Eddy De Clercq, de Godfather van de Nederlandse house- en dancecultuur, schreef samen met Martijn Haas zijn autobiografie: Laat de Nacht Nooit Eindigen. Een verhaal over het ontstaan van de dj-scene in de Lage Landen, de opkomst van de housemuziek en het nachtleven met woeste feesten vol seks, dans, kunst, drank, slik en snuif. Tegen de achtergrond van de voortschrijdende…
From today, the documentary performance Tagfish tours the Netherlands. The Belgian theatre collective Berlin has been making finely crafted theatre installations since 2004, playing on the border of documentary and fiction, television and theatre, current affairs and eternity. Tagfish is ostensibly about the perils surrounding the redevelopment of a piece of wasteland near Essen. Die Zeche Zollverein already had a monumental...
Bodies are dragged away to loud applause and cheers: a more symbolic beginning Nederlands Dans Theater could not have imagined. With Start Again, the international ballet company highlights an exile until 2019 at the harbour in Scheveningen. A tricky location, because remote. But also a dynamic place. A Dutch choreographer would surely invent a choreography there with ferries, cutters and lifeboats. NDT, however, chooses the...
In 1989 plaatste het Holland Festival componisten uit de Sovjet-Unie centraal. De muziek van Galina Oestvolskaja en Sofia Goebaidoelina sloeg in als een bom. De dames bleken here to stay, hoewel zij zich bewegen op twee uitersten van onze klankperceptie. Oestvolskaja beukt haar boodschap met monomane gedrevenheid onze trommelvliezen in, Goebaidoelina bedwelmt ons met geheimzinnige ritsel- en fluisterklanken. Voor mij behoren…
Last weekend 250 years ago, nine-year-old Mozart arrived in The Hague with his parents and sister Nannerl. He arrived on 11 September 1765 to perform at the stadholder court. Due to illness, the Mozarts ended up staying for nine months and the young composer wrote several works here. Harpsichordist and conductor Jörn Boysen organised the festival Mozart in The...
Vanaf 22 november is de vijfdelige NTR-serie ADO danst te zien. Het is niet de eerste keer dat voetbal en dans fuseren. Het meest bekende voorbeeld van voetbal en dans is toch wel Schijnbewegingen: een NOS-film van Piet Erkelens en Pim Marks over de overeenkomsten tussen de twee verschillende werelden. Dit lieten ze zien aan de hand van gesprekken met…
de sfeer Het is 30 graden in Den Bosch. Mensen met koptelefoons op klappen voor iets dat wij, de voorbijgangers, niet zien. Bij een winkelcentrum rollen meisjes met maskers over de grond. Overal is reuring. Festival Boulevard is in volle gang en de hele stad lijkt mee te doen. De terrassen zijn vol en de stemming is opperbest. Ik baan mij…
Meer titels beschikbaar voor Dolby Cinema. Mission: Impossible 5 en andere Hollywood blockbusters zullen in dit formaat worden vertoond.
Concert & Congress hall De Doelen in Rotterdam will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. That is, 50 years ago, the current venue was festively opened. The building by architects Kraaijvanger and Fledderus was the first major public building of the reconstruction after German bombs destroyed the city on 10 May 1940. However, its name goes back much longer. The at...
Cathedrals are 'in' Utrecht has a thing for cathedrals. The Dom was once a cathedral, but since the Reformation stormed its way through the Roman Catholic heritage, the real cathedral with the archbishop's chair is now a few hundred metres away. In the early 1990s, theatre-maker Aram Adriaanse renamed the former stables of the veterinary faculty 'Horse Cathedral',...
Power and leadership, can one exist without the other? Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented a sampling of three types of leaders on Sunday 14 June at the Holland Festival with 'Kings of War'. Three historical plays by Shakespeare about the struggle for power between the Houses of Lancaster and York together provided the fuel for this performance. With large black letters on a white...
Twenty-two years after Jurassic Park the fourth instalment of the well-known dinosaur films enters Dutch cinemas on Thursday 11 June. In Jurassic World we see in 3D how the dreamed theme park with live dinosaurs is finally realised, and how things go grandly wrong when overambitious showmen start genetically manipulating dinosaurs. In each new volume, the plot is thinner, the special effects become more dominant and the scientific pretensions less so, but no one can deny that the Jurassic Park-films have revolutionised. Also in the arts.
