The exhibition The Golden Coach opens at the Amsterdam Museum on Friday 18 June. After a restoration of more than five years, the Golden Coach is back on public display for the first time. The carriage will be on loan to the Amsterdam Museum until February 2022. With this, the carriage temporarily returns to the city that used it in...
On Friday 12 February 2021 from 12:00-17:00, the Amsterdam Museum, together with its various partners, is organising the Refresh Symposium on the Amsterdam art climate. A symposium in which makers such as Bas Kosters, Massih Hutak and Raquel van Haver together with representatives of cultural institutions such as NDSM-werf, AFK and Amerpodia will critically examine the art climate in the city. The symposium...
Insayno was city poet for two days - you involuntarily think of that commercial in which a temp says at his grand farewell party, "It was two fantastic days" - and in doing so probably set a record as the shortest-serving city poet in history, with one city poem to his name ("sister of the capital"). What was the problem?
29 juni is een belangrijke dag voor de cultuur: de Tweede Kamer gaat dan in debat over de noodsteun aan de sector. Onze boodschap aan de politiek: “300 miljoen euro noodsteun die OCW voor de cultuursector beschikbaar heeft is bij lange na niet genoeg om de sector overeind te houden. Neem de motie van PvDA, GroenLinks en SP aan!” In…
Dit is de registratie van de presentatie: En hier is de volledige tekst van het persbericht. Duiding volgt, maar we gaan eerst lezen. Meer ruimte voor vernieuwing en cultuur buiten de Randstadprovincies 04-06-2020 | 14:00 | Den Haag De Raad voor Cultuur adviseert om meer instellingen met vernieuwend cultuuraanbod en instellingen van buiten de Randstadprovincies de kans te geven op…
'We would have actually been presented with the award last week at the premiere of Grimm. That was our big production this season that was to play 30 times. But after the second rehearsal, we were able to stop. It seriously looks like we won't be seen in theatres this year. When in autumn the...
Korte verhalen schrijft Esther Verhoef (51) al zo lang als ze fictie schrijft – sinds haar zevende. Of ze nou tien of honderd pagina’s lang zijn, haar verhalen zijn Verhoef even lief als haar romans en thrillers. ‘Kijk,’ zegt Esther Verhoef, terwijl ze de flappen van het omslag van Labyrint – de verhalen openvouwt. Op de binnenkant zijn oude, op…
Het gaat weer eens waanzinnig met de Nederlandse theaters en concertgebouwen. De directies, verzameld in de VSCD, slagen er ieder jaar weer in om in het najaar met werkelijk fantastische cijfers naar buiten te komen. Ook dit jaar is het gejuich niet van de lucht. Alles groeit. Het aantal banen, en het aantal vrijwilligers, bijvoorbeeld. (beiden met 3% gestegen in…
De nominaties voor de Zwanen 2019 zijn bekend. Hier is mijn jaarlijkse voorspelling wie er een gaan winnen. Spoiler alert. Dit jaar wordt het een voorzichtige voorspelling. Ook al zat ik de afgelopen jaren er niet ver naast (soms helemaal raak) met het raden van de winnaars, nu moet je bij de dansers kiezen uit superlatieven: ‘laat zij op een…
Met alle maatschappijkritische, exotische en persoonlijke levenskunst op het Holland Festival is Van Manen, Forsythe, Arqués eigenlijk een buitenbeentje, een statement zonder boodschap. Dans heeft genoeg aan zichzelf, drukt zichzelf ten voeten uit. En hoe. Werk van overdonderende kwaliteit. Hoeveel beter kan het nog worden? Hoogstens door het toch een boodschap mee te geven. Daar ligt ruimte. De rest is helemaal af.…
French is made for rap. Forget all that American-English mincing, listen to the rhythmic drone that good French-language rap offers. One of the possible benefits of a self-absorbed US and a post-Brexit Europe is that we might start hearing that beautiful language of our southern southern neighbours a bit more often. 'Speak French to me, darling!' Macron will be delighted. Wednesday...
The dance film occupies a unique place among the film offerings. Not driven purely by psychologising or text, it offers every opportunity for experimentation in form and content. But that also means it is difficult to place. And therefore difficult to make. The second part on the growing pains of the dance film features 2 dancers and performance artist....
