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Into the open: dancing on stage and in the auditorium

A dance concert with a standing audience promises to be something new. Because how often does it happen that in the audience, whipped up by music and dance, you have to sit on your hands. This sounds like the outcome! We get to watch and move ourselves to Krautrock, mixed with trance-like repetitive parts. Lisbeth Gruwez and Maarten van Cauwenberghe invite us... 

Louise LeCavaliers Stations is a dialogue with space and the limits of the body

Expectations are high for Stations, the latest work by dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier. She has been a household name in the dance world for decades, first as dancer and muse of Edouard Lockes La La La Human Steps, and since 2006 with her own Fou Glorieux. Her intensity and athletic abilities are impressive, she terrifies the limits of her body. Also. 

And the category is: shamanism

Voguing and religion in Yishun is Burning at Julidans Joke: A policeman from the US says he once got three armed drug dealers in handcuffs at the same time. A firefighter from England brags that he rescued 10 people from a burning flat. A Singaporean says he lives in Yishun. Everyone claps for the Singaporean. Yishun is the dystopian suburb... 

Dance history in action - Dance On Ensemble performs iconic works, with contemporary responses

That Julidans is experiencing a strong edition was actually already evident with the bold and delightful opening night. That performance invited you to think about what dance is. Making Dances - Dancing Replies makes you think about the same question, but in a very different way. Dance On Ensemble, the Berlin-based company with dancers over 40, performed works by... 

The bizarre world of Euripides Laskaridis - Julidans opens with guts

After a year of forced inactivity, Julidans kicked off yesterday under the slogan Never Stop Dancing. And so do the wondrous creatures that populate Elenit, the opening night in the hands of Euripides Laskaridis. His Elenit is a universe of grotesque and sometimes endearing characters held hostage by a huge windmill on stage. Against their will, they carry on, or... 

Cultural big earners: jump through your karma for once

My story about cultural big earners turned out to be the talk of the town in the cultural sector. Not publicly, i.e. mainly behind the scenes, I was approached. One of the few people who did speak out publicly was Henk Scholten. On Facebook, he responded to a column by journalist Aukje van Roessel about the questions raised by The Hague city council 

The true Picasso of ballet are Franck Chartier and Gabriela Carizzo

The true Picasso of ballet are Franck Chartier and Gabriela Carizzo

Amsterdam wordt weer verwend met Julidans, een internationaal festival volgeladen met indrukwekkende dans. Op de tweede festivalavond is Kind te zien van Peeping Tom. Het werk van dit Brusselse gezelschap is een fenomeen en ik ben er een fan van. Al sinds de danstrilogie bij NDT1: The missing door (2013), The lost room (2015), The hidden floor (2017) (recensies onder… 

Dancer disappears into black hole with 'From Molenbeek with Love'

You'd better live in Molenbeek. For years, tensions have reigned in this Brussels neighbourhood. The no-go area is even directly linked to the Paris and Brussels attacks. Relations among themselves will not be gentle there either. Dancer/choreographer Yassin Mrabtifi is from there. He must be a dented personality. When I read the cheerful title of his... 

Martine Dekker (Cinedans): 'The new generation does not respect the demarcation between the arts at all. That's very fun and interesting for a festival like Cinedans.'

Cinedans has been around since 2003. Back then, it was a single evening, part of Amsterdam's Julidans festival. Pretty soon, it grew into something bigger. According to Martine Dekker, involved with the festival since the 2011 edition, this was due to the overwhelming supply of dance films: 'From the second edition, filmmakers were invited to submit films,... 

Dit zijn de winnaars, verliezers en nieuwkomers in de Amsterdamse kunsten

Het wil nog niet vlotten met de diversiteit in de Amsterdamse kunstwereld. Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de kunst, dat vandaag zijn subsidietoekenningen bekend maakte, wordt er een beetje moe van: “In de meeste disciplines merken de commissies op dat de culturele diversiteit van publiek, personeel en bestuur tegenvalt, evenals de inspanningen om daar verandering in te brengen. Buiten de gespecialiseerde organisaties waarvoor culturele diversiteit een core business is, zijn de ambities nog altijd niet groot, twee decennia cultuurbeleid op dit gebied ten spijt. Zijn de ambities er wel, dan lukt het organisaties niet altijd om er handen en voeten aan te geven. Er lijkt vaak sprake van een bepaald ongemak of ‘niet weten hoe’.”

Om dan maar met het goede nieuws te beginnen: Marmoucha groeit 398 procent ten opzichte van de vorige subsidieronde. De hoofdstedelijke producent en promotor van podiumkunsten op het gebied van Noord-Afrikaanse en Midden-Oosterse kunst en cultuur in Nederland werd in 2013 nog fors gekort, maar het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst vond het werk van de afgelopen vier jaar zo goed, dat de subsidie dubbel en dwars is verdiend. In de nieuwe ronde toekenningen die op 1 augustus beken werd stijgen ze van 25.070 euro naar een ton, met de opmerking erbij dat ze wellicht niet zo ambitieus moeten zijn.

Tefer, Itamar Serussi, Balletto di Roma, foto: Matteo Carratoni

Julidans dubbelprogramma met Levi en Serussi roept vooral vragen op

Het is een nieuwe en belangrijke trend binnen de programmering van internationale dans- en performance festivals in Nederland: niet alleen relevant werk van internationale choreografen tonen, maar ook uitdrukkelijk aandacht besteden aan dansmakers verbonden met de Nederlandse danspraktijk. Spring Utrecht opende in mei met Nicole Beutler en sloot af met Jan Martens, terwijl tijdens Julidans Pere Faura de spits mocht afbijten met sin baile no hay paraíso (no dance, no paradise).

Dutch Dance Days show artistic challenge only on fringes of programme

The first weekend of October saw the Netherlands Dance Days (NDD) take place in Maastricht. As Ruben Brugman reported, important prizes for the dance world are awarded there. But the Dance Days seem mainly meant to promote Dutch dance, more than to be a critical evaluation or artistic boost. At the Dance Days, no pithy speech on the State of Dance as... 

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

Holland Festival

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.

Paradiso full of dance energy at I Like To Watch Too

I Like To Watch Too: abundance of performances shows that dance and performance are powerfully connected to modern society. The dance moves rain down on you even before you have entered Paradiso. Tim Boerlijst tap-dances on the pavement. This infectious welcome immediately draws visitors into the atmosphere of 'I Like To Watch Too'. This festival showcases dance and performance from... 

Eszter Salamon and Daniel Linehan gems of highly diverse Julidans

Holland Festival, Julidans, IT's, Over 't IJ. End-of-season theatre is always strewn across Amsterdam. Between April and September, international performance offerings migrate from Utrecht (Springdance and Festival aan de Werf) via Amsterdam to Rotterdam (Internationale Keuze). If you want to experience something of contemporary, international dance, Springdance, HF and Julidans are the places to be. [For... 

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