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30 appearances out of darkness by Arno Schuitemaker excites the senses

Upon entering the Transformatorhuis on Amsterdam's Westergasterrein, we are blinded by a row of bright lights on the floor. A low tone creates a kind of pleasant unease, a sound of possibility. Then the light goes out and we are in pitch darkness, red half-moons from staring into the lamps still burnt on our retinas. The tone persists... 

Benjamin Verdonck renews, for a moment, your view of the world. At Theatre Festival Boulevard #tfboulevard

One of the things that make Boulevard so special in the Dutch festival landscape is its generous focus on Belgian performances. Where Dutch theatres programme less and less work from across the southern borders, Boulevard continues to offer a stage to a large number of Belgian makers. Learning to live together This produces very varied work again this year. At the heart of the festival is... 

The NUT delivers splendour with Never Work Again.

On the day that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the world's Facebook, announced his launch to the 'Metaversum', in order to trounce his collegatechies Bezos, Musk and Branson, who had only had a little sniff of the Universe, I attended the performance 'Never work again' by the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel in Utrecht Leidsche Rijn. In these times of lockdown and... 

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Michiel Peeters (TivoliVredenburg) - We want to make visual art a more prominent part of our programme

Public space is dressed up with visualisation, music video and art in many places, including TivoliVredenburg. Either via projection mapping on buildings during events, or via LED panels in shop windows and abris, but also as digital art during performances and lobbies in theatres. In TivoliVredenburg, in the heart of Utrecht, they even create separate events for it. Canvas is a programme that... 

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Siety Boerhave • Of animatie tijdloos kan zijn en live-action niet, is een interessante vraag

Bij de de visualisatie van een leader worden vaak motion design en animatie gebruikt. Achter de schermen van televisieprogramma’s gaat veel werk ongezien voorbij. Wij bieden een kijkje in alles wat een programma maakt. Dit begint vaak bij een idee dat wordt uitgewerkt tot een concept. Televisievormgeving Iemand die erg goed is in het ontwikkelen van deze concepten is Siety… 

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... 

Literair festival ILFU schrijft verhalenwedstrijd uit voor álle vertelvormen – Van proza tot film, van muziek tot TikTok-filmpjes

ILFU (International Literary Festival Utrecht) schrijft voor de tweede keer een landelijke verhalenwedstrijd uit – waarin verhalen in alle mogelijke vormen welkom zijn. De ILFU Verhalenwedstrijd is de eerste interdisciplinaire verhalenwedstrijd van Nederland, georganiseerd vanuit de overtuiging dat goede verhalen in alle denkbare vormen verteld kunnen en moeten worden. Het thema van de wedstrijd van dit jaar is Wat ertoe… 

Louterend en ontroerend: The Planet, a lament van Garin Nugroho. #HF21

Sommige kunst begrijp je niet helemaal, maar raakt je diep. De films van Paradjanov bijvoorbeeld, of The Planet, a Lament van Garin Nugroho. Nugroho heeft ervoor gekozen om zijn voorstelling niet van boventitels te voorzien, zodat je rationele brein even op een zijspoor moet. Wat zingen ze, wat gebeurt er precies, waar gaat het over? Na een paar minuten ditzelfde… 

Between Past and Future. Frank Scheffer films a fruitful meeting between East and West #HF21

Saturday 26 June at the Holland Festival, a special evening around two music films by Frank Scheffer: the documentary Inner Landscape and the opera film Si Fan. Supplemented by a short live performance by Chinese musician Wu Wei. This will present a musical journey from the seventh-century Tang Dynasty to contemporary electronic music. An evening with unexpected perspectives.

Unheimlich and intriguing: Kindertotenlieder by Gisèle Vienne #HF21

Een jongen is te gast op zijn eigen begrafenis waar een black metal band een uitvaartconcert speelt. De moordenaar, zijn beste vriend, is er ook, samen met anonieme black metal fans. Het licht is hard, er ligt sneeuw op de grond. Rechts aan de zijkant van het toneel is een muurtje gebouwd met kratjes bier, links staat wat ik in… 

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The 38th Night of Poetry continues.

De Nacht is terug! Vorig jaar moesten we helaas overslaan vanwege de onoverzichtelijke corona-ontwikkelingen, maar dit jaar zal alsnog de 38ste editie van de illustere Nacht plaatsvinden. Voorlopig nog steeds in een aangepaste vorm, want groen licht om op 2 oktober alweer in een volle zaal te zitten is er op dit moment nog niet. Tijdens deze ‘limited edition’ in… 

Theatre festival Boulevard changed the DNA of Den Bosch, even the Netherlands

Whether we want to speak only of 's-Hertogenbosch from now on. Apparently, a last vestige of decency has bravely survived in the provincial capital of Brabant. Nazmiye Oral, master of ceremonies at a party at Den Bosch's citadel on 9 June, forgot right the first time. City marketers and old nobility fight hand in hand for a respected name to trump the vernacular.... 

