Better to die standing than to live kneeling. The statement is fresh in memory after the murder in the Lange Leidse Dwarsstraat, as a mantra in praise of Peter R de Vries, his fearlessness, non-conformism, straightforwardness and honesty. This same statement jumps out even from the first paragraphs of the introduction to the biography of poet Jef Last, written by Rudi Wester.1....
Naomi Velissariou (1984) zou tijdens het Bossche Festival Boulevard 2021 eigenlijk met meer voorstellingen staan. Dit jaar zou haar hele trilogie ‘Permanent Destruction’ in een setting als clubrave worden uitgevoerd. Woest muziektheater, gebaseerd op toneelauteurs Sarah Kane en Heiner Müller, en afgesloten met het meer ingetogen werk ‘Pain against Fear’. Alle delen zijn lovend ontvangen door publiek en pers, maar…
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.
For the exhibition of the anniversary programme Vive le Cinéma! Art & Film, Eye Filmmuseum and the Rotterdam Film Festival invited five filmmakers to create work for the three-dimensional space. Intriguing installations that play with camera and viewer, image and meaning.
De kunst van het vertragen in tijden van een pandemie. Aceleratio is een interdisciplinaire performance installatie, die het on- en offline publiek beoogt te confronteren met strijd, vrijheid, moed en troost, vanuit de noodzaak deze tijd te belichamen. Artistieke leiders Dayna Martinez Morales & Vincent Verburg zijn de initiatiefnemers van Movement Expo Aceleratio. Tien ervaren en zeer verschillende performers in…
Het is op sociale media, en trouwens ook in de gewone media, niet handig om al te slim te zijn. Het adagium van mijn vader, die journalist was en mij voorhield niet bang te zijn om domme vragen te stellen, is tot een erecode verheven. Je hoeft maar een kwartiertje Op1 te kijken, of WNL op zondag, en je maakt…
In deze podcast praat ik met Marjolein Verhallen en Paul Adriaanse van Bestuurskunde, Nanna Verhoef van Media en Iris van der Tuin van Filosofie, en artistiek leiders Lars Ebert en Jente Hoogeveen over wat dat nou is: leiderschap. En we hebben het over hoe je dat kunt leren.
French-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne (1976) and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952) have been appointed associate artists for the 2021 Holland Festival.
Those who read De opgang begin to understand more about Belgium: the country's gigantic split, the friction between the two parts of the country, and the rise and success of the Vlaams Blok. Hertmans has also come to a better understanding of how deep the cleavages and "the sorrows of Belgium" run.
With northern Italy cut off from the outside world because of corona and looking increasingly desolate, we are reminded of an interview we had a few years ago with writer Davide Longo about his book The Vertical Man. A book à la The Road by Cormac McCarthy, in which Longo outlines a desolate world that has changed dramatically as a result of...
De grote filosoof van de linkse opstanden van 1968 was zowel privé als in zijn filosofie onbetrouwbaar. Z’n muze Simone de Beauvoir werd ook slachtoffer. In bijna anderhalf uur voltrekt zich bij theatergezelschap OT Rotterdam de ontluistering van De Beauvoir in een schitterende rol van José Kuipers, tegenover Tim Linde als ex-studentenleider Benny Lévy en vertrouweling van Sartre. Kabbala Stukje…
Ensemble Modern presents world premieres by German-Dutch Iris ter Schiphorst and Turkish Zeynep Gedizlioğlu in November Music. And that is good news, because the female composer remains too often invisible even in 2019. In the brochures of any Dutch orchestra, you will find none, or only a single work by a woman. On the new Heart & Soul list of...
This weekend, there was some fuss on Twitter. Something about a Nazi comparison that didn't quite work out. Now there is quite often a fuss on Twitter because of a Nazi comparison that doesn't quite work out, but this time it concerned one of our cultural figureheads. Kees Vlaardingerbroek, artistic director of the NTR Saturday matinee and former head of programming at the Rotterdam...
The 2019 batch of the Film Academy shows graduation work. What do students think of the changes needed at the academy?
With his new book The Discovery of Elsschot, Elsschot biographer Vic van de Reijt wants to get the whole of the Netherlands reading Elsschot's books. Seven reasons why these classics are timeless fun. 1. You can finish every book by Elsschot in one day 'In 1970 I bought his Collected Works for nine guilders, I remember it well. At the time...
It was just missing the heavy music and gothic storm images in the Game of Thrones trailer whose lyrics Thierry Baudet uttered on the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 March 2019. 'And so here we stand, at the eleventh hour, among the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilisation the world has known. A...
Zijn korte verhalen zien er bedrieglijk eenvoudig uit, en elk woord wordt als op een goudschaaltje afgewogen. Hij schrijft zijn zéér korte verhalen dan ook in principe van A tot Z, zonder er nog iets aan te veranderen. Portret van schrijver A.L. Snijders. ‘Terwijl mijn vrouw stervende was, schreef ik nietsvermoedend een stukje.’ Uitweiden Je zou het niet verwachten van…
The cultural sector is sometimes behind, but more often ahead. In the - otherwise very much to be welcomed in terms of content - advice issued by the Amsterdam Arts Council on the future of the local Stedelijk Museum, you can read that job security in the art sector is once again under pressure. Especially for young entrants from 'diverse' backgrounds: 'Preferably, the museum will make greater use of...
Je moet wel een ernstige misantroop zijn om het die vrijdag niet naar je zin te hebben in Stadspark Maastricht. De zon schijnt. Het is subtropisch warm met een licht lentebriesje. De locatie, naast een door stadswallen en torentjes omarmde vijver, is perfect. Onder de oude eiken staat een veertigtal foodtrucks en bars met pruttelende keukentjes op je te wachten. Oh…
Poets Danez Smith and Patricia Lockwood once broke the internet with their virtuoso wordplay. Smith with a frothy tirade about ineradicable racism and police brutality in America (Dear White America) and Lockwood with a heartbreaking/funny poem about her rape (Rape Joke). Both have outgrown their hypes. They have secretly been doing a fantastic job for years, using Twitter, YouTube, paper and stage...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Western music gradually began to come apart at the seams. Composers used more and more dissonances so that the familiar tonality hardly fitted into its shell. From a constant desire for even more expression, the orchestra was expanded with ever new instruments. This led to monster productions such as Gustav Mahler's 'Symphony of the Tausend', with more than a thousand...
Beethoven and Bach brought the true music. Karl-Heinz Stockhausen the future. The rest, from Beatles to hoempa, was 'jazz', commercially capitalist and therefore pernicious. Very briefly, this is what we should know Theodor Adorno from. Paul R. Kooij now plays this art-philosophical sharper in a performance by Mirjam Koen. Just when the division based partly on Adorno's thinking between...
A new generation of leaders in culture rose at the Utrecht Academy Building on Thursday 9 November. The 39 leaders come from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to Schunck in Heerlen and from the VPRO in Hilversum to the Utrecht festival Le Guess Who. In a year and a half, they discovered new working methods and formulated new vistas for the arts. That could ...
Brandend Kalf wil meer vuur in de Nederlandse Film. Parallel aan de opening van het Nederlands Film festival organiseerde deze initiatiefgroep een bijeenkomst waar de bezwaren tegen de veel te veilige Nederlandse film op een rij werden gezet. Waar is de subversieve cinema?
Vincent Macaigne is uncomfortable. He looks around nervously every time the waitresses run past with trays full of clinking glasses and slam the doors. He has hardly slept, and the previous evening he had walloped the audience of the Swiss Theatre Vidy with his brutal, inimitable performance En Manque. Braced, he sat down for the interview. "Sorry, I...
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