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theatre frog

Gaudeamus Music Week: the squeak-grunt definitively over?

by Thea Derks
8 September 201714 August 2018
5 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART

De Gaudeamus Muziekweek lijkt het stadium van doorwrochte, maar publieksonvriendelijke ‘piep-knor’ definitief achter zich te hebben gelaten. Het gerenommeerde festival voor nieuwe muziek brengt in vijf dagen tijd 129 composities uit 32 landen. Asko|Schönberg en Cappella Amsterdam trapten woensdag 6 september af met een bonte variëteit aan stijlen. Aldus vormde het openingsconcert een graadmeter van wat modernemuziekliefhebbers tot en met…

Ten days of theatre with bollocks in Kikker Kiest (At once up to date)

by Wijbrand Schaap
September 4, 201730 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, Theatre Frog

'When Paul moves his little finger something happens. They have a scene where Jochem draws a picture of Paul. Paul is posing naked. And that lasts. That takes a long time. You and I, as amateurs, would fill that with all sorts of poses and movements, but Paul doesn't do anything. You think. And all sorts of things happen. HIj is doing something, then, but....

What happens when you take someone's head off? (not what you think)

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 March 201730 March 2022
1 min read
DANS, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, SPECIALS, Theatre Frog

What happens when you take someone's head off? Little, you will say, since the accompanying body dies. But then you are wrong. Because at the first GRIP evening at Utrecht's Theater Kikker, Steven Michel showed that the rest of the body then just takes over. Fascinating to notice how you go from a bare back to...

Modern dance only allowed with clothes on Facebook now

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 March 201729 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, PREMIUM, SPECIALS, Theatre Frog

The first bare female breast I consciously observed in my life was the happily swishing boob of the girl in the Fa advertisement. It must have been sometime deep in the 1970s. The same time the Pacifisties Socialistiese Partij also did something similar with a cow in the background. Now, a good forty years later, the...

Jan Martens in Utrecht: bravado, unintended honesty and unabashed desire

by Fransien van der Putt
6 March 201719 August 2019
6 min read
DANS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, Theatre Frog, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

While Jan Martens' latest work, The Common People (2016), was at Amsterdam's Stadschouwburg last weekend, Utrecht's Theater Kikker is showing two older hits this week: Sweat Baby Sweat (2011) and The dog days are over (2014). Sweat and Dogdays are blockbusters and have already toured the world. At Kikker, they can now be seen as part of a...

Reasons to do go to theatre Kikker (1: The Men's Night Out)

by Hannah Roelofs
9 December 201630 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Ondanks de crisis in de podiumkunsten dwaalt er nog steeds veel jong talent door Nederland en omstreken. Zoveel dat bijhouden onmogelijk is. Wie kan immers alle festivals bezoeken, van festival Boulevard tot Noorderzon, van het Café Theaterfestival tot festival Cement en van het Amsterdam Fringe Festival tot het Zeeland Nazomerfestival? En dan ook nog precies die vier of vijf voorstellingen uit de…

5 reasons to avoid (or not) Theatre Kikker's Winter Collection

by Hannah Roelofs
25 November 201630 May 2022
3 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

From 6 December, theatre Kikker will show a week-long anthology of talented and diverse young theatre makers. We looked ahead to this Winter Collection. Hannah Roelofs, herself just over 30, issues five warnings for people over 29. 1. Twenty-somethings! 'This is the generation that's losing his or her...

The friendly voyeurism of Bert Hana

by Hannah Roelofs
23 November 201629 November 2016
8 min read
IMAGING

On a cold rainy afternoon, I cycle to the Brakke Grond to ask Bert Hana about his motivations, as befits a beer. First, I visit the IDFA DocLab, which features his VR installation 'I Am Not Home Video', which we have talked about before. Bert Hana is perhaps every art critic's dream, as...

De family vibe van ‘Le Guess Who?’: Alsof een oudere neef je op sleeptouw neemt

by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg
27 October 201620 February 2017
9 min read
MUSIC, PODIUM ART

Festival Le Guess Who? in Utrecht staat aan de vooravond van zijn tiende editie. Van 10 tot en met 13 november nemen meer dan honderd artiesten bezit van elke denkbare plek in de Domstad waar je met goed fatsoen kunt optreden. Van heinde en verre komen ze, net als de bezoekers. Expect the unexpected, met de hele familie? Is dat…

Anthony Vine wins Gaudeamus Award #Gaud16

by Thea Derks
12 September 201629 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

The 70th audition of the Gaudeamus Music Week ended Sunday 11 September in TivoliVredenburg with the presentation of the Gaudeamus Award. Director Henk Heuvelmans presented the prize for composers under thirty to American Anthony Vine (1988). The prize money of five thousand euros is intended for a new composition, to be performed during a subsequent edition. The jury, consisting of...

Tefer, Itamar Serussi, Balletto di Roma, photo: Matteo Carratoni

Julidans double bill with Levi and Serussi mostly raises questions

by Fransien van der Putt
14 July 201619 August 2019
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

It is a new and important trend within the programming of international dance and performance festivals in the Netherlands: not only showing relevant work by international choreographers, but also paying explicit attention to dance makers connected to Dutch dance practice. Spring Utrecht opened in May with Nicole Beutler and closed with Jan Martens, while during Julidans Pere Faura was allowed to kick off with sin baile no hay paraíso (no dance, no paradise).

