De kans is niet ondenkbeeldig dat je nog nooit van Fortunato Depero hebt gehoord. Of misschien ben je een liefhebber van classic design en heb je nog ergens een oud miniflesje Campari staan. Dat heeft hij gemaakt. Als toneelschrijver zou je hem best over het hoofd hebben kunnen zien. Op 21 juni ben ik gaan kijken of je jezelf daarmee…
Twenty-five Canadians are listed for design and production of sound, video, music, lighting and stage technology. Nine Canadians are working behind the scenes for two hours. During those two hours, one Canadian is on stage. In front of six hundred spectators. What those 35 people have all managed to pull off tickles your imagination and tells...
Endless chatting at the kitchen table. While cooking. That's all they do, the brother, the sister, the ex, the two daughters-in-law and the mother of the Gabriel family. About recipes, about the old piano. About Thomas, the brother who died of parkinson's, about his wife, who due to informal care had no time to renew her doctor's degree. All very casually, without...
A prologue, two dialogues and a long interlude. All clearly connected. In a performance by Romeo Castellucci - it doesn't have to get any crazier. Italian playwright Castellucci prefers to make theatre that is not easily or even misunderstood. He does not shy away from shock effects. Visually overwhelming, but a clear line is often hardly recognisable. So that promises...
You have punk. You have performance art. Best Gaap, because often little remains of that ferocious wildness that dominated the European scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Marina Abramovic we now see mainly as that silent lady on that chair opposite her long-lost lover. We have forgotten that she once offered her audience razors to cut her...
The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....
The play La Democrazia in America (to be seen at the Holland Festival on 4, 5 and 6 June) is of course about democracy in America, but actually more about The Democracy in America. And the two should not be confused. For The Democracy in America is a 1,200-page book by French jurist De Tocqueville. This...
Wondrous story: Utrecht had a famous jazz club between 1957 and 1967. It was founded - including egg cartons on the vault - by jazz-loving teenagers. Not only the fine fleur of Dutch jazz performed there, but also many an international big name. As part of Utrecht's Cultural Sundays, last Sunday (23 April), a wharf cellar on the...
It is not easy to visit an opera presented as a stunning piece of contemporary social criticism without fear. Especially when it evokes such totally different reactions. Some call The New Prince 'an opera on the vein of our own time' (Mischa Spel, NRC), while others give it 'a fat fail' (Erik Voermans, Het Parool). Another needs more...
In de documentaire Life. Animated vertelt Roger Ross Williams het even verbazingwekkende als aanstekelijke verhaal over hoe Disneyfilms voor autistische Owen de sleutel naar de wereld waren. “Het gaat over de kracht van verhalen.”
He was belatedly gripped by poetry, but how: for Flemish poet and street musician Geert Viaene (1963), poetry has now become a condition of life. 'A chord has been struck that still can't stop vibrating.' From this late bloomer, who published on digital forum Het Gezeefde Gedicht (The Sifted Poem), the debut collection Eistijden was recently published. Viaene understands the art of being outspoken in...
‘Voor we aan de daadwerkelijke presentatie beginnen, geef ik u eerst wat facts & figures’, zegt Els van der Plas, algemeen directeur van Nationale Opera & Ballet. ‘Nee, niet de alternative facts’, voegt ze er gevat aan toe. De geest van de Amerikaanse president zal deze middag nog vaker door de Stopera waren. Van der Plas memoreert de successen die…
Ruth Mackenzie has achieved an enormous amount in the short time she has been boss of Holland Festival. I've experienced the festival now since the late 1990s and watched it evolve from something very personal and sometimes obscure (under Ivo van Hove), to an ethereal feast of sizzling aesthetics (with Pierre Audi), to what it...
Belgian writer Annelies Verbeke cleverly combines seriousness and absurdism in her new collection of short stories Halleluja. The collection once again makes clear why the Belgian writer has sometimes been called the 'diva of the short story'. Like all her work, the new collection Halleluja contains, in addition to a more serious touch, plenty of funny, absurdist and sometimes even surrealistic situations and...
Parallax Views is the overarching theme of the 46th Rotterdam Film Festival. Be persuaded to look with new eyes. Director Bero Beyer, who took office in 2015, on his second festival.
‘Op scholen moet je kinderen literatuur voeren zoals ze in Frankrijk ganzen voeren.’ Met zijn snedige opmerkingen kreeg Tommy Wieringa de lachers op zijn hand, terwijl hij als de personificatie van Nederland op de sofa lag bij hoogleraar psychiatrie Damiaan Denys. ‘Nederland op de sofa’ was een van de eerste programma’s van de zaterdagavond van het literaire festival Winternachten in…
Of het einde van het communisme en begin van het kapitalisme zijn schrijven heeft beïnvloed? Mircea Cartarescu, een van de grootste schrijvers van Roemenië, pareerde de vraag met een grapje. ‘Dat is een veel te kleine gebeurtenis om mijn stijl en romans te veranderen.’ Is this the real life? Dat is het thema van het literaire festival Winternachten van dit…
Writers Unlimited could hardly have chosen a more appropriate theme for this year's literary festival Winternachten: Is this the real life? That question will be on many a mind when the new president of the United States is inaugurated on Friday. Fortunately, some eighty writers who do have something meaningful to say about the state of...
It is easier than ever to produce and distribute your own videos. Every minute, more than 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Is this gigantic amount still manageable? No. The video platform has become too big to continue to exist without problems. By Nuno Blijboom There is no better source for cat videos, bullying vloggers and gaming youngsters
We hadden liefde, we hadden wapens van Christine Otten gaat over de zwarte verzetsstrijder Robert F. Williams, die streed voor de gelijkwaardigheid van de zwarte bevolking. In de gelijknamige theaterbewerking spelen blanke acteurs – onder wie Huub van der Lubbe – zwarte personages en andersom. Dubbelgesprek over persoonlijke offers, huidskleur en verbinding. Idlewild Het is een opmerkelijk toeval. Amerika neemt…
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...
Yesterday, the chamber made €10 million available for the arts. This brings the tally of government cuts to at least €190,000,000 still. This hard-won extra is the last that could be asked for. Everyone agrees, the new system has been definitively embraced. The protest has made itself redundant now that the compromise has been made. And what have we got...
Hij heeft meer dan vijfentwintig boeken geschreven, waarvan de helft voor de jeugd, maar eigenlijk wilde Jan Terlouw helemaal niet schrijven. Hij was wis- en natuurkundige, deed kernfusieonderzoek en werd later ook nog politicus – dat was meer dan genoeg. Bovendien was rechtshandig schrijven (zoals het op school werd aangeleerd) voor iemand die linkshandig is, een kwelling. Het had dan…
In het bijzijn van Amnesty International en Edward Snowden – via een videoverbinding vanuit Moskou – ging donderdagavond in Tuschinski Oliver Stone’s nieuwe film Snowden in première. Het gedramatiseerde verhaal van de jonge, begaafde overheidsdienaar die in gewetensnood komt en besluit naar de pers te stappen is niet heel origineel of meeslepend in beeld gevat. Maar op de golfslag van…
'Have you really been listening to poems for three hours?' Asaf Avidan had not yet experienced anything like that. The musical headliner of the 34th Night of Poetry has yet another story to take with him on his tour. In the Netherlands, you can quiet a full hall by reading a poem. This year, that even succeeded ...
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