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Nearly dies Wunderbaum's Detroit Dealers from an overdose of ideas, but survives through unexpected musicality #HF12

by Daniel Bertina
16 June 20128 July 2016
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

In Detroit Dealers, Wunderbaum mixes a personal family story with the decline of Detroit, once one of the most influential industrial cities in the world, and philosophical musings on the car, as a romantic metaphor of progress and the American Dream. The show swings in all directions. Detroit Dealers is part documentary film, jazz concert, performance, spoken word poetry, rap battle, and theatre. This overdose of...

Waiting for Miss Monroe a feast for the mind. But with earplugs in. #hf12

by one of our members
10 June 201213 February 2019
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Soon, Twitter brought an initial reaction to Waiting for Miss Monroe, Robin de Raaff's opera that had its world premiere at the Stadsschouwburg last night. @DavidMPinedo: What an atrocious opera Raaff's 'Waiting for Ms. Monroe' is. An atonal fart that has NOTHING musical. Just screaming. And a second. @sandraeik: Exciting world premiere Waiting for Miss Monroe - incredible performance by Laura Aiken as Monroe....

The Young Makers Marathon: from the beautifully absurd Parkin'son to the claustrophobia of Cow's Theory

by Daniel Bertina
28 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

The Young Makers Marathon For Your Eyes Only at Springdance features performances by students from the influential dance academies School for New Dance Development (The Netherlands) and P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium). I had the pleaure to see two of them. Cow's Theory by Cecila Lisa Eliceche (P.A.R.T.S.) is a hyperintense piece of contact dance. Three female performers move at super slow pace,...

Ibrahim Quraishi's "My private Himalya" sparkles by omitting drama

by Fransien van der Putt
25 April 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

A little tent allowed to play for sea anemone on dry land, its four legs perky in the air. Actors having a cup of tea and a game of cards. It all looks very innocent. What begins as a wonderful picture novel gradually grows into a rebus of considerable length. "My private Himalaya" is akin to a walking exhibition, with a wind machine....

Portuguese Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz make language move and their movements speak

by Maarten Baanders
25 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Je hebt van die voorstellingen die je opmerkelijk eenvoudig en onnadrukkelijk een compleet eigen wereld binnenslepen. Voorstellingen waarin alles herkenbaar is. Woorden, beweging, decor. Alles even vertrouwd en huiselijk. Maar dan wordt er een tikje tegen gegeven. Patronen vervloeien. De taal staat op losse schroeven. Alles rammelt en raakt op drift. En toch klopt het. Voor je ogen en oren…

Inertia and extreme duration make Ibrahim Quraishi's "Wild Life Take Away Station" a mysterious still life

by Daniel Bertina
22 April 201230 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Upon entering, Wild Life Take Away Station has been going on for four hours. Two performers - Diego Agulló and Ria Higler, a young man and an old woman - stroll through the Central Museum's project studio like drowsy zombies. They are pale and muscle-naked, apart from their weird slippers and wigs. The two lie sprawled across the sofa,...

Opening Springdance explores the two extremes of what the festival has to offer

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 April 201230 March 2022
2 min read
SPECIALS

Experts in particular were upset with the official opening performance of Springdance 2012. "The Rodin Project" by Russel Maliphant was special for that reason alone. Rarely has there been so much talk about an opening performance, especially since it is also Springdance's last opening performance. The 30-year-old festival of innovative dance and performance is ceasing to exist. Partly due to pressure from subsidy cuts from...

'It felt a bit like the first time sex: way too direct, rushed, overactive and largely based on insecurity': Ivo Dimchev in battle with Franz West's wearable art

by Daniel Bertina
15 April 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

"What the fuck should I do with this?" was choreographer and performance artist Ivo Dimchev's (1976) first thought when confronted with the artworks of Austrian artist Franz West. After Dimchev's solo performance Some Faves (2010) in Vienna, West, a multi-awarded creator of bizarre sculptures and objects, sought contact with the choreographer. He asked him to make an improvised video based on his...

