De Frans-Oostenrijkse theatermaker Gisèle Vienne (1976) en de Japanse componist Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952) zijn benoemd tot associate artists voor het Holland Festival in 2021.
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...
Het Holland Festival van 2019 was het beste in decennia. In ieder geval in de 25 jaar die ik er bewust van mee heb gekregen kan ik mij geen nationaal festival herinneren dat zoveel impact koppelde aan zoveel prestige. Of bezoekerstargets al of niet gehaald zijn, zal me daarbij een zorg zijn. Het is, zoals Volkskrant-collega Hein Janssen ooit opmerkte,…
'I think they understood.' Faustin Linyekula says it, very quietly, a little apologetically almost, to his fellow actor at the end of the performance Congo. A slightly relieved laugh can be heard in the main auditorium of Frascati, where Princess Beatrix is also seated. Shortly before, Daddy Moanda Kamono had erupted in an increasingly desperate tirade against our shared past....
If a Nobel Prize for brilliant innovative festival ideas is established, the first may be awarded to whoever came up with the solution to 'the festival conversation' yesterday. You know, that ever-necessary conversation with the important guest or guests. At a table. On chairs. On television, such a setting is already problematic, live in a theatre usually lethal. A currently anonymous...
Hlengiwe Lushaba, onthoud die naam. Deze Zuid Afrikaanse zangeres zingt de stoeptegels uit de straat tijdens Sur les traces de Dinozord. Ze doet dat met een stem die van gruizig falset naar full Wagner sopraan gaat, al zal die term me wel weer kwalijk genomen worden door klassieke scherpslijpers. Maar wat zou het? Hlengiwe Lushaba zal het weinig uitmaken, want…
De grond onder je voeten is heilig. Het is, in deze tijden van linkse identiteitspolitiek en opkomend rechts blut und boden denken, een best riskante opmerking, maar Faustin Linyekula gebruikte hem toch, in een antwoord op een vraag uit het publiek. Die vraag ging over de noodzaak, om je eigen plekje te verdedigen in een steeds verder globaliserende wereld. Want…
The Bijlmermeerpolder is still known as a district where you don't go unless something or someone forces you to. A stigma the apartment neighbourhood acquired in the 1980s when it served as a drain on society. And still its reputation is bad. A single incident of violence keeps damaging the entire district, though that is...
Djino Alolo Sabin (1990) sits there, relaxed, in the morning at the hotel in Brussels. The night before, he has danced his solo Piki Piki for the first time, which will also be shown at Theater Frascati during the Holland Festival. The performance touches on many intense themes, but is anything but melodramatic. Rather, it expresses a relentless optimism....
'Aid workers come to my city to leave again. I come there to stay.' You cannot get Faustin Linyekula any more concise. 'Aid workers do not create a bond with the people they want to help. Their work is gone as soon as they leave. I don't come to help, but because I want to be there. If that makes me a few...
'Please stop the show!", shouted an 83-year-old former reviewer from the back row. Theatre Frascati fell silent for a moment. There had never really been such an interruption at the Holland Festival's traditionally festive press conference. And that while Faustin Linyekula had just got into his stride, telling about the projects he is carrying out with his Studio Kanako in Kisangani. They provided...
William Kentridge en Faustin Linyekula. Onthoud die namen, als je niet al kende, want ze gaan het komende jaar het gezicht van Nederland mede bepalen. Ze zijn door het Holland Festival aangesteld als ‘associate artist’. Hiermee zet het festival het fenomeen ‘artistiek leider’ buiten de deur. Een noodzakelijke keuze in een tijd waarin de prijs voor dat soort figuren sneller…
The 1923 Afro-Cubist dance classic can be seen at Music Theatre today and tomorrow, commented on by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula. "Europeans have no idea that they are denying the shared history of Africa and Europe. Belgium is part of everyday life in Congo, but Belgians hardly know anything about Congo, or it is the clichés about poverty
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