Dance artist Amos Ben-Tal and songwriter Spinvis put together an intriguing talk show. And it does not go at all as you expect. Because what happens when you get a very Dutch songwriter and an Israeli choreographer with a ballet past to produce a joint performance? Right. The talk show The light in the room stays on. We the audience, are a talk show audience. Also on stage are...
Barry Jenkins, the fast-up director of the Oscar-nominated discovery Moonlight gave a master class in Rotterdam. On finding your voice and an intuitive way of filmmaking.
‘Veel mensen vinden hedendaagse dans moeilijk. Vooral voorstellingen van jonge makers die experimenteren en nieuwe wegen zoeken. Op het Moving Futures festival kan iedereen ontdekken hoe dans je kan raken. We doen dit niet alleen door goede voorstellingen van jonge makers te laten zien. We bieden ook activiteiten eromheen, contextprogramma’s. Daarmee geven we het publiek handvatten om een verbinding te leggen met…
Parallax Views is the overarching theme of the 46th Rotterdam Film Festival. Be persuaded to look with new eyes. Director Bero Beyer, who took office in 2015, on his second festival.
‘Op scholen moet je kinderen literatuur voeren zoals ze in Frankrijk ganzen voeren.’ Met zijn snedige opmerkingen kreeg Tommy Wieringa de lachers op zijn hand, terwijl hij als de personificatie van Nederland op de sofa lag bij hoogleraar psychiatrie Damiaan Denys. ‘Nederland op de sofa’ was een van de eerste programma’s van de zaterdagavond van het literaire festival Winternachten in…
During the Winternachten festival this Saturday, seven writers shared their story about their ‘Secret City’. Mircea Cartarescu, Rodigro Hasbún, Hanna Bervoets, Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas, Olga Grjasnowa, Maarten van der Graaff and Salena Godden wrote about the city they don’t see when they walk out the door, but encounter once in a while, suddenly, unexpectedly. They wrote fiction, or stayed closer…
In 'My Secret City' on Saturday at the Winternachten festival, seven writers recited a story about 'their own hidden city': Mircea Cartarescu, Rodigro Hasbún, Hanna Bervoets, Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas, Olga Grjasnowa, Maarten van der Graaff and Salena Godden wrote about the city they don't see when they walk out the door, but encounter occasionally and unexpectedly. In fiction,...
Of het einde van het communisme en begin van het kapitalisme zijn schrijven heeft beïnvloed? Mircea Cartarescu, een van de grootste schrijvers van Roemenië, pareerde de vraag met een grapje. ‘Dat is een veel te kleine gebeurtenis om mijn stijl en romans te veranderen.’ Is this the real life? Dat is het thema van het literaire festival Winternachten van dit…
It was a beautiful and disarming lecture by Australian-Dutch writer Michel Faber, yesterday at the Friday Night Unlimited of the literary festival Winternachten, in his hometown The Hague. His lecture was on 'Fiction in times of fake'. 'Before I start making lofty statements about literature and what literature is capable of in today's world, I want to be open with...
Kids are in the front seat this year. Director Rebecca Matthews and programme director Juliana Engberg have said so themselves (see here and here). Children have a creativity and spontaneity that adults could learn from, and that deserves its own place in the year that Aarhus is European Capital of Culture. Or: in Aarhus 2017, as the 'locals' say. Children also deserve a...
Writers Unlimited could hardly have chosen a more appropriate theme for this year's literary festival Winternachten: Is this the real life? That question will be on many a mind when the new president of the United States is inaugurated on Friday. Fortunately, some eighty writers who do have something meaningful to say about the state of...
Dissatisfied with the city's art policy, visual artists are leaving Amersfoort. Not physically, but with their work. In the coming year, they will exhibit together in numerous places in the Netherlands. They largely leave their own hometown behind. They have little faith in the municipality's newly developed cultural vision. Why? You can read about that below. And also that their own...
Bart Rutten becomes the new artistic director of Utrecht's Centraal Museum Bart Who? Bart quite an important figure. Bart Rutten was the man behind some great blockbusters at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. That he is going to Utrecht after Malevich and Matisse says a lot about the good work of his predecessor Edwin Jacobs. It says even more...
