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Four reasons to go to Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun

After the world premiere of Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun by Seung-Won Oh yesterday at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the audience stood up as one to applaud Slagwerk Den Haag and the soloists. It was therefore a magical performance, which will be repeated at De Doelen in Rotterdam and at Theater aan de... 

'I feel the need to make everything right in the world stronger than ever.' Laura van Dolron on 'Loving'

Previously, her performance allowed her to think heartbreakingly through love, infatuation and heartbreak. Now her performance is about love in the broadest possible sense. Earlier, she made theatre in which she wrestled with questions. Now she shows that struggle much less and shares the answers she has found with the audience. Earlier, she could still claim... 

Festival 'Alba Rosa Viva' puts forgotten composer centre stage

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... 

Hoe moet het nu verder met Rotterdam? 5 redenen waarom Simons het moeilijk krijgt

De grote theatermaker Johan Simons heeft laten weten dat hij naar Rotterdam wil komen, om een groot Europees theater op te zetten. Hij ziet zijn kans schoon nu er over twee jaar een plek vrijkomt in de artistieke leiding van het stadsgezelschap van de Maasstad, het ro theater. Wanneer ze Simons aanstellen, kan er groots gedacht worden, zegt Simons. En… 

8 enticing words about Festival Boulevard.

Het is het meest ambitieuze zomerfestival van Nederland: Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch wil niet alleen het mooiste schouwburgtoneel van de lage landen laten zien, maar ook de vetste spektakels, en jongste nieuwe makers en de vrolijkste buschauffeurs. En dat allemaal in 10 dagen, in eens tad waar de lokale krant zijn best doet om cultuur zo eng mogelijk te maken. We vatten de boel even voor u samen in 8 verleidelijke woorden.
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Alsof Louis van Gaal vier jaar lang de lokale FC komt coachen. ...

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Four opera myths shattered @Oerol festival

Is a performance opera if not a note is sung? If the audience sits on a stand in a car park with headphones on their heads? Or if a man cries out like a dog with a tongue out of his mouth throughout the performance? The definitions of opera are stretched quite a bit at five Oerol performances. Interestingly, hardly anyone calls the performance opera. By necessity, musical theatre is often used, but that term does not really fall into a warm bath.
Een jaar of vijf geleden nam mij...

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BEST RELATED SECRET #1: Susanne Marx, Karin Spaink and Girl Loos in Eastern Bloc

Susanne Marx is at Oostblok, the former Muiderpoort theatre in Amsterdam, for two days with the performance 'Meisje Loos'. You could call 'Meisje Loos' a critical family performance: for young and old, about growing up and playing with compulsory roles, male-female, white-black, dancer-rapper, harp or beatbox. Genderbending as a theme for the whole family, with a fringe programme featuring Karin Spaink, Linda Duits, Machteld Zee, Rickie Edens and Alex Bakker perform and engage in conversation. 

7 confusing reasons why the stage version of The Fountainhead rattles, but you should still go.

Topical again, now that Toneelgroep Amsterdam is reprising the show, my review from 2014. This week, the stage adaptation of The Fountainhead premiered. The book is terrible, the performance rattles, the actors win only narrowly. The content, however, creates even more confusion, which is why I won't stop you from going to see it. And Hans Kesting, of course. I put it this way.

Bitter tears, screaming loneliness. Kušej does Fassbinder @HollandFestival 2014

Nice 'old-fashioned' Holland Festival: a special line-up that confronts the audience with the implications of their own position and viewing behaviour. And that's just as well with Fassbinder's 'Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'. Melodrama was no stranger to the German theatre and film wizard. The bitter tears are of a fashion queen and her entourage, clinical is the setting, wafer-thin the story, and yet unusually exciting how this lady drama develops.

'I did not have sexual relations with that woman', no way: surprising Don Juan at Theaterschip Deventer

In an immaculate virginal white uniform, Don Juan gives a slick press conference for his marriage to Elvira. We hear the famous words with which Bill Clinton denied the Lewinsky affair. Actor Ischa den Blanken's grin speaks volumes when he says: 'These allegations are false.' We know: he is lying.
Of toch niet?
Clintons uitspraak liep uit op een verhit debat over wat nu precies onder ‘sexual relations’ moest worden verstaan. Ook in Echt niet! draait alles niet zozee...

