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Festival

Extremalism BNM ICKamsterdam © Alwin Poiana

Usury and Zen - Greco and Scholten bet high with premiere Extremalism @Holland Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
4 June 201530 March 2022
10 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten rehearse their new performance Extremalism in Marseille. The two dance companies under their direction, ICKamsterdam and Ballet National de Marseille, have merged for this occasion: 30 dancers on stage, six authors and designers in the auditorium, and the crew of technicians is also made up of Amsterdamers and Marseillais. They are working together on the biggest production that Greco and...

Arabische vrouwen veroveren Eye

by Helen Westerik
3 June 20153 June 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Op 5 juni opent in Eye een bijzonder filmprogramma: Where do we go now? Arabische vrouwen achter de camera. Wie aan het Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika denkt, denkt wellicht aan conflicten en IS, misschien aan de oorsprong van de algebra, maar waarschijnlijk niet aan vrouwelijke filmmakers. Toch zijn zij flink in opkomst. Was in 1994 Les Silences du Palais van Moufida…

Opwindend luisteravontuur in Den Haag

by Brechtje Roos
2 June 201529 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Het eerste weekend van juni is er iets spannends te beleven in Den Haag. Voor avontuurlijk ingestelde mensen. Door avontuurlijk ingestelde mannen. Op een podium. Door musicerende mannen wel te verstaan. Mr. Cello Eén van die mannen zag ik ooit (ergens jaren negentig in Groningen) wild tekeer gaan op zijn instrument. Met een vrijwel kale strijkstok, ’n snaar missend, maar…

Holland Festival: 4 manieren om naar de toekomst te kijken

by Leo Bankersen
1 June 20151 June 2015
3 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Metropolis op Holland Festival: 4 manieren om naar de toekomst te kijken.

Turkish toppers play the roof off Carré: fresh wind through Holland Festival #hf2015

by Wijbrand Schaap
31 May 201529 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, MUSIC, SPECIALS

Stars, we don't really do that in the Netherlands. Our ground level does not allow diva behaviour. In our lowlands, you get a plus if you have stayed so nicely ordinary despite your success. Even if you stand in the Arena with your songs, like the Toppers, this weekend. How different it is in Istanbul. There, you are allowed to be shamelessly famous. Like.

The seven performances you must see this Holland Festival

by one of our members
30 May 20151 June 2015
6 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

As Big as the Sky I am looking forward to Arnoud Noordegraaf's new multimedia project, As Big as the Sky, with sets by Ai Wei Wei. Noordegraaf is a master at blurring the boundaries between film and reality. His music is elegant and appealing and serves the story. As Big as the Sky, op...

Carel Kraayenhof: 'Most people think I'm inside.'

by Ruben Brugman
30 May 201530 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, MUSIC

When you think of Carel Kraayenhof, you don't immediately think of a young squatter orating about Karl Marx in circle discussions. Yet protest resides in the musician, just like in the tango. This becomes apparent when the interview gets off to a brisk start.

Movie theatres get extra room online

by Leo Bankersen
29 May 201529 May 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Summer at home. Six film theatres are experimenting with an extra room online from 4 June. Here's how it works. Suppose you'd like to see Summer. The modest but atmospheric coming-of-age drama that earned Sigrid ten Napel a Golden Calf best actress nomination. About a summer in which, for a 16-year-old village girl, everything changes. But you are unlucky. Your favourite film theatre does show Summer, but just not on that night...

Holland Festival – Terug naar de toekomst met Metropolis

by Leo Bankersen
29 May 201530 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Tijdens het Holland Festival laat het theatergezelschap La Fura dels Baus ons met de interactieve voorstelling M.U.R.S. de stad van de toekomst ervaren. Bij wijze van ouverture heeft HF de film Metropolis geprogrammeerd, het magistrale dystopische visioen uit 1927 van Fritz Lang, dat terecht bekend werd als de moeder aller toekomstfilms. Iconische beelden, bijbelse invloeden, marxistische dialectiek en eigenlijk nog steeds verrassend modern. New York,…

Ritual dance around digital Calf: M.U.R.S. by Fura dels Baus at Holland Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
28 May 201529 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Visiting M.U.R.S. without the app on your smartphone is a challenge. The performance by the infamous Barcelona-based theatre collective is a commentary on how people are unwittingly becoming part of a SMART society run by international corporations via all sorts of gadgets. Are you in or out? Is there actually anything to choose? According to Jürgen Müller, one of the founders of...

City of the Blind is ethical research and sensory experience in one

by Hannah Roelofs
28 May 201529 May 2015
5 min read
THEATER

Een oude man struint met een transistorradiootje de ziekenzaal binnen. ‘Waar ben jij blind geworden?’ vragen de reeds aanwezige blinden de nieuwkomer. ‘In een museum’, antwoordt hij. Vervolgens ontspint zich een ontroerend gesprek over wat het laatste schilderij was dat hij zag en de mogelijkheden worden geprojecteerd op het flinterdunne doek dat het publiek scheidt van de ziekenzaal. Deze tot…

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Cemeteries actually want more theatre. Get used to it.

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201528 May 2015
6 min read
DANS

Last week, the planned dance performance Q61 Cemetery at a cemetery in Alkmaar caused a stir. After threats, it was cancelled. Still, we have to get used to theatre in the cemetery. Because it is changing. A reaction from a bereaved person and the cemetery manager. It was big news. And it started with summary proceedings. Relative Leen Spaans objected to a dance performance at...

