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'Beading' at the Leiden Cloth Hall is a boundless experience
'Pearls' is an exhibition with the limitlessness, fantasy and dreamlike vistas that come with a fairy tale. Associations with the pearl roll in all directions. Those who wander around in 'Pearls' forget for a moment everything to do with sober everyday reality. Pearls appear everywhere. The artworks belonging to this exhibition are scattered among the fixed...

'I have all of Shakespeare's records in my cupboard'
The press presentation of the open-air opera Orfeo ed Eurydice at Soestdijk at the time attracted just under a hundred people press and sponsors. At the presentation of the performance 'Much ado about nothing', The Utrecht Games attracted only a handful: someone from weblog cultuurpodium.nl, two people from the Stadsblad Utrecht and an indeterminate camera crew who had come exclusively for Suzan Visser....

Blood-soaked Macbeth fits festival theme perfectly but fails to touch #HF12
Imagine Arjan Robben. The much-troubled frontman of the Dutch national team has just seen a brilliant move rewarded with a penalty and he is ready to take it. Up comes a field hand with a new set of adhesive letters for his shirt because the numbers are no longer legible from the stands. Lots of lashing, shirt off, seconds glue. Circumstances, in short. After two minutes, the fielder is gone, the number readable and the referee's whistle sounds. Then try to hit the target.

Unforgettable stage version of Man Without Qualities gets undeserved dessert from Yves Petry #hf12
Maybe it is also just the wrong choice to see part three immediately after the first two parts. Maybe after a day of you or some settling down you will be able to appreciate Petry's text, on its own merits. Imagine a three-star dinner. A sensuous succession of small and medium-sized dishes, prepared with the...

‘Soms slaat het verlangen niet gezien te worden om in een overdaad aan exhibitionisme.’ – Yasmeen Godder over The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act
Ze heeft het druk gehad. Hoogzwanger werkte Yasmeen Godder (Jeruzalem, 1973) aan haar eerste choreografie voor Batsheva Dance Company. In een maand tijd stampte ze onder de vleugels van Batsheva haar nieuwe voorstelling The Toxic Exotic Disappearance Act uit te grond, en beviel tussendoor van een gezonde dochter. scenefoto Voor de derde keer presenteert de Israëlische choreografe Yasmeen Godder haar…

Cultural merger fever could have serious consequences
In Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Theaterfestival, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and a few more clubs will 'work closely together'. In The Hague, this applies to Het Nationale Toneel and youth theatre house Stella Den Haag, while in Rotterdam
Big plus for the writer who can also narrate #wu12
Helon Habila Zijn stem is laag, en als hij praat, doet hij dat kalm en bedachtzaam. Zijn humor beschouwt hij – heel Brits – als een bijeffect dat er meer per ongeluk is, dan bedoeld. Helon Habila is daarmee een perfecte gast voor de openingsavond van Writers Unlimited, het Haagse literatuurfestival dat beter bekand is als ‘Winternachten’. De Nigeriaan kan…
Culture in the Christmas package, Orientalis stops and all of Nijmegen-West without a library
Delightful news from the world of Christmas packages. 1/3 of interviewees said they did want to find a cultural experience in the Christmas package, as they visited a cultural actvity less often than they would like: 43% because of the crisis and 35% because of lack of time. Respondents said they would go more often if they got a discount. The proposed merger of...

A'dam: big loss of art subsidies, fact-free politics at art colleges, sacred museum collections, N-H halts small cultural education, culture in abandoned railway station
'Amsterdam loses 127 million arts subsidy' (...) The 127.1 million euros is a sum of cuts from the state (70 million), the increase in VAT to 19% (45.6 million) and the announced municipal cuts to the 2013-2016 Arts Plan of 8 million annually. In addition, the so-called ID jobs (subsidised jobs) are being phased out more quickly. This will give Amsterdam's arts and cultural institutions another...

