Art has always needed explanation. Even 'easy' art, even 'art that sells itself'. Art has needed that explanation ever since the first caveman found out that her sooty smudges on the cave wall looked very much like a bison. Actually, this is why it is wrong to speak of 'explanation' and 'need'. Art and story are one, since the...
‘Ik wist niet dat je in deze sector ook weggedigitaliseerd kon worden, maar dat kan dus wel.’ Susanne Visser en Annemiek Lely luidden op zaterdag 7 december de noodklok. Hun baan als inleider bij theatervoorstellingen is in gevaar. Gezelschappen zouden liever de mensen aan zich binden via podcasts, en zo’n inleider kost alleen maar geld. Maandag 9 december haalden we…
‘Hoeveel talentvolle makers moeten we nog verliezen aan andere sectoren, omdat ze de ondermaatse waardering niet kunnen rijmen met de kwaliteit van hun product? Mensen kiezen op den duur eieren voor hun geld, wanneer kinderen moeten gevoed of hypotheken betaald. De sector holt zichzelf uit als we niet beter voor ons talent zorgdragen.’ Dertig leiders in de cultuursector spreken zich…
The culture sector will have to be patient for a while yet. Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven had no intention of changing any of her policies on Monday 18 November, during the discussion of the culture budget in the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Culture. Despite a fairly widely supported desire, especially from the opposition, to do something about the 8.6 million cut in the...
‘Wij zullen nooit genoeg ‘hetzelfde’ zijn, wij randfiguren: bipolair, borderline, homo, lesbo, onbestemd, narcistisch, autistisch, hysterisch – en we zijn allemaal dodelijk onzeker en we hebben allemaal een knuffel nodig.’ Permanente, schijnbaar onvermijdelijke onzekerheid is de theatersector eigen. Ramsey Nasr trof dat scherp in zijn toespraak bij het ontvangen van zijn tweede Louis D’Or. De moed, of soms bijna masochistische…
Last Wednesday, 2 October, at the annual congress of the Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en Festivals in Tivoli/Vredenburg, I saw an interesting presentation by Jonas Kiesekoms, research coordinator at PXL-Music in Hasselt, Belgium, and musician. The question is now classic: can a robot replace the music programmer? With his research group, Kiesekoms is working on several applications that use data science to improve ticket sales for concerts,...
'Nothing can make up for the past. But the real, enduring power of the past lies in how it affects our present and our future. What we can do is shape a future history in which we consciously and determinedly carry with us only the best of our past.' Not keep rooting, but cognitive behavioural therapy for the whole of Europe, you might...
The 2019 batch of the Film Academy shows graduation work. What do students think of the changes needed at the academy?
Post-colonial criticism and reflection ran like a thread through this year's Holland Festival programme. Not only William Kentrigde and Faustin Linyekula, the associate artists with whom the festival's programmers collaborated, their work addresses the devastating effects of centuries of Western European trade and commerce. In reframing political and social history and reclaiming...
Crash Park – La vie d’une île (2018) van de Franse regisseur Philippe Quesne voert 19de eeuwse waarden op in hun 21ste eeuwse uitwerking. De elitaire ontdekkingsreiziger is een modale toerist geworden, die zich in goed georganiseerde groepen naar iedere uithoek van de wereld beweegt, op zoek naar ultieme ervaringen, mits deze een retourticket westerse wereld niet in de weg…
In the struggle for women's suffrage, the 'ordinary' housewife from Ten Boer in Groningen played just as vital a role as the widely praised Aletta Jacobs. She too walked in demonstrations, appeared in her grandmother's costume during protests and sewed a banner for the movement in her kitchen or living room. Like her peers from the rest of the Netherlands, she fought...
'What we so often forget is to just talk about our love for theatre.' Eric de Vroedt, artistic director of The National Theatre, wants to talk about substance for once. And then with the entire performing arts sector. Soon there will be SPOT-Live, the renewed Congress of Performing Arts, and there he wants to talk about love. 'Quite by chance, it happened a month ago....
Recently, Kees Vlaardingerbroek, programmer of the NTRZaterdagMatinee published a plea against what he calls 'identity politics' in music. 'Bach was not a woman and not Western. So what?" reads the headline. In the subtitle, we read: 'If a composer is not a woman or Western, then it no longer fits into the classical canon.' Quite boldly put, because in any concert brochure you will find...
Ook de Nederlandse cameralieden voegen zich in het koor dat zich zorgen maakt over de Nederlandse film. Het New Deal-manifest draagt suggesties voor verbetering aan.
In 2014, Morgan Knibbe (1989) made the short film Shipwreck, about the aftermath of a horrific shipwreck on the coast of Lampedusa in which 350 refugees drowned. Shortly afterwards, he made his first feature-length documentary, also about refugee issues: 'Those Who Feel the Burning'. This very impressive, original and visually strong film was one of the best Dutch films of the last...
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...
Uit een enquête blijkt dat Nederlandse filmmakers zich grote zorgen maken over de productieomstandigheden en kwaliteit van de Nederlandse speelfilm. Het Filmmakersinitiatief wil de discussie aanzwengelen en oplossingen aandragen. Een symposium als aftrap.
Is production house Dansmakers Amsterdam losing its housing? Together with other institutions in the dance sector, it has made every effort to align and further develop the whole spectrum of dance facilities in Amsterdam. In 2018, for example, the joint plan Danswerf was developed and submitted as an application for a two-year development grant to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)...
The cinema industry presents its 2018 annual figures. Visits stable at 35.7 million, but Dutch film's market share dropped again, now to 11%. Half of the peak year of 2011.
IDFA 2018 is a great opportunity to take a look at what you can do with documentary in film education. Documentaries can resonate very well with children, is the experience of Meike Statema, head of education at IDFA.
Sounding Alchemy, is the name of the chunky volume recently published by music publicist Maarten Brandt (1953). It has 715 pages, including illustrations and an extensive index. In 98 articles, Brandt unfolds his views on music and music programming. He dedicated the beautifully designed book to Marius Flothuis, whom he admired and who was programmer of the Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. His heirs received a first copy during...
Would it happen after all? Would Liesbeth Coltof's dream really come true? For 36 years, she made theatre in which the age of the audience played no role. On Saturday 6 October, she received the Oeuvre Prize from the Association of Theatre Directors (VSCD) from the hands of Hedy d'Ancona. In doing so, she surpassed Ivo van Hove. The internationally breakthrough leader of the...
Dutch film's market share threatens to be dramatically low for 2018. At the NFF conference, Film Distributors Netherlands presents the plan to create a think tank to turn the tide.
In her novel Club Mars, writer Rachel Kushner shows what the life of an inmate looks like inside the four walls. 'I like to include people in my life who have been made invisible in our society,' she says. No mercy Thousands of women are incarcerated in Chowchilla, the jail that was the model for Rachel Kushner's writing of Club Mars. Kushner's...
‘Met mijn voorstellingen probeer ik altijd mensen het gevoel te geven dat ze echt een happening gaan missen. ‘De eerste voorstelling met persoonlijke verhalen van vier Marokkaans-Nederlands actrices in de grote zalen van Nederland, de nieuwste dit, de meest verrassende dat.’ Daria Bukvić is een van de spannendste makers die de afgelopen jaren de theaterwereld binnenkwam. Ze is niet alleen…
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