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'Stardust' by Pete Rogie is great stream of little stories about encounters, confrontations, disappointments and lonely moments #dekeuze

by Maarten Baanders
13 September 20108 July 2016
3 min read
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Anyone who walks into the venue where choreographer/visual artist Piet Rogie's performance 'Stardust' is to take place is immediately astonished. In the vacant exhibition hall of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, ropes are stretched, it is teeming with seemingly carelessly scattered props and four cement mixers stand along the side like implacable sentinels. The whole space radiates that things are getting exciting. And the viewer is not disappointed with that.

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Too much humour and not enough shuddering at De Warme Winkel's 'Poets and bandits' at Theatre Festival The International Choice #dekeuze

by one of our members
12 September 201029 March 2022
4 min read
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Er is sneeuw gevallen, een dik pak verse sneeuw. Nepsneeuw weliswaar, maar echt genoeg om je middenin Rusland te wanen. Daar, in de stad Sverdlovsk oftewel Jekaterinenburg, leefde eens de man over wie de voorstelling 'Poëten en bandieten' gaat. Boris Ryzhy (1974-2001) zette de rauwe realiteit van zijn woonplaats in gedichten om. Meer dan duizend poëmen liet hij de wereld na. Zijn doorbraak kwam op het festival Poetry International in Rotterdam, in het jaar 2000. Een jaar later was hij dood. B...

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'One hour listening and half an hour talking to Clinton for 100,000 euros. Or new breasts.' Concrete questions on The International Choice. #hechoice

by one of our members
12 September 201029 March 2022
1 min read
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Het Dodo Internationale Keuze-journaal, aflevering 3: Hans van Dam zag ‘Investment’ en sprak met maker Davis Freeman, over wat je allemaal met een ton kunt doen. Het roept associaties op met de fameuze TED-talks en doet denken aan de powerpointdocumentaire ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, waarmee Al Gore de wereld trachtte wakker te schudden over de klimaatverandering. Wat Davis Freeman doet is kleiner, maar…

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Impressive confrontations in humorous 'K, A Society' by Kris Verdonck #decision

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 September 201029 March 2022
2 min read
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The Dodo International Choice journal, episode 2: Wijbrand Schaap came, saw and was overcome by Kris Verdonck's seven installations about plighted people. It should have ended with terrible bangs, a canned fireworks display a few metres from the spectators. But that's not allowed in the Netherlands since Enschede. And certainly not with Belgian fireworks. Theatre-maker, installation artist and video jockey Kris Verdonck ended up...

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We will be there every day at The International Choice. With text. With video. With news and reviews

by one of our members
9 September 201030 March 2022
1 min read
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Tomorrow begins The International Choice of The Rotterdam Theatre. A festival that for years has presented remarkable theatre from all over the world at the Maasstad's theatre in September. Except this year, that is, because the 'chest of quist' is being rebuilt and that will take some time. Not something with Amsterdam metro builders, but whether the official reopening on 2 October 2010 will be...

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Russian soul dissected: religion and vodka create moral dilemmas

by one of our members
6 September 20108 July 2016
4 min read
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Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya - Sl-Ziga photo — photo Sl-Ziga

By Willem Jan Keizer

Rotterdam - Thanks to conductor Valeri Gergyev, we get more insight into the huge reservoir of Russian composers. Rodion Shchedrin for example. Last year a piano concerto of his was performed, Sunday night in de Doelen it was his opera for the concert stage 'The Enchanted Wanderer', after the book 'The Enchanted Wanderer' by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is dedicated to conductor Lorin Maazel, who also conducted the premiere in New York in 2002.

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RPhO's gift to the resurrected city falls short at opening Gergiev festival

by one of our members
5 September 201029 March 2022
5 min read
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By Willem Jan Keizer
Rotterdam – De vijftiende editie van het Gergjev Festival is vrijdagavond in bijzijn van Hare Majesteit de Koningin in concertgebouw de Doelen officieel van start gegaan met een concert van het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest onder leiding van Valeri Gergjev. Hoewel het festival zich afspeelt op een kleine twintig locaties in de stad - niet alleen in de Doelen maar ook in de Laurenskerk, het conservatorium, museum Boijmans van Beuningen en tal van andere onverwac...

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The International Choice of Rotterdam Theatre on location

by one of our members
26 June 201030 March 2022
1 min read
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Rotterdam is renovating its theatre into something that should be cosy in its Jan Versewyveld way with lots of wood. The International Choice, the increasingly exciting season opener by Quist's Kist, as the building opposite the Pathé multiplex on schouwburgplein is called, can therefore be seen everywhere except the theatre. Last-minute searches for locations are ongoing....

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'Calliope writes very essential notes'. Premiere Greek Love Songs by Calliope Tsoupaki #hf10

by one of our members
13 June 201030 March 2022
2 min read
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Image report: Ellen Segeren A few years ago, Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki wrote songs with piano accompaniment for Greek singer Nena Venetsanou. Some of these Tsoupaki arranged for the four brass players of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Brass Soloists and the four singers of the Egidius Quartet, whose tenor part is filled in for this occasion by Marcel Beekman. For him, Tsoupaki also wrote...

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