Column: Staat van Verwenning door Patrick van der Hijden, de opening van het debat Burger King & Burgerschap

by Daniel Bertina
21 January 201229 March 2022
12 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In het debat Burger King & Burgerschap geven Patrick van der Hijden, David van Reybrouck, Chris Keulemans en Samuel Vriezen hun visie op de staat van de burger. Publiek mag, maar hoeft niet, meedoen. Hieronder de column Staat van Verwenning, voorgedragen door Patrick van der Hijden - als aftrap voor het debat.

"Ons leven is in de achttiende eeuw uitgevonden.
De leden van de hogere klassen – de elite – hadden een eigen huis, vaak met tuin. Ze stuurden hun kinderen naar school en die begonnen...

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US states: dancer gets $150 for performing with tickets up to $100,000 and rebels

by one of our members
26 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Her name is Sara Wookey and she is well known in the international dance world. When this choreographer and dancer with 16 years of experience was offered a chance to audition to perform in a renowned performance by world-renowned artist Marina Abramovich, she naturally seized it. She auditioned and passed the audition with six others, but not then...

Beyoncé in error with music video

by one of our members
8 October 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Thanks to Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen, who posted this message on facebook. Dance is also thought of, despite the fact that the VVD sees dance as a branch of sport. Well: in America, they know all about sport, and therefore sporting behaviour. Up to a point. Because what did Beyoncé do in her latest clip? Right: a choreographed...

With its back to the community?

by one of our members
3 October 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

This week, the Connecting Arts festival takes place in Utrecht. This festival, contrary to the expectation raised by the title, revolves entirely around the organ. The instrument is in a bottomless identity crisis. The solution lies in connecting with other art forms: connecting arts. The organist. One of those guys with a beard. Not a meticulously trimmed weekend shadow, but a wild...

Seeing, building and tasting the future during an exciting bike ride through Rotterdam with Parfum de BoemBoem #dekeuze

by one of our members
25 September 201130 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Een stoet felrode en groene fietsen slingert langs de Maas, bereden door mensen die nieuwsgierig om zich heen kijken, met elkaar overleggen en zich elk moment afvragen of ‘dit er nou bij hoort’. Het toegangskaartje van Parfum de BoemBoem in hun zak is het bewijs: het gaat hier niet om een gewone fietstocht, maar om een met theatrale verrassingen. Gids Sereh geniet van de vragende blikken en leidt de groep naar de eerste locatie: de afvalverbrandingsinstallatie in Rotterdam-Zuid.

Parfum de...

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Irony and purity want to stand side by side in 'Free Mason' by Tjon Rockon #International Choice

by Jowi Schmitz
21 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

It takes guts: walking down Rotterdam's Kruiskade with a big wooden cross and shouting "Mason was a fish!" shouting. The drug-addicted residents of St Paul's Church, the dishwashers at Chinese restaurants and waiting passengers at the tram stop look on in bewilderment. Sandro Lima shouts lyrics about Mason the saviour like a possessed religious maniac. Moments before, we are at...

Almost had Halbe Zijlstra praising a drummer as a figurehead of our literature

by one of our members
31 August 20118 July 2016
8 min read
ACTUAL

Nice, that secretary of state for hard rock and Tom Clancy. Mr Halbe Zijlstra-san has once again lived up to his change manager name in China. But in a slightly different way. In the land of eternally sealed mouths, he opened the Dutch stand at the book fair there, with a speech that once again rammed Dutch values into the Chinese. Anyway...

Eszter Salamon and Daniel Linehan gems of highly diverse Julidans

by Fransien van der Putt
19 July 20118 July 2016
5 min read
SPECIALS

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...

Tomoko Mukaiyama sprinkles nuts and high heels

by one of our members
8 May 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Although the announcement of 'sonic tapestry: Shoes, part V' by Tomoko Mukaiyama can be read as a variant of Sex and the City on classical music, Sarah Jessica Parker would forever look at her Manolo Blahniks differently after seeing Mukaiyama's performance. This very special piano recital was Saturday 7 May at LP2 (Room 2 of the Rotterdam...

Eugénie Rebetez shows the alienating contrast of a woman who wants to be more and is also at peace with who she is

by Daniel Bertina
23 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Eugénie Rebetez in 'Gina'. Foto: Augustin Rebetez.
Haar volle dijen kletsen tegen elkaar. Ze schudt met haar ontblote armen en kijkt grijnzend naar de trillende huid op haar bovenarmen. Ze stampt woest over de speelvloer van Theater Kikker, terwijl haar forse lijf – gekleed in een klein nietsverhullend zwart jurkje – nadrukkelijk aan alle kanten vrolijk meestuitert. Je moet maar durven. In haar one woman show ‘Gina’ gaat de Zwitserse theatermaker Eugénie Rebetez aan alle gêne...

