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Tompouce van bakkerij kwakman

In de ‘tompouce-economie’ gaat cultuur voorop in groen;

De donut – Amerikaanse lekkernij van Nederlandse oorsprong – is populair. Zelf geef ik de voorkeur aan de tompouce. De naam klinkt chic Frans, toch is het vooral dankzij de HEMA een veel gewaardeerde Nederlandse traktatie. De Britse econome Kate Raworth nam de donut als metafoor haar alternatief voor de huidige groei-economie. Ze stelt dat de economische wetenschap een heel… 

Ekaterina Levental: ‘Ik kom van helemaal onderaf de maatschappij, had niet eens het recht om hier te zijn, was nog minder dan een junk.’

Zangeres, harpiste en theatermaker Ekaterina Levental (Tasjkent, 1977) kwam in 1993 als vluchteling naar Nederland, waar zij een succesvolle carrière opbouwde. Samen met haar partner Chris Koolmees maakte ze het drieluik De Weg, De Grens en Schoppenvrouw, waarin zij haar eigen moeizame weg naar geluk bezingt. Met haar pocketvoorstellingen houdt zij ons een spiegel voor: ‘Wij oordelen snel over een… 

Vacancy production manager and volunteer coordinator deBuren

There is currently a vacancy for a production manager and volunteer coordinator deBuren. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and practical colleague for a variety of tasks. The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren promotes cultural and social cooperation and exchange between Flanders and the Netherlands by presenting, producing, inspiring and connecting. Spearheads of deBuren are Flemish-Dutch cooperation, talent development and diversity. As a house of... 

Vacancy general director deBuren

The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren promotes cultural and social cooperation and exchange between Flanders and the Netherlands by presenting, producing, inspiring and connecting. Spearheads of deBuren are Flemish-Dutch cooperation, talent development and diversity. As a house of culture and debate, we offer an extensive programme with 150 public activities a year and various cultural productions and projects. deBuren covers many... 

Culture Council: The Netherlands underestimates its own music theatre culture. (Why opera still seeks talent abroad)

The Performing Arts Fund is failing to professionalise and make the music theatre sector sustainable. So says the Council for Culture in an advice leaked yesterday on the future of music theatre in the Netherlands. The advice presented today to the rest of the Netherlands therefore wants to transfer more different music theatre makers and companies from the Performing Arts Fund to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure. This partly... 

Podcast: Sometimes it's also just allowed to be about love, in The Hague. Although: in spectacle Ondine, nothing is ordinary.

'You simply cannot, as a big company, just bring journalistic theatre.' So says Jeroen de Man, who now directs the watery spectacle performance Ondine at the National Theatre. 'A bit of diversity is just fine.' So not everything in The Hague has to be as socially relevant as The Nation of Othello. Sometimes it can also just be about the... 

Pieter Bruegel de Oude, Nederlandse spreekwoorden, olieverf op paneel, 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

‘De toneelschrijfkunst bloeit’, zegt de Taalunie. Tijd voor een verkenning onder toneelschrijvers.

Op 6 december 2017 werd de Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs uitgereikt aan dichter, schrijver en toneelauteur Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer. Met zijn stuk over Bram Moszkowitcz, getiteld ‘De advocaat’, kreeg hij bij 47 inzendingen de voorkeur van het ingezonden origineel werk. Volgens de Taalunie ‘balanceert’ Pfeiffers stuk ‘magistraal op het dunne koord tussen tragedie en komedie, realistisch drama en metabeschouwing, slapstick en ontroering.… 

Tien dagen lang theater met kloten in Kikker Kiest (In één keer op de hoogte)

‘Als Paul zijn pink beweegt gebeurt er wat. Ze hebben een scène waarin Jochem een tekening maakt van Paul. Paul zit naakt te poseren. En dat duurt. Dat duurt lang. Jij en ik zouden dat als amateurs vullen met allerlei houdingen en bewegingen, maar Paul doet niks. Denk je. En er gebeurt van alles. HIj doet dus wel wat, maar… 

Artists, get out into nature, before it's too late (and other reasons for hope)

There are those, including in the arts, who still think the world has not changed for good. Who suspect that a vote for a culture-friendly party will at a stroke turn back the clock eight years. Those people will wake up after 15 March to a new world, even if the Netherlands has suddenly chosen whether or not... 

A museum is for everyone, with or without gin-tonics

Museums should be places where everyone feels welcome, argues art editor and curator-in-training Roxy Jongewaard. An argument for public and free museums: "A museum for everyone who can pay 17.50 in entrance fees is not a museum for everyone." In the coming year, I get to live out a personal dream: I will work as a curator in a major Dutch museum.... 

Meg Stuart at Holland Festival: 'The sacred theatre is gone, but the expectations remain.'(HF16)

The show Sketches/Notebook (2013), which has its Dutch premiere at the Holland Festival on 6 June, is virtuosic, radical and extremely gentle. Choreographer Meg Stuart loves small scale, even when she occupies the biggest stages with partners like the Volksbühne (Berlin), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) or the Münchner Kammerspiele. Details win out over big lines and often play a leading role in pieces that scrutinise human behaviour incredulously.

Sketches/Notebook stands out

Boukje Schweigman's wordless philosophy

Even before she graduated from mime school, Boukje Schweigman swore off language. She worked out a wordless philosophy in her performances. She seeks the mystery of life. However vast and elusive her starting points may be, her performances give the audience the most direct, immediate, skin-tight sensation imaginable in a theatre.

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