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Faustin Linyekula stages the "fundamental resemblance between Negroes and ballerinas" with "La Création du Monde" (Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud), #HF12.
The 1923 Afro-Cubist dance classic can be seen at Music Theatre today and tomorrow, commented on by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula. "Europeans have no idea that they are denying the shared history of Africa and Europe. Belgium is part of everyday life in Congo, but Belgians hardly know anything about Congo, or it is the clichés about poverty
CineCrowd shows at short film festival Go Short that crowdfunding works
In the short Dutch film Ceci n'est pas un rêve, which premiered at the festival Go Short (Nijmegen, 14-18 March), the cityscape of Paris slowly transforms into a dreamscape. You could call it a surrealist documentary, in which filmmaker Amos Mulder has incorporated influences from early German film pioneer Walter Ruttmann as well as modern computer animation. With further...
Originality rewarded at Oscars 2012
You can hardly claim it was a surprise result, because for weeks - what do I say, months - The Artist had been mentioned as a surefire Oscar favourite. Still, the crowning of this largely silent French black-and-white film that pays tribute to the end of the silent film era in Hollywood is proof that originality still counts in...

Enschede population wants legoblocks church preserved. Support asked for twitter action @stoanloatn
What art can accomplish. At least Enschede gained a church, thanks to the people of festival Grenswerk, which lasts until 2 October. Because, where before there was a somewhat dull square next to Enschede's railway station, there is now a church made of colourful lego blocks. Intended as a multifunctional festival pavilion. Temporary too, because the lego building blocks can...

#HF11 'The select' is neat and well behaved and on stage lacks the raw emotion of Hemingway's novel
Foto Mark Barton Zou de anti-reclame van premier Rutte cum suis door kunst weg te zetten als bestemd voor linkse types en andere idioten al effect sorteren? Je zou het bijna denken als je de tamelijk slecht gevulde zalen ziet tijdens de voorstellingen op het Holland Festival. Er zitten meer dan tien mensen op de eerste rij, maar toch houdt…

#HF11: They're going to make another big cut to the Russians at Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Cologne and Paris may not have been built in a day, but it took less than three days to fly to the moon. A warped comparison to say that a show that rattles three days before its premiere can turn out to be an unimaginable hit on the premiere itself. So something like that could happen with The Russians, the latest show

#HF11 Unadorned, austere and powerful "Flûte Enchantée" by Peter Brook
Papageno showed off without his feathers last night. Indeed, the entire direction of Une flûte enchantée was an unadorned pleasure. Sober. Integral. You can't get a Dutch audience wilder than with such an approach. Compliments, then, to Peter Brook. At the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ was the Dutch premiere of Brook's adaptation of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. The production turned...
“Dat van de ander die de hel is. Daar kan ik me zo over opwinden”: Laura van Dolron maakt theatraal gehakt van Sartre.
Ze is ‘stand-up filosofe’. Met die zelfbedachte term schiep ze een nieuwe vorm van theater, die het midden houdt tussen cabaret, een lezing en theater. Ze speelt met haar eigen rol, zet acteurs in of het marionetten zijn, maar blijkt uiteindelijk hun speelbal, zo goed als die van het noodlot. Kortom: Laura van Dolron is een geval apart. Ze maakt…

The deeper caverns of an adult film festival. Sven Schlijper on safari during IFFR 2011
The International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its fortieth edition with a fitting XL programme. That Roman numeral XL not only indicates respectable age. It also says something about size: this fortieth also bursts with the intiguing programme, with screenings at no less than forty locations throughout the inner city of Rotterdam. Inside the festival walls is...
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