dries verhoeven

TOBIAS KOKKELMANS NEW DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR NEDERLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL AND AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL

by one of our members
19 August 2021
3 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, SERVICE

Today, the Supervisory Board announced that Tobias Kokkelmans has been appointed as the new director/manager of Stichting de Theaterdagen, organiser of the Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NTFJong and the in-depth platform for professionals NTF-Pro, as of 1 September. In doing so, he succeeds Jeffrey Meulman, who in May this year left the Foundation after sixteen years for the Verkadefabriek....

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'Sender Boulevard': Intimate and grand. A successful exercise in getting closer.

by one of our members
September 3, 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Boulevard, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', the organisers of Theatre Festival Boulevard signed up for six weeks of live encounters in 's-Hertogenbosch. More than 40 different projects delivered an extraordinary variety of performances, performances and installations. Based on the theme 'Nader de ander' (Closer to the other), Boulevard more than ever entered into dialogue with makers and audience, which led to an intense dialogue with results.

'Sender Boulevard': a small-scale summer programme of theatre and more, from the makers of Boulevard

by one of our members
25 June 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Boulevard, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', 25 performances, performances and installations are popping up in 's-Hertogenbosch this summer, especially in the second week of August. Their shared motto is 'Approach the other'. Because after months of isolation, appropriate distance and avoidance, the desire to get [a little] closer glows. Boulevard celebrates the resilience of makers and audiences in 2020 with a programme...

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The Netherlands' Flemishest festival. Theatre festival Boulevard sees artists searching for a way forward

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 July 201919 August 2019
4 min read
Boulevard, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

'As programmers, we are more often in Ghent than in Amsterdam,' says Viktorien van Hulst, director of Theatre Festival Boulevard. The Bossche arts festival, which this year takes place from 1 to 11 August under the Sint Jan and at unexpected locations around the North Brabant capital, has for years stood out for its close ties with our southern neighbours. 'The Dionysian artists are sitting...

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Geenstijl falls for hasty provocation by Dries Verhoeven.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 May 201823 May 2018
3 min read
Architecture, IMAGING

Geenstijl.nl, the website once founded to celebrate free speech in all its manifestations, has discovered something. Well - it wasn't that complicated to discover, as the centre of Utrecht is rather difficult to get around. But so it is about Dries Verhoeven's construction site, one of the manifestations of the otherwise often rather inconspicuous...

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Rainer Hofmann (SPRING): 'After the populist attack from the right, the performing arts now face an attack from the left.'

by Fransien van der Putt
16 May 201819 August 2019
9 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Thursday 17 May opens SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht with, among others, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi by Dries Verhoeven and to come (extended) by Mette Ingvartsen. Over ten days, more than twenty-five international dance and theatre productions, installations and performance works will be on show in public spaces and urban environments. A week earlier, festival director Rainer Hofmann looks relaxed. 'Until now...

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Alain Platel sets all of Carré on edge with overwhelming Nicht Schlafen #HF17

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 June 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, SPECIALS

The plofnies came totally unexpectedly. The family father behind me, out with wife and presumably reluctant adolescent son, burst out after about 10 minutes into the performance. Just when a deafening silence had descended over the sold-out Theatre Carré. At least four people, including myself, were shocked to the core. A sneeze had never been this loud before, but as quiet as during...

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Dries Verhoeven's Phobiarama is a pointless machine #HF17

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 June 20177 October 2017
4 min read
Holland Festival, PREMIUM, SPECIALS, THEATER

I went to Amsterdam to face my social anxieties on the once infamous Mercatorplein. I saw a sunny square with a trendy bar and bakfiets mothers around a play fountain for white children (brrrr! gentrification), old veiled and un veiled women chatting on a bench (help! multiculture) and a performance in a converted bumper car tent (Waaaah! Holland Festival). What I didn't...

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Grindr experiment in Berlin discontinued. Artist meets boundaries 'theatre of experience'

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 October 20142 April 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Forty roofless hotel rooms, and then hearing your own story back as you see yourself reflected in the distant ceiling. Or: walking behind a guide through the Lombok district of Utrecht, while being provided with an overload of extra information on your headphones. About your guide. Or not. About yourself. Welcome to the universe of Dries Verhoeven, since a small...

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8 enticing words about Festival Boulevard.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 August 201430 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Boulevard, DANS, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

It is the most ambitious summer festival in the Netherlands: Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch aims to showcase not only the finest theatre theatre theatre in the low countries, but also the fattest shows, and youngest new creators and the merriest bus drivers. And all that in 10 days, in once tad where the local newspaper does its best to promote culture as scary as possible to make. We briefly summarise it for you in eight enticing words.

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‘De uitvaart’ zorgt voor commotie rondom Willibrorduskerk, maar breekt lans voor katholieke kerk en haar rituelen

by Madeleine Red
20 May 201430 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

De commotie die is ontstaan door de voorstellingenreeks ‘De uitvaart’ in de St. Willibrorduskerk in Utrecht had niemand voorzien, laat staan gewild. Het apostolaat van de St. Willibrorduskerk vindt dat de kerk ‘ontheiligd’ is en wil er geen missen meer houden, nu Dries Verhoeven daar met hulp van Sens Uitvaarten tien avonden lang ‘De uitvaart’ opvoert. Het zijn theatrale uitvaartmissen, waarmee hij onder meer de verzorgingsstaat en het maatschappelijk draagvlak voor de kunst ten grave heeft gedragen. Maar iemand hiermee kwetsen was nooit zijn intentie geweest: ‘’Als ik de provocatie al op zoek in het project, dan is dat die met de toeschouwer.’’

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Art breaks the rut of Hoog Catharijne in Call of the Mall

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 June 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

You don't really give it much thought, how weird standing still in a shopping centre like Hoog Catharijne is. At least: if you are not standing still with your head towards a shop window or your fingers in a bowl of fast food. The code for glancing around a shopping mall is so common that it takes some getting used to even for yourself when something forces you to suddenly

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#HF11: There is an old crippled domestic servant haunting the Zuidas

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Firs is his name. And he always arrives late. Because of the gout. Poor houseboy. Firs was created by Anton Chekhov. His masterpiece The Cherry Garden is about the boredom and lameness of the old rich, and Firs is the house servant who sees it all happening. Chekhov lets him die, at the end, when the departing house owners totally forget about him...

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