When the Council for Culture released its long-awaited musical advice a month ago, its president Marijke van Hees was remarkably nervous. This was particularly evident in her choice to act as moderator at her own presentation. When there, at Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum, came (very mild) criticism of the advice, she shot to the defence. That became...
Cultural summit will take place Friday, February 1, 2019, at the North Brabant Provincial House. Reason: The 'Orkexit', or, the decision by the Philharmonie Zuid Nederland to cease all education activities in North Brabant with immediate effect. This not only deprives thousands of children of culture, but also puts a number of small youth theatre companies in dire financial straits. The Philharmonic, a merger orchestra, formed...
The Performing Arts Fund is failing to professionalise and make the music theatre sector sustainable. So says the Council for Culture in an advice leaked yesterday on the future of music theatre in the Netherlands. The advice presented today to the rest of the Netherlands therefore wants to transfer more different music theatre makers and companies from the Performing Arts Fund to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure. This partly...
A little pity was in order during the debate on the culture budget in the Lower House. Thierry Aartsen, the VVD's brand-new culture spokesperson, still hadn't done his homework and therefore got terrible on his mitre from fellow culture spokesmen in the Lower House. And then also from the minister. Was he allowed to speak around 11...
Af en toe schuurt het bij Playful Arts, een intiem festival dat spel en kunst samenbrengt. Alles draait om interactie, zelf doen, ervaren. Sommige bezoekers moeten even een drempel over. Maar dan gebeurt er wel iets. ‘Die dansers moeten echt een keigoeie conditie hebben’, hoor ik iemand achter me vol eerbied mompelen. Aan de overkant van de straat wijst een…
The Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors and Festival de Nederlandse Dansdagen announce the annual nominations for the VSCD Dance Awards (the Swans). Nominated for the Swan 'most impressive dance production' are: Rule of Three, choreography: Jan Martens, by GRIP The hidden floor, choreography: Franck Chartier, by Nederlands Dans Theater We Are Nowhere Else But Here, choreography: Stephen Shropshire, by Stephen Shropshire Foundation,...
In Kata, the latest work by French breaker and choreographer Anne Nguyen, hip-hop men transcend the clichés of hip-hop. Toughness, untouchability and the usual frontal relationship with the audience are exchanged for indirect gestures, delayed effects, diagonals and laterals, double entendres and irony. Nguyen, herself an adept practitioner of capoeira, ming chun and breakdance, challenges her dancers to use their...
Alí Calderón heeft een flink oeuvre bij elkaar geschreven, maar van dat oeuvre heb ik, tijdens mijn verblijf op Poetry International, niet zoveel gehoord. Wel kwam drie keer het gedicht ‘Democracia Mexicana‘ langs. Een geducht gedicht, want het eindigt met een rottend babylijk, dus niet voor de weekhartigen onder ons. Democracia Mexicana is Calderons hitgedicht. Zoals popzangers een hit kunnen…
Cinedans has been around since 2003. Back then, it was a single evening, part of Amsterdam's Julidans festival. Pretty soon, it grew into something bigger. According to Martine Dekker, involved with the festival since the 2011 edition, this was due to the overwhelming supply of dance films: 'From the second edition, filmmakers were invited to submit films,...
Platonov, Theatre Utrecht's latest show, premiered on 2 March and is an instant hit: rave reviews in all major newspapers. Artistic director and director Thibaud Delpeut bases his version of this archetypal Chekhov play on the translation made by actor Jacob Derwig in 2000 for 't Barre Land. This equally legendary play fitted...
Opinions differ on the size of the pot of money waiting for them, but 'urban' makers in particular do not yet know how to find their way to our art subsidy system. That is why the three cultural funds that deal mainly with performing arts have appointed ambassadors in a number of Dutch cities. These 'Matchmakers' should narrow the gap between The Hague and 'the region'....
Musicians are no longer allowed to perform for a pittance. At least, not if the club they work for, or in which they perform, receives a subsidy. In a sector opinion released today, the Culture Council argues that the structural underpayment of workers in the creative sector is no longer sustainable. 'If that means fewer programmes can be made (or that there...
One benefit of the Museum Year Card not easily mentioned is the uninhibited free access to clean and comfortable restrooms in the centre of major cities. 'Fifty-plus urinals with MJK' an experienced museum porter called this group of visitors, who, by the way, are most welcome: every pull with the scanning gun means extra cash. Big advantage: you see something extra. A second or...
English (UK) 
Nederlands 
Français
You must be logged in to post a comment.