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Unmercifully gracious, 'Shirokuro' builds on hammered Ustvolskaya @HollandFestival

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The collaboration between pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama and choreographer Nicole Beutler in the performance 'Shirokuro', seen last week at the Holland Festival, provides a beautiful perspective on two piano sonatas by Galina Ustvolskaya. 'Shirokuro' means black and white in Japanese. Despite strong visuals and impressive co-protagonists on stage, the Russian composer's absolute music is never explained and therefore retains its sheer power.

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Russian flowers and Beatrix @HollandFestival

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Gorgeous dresses, big sunglasses and high heels. It is clear that the performance by the famous Moscow theatre company Theatre of Nations also attracted a large Russian audience. Men in suits occasionally talking to their sleeves seem to testify to Russian billionaires present. But nothing could be further from the truth when suddenly Princess Beatrix and her entourage enter the auditorium. 

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'El Djoudour' is interesting as a cultural-political project, but does not convince artistically @Holland Festival

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Mannnen en vrouwen samen op de dansvloer, het is in grote delen van de moslimwereld nog steeds verboden. Twee jaar geleden stond de dansvoorstelling 'Nya' op het Holland Festival, een stuk geschreven op de huid van negen Algerijnse dansers, merendeels B-Boyz van de straat, maar ook de zoon van een balletlerares uit Algiers deed mee. Dit jaar keerden de Franse choreograaf Abou Lagraa, zijn vrouw Nawal Ait Benalla en een groot deel van de Algerijnse cast terug in het Holland Fest...

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Abou Lagraa: gender separation frustrates Arab man

'That men and women in the Islamic world live apart from each other, that is a big frustration,' says choreographer Abou Lagraa. 'That is what El Djoudour is about.'
 
Door zijn achtergrond heeft Abou Lagraa een bijzondere, verhelderende kijk op deze problematiek. Hij werd in Frankrijk geboren, als zoon van Algerijnse ouders. Zijn familie is islamitisch. Abou Lagraa zelf ook, al doet hij daar in de praktijk niets aan. Maar hoe islamitisch zijn ouders ook waren, ze brachten hem volledige o...

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Meistersinger @HollandFestival convinces musically only

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Cowardly knight defeats untalented rule fetishist with help from wise cobbler and wins singing contest and the hand of coquettish goldsmith's daughter. Or: boy meets girl on the streets of Nuremberg and decides to enter the local version of Nuremberg's got talent. The judges send him away, but he gets the audience vote. Wagner wouldn't be Wagner, however, if he didn't take about five hours for this story.

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Peter Blok does a Don Draper

Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men.... 

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Research shows: nothing so immutable as the art public

Er gaan meer mensen naar populaire kunst dan naar 'hoge' of 'canonieke' kunst. Onderzoeker Andries van den Broek heeft dat onderzocht. Daarom zijn er nu cijfers die het woord 'populair' en 'elitair' verklaren. Dus als u dacht: populair betekent vanzelf dat er meer mensen naartoe gaan: dat klopt. Het Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau heeft het uitgezocht.
Helemaal zinloos is het onderzoek naar het publieksbereik van de kunsten, dat het Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau onlangs presenteerde echter ook weer ...

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Culture Council with two new women on business tour.

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Twee nieuwe leden van de Raad voor Cultuur laten opnieuw zien hoe het denken over kunst verandert: Jessica Mahn en Annick Schramme zijn vrouw, en dat was nodig in dit witte mannenbolwerk, maar ze zijn vooral zakelijk ingesteld. Mahn is partner bij wereldspeler KPMG, Schramme is hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen en gespecialiseerd in Cultuurmanagement.
De raad, ooit ingesteld als adviescollege waari...

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How to choose from the profusion offered by the Tefaf

Stel je heb een klein kapitaal op zak. En je gaat een dagje naar de Tefaf. Dat is een feestelijk gevoel: een kunstcadeau voor jezelf. Maar eenmaal binnen is de kans groot dat de schrik je om het hart slaat. Want hoe te kiezen uit 30.000 objecten? In die 265 stands van vermaarde galeries uit twintig landen: Argentinië, Verenigde Staten, Canada, Italië, Japan, Canada?En in welke hoek ga je op zoek? Oudheden? Of modern, antiquair, design? Ga je voor een beeld, een doek,  sieraad, stoel of een boek?...

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Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13

John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mostly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in

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Does it luckily still involve sex on #wu13

How many male genitalia Yasmine Allas had weighed in her hand. For a while, that was the question during Writers Unlimited's most shameless programme to date. This latenight talk show addressed the question of how shameless writers actually dare to be these days. Kristien Hemmerechts, always good for a few firm statements, met her peers in

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Heartfelt plea against Arab shame culture #wu13

De Libanese schrijfster Hanaan as-Sjaikh (Beiroet, Libanon, 1945) opende donderdag 17 januari Wrtiters Unlimited met een vlammend betoog tegen de Arabische schaamtecultuur. Deze is volgens de schrijfster wier boeken Het verhaal van Zahra, Vrouwen tussen hemel en zand, Beiroet blues en Alleen in Londen in het Nederlands zijn vertaald, zo diep in de samenleving verankerd dat familierelaties en vriendschappen er constant door onder druk staan. Ze geeft een voorbeeld:
...'de vriend van mijn broer [...

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2012 cinema year: attendance stable, Skyfall and Intouchables top the list

De grootse verrassing van het bioscoopjaar 2012 was misschien wel dat twee totaal verschillende films de grootste publiekstrekkers waren. Op de eerste plaats de nieuwe James Bond Skyfall, natuurlijk, met bijna 2 miljoen bezoeken. Maar dat de nummer twee (1,2 miljoen) een Franse komedie over een invalide rijkaard en zijn zwarte vriend van de straat zou worden had aanvankelijk niemand verwacht. Intouchables, uitgebracht door de kleine arthousedistributeur Filmfreak is de surprisehit van het afgelo...

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Marion von Tilzer wins Women's Composition Prize MCN with Rote Schuhe

Amsterdam, 8 October 2012 During the well-attended Classical Music Day at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the prize winners of the competition for women composers were announced this afternoon. The day was organised for the 11th time by Music centre Netherlands (MCN), which will cease to exist on 1 January. Thanks to an anonymous bequest, explicitly intended for women composers, three prizes could be awarded.

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VARA honours Barbara Strozzi, tone poet at lonely level

Liefst acht bundels met aria’s, cantates, duetten en geestelijke werken publiceerde Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677). Zij genoot groot aanzien in de door haar vader opgerichte Accademia degli unisoni, en leefde van haar composities. Uitzonderlijk in een tijd waarin vrouwen geacht werden non of echtgenote te worden. Van 1 t/m 5 oktober klinkt haar muziek dagelijks in het programma Componist van de Week van de VARA op Radio 4, tussen 19.30 en 20.00 uur.
Helaas geldt nog altijd het cliché dat hele volks...

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In Accordion Wrestling, 10 Finnish wrestlers compete with 1 accordion player. The weirdest show on #hf12

One by one, Helsinki Nelson's wrestlers come running onto the stage of the City Theatre. On the mat is the biggest of the bunch, lying on his stomach, stretched out in a defensive position. Alternately, his opponent tries to tip him, pushing him flat on the mat with both his shoulders. In vain. Accordion punk rocker Kommi Pohjonen comes on, and... 

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