There is a bit of a buzz about Daan Roosegaarde. Again, we might say, because Daan Roosegaarde, it turns out, cannot be described as a creator of original work, but as someone with a rather remarkably sensitive antenna for other people's ideas. Which he then presents as his own work. From the article in the Volkskrant on this, one and...
Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund...
Met zijn opiniestuk in de Volkskrant haalde hij zich de gramschap op de nek van geinfabrikanten als Bert Brussen en Hans Teeuwen. In niet mis te verstane persoonlijke aanvallen werd ‘Suck My Dick Zijp’ verweten een ‘genderneutrale rotkop’ te hebben, die aantoonde dat ‘woke’ mensen geen humor hadden. Reden voor de wakkere nerds, Marijn Lems en ik, ook wel de…
Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture...
Rather unexpectedly, it was announced this week that cultural and entertainment venues will be test sites for reopening society next month. It came rather out of the blue, as everyone was still working on petitions and other pleas to reopen cultural buildings. After all, they have their corona protocols in place there better than the Albert Heijn on my corner....
Podiumpoëzie wordt doorgaans minder hoog geacht dan geschreven poëzie. Terwijl podiumdichters juist zo sterk kunnen raken. Alleen tijdens de Nacht van de Poëzie, elk jaar in Utrecht, eren we de performers onder de poëten. Daarna zijn het weer de ‘grapjassen’ die kunnen rijmen, zoals onlangs over Ingmar Heytze werd geschreven in een aankondiging van een podcast. Spoken Word, de…
Wopke Hoekstra, would-be baas van Nederland, stond vorige week op het ijs van een ijsbaan die voor alle Nederlanders behalve Sven Kramer gesloten was. Wegens Corona. De CDA-voorman kreeg een terechte storm van kritiek over zich heen. Na Grapperhaus de tweede topbestuurder van het land die zijn eigen regels alleen voor anderen vindt gelden. Afgelopen week speelde Laura van Dolron,…
Weismann strikes me as too brilliant and intelligent a director to throw himself into an adventure that could break him for good. An alpha male, a big ego, it was well known. And couldn't keep his paws off young women.
'Writing this book has made me realise that I cannot prepare my children for the world in which they will be adults. I cannot teach them now what they will need later in a society that does not yet exist.'
Every dancer is nostalgic. Heroes or icons of the dance world are given a special and honourable stage place in the inspiration of young dancers, of choreographers and also of the public. So too Koert Stuyf and Ellen Edinoff, and their Contemporary Dance Foundation.
Verontrustende berichten, de afgelopen dagen, in diverse media. Eerst was daar Patrick van IJzendoorn in De Volkskrant, die constateerde dat het leven was weggetrokken uit het Londense zakenhart. Ik zag een paar verward verheugde reacties langskomen van vrienden op mijn culturele tijdlijn. Immers, in het artikel werd een duidelijke relatie gelegd tussen de sluiting van musea en theaters en de…
On Monday 29 June, the Lower House will discuss the advice of the Council for Culture. An advice that, as the Volkskrant rightly noted on Friday 26 June, receives much more criticism than previous advice. In doing so, the newspaper reaffirms what we already wrote down immediately after its release on 4 June: there is a total lack of transparency, a...
An artists' protest in Albania deserves extra attention. Especially as EU accession negotiations resume. Indeed, the protest action is impressive and offers a view of EU accession from an interesting perspective. That of a people who are committed to democratic values, who value their own history and culture, who do not want to give way to...
The new year often starts with new insights and resolutions. A critical reflection can then help. We were therefore delighted to read the Volkskrant of 2 January, in which columnist and theatre critic Merlijn Kerkhof concludes that in 2020, he wants to enjoy all that the Netherlands has to offer in terms of culture a bit more often outside 020. And that is only right,...
As an intro, the percussionist of orchestra the prize of honour played a cadenza of air beats. When he unexpectedly gave a cutting blow on his snare drum, everyone was startled. Thus, with Bewegung ohne Bewegung for cello and ensemble by Jan van de Putte, opened the anniversary concert of the ensemble founded in 1979 by Wim Boerman. Last year,...
Échte schrijvers debuteren voor hun dertigste, zeggen sommige uitgevers, maar er zijn ook uitgevers – en auteurs – die zich niets van zulke conventies aantrekken. Gelukkig maar, want Niets is gelogen, het romandebuut van kunsthistorica Sacha Bronwasser (1968), tevens voormalig kunstrecensente van de Volkskrant, mag er zijn. Een boek waarin kunst, kijken en voelen een hoofdrol spelen. Rouwkaart Hoofdpersoon is…
This weekend, there was some fuss on Twitter. Something about a Nazi comparison that didn't quite work out. Now there is quite often a fuss on Twitter because of a Nazi comparison that doesn't quite work out, but this time it concerned one of our cultural figureheads. Kees Vlaardingerbroek, artistic director of the NTR Saturday matinee and former head of programming at the Rotterdam...
Some critics thought the opening performance of Festival Noorderzon in Groningen was so bad it made you cry. Others were less negative. Those certainly have a point. But then you have to look beyond what you are used to. When Bear, the hero of Noorderzon 2019's opening show, is imprisoned in a tower, he laments his fate through an eloquent yet sad...
That you cannot shamelessly treat a black man as a rutting primal beast and a faceless object for your unlimited lust fantasy as a white woman? Seems logical to me, but for Angélica Liddell, world-renowned performance artist, it is typical of the new puritanism that threatens free art. She now brings The Scarlet Letter to the Netherlands, a theatrical performance that is rather...
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...
As good and fluent as writing poems and songs was for him, everyday life fell on him with difficulty. Writer Willem Wilmink grew into a folk hero of Twente, but remained a child at heart, according to the biography by literary critic Elsbeth Etty. 'Someone who, according to his best friend Herman Finkers, couldn't even hold a pair of scissors.'
‘Ik werk vijf avonden in de week en dus moet ik speciaal uitzoeken wanneer ik naar een concert kan. Soms neem ik er vrij voor. En dan zeggen ze wel: “hé, ga je alweer naar een concert?”, en dan zeg ik: “Natuurlijk ga ik weer naar een concert”. Maar ik vind het ook niet extreem.’ Petra Gerritsen is proces expert…
‘Hoeveel werkelijkheden kunnen we aan? Voor mij is dat het thema van 2018. Die dames van Noord Korea die aan ’t juichen waren, bijvoorbeeld. Maar het zat ook in Halbe Zijlstra die had gelogen over de datsja van Poetin.’ Greg Nottrot, theatermaker uit Utrecht, had zich voor dit jaar voorgenomen een eindejaarsvoorstelling te maken die de tijdgeest goed zou vatten.…
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...
‘Bij cultuur gaat het om prikkelen, verbroederen, uitdagen. Dan is er geen verschil tussen corso en ballet.’ Aldus Thierry Aartsen op vrijdag 16 november in de Volkskrant. Thierry wie? Thierry Aartsen, degene die de komende maanden het woord voert over cultuur bij de VVD. De komende maanden? Ja, want VVD cultuurwoordvoerders worden meestal voor één of twee debatten aangesteld, waarna…
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