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DUS is now called Theatre Utrecht. Not to be confused with Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

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

Toneelgroep Centrum, Utrechtse Theater Inititatieven, Jeugdtheaterplatform Utrecht, Theaterplatform Utrecht, De Paardenkathedraal, De Nieuwe Paardenkathedraal, De Utrechtse Spelen. The ostentatious names for Utrecht theatre companies had run out of steam over the past 30 years. Not entirely unexpected, then, that the city theatre company of the Netherlands' fourth city opts for sobriety and clarity. Since Sunday 11 January, 5pm, De Utrechtse Spelen has been called...

Lesson 1 for 2015: don't make your annual lists too early

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

Last weekend, we thought we were on the safe side with our list of best-read stories on Culture Press. True to old media laws, we thought the days between Christmas and New Year's would be quiet. Aber nein. It turned out there was another list on the way, which turned the whole thing upside down. Instead of 235 thousand interested readers...

Amsterdam art is doing great. Unless you are a (young) artist.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Two corpses. Despairing bystanders. A blood-red photo. The cover of the Exploration, released by the Amsterdam Arts Council, makes one fear the worst. A massacre has been committed. Even if it is a scenic photo of a performance by Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Or is it all different? Are only two dead, and the rest live on? Something about shows that on must go?....

A dress made from a mop. Chris Nauta breaks through with recycle fashion

by Jeroen de Valk
2 December 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

Chris Nauta breaks through. The Amersfoort-based artist makes new clothes from old blankets, tents and other unlikely materials. She was prominent at Oerol and can count stars including Gregory Porter among her fans. 'My customers get a unique piece of art and reduce waste.' Chris Nauta is Central Netherlands' recycling artist. She makes winter coats from used blankets, brightly coloured bags from...

Camerata Trajectina 40 years young

by Thea Derks
1 December 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

In a sold-out Geertekerk in Utrecht, Camerata Trajectina exuberantly celebrated its fortieth anniversary yesterday. In those four decades, the ensemble has worked tirelessly to put the Dutch song repertoire from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age on the map, not only on stages, but also on sound carriers. Entirely in style, attendees were treated to a varied...

Maas Theatre and Dance's Greeks: compelling and bewildering for young and old alike

by Maarten Baanders
3 November 201414 September 2018
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

First story. A naked king crawls at the feet of a woman. She is much taller than him, a goddess. High above him, she holds a bunch of grapes in her hand. Hungry he is! He wants those grapes, all of them. His body is vulnerable. It seems to shiver in the open air. But when it comes to the coveted food, he fetches...

World premieres by MacMillan and Roukens at Vredenburg's Friday

by Thea Derks
27 October 201430 November 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

After years of concerts in the 'Red Box' on the A2, AVROTROS' De Vrijdag van Vredenburg on Radio 4 returned to the centre of Utrecht last summer. The new TivoliVredenburg was built entirely around Vredenburg's former Great Hall, renowned worldwide for its fabulous acoustics. Many a tear was shed at the reopening. To a new hall belongs...

Rowwen Heze was not among them. The funniest tweets about the calves in a row

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 October 201411 July 2016
1 min read
FILM

There was, of course, that ceremony on TV. But there was also a ceremony on Twitter. Which started much earlier than that ceremony on TV. The calves were already falling from the sky while we were still watching the news. We listed the celebration. From half past two, Friday afternoon. [View the story " Calvert tweets from Utrecht....

Beat the jury: decide who wins the Golden Calves

by one of our members
2 October 201411 July 2016
1 min read
FILM

About the curious omissions from the nominations has already been one and other said. And it does clean up, of course: so many films, and then so few really good ones. Or so. Anyway. Friday 3 October is almost Animal Day and Feast of Sacrifice and therefore a great time for the Golden Calfs. Choose your favourites below. Let's see if it matches the results.

Photo: Wijbrand Schaap

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (closing): 'But who knows anything about it? They are all generalists sitting there.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 September 201430 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Wijbrand Schaap: 'The amateur arts. I have personally experienced the cutbacks at the Utrecht Centre for the Arts in Utrecht. First, they were heavily cut back there back in 2001 under Leefbaar. They survived that, and now they were just recovering a bit...' Joop Daalmeijer: ' ...and now everything is going to the schools.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'There are...

Festival 'Alba Rosa Viva' puts forgotten composer centre stage

by Thea Derks
23 September 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

This Sunday, September 28, the one-day festival Alba Rosa Viva will take place in Utrecht, in honour of the 125th birth anniversary of Alba Rosa Viëtor. Alba Rosa who?!!! Well, Alba Rosa Viëtor was an Italian violinist and composer who was born Alba Rosa in Milan in 1889. In 1919, she married Dutch businessman Jan Freseman Viëtor and in...

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (6): 'The Rijksakademie will go to pieces if we don't intervene'

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 September 201430 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

Wijbrand Schaap: 'The basic infrastructure was keelhauled by Zijlstra while it was not yet ripe. That, in its smaller version, now runs the risk of leading to further rigidity.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'That's a good observation. We are also working on that in our Culture Exploration. We are having a lot of discussions, which we are also taking out into the country. We are starting...

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (5) "All balls on Amsterdam", I'm not into that at all.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 201429 March 2022
11 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, MUSIC, THEATER

Wijbrand Schaap: 'Now on the role of cities. One of the reactions on our site is about the role of the randstad in cultural policy. Melle Daamen puts the primacy in the randstad, and goes further than the council in this.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'The council has no position yet.' Wijbrand Schaap: 'But there is something in the Culture Outlook. Cities form...