Moisio's choreography 'Mum's the Word' makes you yearn for peace and freedom

by Maarten Baanders
8 March 201629 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, DANS

Mothers and daughters: is there a closer bond? Their lives are an extension of each other. Mother treads the same path her daughter will later follow. She is a friend, to whom one can always fall back. But underneath, a suffocating power struggle rages, in which they hold and attack each other. Jealousy and competition gnaw at the domestic idyll. Escape is impossible. It is a...

Berlin plays Tagfish, poetic documentary theatre about emptiness, and more emptiness

by Fransien van der Putt
9 October 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, THEATER

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...

Castellum culture park in Leidsche Rijn opens doors

by Rudolf Hunnik
September 6, 20152 February 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Het was wereldnieuws in 1997. In een van de eerste bouwplaatsen van Vinexwijk Leidsche Rijn vonden archeologen overblijfselen van een Romeinse grenslijn, muren van forten, een vrachtschip en allerlei gebruiksvoorwerpen. Dichtgraven en huizen neerzetten was geen optie meer. In 2007 werd besloten een cultuurpark te bouwen: een castellum. Een moderne versie van een Romeins fort met daarin diverse functies samengebracht.…

Greg Nottrot, Floor Leene en Christina Coridou in Het Geheim op Castellum Hoge Woerd

Uniek Geheim te zien in Leidsche Rijn, maar wees er snel bij

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 May 2015
3 min read
THEATER

De snelste, en mooiste, manier om door Leidsche Rijn te fietsen, is langs de Groenedijk, en dan helemaal tot het eind. Op 20 minuten peddelen van Utrecht Centraal ligt daar sinds kort, en sinds 2000 jaar, Castellum Hoge Woerd. Het is een nieuw gebouwd idee van een Romeins fort dat hier de oude grens van het Romeinse Rijk bewaakte, langs…

Radical vulnerability and listening with eyes open - Vanrunxt stages Morton Feldman

by Fransien van der Putt
15 April 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC

Festival Rumor 80, an irregular regular in Utrecht at three different locations each time, will show choreographer Marc Vanrunxt's new work Real, So Real this Friday at Theater Kikker. Starting point is Three Voices, a 1982 composition by Morton Feldman. A wonderful Flemish collaboration by Kunst/Werk and ChampdAction. Dancer Marie De Corte and singer Els Mondelaers shine in Real, So Real. The...

Les 1 voor 2015: maak je jaarlijstjes niet te vroeg

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 January 201529 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Vorig weekend dachten we wel aan de veilige kant te zitten met ons lijstje van best gelezen verhalen op Cultuurpers. Geheel volgens oude mediawetten dachten we dat de dagen tussen kerst en oud en nieuw rustig zouden verlopen. Aber nein. Er bleek nog een lijstje onderweg, dat de hele boel overhoop heeft gegooid. In plaats van 235 duizend geinteresseerde lezers…

Three reasons to go to Medea

by Thea Derks
4 September 201430 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA, THEATER

For the second consecutive year, the Festival of Early Music is organising a Laboratory, in which young creators can learn about their craft. This year's programme features Medea by Czech composer Georg Benda. This 'melodrama', an alternation of spoken text with music, was a resounding success at its premiere in 1775. Musicologist Jed Wentz and scholar Mary Helen Dupree revived it...

Boukje Schweigman's wordless philosophy

by Maarten Baanders
5 November 201329 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

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.

The Dry Piece, Keren Levi, photo © Anne van Kooij

Keren Levi at Theatre Kikker with unique documentary and smart performance.

by Fransien van der Putt
29 May 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Shelly Kling's documentary 'Inside Envelopes' does away with the brave image that dance imposes on itself. 'The Dry Piece', on the other hand, is a performance that goes beyond provocation and seduction with nudity. A

Theatres take matters into their own hands

by one of our members
16 January 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

As the government has killed the entire circuit of production houses and further education, seven theatres have jumped into the gap. They are joining forces to enable a number of 'young' makers to develop their work after all. By offering a number of performances in advance

'Anti-Greek' facade banner Theatre Frog destroyed after protests

by one of our members
12 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We received this via Facebook: "During the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 January at 1.30am, a group of about seven young men destroyed a large canvas hanging on the facade of Theatre Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which

Rare and exceptional performance "Lang" by Kat Válastur knocks you out with wonder and sucks you into maelstrom

by Ruben Brugman
28 April 201230 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS

Kat Válastur claimed that it is almost impossible to describe the dynamics of her performance with words. She is right. It is rare skill how with only two dancers in one place, so much can be depicted and the audience is sucked into a maelstrom. In the small hall of Theatre Kikker, mechanical thuds sound and two giants appear in the middle of the stage. They turn out to be dancers:...

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…

Zelfs verstilde Ivo Dimchev maakt razende indruk met “I-on” tijdens openingsavond Springdance Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
20 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
SPECIALS

Ivo Dimchev is als performer zo snel en wreed in zijn schakelingen tussen botte bravoure, kinderlijke lol, erotische impertinenties en snijdende eenzaamheid, dat je er als toeschouwer normaliter niet meer tussen komt. Zodra Dimchev zijn publiek in de klauwen heeft, kan het hem alleen nog verbijsterd volgen. “I-on” is opnieuw een ogenschijnlijk losse verzameling acties. Alles speelt zich af rond een…

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