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'The European is an orphan' - Milo Rau on The Dark Ages #HF16

Swiss playwright Milo Rau created a theatrical trilogy about the demise of the European ideal. The second part The Dark Ages is now at the Holland Festival. Rau combined his actors' painful, personal life stories with themes from the works of Chekhov, Shakespeare and the Greek tragedies. With a Freudian sauce: 'Countless people who are The Dark Ages have seen ask me: 'Milo, is something wrong with your father?'

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Peerless: 15 stories about refugees, in 49 draws and old set paintings

This is a review of a performance that is already over, and which, moreover, I participated in myself. That's not allowed at all. But it's also a story about refugees in Europe, a theatre floating above the clouds, a church made of marzipan, tunnels in Palestine and 49 draws. So I'm doing it anyway.

Last weekend, during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, a miracle happened at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels. Scenographer Jozef Wouters and his crew had settled in the old hall with its domed roof. Completely renovated ten years ago, 'de Bol' is now an old-fashioned frame theatre equipped with the latest theatre technology. Including those 49 draws, and that was what it was all about.

On a pull,

interview Jiří Kylián over Free Fall in Korzo

Jiří Kylián: 'The silence of a photograph, I love that'

Jiří Kylián toont met Free Fall voor het eerst zijn fotowerken. Hij vertelt gedreven over zijn ontdekkingen, zijn inspiratie, en Sabine. Het huis in Den Haag waar Jiří Kylián nu meer dan dertig jaar woont straalt levensvreugde uit. Warme kleurtonen, geurende bloemen, een classicistische inrichting en toch gezellig. Onmiskenbaar de ‘touch of a woman.’ Die vrouw is Sabine Kupferberg, de levenspartner en… 

'Alva'. Unknown stage work by Vondel discovered

This was our April fool's joke for 2016. Thanks for sharing! During renovation work at the Stadsbank van Lening building on Amsterdam's Oudezijds Voorburgwal, a manuscript of a work of poetry that has since been attributed by literary historians to Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) has recently turned up. It is a rough, unfinished version of a play entitled 'Alva' and is dated around... 

'My mother's death was the beginning of my writing'

'Exciting and accessible, with great tragic content and an unexpected and poignant ending'. With those words, writer Jan Vantoortelboom was awarded the Zeeland Book Prize last week. A Quattro Mani visited him in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and talked to him about his novel De man die haast had. 'I have grown as a writer.' Writing house 'The Tortelnest' adorns the hand-painted... 

Loïc Perela and Jan Martens: As a spectator, you are finally faced with a question again

Zoals ik in mijn eerdere artikel over de Nederlandse Dansdagen schreef, won choreograaf Loïc Perela dit jaar de Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht. Het leverde hem 12.000 euro op om in zijn nieuwe project HASHTAG te steken. De toekenning van de prijs heeft sommige eerdere winnaars op weg geholpen (Monique Duurvoort, Joost Vrouenraets, Erik Kaiel, Muhanad Rasheed, Joeri Dubbe,… 

Modern. Medieval. Mariken

OPERA2DAY presents the world premiere of Mariken in de tuin der lusten at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague on 11 October. An opera with the collaboration of an impressive list of artists, including composer Calliope Tsoupaki, Asko|Schönberg and actress Hannah Hoekstra as Mariken. But will you achieve success with an opera, with modern-classical music moreover and Middle Dutch text? Director and creator Serge van Veggel... 

Calliope Tsoupaki on Mariken in the garden of lust: 'I was surprised by that 16th-century text!'

On 7 October, the first try-out of Calliope Tsoupaki's opera Mariken in de tuin der Lusten will go on at Theater aan de Schie in Schiedam. Sunday 11 October is the world premiere at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague. At the invitation of Opera2Day, Tsoupaki immersed herself in Mariken van Nieumeghen, heroine of the miracle play of the same name that took place exactly five hundred years ago in... 

Rik Wouters, Autumn, 1913, 135 x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp ©Lukasart in Flanders

Belgian colour on Dutch cheeks - 7 reasons why you should visit 'Colour Unleashed' soon

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time. Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in the period when modern art was born? Then I correct myself: no, there were many problems and uncertainties back then too. But the new exhibition Colour Unleashed at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag makes me hesitate again. Because the exhibited... 

