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Tannhäuser bij DNO: geen regisseurstheater maar subtiele kijk op hypocrisie rond hoofse en aardse liefde

Onlangs werd een petitie gestart voor herstel van de persaccreditatie van Olivier Keegel door De Nationale Opera. Hij krijgt geen perskaarten meer omdat hij zich op het blog Operagazet en in Het Parool veelvuldig negatief uitliet over de programmakeuzes van Pierre Audi. Bovendien hekelde hij diens voorliefde voor ‘regisseurstheater’, waarin volgens hem de inhoud ten prooi valt aan een vergezochte… 

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'A woman still cannot write erotic books with impunity'

'Surely the fight for women's rights should have been fought by now, but it doesn't feel that way lately. Men still have a deep-rooted feeling that they should be above women. Where does that come from anyway? Where does someone like rapper Boef get the idea that he should just give women, who were kind enough to give him a lift,... 

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‘Ik had vooraf gedacht dat deze nacht zou eindigen met seks, en vond dat ik dat verdiende.’ Tom Stranger en Thordis Elva schreven samen een boek over verkrachting

Zijn hart sloeg over toen hij in 2005 een mail zag binnenkomen van zijn vroegere IJslandse vriendinnetje. De mail bracht een waarheid aan het licht die Tom Stranger jarenlang had geprobeerd weg te drukken: hij had zijn vriendin Thordis Elva verkracht. Hun even schokkende als moedige verhaal deelden Elva en Stranger in een TEDx-lezing en een gezamenlijk boek, 7200 seconden –… 

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Sex sells, originality does not. Once again, two museums go out of their way to celebrate nudity.

When we don't have fresh, current posts on the site for a while, our 'most-read posts' list on the right always changes dramatically. Within two days, all stories are trending that include the words 'nude', 'nude' or 'sex'. After all, sex sells. If you like clicks from rutting men, at least. Unfortunately, this particular target group does not read much cultural news. But attention is... 

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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Italian youngsters have something else on their minds - see Paolo Giordano's new novel.

Bestselling author Paolo Giordano (35) does not shy away from current themes in his new novel Devouring Heaven. Poverty, environmental problems, capitalism, (un)fertility - people in their twenties and thirties have a lot to wrap their heads around. 'I find the fixed life pattern we grow up with strangling.' Devouring the sky Young people who have to find their way in the world and learn to cope with pain, loss,... 

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People no longer want to be seen as toys. We can't get around it. Museums can't get around it.

Searching for what I stand for and which way to go, time and again I come across facts that confuse and amaze me. I live in a country where only a single woman is in De Volkskrant top ten most influential people - in tenth place, that is. Only three out of 100 young Dutch millionaires... 

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Why Noorderzon is the Groningeniest festival in the Netherlands.

Sometimes there is a gap in the strolling crowd in Groningen's Noorderplantsoen. Often this is due to a local resident with muscle-dog, who continues to make his daily round despite the crowds. It is one of those funny things that give Noorderzon its very own character, as the most Groningen-like of all summer festivals in our country. There is... 

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Amsterdam has the @HollandFestival. Ask yourself why that is. And whether that's ok.

Last week, while walking the dog, my neighbour Stefanie asked, "What is that anyway, this Holland Festival?", and I almost caught myself wearily going to explain that it was the most important performing arts festival the Netherlands and its environs and that everyone with a bit of education should know it. But I held back. And wondered: how... 

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The real @hollandfestival special #3 about Bowie. And Bausch. How the recent dead keep us alive.

Nothing defines us like our taste. And especially taste in music. We find that music taste defines exactly who we are and can easily distinguish us from people who have distinctly different, and therefore lesser, tastes. Pinkpop, a pop festival with several world-famous headliners, experienced this. Each world star plays to their own audience, which schi... 

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Panic is contagious, sex is not. About my anxious hours during and after Sex and Anxiety at the @hollandfestival.

Panic. On the tram between Leidseplein and Amsterdam Centraal, I suddenly lost the Dutch translation of 'string quartet'. So I typed 'violin quartet' into my facebook update, trying to make a connection between a blow job and Ligeti. Joking, maybe, but there was something much deeper behind it, in that tram, after the music and theatre event 'The String Quartet's... 

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Our only unique @hollandfestivalspecial #2: inspiration and constriction in the first week #hf18

Our Thea Derks sat watching a traffic light for a couple of hours on Thursday 7 June and observed that the music was better. It happened during the opening of the 2018 Holland Festival. In the tradition of Ruth Mackenzie, the opening was of mixed reception, and that is actually a good thing. Even at a time when the Amsterdam Arts Council is in a... 

