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2001 is a film you should see again every 10 years. The sf epic even stands up to live orchestra

by Leo Bankersen
22 June 20128 July 2016
4 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Does live accompaniment with choir and orchestra make Kubrick's 2001 a different or better film? Not necessarily, but as an homage and event, it is a wonderful gesture. Even on the hard bucket seats in the Gashouder, it is once again a breathtaking experience. Last night, at the Gashouder on Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek grounds, finally revisiting Kubrick's science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. This...

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Passio-Compassio calls for philosophical reflection. A socratic dialogue. #hf12

by one of our members
14 June 20128 July 2016
5 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Dodo reviewers Maarten Baanders and Mariska van der Meij both attended the performance Passio-Compassio, and struck up a conversation. - From the programme book of Passio-Compassio - All people experience suffering, regardless of religion or cultural background. Like love, suffering also results in passion. Art and religion are both capable of transcending the cycle of suffering and passion. If...

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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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Springdance Journal: "Dutch dance is very well behaved compared to what we have seen here"

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 April 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, DANS, SPECIALS

Our team agrees: Springdance really took off on Saturday. With Ibrahim Quraishi's installation 'Wildlife Take Away Station' for sure. Reviewer Daniel Bertina made his own recordings, which will appear in his review. And it was even more tasty for him at '(M)imosa. Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)....

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Too full or not too full at subsidy theatre

by one of our members
3 April 201229 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Hein Janssen (Volkskrant) wrote a column in response to a couple of performances with BN stars in the subsidised circuit in which he argued that subsidy was not meant for that. The association for actors thought this was reason enough for a debate. We made a short film to go with it. We formatted it in storify, a feature that allows you to put tweets and other social media messages together and...

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We say goodbye to a festival that was once again unique. For the last time? #decision

by one of our members
3 October 201129 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

There was a time, when art did not have to draw full theatres to be accepted by the population. After all, out of the total budget of a municipality, something like art costs no more than a penny, so you don't get worse, while at best you can only get better. So is...

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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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Reviewers look back at Springdance 2011

by one of our members
23 April 20118 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

The Springdance Festival in Utrecht is coming to an end. Today, the last performances take place. Three reviewers from the Cultureel Persbureau look back on the festival, in an interview with Jeroen Stout. Reviewer Fransien van der Putt does get spring fever from Springdance, she says in the interview: 'This festival exceeded my expectations.' Daniël Bertina (also a critic) also found it a particularly...

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The Dodo reports on the 27th edition of Springdance

by Madeleine Red
18 April 201130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The 27th edition of Springdance in Utrecht is in full swing. Cultural Press Agency reviewers are there, attending dance performances from all corners of the world. For instance, Fransien van der Putt visited the opening performance Sideways Rain by Brazilian Guilhermo Botelho and the jazzy tap dance performance by Broadway star Savion Glover. Maarten Baanders attended Studium by Belgian dance collective...

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Reviewers on the fortieth Rotterdam International Film Festival: lots of Chinese loneliness and that Russian needs to hit the cinemas

by one of our members
6 February 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

OK. A pilot. When Jeroen Stout lost his Wednesday film fork in Radio Kunststof on Radio 1 in December 2010, we made him an offer he could easily refuse: to do something like that with us. But that we would then look for a way that suits The Dodo. After all, audio online may be the...

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We will be there every day at The International Choice. With text. With video. With news and reviews

by one of our members
9 September 201030 March 2022
1 min read
SPECIALS

Tomorrow begins The International Choice of The Rotterdam Theatre. A festival that for years has presented remarkable theatre from all over the world at the Maasstad's theatre in September. Except this year, that is, because the 'chest of quist' is being rebuilt and that will take some time. Not something with Amsterdam metro builders, but whether the official reopening on 2 October 2010 will be...

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Amsterdam FM Clash of Reviewers on Holland Festival #hf10

by one of our members
8 June 201030 March 2022
1 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Loek Zonneveld is furious about The Bridge Project, but overjoyed with De Keersemaeker's The Song and Wijbrand Schaap still enjoys Amal Maher in the broadcast of Clash der Recensenten on Amsterdam FM, Tuesday 8 June, between 15:00 and 16:00. Also featuring a clear explanation of what The Dodo is, and what it is for...

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What the papers say: the music is fine, as usual on #hf10

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 June 201029 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Martijn Padding has done something special with Beethoven's 10th. He turned the piece that the deaf composer never really wrote in its entirety into an experience that, as Volkskrant reviewer Frits van der Waa put it, made you feel what it sounded like between Beethoven's ears. According to the NRC, it sounded Impressive: the sphere of creation stripped of all heroism, as if you were passing through two centuries of...

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