De Nederlandse filmbranche maakte de jaarcijfers bekend. 2016 was een topjaar, gemeten naar het opnieuw gestegen aantal bioscoopbezoekers. De best bezochte film was Bridget Jones’s Baby. Maar het marktaandeel van de Nederlandse films dook naar een dieptepunt.
Johan Gijsen has been elected Utrechter of the Year. The organiser of the Le Guess Who? Festival succeeds FC Utrecht owner Frans van Seumeren (2015) and athlete Dafne Schippers (2014). The election for Utrechter van het Jaar was held by the AD Utrechts Nieuwsblad. Six columnists selected ten nominees who could be voted for. Gijsen founded Le Guess Who? in 2007....
It's quite unfortunate. Ruth Mackenzie is moving into even higher realms. She has made the past two editions of the Holland Festival considerably more refreshed and modern, and so it stands out. Paris beckons. Ruth Mackenzie has been nominated by Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, as Directrice Artistique (artistic director) of Théâtre du Châtelet, as of 2019. This means Ruth Mackenzie will direct the festival's...
The five nominees for the CCD Award 2017 are Hamlet by ZEP Theater Productions, Festival Mundial, Ongekend Bijzonder Festival 2016, Project Old Skool by Stichting Gebouw 52 and the Van Abbemuseum. The public can cast their votes from now until 18 January 2017 via this link. The jury will take the public vote into consideration. The prize of €5,000 will be...
Towards the end of the year, we are inundated with lists. The best CDs, the best books, the performances you shouldn't have missed, etcetera. In this sea of choices from reviewers and other opinion makers, one post stands out, from opera critic Olivier Keegel. He started a veritable petition to prevent Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Aus Licht' from being performed in June 2019,...
Five art experiences will always stick to this bizarre year for me. And one thing really scared me. Whether the worst is now behind us? At least the most extraordinary is still on view until 5 February 2017. A chronological overview of what was unbelievable, unthinkable, inconceivable, unbelievable and perhaps untrue. Much of it, by the way, will be in 2017...
In contemporary dance, artistic leaders are often in place for decades, at least in the Netherlands. This week, Leo Spreksel announced his departure from Korzo, as of September 2017. After 29 years, the director and programmer of dance at the theatre and production house in The Hague is calling it a day, because "in the Netherlands, commercialisation is pushing away the voice of artists: procedures and formats are...
Chris Keulemans visited the 5D InHuis Festival and was deeply impressed by what people with disabilities managed to achieve in theatre. Here is his report, for under the Christmas tree. About humour without pity, and totally unexpected displays of muscle. - Was Thomas born that way? - Well, I don't think he cut his legs himself... The jokers...
On 20 December, the general membership meeting of Coöperatief Cultureel Persbureau unanimously decided to accept a cooperation offer from The Co-operative/House of Journalism and Reporters Online. This is an important step in the development of independent cultural journalism. Culture Press, as the Cooperative Cultural Press Agency is known on the internet and social media, is growing significantly as a result. The...
Het Veem is a small but important theatre and unofficial production house overlooking the Houthavens in Amsterdam. The house has long been home to internationally operating contemporary performing arts. A place where the artist and his or her experimental work are still central. Since Anne Breure became director in 2014, it bears the addition House of Performance. With...
You instinctively flee from death, but in 'Have I been here before' choreographer Marie Goeminne actually brings death close. Not threatening, but close to your skin and hand in hand with life. She shows death and life in an intimate entanglement. Three dancers merge in a stream, concentrated and vulnerable, in which life arises,...
Ondanks de crisis in de podiumkunsten dwaalt er nog steeds veel jong talent door Nederland en omstreken. Zoveel dat bijhouden onmogelijk is. Wie kan immers alle festivals bezoeken, van festival Boulevard tot Noorderzon, van het Café Theaterfestival tot festival Cement en van het Amsterdam Fringe Festival tot het Zeeland Nazomerfestival? En dan ook nog precies die vier of vijf voorstellingen uit de…
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