Gaudeamus organises seminar on music criticism

by Thea Derks
10 September 201430 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Tonight begins the international Gaudeamus Music Week, in which five composers under 30 compete for the coveted Gaudeamus Music Prize. The jury, consisting of Vanessa Lann, Oscar Bianchi and Wim Henderickx selected them from eighty entrants from all over the world. It is the fourth edition in Utrecht of the competition, which started in 1951 in Bilthoven; the new TivoliVredenburg serves as the festival centre....

The world's most beautiful artist foyer is in the Zuiderstrand Theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 August 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC

So the building is a bit redundant, well considered. After years of drawing, tug-of-war and plans for a new venue complex in the city centre of The Hague, local politicians blew off the Spui Forum earlier this year. Now, I'm sure there will have been all kinds of criticisms of that building plan, but the consequences of the lokalos blowing it off are not...

Johan Simons to Ruhr, Rotterdam, Den Bosch, Vienna, Ghent. And Varik.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 August 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

He is the greatest director in the Netherlands. But also the least honourable theatre-maker we know: Johan Simons. The man whose star has been rising since the 1980s is now in Munich. But he is not staying there. After putting the local company Kammerspiele even more firmly on the map internationally, he is looking for new challenges. Den Bosch earlier reported...

Increasing pressure on art talent: 22 new creators to keep a close eye on.

by Niek Hendrix
17 July 20142 April 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

For the past few weeks, academies across the country have been celebrating: a new batch of visual artists graduated and showed themselves to the world. Besides parents, grandparents and a few friends, a lot of art professionals descend on such a graduation presentation. Scouts, in the form of other artists, press, curators, collectors and gallery owners. All these people especially hope not to miss the new discovery and therefore try to be there as early as possible. In some cases, that is even before the artist graduates from the academy. If the talent does not develop as expected, it is a pity, but otherwise you are the discoverer. We join in for a moment, and sought out 22.

Ayn Rand was haunting Dutch theatre as early as 2006.

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 June 20143 November 2024
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Ivo van Hove has not only a play made based on Ayn Roland's novel of ideas The Fountainhead. In 2006, the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam even wanted to base a whole new design of the theatre system on it. Eight years later, we can see that only the negative aspects of Van Hove's vision have been realised.

Two weeks with feet in the sand @Oerol Festival

by one of our members
17 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Experience is unnecessary and there is no upper age limit. At Sharon Fridman, professional dancers and amateurs dance together to create a performance on the beach. Daily guests can also learn about the dance routine.

Alain Platel deals firm death blow to traditionalists in #hollandfestival

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 June 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Talent alone won't get you there. You also need a bit of luck. That luck happened to Alain Platel so often by now that you almost doubt your own wickedness. Still. Those who not only count a composer like Fabrizio Cassol among their friends, but who also gave singing prodigy Serge Kakudji a chance, deserve a bit of luck. What the trio has now achieved with 13 musicians from Kinshasa is downright revolutionary. And a death knell for those who believe that north and south can never really meet. I experienced it on Monday, 16 June. And it still echoes.

Tis Pity! Holland Festival brings the best show to the smallest audience.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

Language is music. Sometimes we forget that. Then we think language is a way of conveying objective meanings. Bit silly. Language is food for all the senses. No strumming is needed under that. That's pure opera without frills. The English-language performance 'tis Pity she's a whore' I saw at the Holland Festival yesterday proves that. Even if you don't understand the seventeenth-century phrases, it is a joy to listen to.

Volksopera is a celebration of Ondiep, but what will be left when the cameras are gone?

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Barely five months between first audition and first performance. That was all the time the makers and local residents had for the Volksopera Ondiep, which experienced the first of two performances on Friday 23 May. It was a warm May evening, touching at times, sometimes dreadful, but fun anyway: classics by Verdi (most of them), Bizet, Puccini and Offenbach, set to Dutch text and sung by complete amateurs. Accompanied, for once, by the Groot Omroepkoor.

'The funeral' causes commotion around Willibrordus Church, but breaks ground for Catholic Church and its rituals

by Madeleine Red
20 May 201430 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Nobody had foreseen, let alone wanted, the commotion caused by the performance series 'The Funeral' in the St Willibrordus Church in Utrecht. The apostolate of St Willibrordus Church feels that the church has been 'desecrated' and no longer wants to hold Masses there, now that Dries Verhoeven is performing 'The Funeral' there for ten evenings with the help of Sens Uitvaarten. These are theatrical funeral masses, with which he has buried the welfare state and social support for art, among other things. But hurting someone with this was never his intention: ''If I seek provocation at all in the project, it is the one with the spectator.''

Concertzender fights for his life again

by Thea Derks
18 April 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

For the umpteenth time in its more than 30 years of existence, the colourful Concertzender going down. That is why there will be a benefit concert at the Amstelkerk in Amsterdam. Greats like Liza Ferschtman, Yuri Honing, Erik Bosgraaf and the Ragazze Quartet will perform for free, to support the station that broadcasts so many live recordings of their concerts. I myself started my career as a radio producer there in 1995, so I would say: come all, and donate generous! For less than two tonnes a year, the station will stay on air.

Johan Simons receives 150,000 euros: 'I thought, that must be for Elsie'

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

This year's Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize goes to Johan Simons. At the announcement, in a meadow below Utrecht, the director was surprised: he suspected the prize was meant for his wife, Elsie de Brauw, widely regarded as one of the best actresses in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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