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We are the forest. Christiane Jatahy achieves maximum impact at #HF16

There are countries in the world, where the boundaries between art disciplines are not as sharply drawn as they are here. The Holland Festival, under the new leadership of Ruth MacKenzie, is catching us up. She is bringing events here where the boundaries between visual art, performance, video, film and performing arts can no longer be drawn. Events that generate meaning in ways that are quite new to us, such as The Encounter, last week, and Gardens Speak, later this week.

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'The European is an orphan' - Milo Rau on The Dark Ages #HF16

Swiss playwright Milo Rau created a theatrical trilogy about the demise of the European ideal. The second part The Dark Ages is now at the Holland Festival. Rau combined his actors' painful, personal life stories with themes from the works of Chekhov, Shakespeare and the Greek tragedies. With a Freudian sauce: 'Countless people who are The Dark Ages have seen ask me: 'Milo, is something wrong with your father?'

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Secrets of Karbala: The Crusades in oriental light and glass marionettes #hf16

Hoe kun je een intens gecompliceerde geschiedenis herschrijven vanuit een ander perspectief? Door groteske glazen marionetten te gebruiken en geen acteurs. Deze revolutionaire vondst was op 8 juni te zien in het Holland Festival, en is daar 9 juni nog mee te maken. De Egyptische kunstenaar Wael Shawky neemt ons in die film mee naar vervlogen eeuwen en toont ons… 

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Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

Champagne at BAK in Utrecht, deep disappointment at The New Institute in Rotterdam: the Council for Culture has spoken. Today, Thursday 19 May 2016, the first advice after the draconian art cuts by the first Rutte cabinet came out, and heads are rolling. Amsterdam loses prestigious presentation institution De Appel, in The Hague fellow institution Stroom has to redo its homework. The Orkest van het Oosten and the Gelders Orkest have to come up with merger plans within two years. In Utrecht, the city company Theater Utrecht will no longer receive funding despite artistic appreciation. Het Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven Tilburg must make new plans and Opera Zuid must quickly raise its artistic quality. These are the main conclusions of the Culture Council's opinion.

As dramatic as some of this may sound, the advice is actually not, when you look over the whole battlefield. Thanks in part to

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This was Something Raw 2016: less rebellious, more social

The raw in Something Raw can mean all sorts of things. The first thought might be something rough, as in the effect of sandpaper on skin or the havoc left by an elephant in the china shop. But rough is a derivative meaning. Raw first of all means unprocessed and fresh. There is a certain hope in the combination of rough and raw: artists who like... 

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Contemporary trends in theatre and performance at Something Raw Festival 2016

Three mongols playing Mongols. Dschingis Khan, the opening performance of Something Raw, is provocative and consequential. With this performance by German theatre collective Monstertruck, or the also Berlin-based Man Power Mix by Sheena Mcgrandles and Zinzi Buchanan, the festival Something Raw lives up to its name. Something Raw is a festival in which Amsterdam theatres Frascati, De Brakke... 

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Loïc Perela and Jan Martens: As a spectator, you are finally faced with a question again

Zoals ik in mijn eerdere artikel over de Nederlandse Dansdagen schreef, won choreograaf Loïc Perela dit jaar de Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht. Het leverde hem 12.000 euro op om in zijn nieuwe project HASHTAG te steken. De toekenning van de prijs heeft sommige eerdere winnaars op weg geholpen (Monique Duurvoort, Joost Vrouenraets, Erik Kaiel, Muhanad Rasheed, Joeri Dubbe,… 

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Liesbeth Gritter maakt ‘doorgecomponeerde’ popmusical op basis van Top 2000

“It’s all right.” in hoeveel liedjes van de Top 2000 komt die zin voor? Te veel om op te noemen. Dan nu dus de opdracht al die verschillende “It’s allright”’s te zingen in de melodie waarin elk publiek ze zal herkennen. De vier spelers in ‘Total Eclipse of The Heart’ van Theatergroep Kassys vullen op die manier een dik uur… 

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Brazilian Chekhov adaptation is sensual and oppressive at the same time #HF15

Had Anton Chekhov lived now, he would have written for television. Not drama, and certainly not film. Indeed, innovative as the great Russian playwright was during his short life (1860-1904), he would now have done something with selfie sticks and contact microphones. The result would probably have been something like what Brazilian artist Christiane Jatahy has now created. She took the text... 

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The Great War Machine and Swamp Club: contemporary activist theatre

In early March, The Great War Machine, the new play by director Joachim Robbrecht, premiered at Theater Frascati. A week earlier, at the Rotterdam Schouwburg Swamp Club to be seen, by French director Philippe Quesne. Both performances address the current political climate. Whereas Swamp Club is explicitly silent about the world it calls into question, The Great War Machine is instead a rhetorical spectacle, constructed from quotes from TEDtalks. Both performances make mechanisms felt, rather than pointing out culprits. Voluntarily withdrawing or being shut out, the neoliberal order does not seem to allow much more choice. There is no question of resistance.

