saturday 14 January 2017 at 16.30, Splendor will present Splendor Parade 2017 at CASCO Amsterdam. During this afternoon, Splendor members and non-members will be able to marvel at the diverse group of Splendor musicians and their musical friends, who will show and perform in the most diverse ways. Splendor is taking it even bigger this year with its own SplendOpeRa: prepared...
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Five art experiences will always stick to this bizarre year for me. And one thing really scared me. Whether the worst is now behind us? At least the most extraordinary is still on view until 5 February 2017. A chronological overview of what was unbelievable, unthinkable, inconceivable, unbelievable and perhaps untrue. Much of it, by the way, will be in 2017...
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Negen jaar oud was Amira Willighagen toen ze in 2013 met opera-aria’s het tv-talentenjachtprogramma ‘Holland’s got talent’ won. Haar Puccini-aria ‘O mio babbino caro’ trekt nog steeds miljoenen kijkers op YouTube. Wat maakt Amira zo immens populair? Zijn het haar zangkwaliteiten of is het haar schattige kinderlijke uitstraling? In Huizen, een dorp in het Gooi, gaf ze een concert met…
De afgelopen tijd werd de westerse moraal weer eens goed op de proef gesteld. Dit keer was het door een paar flinke piemels in Brussel. Red Pers-auteur Roxy Jongewaard heeft genoeg van de ophef die genitaliën telkens weer teweeg weten te brengen in de (kunst)wereld. Hide your kids, hide your wives! Het is weer zover: iemand tekent een piemel op…
De NAPK (Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten) luidt de noodklok voor de podiumkunsten. De vereniging van werkgevers in de podiumkunsten start vandaag een petitie en dient op 1 november een tweede brandbrief in bij de Tweede Kamer. Eerder dit jaar stuurde de NAPK al een brief naar de Tweede Kamer. En daar is hier toen over geschreven. Ter voorbereiding op de Kamerbehandeling van de cultuurbegroting volgt nu een tweede…
This week saw the publication of Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller's autobiography, My Homeland, an Apple Pit. A few years ago, A Quattro Mani had an exclusive interview with the Romanian writer, when her first collection of poetry collages was published, The Skirt-chaser and its sly aunt. We spoke to her at her home in Berlin, she revealed how her poetry collages are created, and the making...
'What is the relevance of dance?' Since the conference The Relevance of Dance in March 2016, this question has been haunting my mind. That weekend, the main topic of discussion was the relevance of dance as a performing art to watch. An approach that left me unsatisfied, because my main interest myself is to know what the relevance of dance as an activity...
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) seeks a member for the Supervisory Board from 1-1-2017 The AFK invests in art that enriches life in the city. The AFK provides subsidies to artists and cultural organisations, drives innovation and stimulates the quality, dynamism and pluriformity of Amsterdam art. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality,...
Twee heel verschillende vormen van politiek theater op de Edinburgh Fringe: feministisch varieté en een onderdompelingsode aan de Maidan. Je gooit bakstenen voor je het weet.
I experienced by far one of the most impressive theatre experiences of my life on Friday 5 August 2016. I was a guest at 'Zvizdal - Chernobyl so far, so close' by the Flemish company Berlin, in co-production with Het Zuidelijk Toneel. I saw this 'documentary installation' in an empty factory hall in Den Bosch, where the work is a beautiful resting point in...
“Things happen, and then they happen again, but not the same way, not quite; such is the logic of the biennial. And then there are things which have never happened before, and which happen now and in a time that seems somehow out of time, or takes our “now” out with it.” [hints]“Dingen gebeuren, en dan gebeuren ze weer, maar niet…
Woody Allen made sure in 1972 that his fans could not watch Star Wars with dry eyes years later. The final scene of his film 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, But Were Afraid To Ask' shows us the male brain as the bridge of a Star Cruiser where the crew is hard at work to bring a date to a successful conclusion. The spermatozoa in the front are a squabbling gang of take-off runners, heading for an uncertain descent towards beating egg.
You don't have to go to Terschelling at all for an atmospheric location performance. COURAGE by Conny Janssen Danst is an exciting experience on a totally, totally neglected place.
In the 1980s, she started choreographing with Djazzex, years later she performed for Obama. Now Conny Janssen (interview here) with her ensemble at the Ferro Dome. A dilapidated venue you wouldn't expect much from the outside. Plans to turn it into a Rotterdam Heineken Music Hall are according to the AD cancelled. It's as if the city of Rotterdam said to Conny: here's a place we can't do anything with, you do something with it. Dut succeeded her wonderfully: thanks to a creative approach, the entire industrial entourage has a underground-appearance.
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Over four hours long Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis, a performance by French director Joël Pommerat, to be seen this weekend at the Holland Festival. He reconstructed events in France between 1789 and 1794, better known as The French Revolution. What begins as a sometimes difficult-to-follow, animated history lesson culminates in an impressive 'whodunnit', balancing between re-enactment and live television.
On Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 May, the VSCD met, and the Congres Podiumkunsten (@congresPK) was going on at the Nijmegen Concert Hall De Vereeniging. I went to check it out and discovered some new things.
Things have changed in Dutch theatre since the beginning of this century. Somewhere around the year 2000, I was a guest at a meeting of the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors, and it was a bizarre experience. I found myself among a gathering that could best be described as a gentlemen's club, where the number of upstanding municipal officials exceeded the number of artistically inspired theatre lovers.
Now, 16 years later,
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