Fransche School in jeopardy, blind library closed, nibbling on VAT measure via CJP and Volkenkunde/Tropen Institute merger possible
Arnhem - Scepticism over success of cultural heart Rijnboog Arnhem city council has many doubts about the financial feasibility of the Rijnboog arts cluster. (...) [Alderman] assumes 16 million subsidy from the province and another 4 million in contributions from sponsors for the new arts centre containing the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Schouwburg and Focus Filmtheater....

Progress news: Give Act no more for culture, Utrecht more expensive and Purmerend stops all subsidies
Lower House approves Tax Plan 2012 (...) Furthermore, the adjusted Giving Act was also passed. The €7 million tax support shifts from cultural institutions to sports and music associations. Source: Belasting.nl 18 Nov 11 Utrecht - Culture may cost something - by Wouter de Heus (...) this week, when I finally saw the renewed operating plan for the Music Palace in...

Bright spots: Toneelschuur kind of saved, less discount at schouwburg Hoorn, but Bollenstreekse Bieb gets more expensive.
Haarlem - Money new policy: national cuts softened (...) [theatre, film and production house] Toneelschuur Productions will lose its national subsidy from 2013. This threatens the disappearance of this unique production house. (...) Haarlem is economically heavily dependent on culture. The cuts will therefore not only lead to the impoverishment of our cultural climate, but also to fewer jobs and a blow to the creative economy in...

Record amount of donations for New York Metropolitan Opera, but ticket sales down for years
The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Opera in New York has brought in record donations this fiscal year. The tally stands at $182 million. This is 50 per cent more than the previous year. However, revenue from ticket sales has been declining for a few years. In addition, since general manager Peter Gelb took office, spending patterns have been soaring....

We say goodbye to a festival that was once again unique. For the last time? #decision
Image via Wikipedia Er was een tijd, dat kunst geen volle zalen hoefde te trekken om toch door de bevolking geaccepteerd te worden. Op het totale budget van een gemeente kost zoiets als kunst tenslotte niet meer dan een grijpstuiver, je wordt er dus niet slechter van, terwijl je er in het beste geval wel alleen maar beter van kunt…

Letter Zijlstra is just a request for information. But it does include a tickable invitation to suicide
Has state secretary Halbe Zijlstra the Lower House lied or misled in June when he stated that rushing through the culture cuts was necessary to absorb friction costs? Or does it just turn out to be improper governance?

Welcome in the human zoo is een spannend en soms beklemmend spel met echt en onecht #DeBasis
Vaak roepen publiciteitstekstjes een niet passend beeld op van de voorstelling waarnaar ze verwijzen. “De vliegbasis als een niemandsland: een militaire staat die is uitgevaagd en waar de natuur het gebied heeft overgenomen,” is er zo een. De tekst hoort bij Welcome in the human zoo, een ervaringstheatervoorstelling gemaakt door Suze Milius en Bram Jansen. Zo’n zin roept associaties op…
New Culture Council president? 'Van Klink creates a crisis himself so he can then solve it'
Pim van Klink is his name. He has been popping up everywhere lately. Especially when the malign subsidy orientation of the cultural sector needs to be pointed out, every medium calls Van Klink first. Last week, he once again threw his hobbyhorse into the henhouse in the NRC and was invited to join Buitenhof. And according to our trench-coat-clad...

#HF11: Japanese company canteen leads to hallucinatory tragedy of incapacity
In very different places, people can sometimes have the same idea. And even more sometimes, those similar ideas both lead to something wonderful. A few years ago, thanks to Brabant theatre Bis, mime company Kassys performed the beautifully sad tragedy 'Kommer', in which colleagues spent pointless time in a funeral room full of lease plants. Every gratuitous phrase was magnified by powerfully helpless gestures to the...

Playing with the Wooster Group: 'a totally new way of being on stage, of dealing with signals and the material of the show'
Foto: Franck Beloncle ‘Uw toeschouwers zullen ervan smullen.’ Dat was het laatste wat Liz Lecompte van de Wooster Group kort voor de première van Vieux Carré hoorde van de erven van toneelschrijver Tennessee Williams. Sindsdien houden de beheerders van de nalatenschap van dit Amerikaanse monument zich koest over de voorstelling die Lecompte heeft gemaakt. Het was het slot van een…
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