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Don't miss it. PIPS:lab brings the future into the theatre

The Netherlands is one of the few countries where Science Fiction plays no role in mainstream media, let alone in the arts. If we look upwards at all, it is through Govert Schilling's disarming Duplo bricks, or Vincent Icke's mildly ironic commentary in DWDD. Or turning 'Mission Earth', a failing soap opera with bickering comedians, into... 

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Super-sympathieke voorstelling van Phillipe Quesne: Next Day

De kinderen stellen zich één voor één voor. Ze bouwen sets, maken muziek en spelen scènes. Er is een catastrophe op handen. Ze speculeren losjes: word het een nucleaire of biologische aanval, een vliegtuig of een raket, een tsunami of een bombardement? In Next Day, afgelopen weekend bij Theater Frascati te zien, oefenen zij op een aanval van ‘aliens’. Dat… 

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Vragen, verstilling en verzet: het nieuwe Echo en eerder werk van choreografe Nicole Beutler op tournee door Nederland

5:Echo, de meest recente productie van choreografe Nicole Beutler, is een curieuze voorstelling. Alle aandacht gaat uit naar twee fameuze pioniers van de Nederlandse dans in de jaren 60 en 70: Ellen Edinoff en Bianca van Dillen. Toch laat Echo vooral zien hoe onmogelijk (en misschien ook wel onwenselijk) het is om vergane glorie te willen doen herleven. Danseres Kelly… 

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Meppelgate! (2): in Meppel wonen is ook een keuze.

Je kon erop wachten. Meppelgate. Marieke Heebink, topactrice bij Toneelgroep Amsterdam, had de euvele moed om in de krant te zeggen dat ze blij is in een uitverkocht ‘Angels in America’ in New York te staan. “Godzijdank hoef ik niet naar Meppel” zegt ze. Aj. Aj. Hoe durft ze! Dat levert gegarandeerd boze reacties op. En niet alleen uit Meppel.… 

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Wat doet kunst met je hersens? Mark Mieras legt het uit in 4 zinnen, donderdag meer op Radio Futura

Je moet echt een hardcore debatliefhebber zijn om vrijwillig naar een gesprek over educatie te willen luisteren. Toch wordt de uitzending van Radio Futura deze donderdag interessant, want het gaat over Radicale Educatie en hersenen. Hersenen zijn hot, dankzij Dick Swaab en inzichten uit brain based teaching.

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Waarom je drie weken lang naar Radio Futura moet luisteren

Het barst los tijdens het Nederlands Theater Festival en gaat nog langer door. Frascati 4 wordt drie weken lang geannexeerd door de liveradioshow Radio Futura – De Stem van de Toekomst. Eén van de Radio Futuristas, Heske van den Ende, legt hieronder even uit waarom je ook vooral online moet meeluisteren.

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4 oude koeien in eeuwige Amsterdamse theateroorlog oorzaak Daamens oekaze?

Hoe kan een doorgaans heel gewone, aimabele theaterdirecteur opeens naar buiten komen met de mededeling dat een paar orkesten weg kunnen en het Nationale Ballet moet worden geoutsourced? Wij vroegen ons dat af en togen gisteren naar de parkeergarage bij het Concertgebouw.

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Boukje Schweigman's wordless philosophy

Even before she graduated from mime school, Boukje Schweigman swore off language. She worked out a wordless philosophy in her performances. She seeks the mystery of life. However vast and elusive her starting points may be, her performances give the audience the most direct, immediate, skin-tight sensation imaginable in a theatre.

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The Pyre: strakke, ontregelende voorstelling van Gisele Vienne @HollandFestival

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Wie aan de misvatting lijdt dat dans gaat over schoonheid wordt door Gisele Vienne genadeloos uit de droom geholpen. Haar stukken gaan over pijn. Soms bloederig en expliciet, soms gesublimeerd maar niet minder krachtig. The Pyre is een overweldigend stuk dat de toeschouwer duizelig achterlaat.

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Marie on a string: Anja Röttgerkamp stars as an unknown soldier in Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre @HollandFestival

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'The Pyre', the latest show from internationally rising star Gisèle Vienne, initially seems less disturbing than her previous work. Pieces like 'Jerk' (2008), based on the true story of a young serial killer, and 'This is how you will disappear' (2010), starring a dark forest, were only seen in a few places in the Netherlands. Hopefully, this performance at the Holland Festival will change that. Gisèle Vienne once studied harp, then philosophy and eventually trained as a puppeteer. But Vienne sees herself primarily as a visual artist working with time, on a stage, where different rhythms, motifs and figures come together.

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Chilean IK generation seeks revolutionary art at @hollandfestival

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Six actors, four years in a bunker. One is dead. Those are the details we have to make do with in Tratando de hacer una obra que cambie el mundo. According to this title, the actors are trying to create a play that will change the world. The characters have locked themselves away in an underground bunker and receive occasional provisions via a packet.

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