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Christian von Hornsleth is exhibiting in Amsterdam, and there was an immediate small riot. An organisation that raises money against trafficking in women no longer wanted to receive a contribution from the proceeds of his exhibition in Amsterdam, because the artist, whose conceptual work often features porn images, would actually be an advocate of prostitution. Something Hornsleth himself vehemently denies. The...
Het enige dat echt ouderwets is aan La Dame aux Camélias is het juichend applaus, alsof je in de Scala van Milaan zit. En het is niet eens première-avond. Directeur Ted Brandsen deed met deze klassieker een schot in de roos bij Het Nationale Ballet. We hebben er bewijs van. Met Periscope.
Museum Beelden aan Zee placed a concrete sculpture by 26-year-old artist Catinka Kersten on the patio at the end of March: 'And everyone held their breath during that fraction of centuries'. It consists of five concrete human figures stacked on top of each other, which appear to be made of fabric. Kersten completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2013 with a series of hunting animals in plaster and cotton. The museum, with associated scientific institute and plaster library, is considered one of the figureheads of sculpture in the Netherlands. How did this museum come to choose such a young artist and what does inclusion in its collection mean for her?
Why a fun house festival still haunts my mind weeks after the fact. Let me tell you: OuiJaYes I was looking forward to it. Fancy space. Freedom. So it made perfect sense that I went to Jazz in de Kamer Leiden at the end of March. I could choose from various itineraries with groups and musicians like Artvark, Jeroen van Vliet, Ruben Hein, Ntjam Rosie. I chose...
In the halls of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Mark Rothko has made way for photographer Anton Corbijn. A bigger difference hardly seems conceivable, but an exhibition with lots of pop photographs fits seamlessly into the museum's mission to bring 20th-century avant-garde art, stresses director Benno Tempel. Corbijn, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year, will be honoured with a double exhibition; besides...
Willem Jeths (1959) is one of the most successful Dutch composers. Through his enormous craftsmanship and drive, he manages to create his own sound world, which is surprising yet accessible. His work is regularly performed at home and abroad and has appeared on many CDs. In 2014, he received the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and later that year he was appointed
Topicality is back in the Dutch acting scene for a while, and that is quite nice. De Verleiders, once started as a one-off play about fraudulent bosses by George van Houts, is now growing into a voluminous series. On TV, we have the series De Fractie, which manages to recreate the news of the day every episode in...
Er gebeuren wonderen onder de grond bij Genève. Of liever gezegd: die wonderen gebeuren elke seconde om ons heen, maar onder de grond bij Genève worden ze geregistreerd. In 2013 hebben ze God ontdekt, of althans, een lichtspoortje dat het bestaan verried van het Higgs-boson, het elementairste deeltje der elementaire deeltjes, dat alles om ons heen van massa voorziet. Op 18…
Ralph van Raat is by far the leading solo pianist in the contemporary repertoire in our country, while fellow pianist Maarten van Veen pursues an idiosyncratic course in ensemble playing in modern music. When the two musicians work together, they prove to complement each other perfectly. Under the aegis of the Doelen Ensemble, they played together with percussionists Colin Currie and Benjamin Ramirez, for whom the same...
This Saturday, 14 February 2015, Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Polish composer Henryk Górecki's (1933-2010) Fourth Symphony at the NTR Saturday matinee. Górecki established his name overnight in 1992, when the CD of his Third Symphony shot to the top of the classical charts like a flare. The recording of this Symphony...
NTR Podium: hét televisieprogramma over muziek en dans, stopt ermee. Vanavond is de laatste uitzending met het Harmonium van John Adams door het Residentie Orkest. In 2015 maakt NTR Podium plaats voor het nieuwe Podium Witteman. Dat gaat vooral over klassieke muziek en jazz.
Altijd met het goede nieuws beginnen. De afdeling voorlichting van het ministerie van OCW heeft in 2014 heel erg goed haar best gedaan. Het ene juichpersbericht na het andere jubelcommuniqué stuurden ze de wereld in. Terwijl er eigenlijk nauwelijks goed nieuws te melden was. Over cultuur. Maar omdat er heel veel luie journalisten zijn, gaat goed nieuws vaak in een…
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