Indeed, you couldn't release this message on 1 April, because nobody would have believed it. But it is coming, then. Bowie, The Musical. But from the man himself. Sort of. Ivo van Hove, the boss of Toneelgroep Amsterdam who is now more famous in America and England than in the Netherlands, is going to direct Lazarus. That's a new...
With 'The oasis of Matisse', the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has put on a magnificent exhibition. Sixty years after there was last a major retrospective of Matisse in the Netherlands, his work is back on display in all its glory. So alongside 'Late Rembrandt' at the Rijksmuseum, there is another blockbuster in the capital. The thousands of visitors who attended the...
Komen Ivo en Jan in dit indrukwekkende rijtje? Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Joan Littlewood, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Harold Pinter, Peter Hall, Judi Dench, Alan Bennett, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Ayckbourn, Maggie Smith, Gillian Lynne en Michael Frayn. Allemaal grote namen van het Britse theater. Internationale beroemdheden, die allemaal een Olivier uitgereikt hebben gekregen, zeg maar de Britse…
To call the epic about America in the AIDS era a modern classic is an understatement. Since 1993, the play has been performed all over the world with great success. HBO turned it into a disappointing miniseries, Péter Eötvös a completely unsuccessful opera. Toneelgroep Amsterdam recently celebrated triumphs as far away as New York with a five-hour version stripped to the bone, partly prompting 'Meppel-gate'. Director Marcus Azzin has been waiting 20 years to give his vision of this theatrical epic, and at Oostpool he now gets the chance, with a cast that includes only top actors.
Jazzmusicus en docent Clark Terry overleed vorige maand. Jazzjournalist Jeroen de Valk blikt terug op een openhartig interview met een van de grootste trompettisten aller tijden. Pas op 21 februari viel hij stil, Clark Terry. Hij was 94 jaar en zat zeker 75 jaar in het muzikanten-vak. Ga maar na: hij verdiende zijn brood als trompettist als prille tiener en…
Ron Jagers has been providing playful commentary on culture in Amersfoort and elsewhere for 45 years. His latest find is the 'Prince Bernhard Fanclub'. But the 63-year-old absurdist and multi-artist also made a gripping book about East Berlin before the fall of the wall. 'hop, two-three-four!' He walks along in the Silent Fanfare, an orchestra that marches forward with much fuss
Hedendaags choreograaf Sibi Larbi wordt de nieuwe directeur van Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerpen. Een opvallende en onorthodoxe keuze. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker mag ondertussen wegblijven uit De Munt in Brussel. What’s up België?
Ingres, Cimabue, Memling, Tiepolo, Goya, Van Eyck, Constable. Purely top names in art history and works by many of them hardly hang in Dutch museums. But now they do. The Mauritshuis in The Hague is showing no fewer than 36 works from the famous Frick Collection in New York from 5 February. And that museum has never before lent so many art treasures. Therefore, the Mauritshuis has...
Nii Ayikwei Parks wants to write a book describing bad places in Africa as ideal, so that people who use his books as travel guides will be mugged and robbed and thus will learn what fiction is. With this humorous statement, the British-born and British-based writer, who spent his childhood with his Ghanaian parents in Ghana, brings some air into the evening...
The Official Nominations for the first Dance Photo of the Year election have been announced. From 43 entries, Hans van Manen (choreographer) and Thomas Cott (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) compiled a top six. We couldn't think of a better jury for a preselection. Now we are curious to hear your vote. The Dance Photo of the Year election puts dance photographers and their work in the spotlight. Because.
After the brutal attack on the staff of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday, journalists, cartoonists, politicians and the general public rallied worldwide to defend the freedom of speech. Many a front page of today’s newspapers showed the cartoons for which chief editor Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier) and 11 other were brutally murdered by Said and Cherif Kouachi,…
Art ends its 70th anniversary as a 'Leftist Hobby' in 2015. There is not much more to predict for this year. Art goes back to the bourgeois status it held since the start of the industrial revolution. 1: Art was never left Art, of course, has never been 'left'. Subsidy may have come from the thinking tubes of social and Christian democrats, but art an sich...