FC Bergman geeft letterlijk en figuurlijk (de) ruimte

de sfeer Het is 30 graden in Den Bosch. Mensen met koptelefoons op klappen voor iets dat wij, de voorbijgangers, niet zien.  Bij een winkelcentrum rollen meisjes met maskers over de grond. Overal is reuring. Festival Boulevard is in volle gang en de hele stad lijkt mee te doen. De terrassen zijn vol en de stemming is opperbest. Ik baan mij… 

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Rembrandt expert in an hour thanks to the Mauritshuis

For eight years, the Mauritshuis researched and restored his painting 'Saul and David'. As a result, it can now be definitively attributed to Rembrandt. But the small exhibition 'Rembrandt? The Case of Saul and David' mainly shows how the museum collaborated with all kinds of different scientists and laboratories to unravel the numerous mysteries surrounding the canvas. As a visitor, you will be taken through the... 

MOMIX Botanica, photo Max Pucciariello

Jurassic Art! - 10 times art with dinosaurs

Twenty-two years after Jurassic Park the fourth instalment of the well-known dinosaur films enters Dutch cinemas on Thursday 11 June. In Jurassic World we see in 3D how the dreamed theme park with live dinosaurs is finally realised, and how things go grandly wrong when overambitious showmen start genetically manipulating dinosaurs. In each new volume, the plot is thinner, the special effects become more dominant and the scientific pretensions less so, but no one can deny that the Jurassic Park-films have revolutionised. Also in the arts.

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Vormidable: two Flemish visions of renewal sculpture

The annual major sculpture expo in The Hague in 2015 is called 'Vormidable'. In its own museum, on Lange Voorhout and at several satellite locations, Museum Beelden aan Zee shows how Flemish art experienced a true revival from the 1990s onwards. Panamarenko, De Bruyckere, Fabre, but also lesser-known names renewed sculpture - in two opposite ways. Guest curator Stef van... 

Giya Kantsheli: 'I never wanted to compose Georgian music'

Georgian composer Giya Kantsjeli (Tbilisi, 1935) composes archaic-sounding, expressive works with slow progression, tremendous tension and heartbreaking melancholy. Characterised by fierce dynamic contrasts, his music often suddenly switches from an almost inaudible pianissimo to an oorsplitting fortissimo. On 23 February, Vredenburg's broadcasting series The Friday presents his monumental Styx for viola, choir and orchestra.... 

Camerata Trajectina 40 years young

In a sold-out Geertekerk in Utrecht, Camerata Trajectina exuberantly celebrated its fortieth anniversary yesterday. In those four decades, the ensemble has worked tirelessly to put the Dutch song repertoire from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age on the map, not only on stages, but also on sound carriers. Entirely in style, attendees were treated to a varied... 

Waarom zou schokkende kunst niet ook vertederend kunnen zijn?

Vlindertje Smit en de dienstbaarheid aan wat dood is Het is een ordelijke, schone ruimte, niet ongezellig, ondanks de stukken paardenbeen die in hun vitrines het atelier domineren. Beeldend kunstenares Vlindertje Smit prepareert dieren en delen van dieren. Terugdenkend aan de publicitaire storm die de Britse kunstenaar Damien Hirst met zijn geconserveerde-dierkunstwerken opwekte, zou je kunnen verwachten dat Vlindertje Smit… 

Moritz Eggert: 'I want to give Wagner back his innocence'

With Tragedy of a Friendship commemorates Flanders Opera the bicentenary of Richard Wagner's birth. It is a production by controversial artist Jan Fabre, author Stefan Hertmans and composer Moritz Eggert. When I approach the German tone poet for a conversation about this opera, he reacts with shock: there is ab-so-lutely no question of an opera! Could I please clear up this misunderstanding once and for all?

De beste vrouw op de beste plek: Ellen Walraven directeur Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Dit was een mogelijkheid, waaraan in eerste instantie niet zoveel mensen dachten. Ellen Walraven was immers na haar tropenjaren als directeur van het Amsterdamse debatcentrum De Balie toe aan wat meer inhoudelijk werk en rust aan haar hoofd, Dus vermoedden we dat ze nog wel een tijdje zou blijven zitten in

"The Life and Death of Marina Abramović": bumpy business with Antony as rock #HF12

Antony, Dafoe en Abramović samen op één podium, in een regie van Robert Wilson – het beloofde de klapper van het theaterseizoen te worden. Maar het privé-leven van Abramović  leent zich niet echt voor een triomfantelijke of meeslepende vertelling.

De Dodo herleeft voor Holland Festival editie 2011 #HF11

Deze week barst het Holland Festival los en wij zijn erbij. We maken met een flink team professionele journalisten een Dodo Festivaldagkrant, zoals we dat eerder ook deden voor bijvoorbeeld Springdance en De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg. We volgen het festival op de voet om nieuws te brengen wanneer het zich voordoet. We gaan voorstellingen zien waar anderen… 

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