How do you remove the negative sound around 'amateur art'?

by Henri Drost
28 May 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, THEATER

A tricky question, but Festival Havenwerk director Erik-Jan Post has an idea and likes to bad some sacred cows. About arts education. About the concept of 'amateur'. About how big you should want to be as a festival. 'We are much less a festival in the classic sense. Havenwerk is more of a meeting place, with the participants at the centre. This year, therefore, the entrance fees are...

Selectie Nederlands Theater Festival: een prachtlijst die nergens op slaat

by Henri Drost
24 May 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL

Een prachtlijst. Anders kan de officiële juryselectie van het Nederlands Theater Festival niet omschreven worden. Keurig opgedeeld in grotezaal- en kleinezaalproducties, met ook nog eens een mime- en een locatieproductie. Tegelijkertijd slaat de selectie helemaal nergens op. Want ja, het Theater Festival geeft toe dat het voornamelijk naar toneel kijkt. En zijn er immers niet allerhande prijzen voor opera, jeugdtheater,…

Q61-Cemetery

Dancing in the cemetery? Should be possible, thinks choreographer Ann Van den Broek

by Ruben Brugman
23 May 201525 May 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

It is a special year for Ann Van den Broek as she celebrates a 15-year anniversary as a choreographer. That the performance Q61 Cemetery of dance collective WArd/waRD would cause so much noise she probably did not foresee.

Kusuda photo Rob Hogeslag

Mysterious dance at Korzo and NDT's Spring Awakening

by Ruben Brugman
21 May 201521 May 2015
3 min read
DANS

It's dance, but not as we know it. That's the best way to describe Korzo and Nederlands Dans Theater's current edition of dance festival Spring Awakening. With two wonderful standouts, by choreographers Tom Weinberger and Kenzo Kusuda.

Tour de France with bow

by Thea Derks
19 May 201522 May 2015
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

For the sixth time in its history, the Tour de France will start in the Netherlands: on Saturday 4 July, the cyclists will start their three-week war of attrition under the Dom in Utrecht . A day earlier, the Britten Youth String Orchestra kicks off its own Tour de France, in home town Zwolle. In one week, the young musicians will give seven concerts in La...

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Sluit de wethouder op! 6 lessen van boekenfestival #City2Cities 2015

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 May 201530 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY

Alleen al vanwege het gebouw was literatuurfestival City2Cities een bezoek waard. Het Postkantoor op de Utrechtse Neude, in 1924 gebouwd als ode aan de vooruitgang in een stijl die het mooiste van de Amsterdamse School samenbracht, was immers al jaren dicht. Dus ook wie niet opgewonden raakt van Nick Cave en wie Michel Houellebecq een engerd vindt, had een reden…

Jens Hillje of the Gorki Theatre Berlin (Photo Wijbrand Schaap)

Play 'Nibelungen' debunks modern Europe at Holland Festival

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 May 20152 April 2022
12 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Berlin's Gorki Theatre won a prize this year: it was named the best theatre in the German language area by the German-language press. The company won the award partly because it employs many actors of immigrant origin. With its performance Der Untergang der Nibelungen, which can be seen in this year's Holland Festival, the group also thematises the...

The Impact of Art, fierce conclusion to three-day conference

by Helen Westerik
7 May 2015
6 min read
ACTUAL

How can you write about a three-day conference, part of which took place behind closed doors, the closing night of which looks very neat on vimeo, but where the tension in the room was palpable? With a completely open attitude and not much more background than an average newspaper reader, but with a firm belief in the power of the arts,...

La Re-sentida (Chile) charges against leftist church in Holland Festival 2015

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 May 20159 May 2015
4 min read
Holland Festival, THEATER

The 1970s have for some time been the target of what we shall conveniently call the up-and-coming generation. And so we are talking about the 1970s as the glory years of hippy-dom, the jubilant times of the left-wing church and everything else that, with today's knowledge, is dirty and dirty. They were the years when...

The five shows you must see in May

by Henri Drost
6 May 201529 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, DANS, OPERA, THEATER

Nederlandse Reisopera, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (opera), 1 mei t/m 6 juni Verpletterend debuut van regisseur Floris Visser bij de Nederlandse Reisopera. Hij toont geen eeuwenoude opera over een nog veel oudere mythe, maar legt de kern van Glucks opera bloot. Het resulteert in een hartverscheurende voorstelling over rouw en het onvermogen te accepteren dat je geliefde er niet meer is.…

Ryan Goslings meningsplijtende debuut Lost River – kunst of kitsch?

by Leo Bankersen
29 April 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

De meningen over Ryan Goslings regiedebuut Lost River lopen zeer uiteen.

A vital and pitiful procession: William Kentridge at EYE

by George Vermij
27 April 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, FILM, Holland Festival, OPERA

With its latest retrospective If We Ever Get To Heaven, EYE again convincingly and confidently presents itself as a museum that looks beyond film history. Previous exhibitions such as Expanded Cinema, which showcased visual artists working at the intersection of film and art, already demonstrated this. Now William Kentridge has been given the honour of...

Radikale kwetsbaarheid en luisteren met de ogen open – Vanrunxt enscèneert Morton Feldman

by Fransien van der Putt
15 April 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC

Festival Rumor 80, onregelmatig regelmatig in Utrecht op steeds drie verschillende locaties, toont aanstaande vrijdag in Theater Kikker het nieuwe werk van choreograaf Marc Vanrunxt: Real, So Real. Uitgangspunt is Three Voices, een compositie van Morton Feldman uit 1982. Een prachtige Vlaamse samenwerking van Kunst/Werk en ChampdAction. Danseres Marie De Corte en zangeres Els Mondelaers schitteren in Real, So Real. De…

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