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Blood-soaked Macbeth fits festival theme perfectly but fails to touch #HF12
Imagine Arjan Robben. The much-troubled frontman of the Dutch national team has just seen a brilliant move rewarded with a penalty and he is ready to take it. Up comes a field hand with a new set of adhesive letters for his shirt because the numbers are no longer legible from the stands. Lots of lashing, shirt off, seconds glue. Circumstances, in short. After two minutes, the fielder is gone, the number readable and the referee's whistle sounds. Then try to hit the target.
Waiting for Miss Monroe a feast for the mind. But with earplugs in. #hf12
Soon, Twitter brought an initial reaction to Waiting for Miss Monroe, Robin de Raaff's opera that had its world premiere at the Stadsschouwburg last night. @DavidMPinedo: What an atrocious opera Raaff's 'Waiting for Ms. Monroe' is. An atonal fart that has NOTHING musical. Just screaming. And a second. @sandraeik: Exciting world premiere Waiting for Miss Monroe - incredible performance by Laura Aiken as Monroe....
5-hour marathon Roman Tragedies favourite with spectators Toneelgroep Amsterdam
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:…
'Ajax states' in sudden war between Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and National Travel Opera
This week, the National Travel Opera begins rehearsals of Mozart's Le nozze di figaro. In the bin, the brand-new Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. Business as usual, as the two companies have been working closely together for years and are united in the National Music Quarter Enschede. Only: orchestra and opera company have not been talking to each other since last week.
Top or flop: audience picks repertoire first theatre company in the Netherlands
We got another press release, and wondered: top or flop? How does quirky artistry rhyme with audience-determined repertoire choice? Andne: do all those people who chose the winning piece also get a free-or at least discounted-ticket to the performance of their choice? Andne: who checks the results, as there is no notary. Enne:.
The Broadway visitor: lily-white, woman, loyal and well above the Balkenende norm
These are data that somehow do not make the press here, because they are about America, which is not in the Netherlands. Still, it is interesting to take a closer look at the composition of the audience on Broadway. After all, that is where, in the wet dreams of VVD/PVV celebrities like Bart @deliefde and @halbezijlstra, the future of...
One hundred and thirty thousand visitors for the Cultural Press Office in 2011. The bar for 2012 is high.
That frightens us quite a bit ourselves. We knew that the Cultural Press Agency was doing quite well, but we didn't really think a reach of more than 100,000 people was possible. After all, we had done nothing in the way of marketing. Just posting content and not giving away free tickets. And only once something with a bare female breast in it. Enfin....
Bare-bones news: Give Act turned from monstrosity into monster, Brabant short 30% on performing arts, North Beveland no longer buys art.
House amends gift deduction in cultural sector (...) A majority of the House wants to limit Cabinet plans for tax deductions in the cultural sector. At the same time, it should become more fiscally attractive to make donations to sports and music associations. VVD, CDA and PVV submitted amendment proposals to this effect to the Giving Act of state secretary Frans Weekers (Finance) on Tuesday. (...) The PVV felt that far too...
Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that
On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the...
Weekers (finance): 'No reason yet to reverse VAT increase' despite dramatic start to season
The story continues. Op 1 juli werd de BTW-verhoging van kracht, op 8 juli citeerde NRC Halbe Zijlstra dat ‘het niet de meest voldragen regeling’ van dit kabinet was, woorden die hij later nuanceerde tijdens kamervragen. Eind augustus kwam het Berenschot-rapport naar buiten met schrikbarende cijfers: de BTW-verhoging zou Nederland voornamelijk geld kosten in plaats van opleveren. Binnenhof TV Intussen werkten…
Letter Zijlstra is just a request for information. But it does include a tickable invitation to suicide
Has state secretary Halbe Zijlstra the Lower House lied or misled in June when he stated that rushing through the culture cuts was necessary to absorb friction costs? Or does it just turn out to be improper governance?
"1 billion loss? There are other figures." Halbe Zijlstra refers Berenschot report to trash.
At the end of August came the figures. And what figures they were. Due to the stacking of extreme cuts by government, provinces and municipalities, the abolition of the successful Work and Income for Artists Act and the equally successful culture card, plus the VAT increase on the arts, the Netherlands' cultural sector would end up missing out on €1 billion in revenue. Berenschot had estimated that in...
Budget note: We put together the cultural haircut percentages
Image via Wikipedia Laten we maar weer eens beginnen met de zoveelste slordigheid van het kabinet Rutte: die vermaledijde BTW-maatregel op de kunsten, die als enige naar het ‘normale’ tarief van 19% worden gebonjourd. VVD vindt het niks, CDA is er niet blij mee, maar omdat gedoogspecialist Martin Bosma ooit een keertje een rode paddenstoel moest spelen in het schooltoneelstuk…
Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future
Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with...
#HF11: We chat with Jeroen Stout, Daniël Bertina, Fransien vd Putt and Wijbrand Schaap.
In conclusion. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we had a great time with our new...
Ministry of OCW cuts a little more to truth than we already proved on Friday
Case in point: more people are against cuts than the ministry would have us believe. On page 32 of the now heavily controversial brochure 'Cultuur in Beeld', the ministry writes: "In the CDE, carried out at the end of 2010, citizens were asked to indicate from 17 policy fields whether they think the central government should spend (much) less or (much) more money on...
For the first time, a secretary of state openly lies and gets away with it. Or does he?
How bad is it really? A few lied lines in a Ministry of Education, Culture and Science booklet? Pretty bad. Because it's an outright lie, and a government that lies is not to be had. Because: how can you trust them anymore?
'Yay! Subsidy delivers more subsidy!' Flemish researchers lose themselves in figures on cultural subsidies
We could say something derogatory about Belgians and arithmetic, but we won't. Firstly, because the Belgians have disbanded themselves and, secondly, because there is nothing wrong with the Flemings' ability to calculate. At least, those Flemings who have calculated at the Flemish Theatre Institute how the subsidy money for the arts is spent. In Flanders. And it turns out that.
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