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Too divided for unity. How a booklet on yoga nearly brought writer Emmanuel Carrère to the brink of collapse

A light-hearted and delicate little book on yoga is what French author Emmanuel Carrère intends to write. By this he does not mean the glorified form of gymnastics that so many practise, no, he is talking about the sacred yoga that leads to calming the mind, to serenity and pure perception of what is. Al also goes after... 

When words become weapons, listening is pointless. Frank Westerman at festival Winternachten on negotiating with terrorists.

In de jaren zeventig trok een golf van terreur door Europa. Een golf die in onze contreien veel meer slachtoffers maakte dan het islamitische geweld tot nu toe. Tijdens literatuurfestival Winternachten, van 18 t/m 22 januari in Den Haag, gaat het over vrijheidsstrijd, over wij tegen zij. Op zaterdagmiddag 21 januari gaan Frank Westerman en Mohsin Hamid met elkaar in… 

danse de nuit, Boris Charmatz / Musée de la danse. Photo: Boris Brussey.

danse de nuit, on cartoons and other violence in our lives, #HF17

On Anton de Komplein, it is less cosy than on the roof of Parking 58 in Brussels, where I saw danse de nuit earlier. Above South-East, the moon is hidden behind a thick haze, the square feels big and empty so without the market. The performance by choreographer Boris Charmatz/Musée de la Danse, also today and tomorrow,... 

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... 

7 reasons why you should invest in Holland Festival 2017 #hf17

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... 

Joël Pommerat: ‘De geschiedenis herhaalt zich niet. We kunnen er juist van leren.’ (HF16)

Een van de bijzondere voorstellingen op het Holland Festival van dit jaar is ‘Ça Ira (1): Fin de Louis’ van het Franse gezelschap Compagnie Louis Brouillard. Ik bezocht de voorstelling eerder in Luxemburg en sprak met de regisseur en schrijver van deze dik vier uur durende marathon over de Franse Revolutie. Het lijkt nogal wat: 40 acteurs op het toneel… 

Böhmermann: Turkey is the place to be

'No barbaric act can ever erase press freedom,' French President Hollande tweeted immediately after the bloody attack on the editors of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked side by side with him in a mass demonstration for freedom of expression. But that was the reality of the time. Now she stands ... 

winter nights opening: debate

'Western writers are part of oppression'

The annual presentation of the International PEN Awards during the opening of Winternachten in The Hague is never a truly convivial affair. After all, every year at least one of the awardees cannot receive the prize herself. Because she has been captured, because he is missing, or ill. This year, Thursday 14 January at the Theater aan het Spui, could... 

From world politics to the most intimate story: in search of what touches at Writers Unlimited '15

Writers Unlimited's Friday night kicked off with an Islam debate. In no uncertain terms, religious historian Karen Armstrong argued that Islam and jihad are not the same thing. There are only 41 jihads in the entire Quran, most of which are the peaceful struggle to help the poor when one is destitute oneself. But after the Paris attacks... 

Karl Ove Knausgard opent Writers Unlimited met sterk beroep op individualisme #wu15

“Iedereen die schrijft zal vroeg of laat tegen een muur aanlopen, een grens van wat niet kan, mag en moet worden geschreven. En vrijwel iedereen zal op dat moment terugschrikken en ervan afzien om het te schrijven. Want die muur staat er om ons te beschermen tegen wat we niet willen.” Karl Ove Knausgård, door sommigen al vergeleken met Marcel Proust,… 

Another black day for independent journalism

After the brutal attack on the staff of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday, journalists, cartoonists, politicians and the general public rallied worldwide to defend the freedom of speech. Many a front page of today’s newspapers showed the cartoons for which chief editor Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier) and 11 other were brutally murdered by Said and Cherif Kouachi,… 

Zwarte dag voor onafhankelijke journalistiek

Ik ben in shock: twaalf doden bij gruwelijke aanslag op Frans satirisch tijdschrift Charlie Hebdo. – Vlak voor de aanslag twitterde het zijn nieuwste cartoon: een spotprent waarop de leider van IS een nieuwjaarswens uitspreekt. Humor verbindt, humor verbroedert, humor helpt taboes doorbreken, humor relativeert pijnlijke levensthema’s…. Althans, dat heb ik mijn leven lang gedacht, tot in 2005 mijn wereldbeeld kantelde.… 

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