It's raining annual lists and we're merrily joining in. As subjective as anyone, after all, no one sees everything, and opinions on taste can always differ. Of course, also in this list many performances in or from the Randstad, but half of them were not yet shown there. And all genres mixed together. As long as it is theatre. With the only limitation: no repeats, apologies Ring and Lohengrin (DNO), St John Passion (NRO). And no dance, because for that our partner dance audience.
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.…
Wat heeft de grachtengordel toch tegen Drenthe? Nu weer Marieke Heebink. Het begon met Yvonne Kroonenberg die na een bezoek aan Assen sprak van “Simpele mensen met van die klassieke Drentse koppen, maar met uitdrukkingsloze ogen. Ik liep daar rond en probeerde die mensen te begrijpen, op dezelfde manier als dat ik me probeer te verdiepen in het geestelijk leven van dieren.” Daarna haastte Kroonenberg zich naar…
The Nobel Prize for literature and the Netherlands, it is an unhappy marriage. Not only is Nooteboom, after Mulisch, passed over time and again, on television it is also poor. Yes, on DWDD, people in their fifties trot out to sing the praises of Bob Dylan, but that's it. Of course, Dylan did not become the new laureate, nor the Haruki Murakami, also popular in our country, but the French writer Patrick Modiano.
A year ago, one of Holland's most legendary dancers died: Ellen Edinoff. She danced mainly in the 1960s and 1970s but there was always a hint of grandeur and mystery surrounding her and her husband, choreographer Koert Stuyf. Now a fund is being set up at the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund to support young dancers and creators of contemporary dance. 5 reasons why.
Wijbrand Schaap: 'The basic infrastructure was keelhauled by Zijlstra while it was not yet ripe. That, in its smaller version, now runs the risk of leading to further rigidity.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'That's a good observation. We are also working on that in our Culture Exploration. We are having a lot of discussions, which we are also taking out into the country. We are starting...
By Melle Daamen 'What do you want then?' was a question I received quite often in response to my articles last year in NRC, in which I expressed my concerns about the state of the arts in the Netherlands and especially its future. I argued for a fundamental debate from within the arts sector itself, focusing on the future, including...
Vanaf 2007 werkten videokunstenaar Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) en componist Jonathan Bepler aan een vrije bewerking van Norman Mailers meest verguisde boek Ancient Evenings. Aan Mailers mythologie uit het oude Egypte voegden zij de even mythische Amerikaanse auto-industrie toe in een ambitieus en operatesk filmproject met een veeleisende lengte van 5 uur 11 minuten.
Vanaf februari is River of Fundament op wereldtournee en het Holland Festival
One of the rules of thumb of contemporary theatre art reads as follows: There is no middle ground in a production with an insanely long title. Such a production is either fantastic or dies of its own pretensions. At Judson church is ringing in Harlem (made to measure) / twenty looks of paris is burning at the judson church (m2m) is the latter.
After partially or even completely failed productions of Falstaff The National Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.
William Forsythe, dance innovator, and widely regarded as one of the most important choreographers of our time, is quitting the company to which he attached his name on September 2015. The New York Times reports that. He will still remain associated with the company as an advisor, but the real management will probably be taken over by Jacopo Godani, a former student of the legendary choreographer.
Live kijken naar de emotionele polsslag van de wereld, vormgegeven als een scherm vol dansende stippen. Dat kon gisteravond op IDFA tijdens het live cinema event, gepresenteerd door internetkunstenaar Jonathan Harris.
Heel lang geleden, toen fast food pas was uitgevonden
Vergeet de uren die vooraf gingen, denk niet aan de twee uren die nog volgen. Dit is het moment. Het Nibelungenhaat-motief en het Hagen-motief klinken, maar vervormd. Ze botsen. Ze kunnen het niet eens worden, We horen iets vaags triomfantelijks, maar tegelijkertijd dreiging.
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