INTIEME BRIEVEN

Vandaag moet ik schrijven over A.L. Snijders, de totaal eigenzinnige uitvinder van het Zeer Korte Verhaal. Ik bewonder zijn werk sinds ik het ontdekte via Vrijstaat Austerlitz (1997-1999), een literair tijdschrift dat slechts vier keer is verschenen. Dat zijn waarschijnlijk de beste literaire tijdschriften, hoe minder nummers ze beslaan hoe beter. Arjan Witte en Tommy Wieringa, twee van de oprichters… 

Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre

Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June... 

Choreographer Ernst Meisner: 'What works for me is an empty studio where I turn on the music at night and walk around for a hundred hours'

Choreographer Ernst Meisner (1982) is artistic coordinator of the Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company and artistic director of the National Ballet Academy. As a former dancer, he knows that you have to get out of the rehearsal studio, onto the stage. That's why he makes sure his dancers and dancers-in-training keep dancing in front of an audience as much as possible, even if the performances are online because of corona. 'I... 

Boze Geesten Podcast – Van Aktie Tomaat tot Cancel Culture met Gerardjan Rijnders

Gerardjan Rijnders wordt gezien als een van de grote theatervernieuwers van het Nederlandse theaterveld van de periode na 1969. Omdat hij als tiener persoonlijk betrokken raakte bij Aktie Tomaat en de Maagdenhuisbezetting is hij de ideale persoon om eens zijn licht te laten schijnen op de huidige emancipatoire ontwikkelingen binnen het theaterveld.  In het eerste deel van het gesprek praten we… 

Museum directors: is their role as figureheads and media artists becoming more important than as art history experts?

Dutch museums, partly due to the recent digital Museum Week, have been able to retain a large part of their audience. There is - reports the Museum Association on its website - a slight turnover though. And the hitherto loyal public will not find their way to museums automatically and to the same extent. But the picture is that the... 

Free producers have been saved, but some more than others; self-employed people seem especially solidary.

Is the government generous and generous for once, it's no good again. You could say that after I received questions from various quarters about the corona grant for free productions announced by the Performing Arts Fund last week. The amount in question is €27 million, for a total of 251 producers, so an average of a tonne per application. With that... 

Godfried Bomans: respectively loved, vilified, misunderstood and forgotten

Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture... 

Nerd podcast 9: How Wijbrand almost turned into an angry white man and Marijn underwent an exciting experiment.

Do we need a new language, and are we at the mercy of the thought police of the Diversity and Inclusion Code? Or is that no thought police, and is Wijbrand in danger of turning into an old angry white man? It remains exciting. So in this podcast, we talk about the 'Guide to inclusive language' for the cultural sector drafted by Mounir Samuel.... 

'Cherish this!': test festival in Biddinghuizen is purging fever dream for small crowd

Hundreds of people hosted, boozed and flirted in the Flevopolder this weekend. As of old, in fact. Were we witnessing a cautious advance for what awaits us later this year, or was the Back to Live experiment an ultra-short flare-up of a life that is far from within reach? Either way, some 3,000 people experienced a... 

‘Als je maar één iemand raakt, kan dat de wereld veranderen.’ “Wanhopige optimist” Adriaan van Dis schreef een boek vol vrolijke boosheid

Het is een fris en levendig boek, de nieuwe roman van Adriaan van Dis (74). Op de hem kenmerkende humoristische toon snijdt Van Dis in KliFi de grote thema’s van deze tijd aan: klimaatverandering, de vluchtelingencrisis, politiek populisme, (on)vrijheid. Als in de republiek Nederland een verpletterend warme zomer uitmondt in een orkaan en een dorp van vluchtelingen wordt weggevaagd, zwijgen… 

Municipalities cannot be trusted with culture money. Therefore, they should preferably get everything.

The most recent bulk of cultural rescue money was distributed to municipal councils without the obligation to actually spend that money on culture. Indeed, that so-called 'earmarking' was too cumbersome and time-consuming, according to now outgoing culture minister Ingrid van Engelshoven. (Malicious people suggest that this way Rutte and Wiebes were willing to cross the bridge, because the money would not... 

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