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Ruth Mackenzie's latest Holland Festival promises to be just one of the most exciting

Here it is. The one and only interactive Culture Press Holland Festival Special. A special that has already been deployed over the past few months, and will be added to in the coming month. During the festival, we have regular reviews and reports, and podcasts. A new edition of this Special will appear every week. On Mondays. And then you can also subscribe via... 

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A tense conversation about anxiety and sex early Sunday morning: The String Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety @HollandFestival

It feels like a variation on a scene from a farce. On stage: Birmingham REP's public relations officer, a journalist flown in from the Netherlands for the premiere and the director's assistant rushed in. Location: an upmarket hotel in the heart of Birmingham. Time: Sunday morning a little after ten o'clock. The subject: sex and the all-encompassing concept of anxiety. Go! The big absentee is director Calixto... 

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Gesualdo project at @hollandfestival by De Warme Winkel: 'We want to anoint and flog the ears' #HF18

Say 'Carlo Gesualdo' and you say 'heavenly music', and 'cruel disposition'. This Renaissance composer's name is inextricably linked to the gruesome double murder he committed on his wife and lover when he found them in flagrante delicto. Who else but The Warm Shop could make an appealing performance of this thought Tido Visser, artistic director of the Netherlands Chamber Choir. So. 

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Van een skateboard naar een scheiding: hoe schrijver Henk van Straten zijn huwelijk beëindigde per brief

Van de ene op de andere dag brak schrijver Henk van Straten (38) zijn huwelijk op, en betrok hij een piepklein huisje. Over zijn worsteling met eenzaamheid, alleenstaand ouderschap, drank, pillen en een seksverslaving schreef hij Berichten uit het tussenhuisje: een geestig en nietsontziend eerlijk verslag van zijn vroege midlifecrisis. Skateboardveteraan Je crisis begon, volgens je boek althans, met een… 

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Opening Night at Winternachten celebrates the power of perseverance, and supports writers in captivity. (Why sometimes a cardboard TV can help)

'Writing and reading, like sex, are a form of fusion. Literature is the practice of impurity'. Pakistani-American author Mohsin Hamid can formulate. In his Free the Word speech at the opening of Winternachten in The Hague, the man, who wrote an international bestseller with The Fall of a Fundamentalist, made a case for impurity. 'Purity,' he told the... 

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ZEP takes on the sacred cows of love with comedy HABIB. (Why Rascal should just come and watch)

So certain words are taboo. Moroccan Said explains that his ideal woman has to be a virgin, chaste, and so should not let him ... well, that is. That word you are not allowed to say. The Turkish Evrim thinks that's big nonsense again. Why not call a spade a spade? In Habib, the latest performance by theatre group ZEP, it is all about... 

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Mirjam Koen, Adorno, why on earth theatre about Adorno!

Beethoven and Bach brought the true music. Karl-Heinz Stockhausen the future. The rest, from Beatles to hoempa, was 'jazz', commercially capitalist and therefore pernicious. Very briefly, this is what we should know Theodor Adorno from. Paul R. Kooij now plays this art-philosophical sharper in a performance by Mirjam Koen. Just when the division based partly on Adorno's thinking between... 

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Kill the West in Me – muziektheater over botsing Oost-West

We worden tegenwoordig doodgegooid met opinies over de voor- en nadelen van multiculti. Al naargelang politieke voorkeur zijn mensen bijzonder enthousiast dan wel zeer negatief over de toenemende ‘verkleuring’ van onze maatschappij. Het gamelanensemble Gending, het Doelen Kwartet en Het Geluid Maastricht besloten de koe bij de horens te vatten. Zij baseerden Kill the West in Me op feministische brieven van… 

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De borsten voorbij? Recap Game of Thrones 7 aflevering 1 ‘Dragonstone’ (Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!)

Als je dit leest ga ik er van uit dat je weet wat Game of Thrones is. Wie Daenerys Targaryen is, en Jaime Lannister en Sansa Stark. Ramsay Bolton? Daar gaan we het nooit meer over hebben. Ik ga ook niet uitleggen dat het één van de meest succesvolle TV series aller tijden is, gebaseerd op de boekenreeks ‘A Song of… 

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Boris Charmatz

Danse de Nuit in the Bijlmer: 'Of course we want to influence public space' #HF17

Boris Charmatz has been a guest at many editions of the Holland Festival with impressive, provocative, socially engaged, finely composed and conceptually strong dance performances: Aatt enen tionon and Con forts fleuve (both in 2001); 50 years of dance (2010), Enfant (2011) and Manger (2015). His latest choreography, danse de nuit, premiered in Geneva last September. During the Holland Festival... 

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