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Festival

Zelfs verstilde Ivo Dimchev maakt razende indruk met “I-on” tijdens openingsavond Springdance Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
20 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

Ivo Dimchev is als performer zo snel en wreed in zijn schakelingen tussen botte bravoure, kinderlijke lol, erotische impertinenties en snijdende eenzaamheid, dat je er als toeschouwer normaliter niet meer tussen komt. Zodra Dimchev zijn publiek in de klauwen heeft, kan het hem alleen nog verbijsterd volgen. “I-on” is opnieuw een ogenschijnlijk losse verzameling acties. Alles speelt zich af rond een…

Opening Springdance explores the two extremes of what the festival has to offer

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 April 201230 March 2022
2 min read
SPECIALS

Experts in particular were upset with the official opening performance of Springdance 2012. "The Rodin Project" by Russel Maliphant was special for that reason alone. Rarely has there been so much talk about an opening performance, especially since it is also Springdance's last opening performance. The 30-year-old festival of innovative dance and performance is ceasing to exist. Partly due to pressure from subsidy cuts from...

Een scène uit ''The Rodin Project'' van Russell Maliphant.

Maliphant neemt Rodin als rijke inspiratiebron voor dans, maar maakt teleurstellende opening voor laatste Springdance Festival

by Maarten Baanders
20 April 201230 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Het festival opent teleurstellend met ‘The Rodin Project’. De beeldhouwer Rodin mag dan een uitdagende keuze zijn, helaas beperkt choreograaf Russell Maliphant zich tot het imiteren van sfeer en uiterlijke plaatjes. Rodin werkte vanuit een uitgesproken idee over materie. Hij was op zoek naar hoe vormen en bewegingen zich uit materie losmaken. Met zijn menselijke gestalten en hun gebaren liet…

The Cultural Press Bureau goes full on for ten days with The Dodo at Springdance

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS

It may be a crisis and the cultural winds may also be blowing from the wrong right corner, but that doesn't stop The Dodo from flying. The festival day newspaper we launched two years ago as a new commercial product is ready for another 10 days of Springdance. We're going to review a lot of performances, and compare even more. And we're going to make a journal. It...

'It felt a bit like the first time sex: way too direct, rushed, overactive and largely based on insecurity': Ivo Dimchev in battle with Franz West's wearable art

by Daniel Bertina
15 April 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

"What the fuck should I do with this?" was choreographer and performance artist Ivo Dimchev's (1976) first thought when confronted with the artworks of Austrian artist Franz West. After Dimchev's solo performance Some Faves (2010) in Vienna, West, a multi-awarded creator of bizarre sculptures and objects, sought contact with the choreographer. He asked him to make an improvised video based on his...

De Dodo gaat opnieuw Dappere Dansers in de gaten houden

by one of our members
29 March 201230 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, DANS

Dit jaar wordt Springdance voor het laatst gehouden. Na bijna 30 jaar werd het tijd voor iets nieuws, al was het alleen maar omdat de wind in Den Haag opeens van rechts komt en dat is bad for business. Als je tenminste vernieuwende kunst wilt laten zien. Daarom fuseert Springdance in de loop van dit jaar met het andere Utrechtse…

Wednesdays winner of Dutch competition Go Short

by Leo Bankersen
18 March 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Gisteravond zijn op festival Go Short in Nijmegen de prijzen voor beste korte films uitgereikt. Winnaar van de Nederlandse competitie is Woensdagen van Aaron Rookus, een kleine speelfilm waarin het zwaar beladen onderwerp van seksueel misbruik op de meest subtiele manier wordt benaderd. Woensdagen – foto: Robbie van Brussel Wat begint als een gevoelsmatig verbluffend goed getroffen impressie van het…

CineCrowd shows at short film festival Go Short that crowdfunding works

by Leo Bankersen
17 March 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

In the short Dutch film Ceci n'est pas un rêve, which premiered at the festival Go Short (Nijmegen, 14-18 March), the cityscape of Paris slowly transforms into a dreamscape. You could call it a surrealist documentary, in which filmmaker Amos Mulder has incorporated influences from early German film pioneer Walter Ruttmann as well as modern computer animation. With further...

Cultural merger fever could have serious consequences

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

In Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Theaterfestival, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and a few more clubs will 'work closely together'. In The Hague, this applies to Het Nationale Toneel and youth theatre house Stella Den Haag, while in Rotterdam

Free: Festival diary Writers Unlimited 2012

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

They were great days, the four days we reported on Writers Unlimited (v/h Winternachten) in The Hague. We saw a new self-confident generation of writers from Africa, experienced debates and - in the foyer of The Hague's Theater a/h Spui - played for VJ during the salsa dancing class. Daniël Bertina and Wijbrand Schaap did their best to attend as many...

Holland Festival: diary of the 2011 edition

by one of our members
27 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

On 28 February, Pierre Audi will present the programme of the 2012 Holland Festival at the City Theatre. As in 2010 and 2011, we will follow that festival closely with our online festival daily newspaper at www.dedodo.nl. That daily newspaper has now proven its right to exist, as more and more festivals want to collaborate with the Cultural Press Agency on this unique initiative. To the 'product-range'...

Ambitions City Promotion made Grenswerk hopeless.

by Henri Drost
22 February 20128 July 2016
5 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

Festival Grenswerk was told on Tuesday 21 February that it must stop after three successful years because it does not match the ambitions of Stichting Enschede Promotie. The festival set up in 2009 was given a thick set of demands by the alderman that it could not meet after a scathing report by this revamped VVV.