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Pure contact improvisation and martial arts in confrontational performance by Japanese dance group contact Gonzo

by one of our members
21 April 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Contact Gonzo

Met hun naam verwijzen de vijf Japanners van contact Gonzo naar de gonzo-journalisitiek van wijlen Hunter S. Thompson. Rauw, hard en subjectief. Thomspon liet in zijn stukken ook zien hoe hij werkte. Contact Gonzo warmt op tijdens de voorstelling, maakt met wegwerpcamera's kiekjes van elkaar en geeft de waterfles door. Gonzo-style: wat je ziet, is wat je krijgt.
Contact Gonzo houdt zich aan eenvoudige regels. Bijvoorbeeld zwaartekracht: springen en neerkomen. Of aantrekken ...

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'I want to make the perpetrator relive the death of his victim.' Jens van Daele makes dance out of cruelly disturbed art project

by one of our members
14 April 201129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Foto: Judith Zwikker Jens van Daele sluit zijn reeks choreografieën over de zeven hoofdzonden af met de voorstelling Brides for Peace. Het stuk is gebaseerd op de kunstperformance Brides on Tour van de Italiaanse kunstenaars Pippa Bacca en Silvia Moro. Liftend en gekleed in bruidsjurken, met een tekst ‘Peace’ op hun borst, trokken zij in 2008 van Milaan naar Jeruzalem.…

Ondertussen in Damascus (Syrië): theaterproject Adelheid Roosen uitgesteld ‘wegens studentenprotest’

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 March 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

De Nederlandse theatermaakster Adelheid Roosen, die op dit moment samen met regisseuse Merel de Groot aan een theaterproject werkt met Syrische kunststudenten, ziet haar project gehinderd wegens studentenprotesten, al weten we dat niet helemaal zeker in het totaliteire land, waar we maar zelden nieuws uit ontvangen. De universiteit van Damascus, waar ze aan het project To tell You I call…

The deeper caverns of an adult film festival. Sven Schlijper on safari during IFFR 2011

by one of our members
5 February 201130 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, Literature House, SPECIALS

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...

Two idols and lots of cute girls at Saturday's Autumn Collection #njc10

by one of our members
31 October 20108 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

Het viel op: wat een hoop leuke meisjes in Theater Kikker. Zou het door de programmering komen? Nu waren er een hoop leuke mannen om uit te kiezen op zaterdagavond. De stoere acteerbeesten van FC Bergman bijvoorbeeld, of de androgyne Nik van den Berg, of misschien de ogenschijnlijk lieve Bert Hana. En anders was er altijd nog DJ Oscar Kocken,…

‘Vous êtes servis’ geeft huishoudslavinnen een gezicht, maar onderwerp had een krachtiger film verdiend

by Leo Bankersen
24 September 20108 July 2016
3 min read
FILM

Op het eerste gezicht is huishoudelijke hulp niet het meest opwindende onderwerp voor een drieluik met film, theater en performance. Dat komt natuurlijk omdat de dienstmeid in de ouderwetse betekenis bij ons in het westen vrijwel uitgestorven is. Maar elders is er volop vraag naar onderdanige meisjes die zich zeven dagen per week afbeulen tot ze er bij neer dreigen…

Frank Sanders teaches young musical talents to let loose and empathise during the special Sondheim Musical Masterclass #tf2010

by one of our members
12 September 201029 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

'He fears that the real thing may have come along a hundred times, but he missed it.'
'Exactly. And how old are you?'
'Twenty.'
‘Tja...’

Yoran de Bont, deelnemer aan de Sondheim Musical Masterclass, praat met musicalgoeroe Frank Sanders over de betekenis van het lied dat hij zojuist heeft gezongen: Someone is waiting uit de musical Company. Kan hij als jonge musicalacteur dit soort beladen teksten wel eigen maken? Met de juiste begeleiding zeker, blijkt na tien minuten sparre...

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