Cultural balderdash or snake pit Enschede?

by one of our members
21 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It looked like it was going to be something. With a church of huge Lego blocks and a programme that seemed to matter. But alas, Grenswerk, the festival that was supposed to bring the region around Enschede together, is no more. After three years. And it won't stop until 2013, like most art institutions, but already in 2012. Too much had to change for that to happen. The municipality suggested...

Berlin 2012 - Dutch debut Hemel wins Critics Award

by Leo Bankersen
18 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

De Nederlandse film Hemel is op het festival van Berlijn door de jury van internationale critici uitgekozen tot beste film in de Forum-sectie voor jonge cinema. Dat is een mooi succes voor regisseur Sacha Polak die met dit drama over een jonge vrouw die op zoek naar liefde het spoor is kwijtgeraakt haar eerste lange speelfilm aflevert. Hannah Hoekstra in…

Porn, movement and politics seek each other at festival Something Raw

by Fransien van der Putt
15 February 20128 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

For more than a decade, Something Raw has been one of the few places in the Netherlands where the question of artistic and social urgency of the body is explored on stage, with all the fun and risk involved. Many performances struggled with the 'impasse of display': have people then become mere things to look at? Porn is the...

5-hour marathon Roman Tragedies favourite with spectators Toneelgroep Amsterdam

by one of our members
14 February 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Foto: jan Versweyveld We waren er wat mild ironisch over, maar petje af, inmiddels voor de pr-afdeling van Toneelgroep Amsterdam en de toeschouwers, die opvallend goed reageerden op de ‘kies de reprise’-actie die het gezelschap een paar weken terug lanceerde. We hebben de harde cijfers die we vreesden nooit te zullen zien. En die zijn geloofwaardig. We citeren het persbericht:…

Berlin 2012: Finnish SF comedy and Nazi parody Iron Sky met with cheers

by Leo Bankersen
11 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Timo Vuorensola has done it to him. Perhaps reading the name of this Finnish director and music video maker does not light up a light yet, but then you do not belong to the extensive internet fan club that has been closely following the genesis of the potential cult hit Iron Sky for several years. Its world premiere at the Berlin festival is now the...

Berlin Film Festival opens with a messy Versailles

by Leo Bankersen
9 February 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The 62nd Berlinale opened tonight with Benoït Jacquot's Les adieux à la reine, a French costume piece that does not play by the rules. The dresses worn by Queen Marie Antoinette's servants get dirty and one of the main characters stumbles in her haste and passes out twice. As the film begins we write 14 July 1789, and the...

IFFR 2012 - Sobering report from Egypt hit with festival audience

by Leo Bankersen
1 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

That Martin Scorsese's mesmerising Hugo was number one in the audience rating for a while at the Rotterdam festival is not so surprising. What is surprising, however, is the film that emerged as number two yesterday and has now ousted Hugo from first place: the documentary Back to the Square in which filmmaker Petr Lom looks at how things stand in Egypt after the...

IFFR 2012 - A small miracle in 3D

by Leo Bankersen
29 January 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Last night, Rotterdam festival-goers in Pathé's Hall 4 witnessed a small miracle. Some film fragments from 1906 by the legendary Georges Méliès were now shown in stereoscopic 3D for the first time. So that you could, as it were, imagine yourself present on the set of this French pioneer who was the first to understand that cinema is not there...

41st International Film Festival Rotterdam opens with disturbing French drama 38 Témoins

by Leo Bankersen
25 January 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Compared to previous editions, you could almost call the choice of opening film that kicks off the Rotterdam Film Festival tonight almost un-Rotterdamian. No wild young debut, exotic Asian or artistic crossover this time. The French book adaptation 38 Témoins, which has its world premiere in Rotterdam tonight, is the seventh feature by Walloon actor/director Lucas Belvaux and has already been acquired...

Big plus for the writer who can also narrate #wu12

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 January 201229 March 2022
19 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Helon Habila Zijn stem is laag, en als hij praat, doet hij dat kalm en bedachtzaam. Zijn humor beschouwt hij – heel Brits – als een bijeffect dat er meer per ongeluk is, dan bedoeld. Helon Habila is daarmee een perfecte gast voor de openingsavond van Writers Unlimited, het Haagse literatuurfestival dat beter bekand is als ‘Winternachten’. De Nigeriaan kan…

Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

by one of our members
20 January 20128 July 2016
7 min read
SPECIALS

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's...

We will follow the world's writers into their hotel rooms

by one of our members
11 January 20128 July 2016
1 min read
SPECIALS

Writers Unlimited The Dodo is coming back to life. On 19 January already. Then we plunge into the Hague writer's life. The four-day festival Writers Unlimited, formerly known as Winternachten, but thus changed its name because of the weather (not, but nice joke) will have a real dodo, but then again differently. We will LIVE BLOG. That means we'll be there....

Small selection of great suffering for Christmas week

by one of our members
22 December 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, BECOME A MEMBER

There will definitely be no investigation into a corporatisation of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. According to the proposal, a council majority wants to have the opportunities to earn more money and save on expenses investigated. A political party earlier suggested that many more visitors and revenue could be brought in with a less elitist programme. At the Money Museum in Utrecht

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