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Hunting for art in the Bijlmer with Google Maps

Na het mede-organiseren van FATFORM, een radicale serie kunstevenementen in Amsterdam Zuidoost – met woeste crossover exposities en optredens op de daken van een verlaten winkelcentrum en een parkeergarage, heeft het collectief rond creatief productiebureau Vinger.nl zich gestort op de nieuwe editie van de Open Art Route 2014. En dat wordt wat.
De Open Art Route is te bezoeken in het weekend van 21 en 22 juni, en is een open atelierroute langs de vijf (!) grote kunstbroedplaatsen in de Bijlmer. ...

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Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

Na deels of zelfs volkomen mislukte producties van Falstaff doet De Nationale Opera nu alles goed. Twintig jaar na de vorige poging in het Holland Festival krijgt Verdi’s laatste opera een gedroomde uitvoering die maar zo publiekslieveling van het hele festival kan worden.

 
En dat bij een dramatische komedie, een genre dat notoir lastig ten tonele te voeren is. Maar al te vaak wordt de opera  over de oude, dikke ridder Sir John Falstaff, voor wie het leven draait om eten, drinken en vrouw...

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Faust: eye- and ear-pleasing, but distant

In Catholic Limburg, I was taught catechism every week in primary school. "What are we here on earth for?", asked Mr pastor. With the whole class we droned out the answer: "To become happy here and in the hereafter." A similar question occurred to me last night during the performance of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod at The National Opera. "To what end do we go to the theatre?" For me, the answer is: "To be touched, purified, yes maybe even happy." Given the rave reviews, I expected that this would indeed be the case.

Woman, man, film - does Cannes have something to make up for?

Vanavond opent de 67ste editie van het filmfestival van Cannes met Grace of Monaco, een biopic met een grote hoofdrol voor Nicole Kidman. Juryvoorzitter van 's werelds belangrijkste filmevenement is de Nieuw-Zeelandse filmmaakster Jane Campion. Ook drie van de overige zes juryleden zijn vrouwen. Heeft Cannes iets goed te maken?
In 2012 was er enige heibel toen de feministische groep La Barbe het feit hekelde dat alle films in de hoofdcompetitie van dat jaar door mannen gemaakt bleken te zijn. Me...

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'Already depressed when the sateh is finished.' Lineke Rijxman on 'The Freudjes' by Mugmetdegoudentand.

Update: performance The Freudjes has been postponed for now, until probably later this year.
'Ik vind het theater. Psychoanalyse is een theatraal gegeven.' Lineke Rijxman is gefascineerd door psychiaters. Niet omdat ze er zelf de deur plat loopt, maar omdat psychiatrie een dankbaar gegeven is voor iemand die toneel maakt. Daarom moest het er eens van komen: een stuk over Freud. Maar dan niet over Sigmund zelf, of over zijn familie. Het stuk “De Freudjes (Geen Familie)” gaat over drie zusjes in h...

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OFFline - OFFprojects-photo MIlenaTwiehaus

5 ways to renew dance in 1 performance. Go OFFline in Korzo

As a museum, if you want to participate a little, you have to lead the audience through the presentation interactively. You should be able to do the same with dance, choreographer Amos Ben-Tal must have thought with his project OFFline. He shows 5 ways. In a performance.

1. begin anders
De veelgebruikte formule 'op je stoel gaan zitten en een voorstelling aanschouwen' is bij OFFline van danscollectief OFFPROJECTS direct overboord gezet. Je wandelt in het begin door diverse ruimtes van het Korzo theater en gaat aan de slag met i...

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Sometimes a good story needs to be told, not just imagined.

Some art needs a story. Then a canvas on the wall with the caption 'Untitled' is not enough. The performance 'Laaroussa' (Bride) by French-Tunisian brother and sister Selma and Soufiane Ouissi falls into that category. As extraordinary as their physical presence on a dark stage is, without explanations beforehand and a Q&A afterwards, it all says precious little.

Is that bad?

Video: why women don't play a role in art history, and how to (not) fix it

A sitcom they already have. Women. Girls is a resounding success, so who better than slightly snobby Girls star Jemima Kirke to explain why women have been kept out of art? Indeed. No one, they thought at the rather innovative Tate, and so they had her explain in a cheerful but also aptly-named way where things went wrong between the art world... 

2 nights of sex, booze and relaxed writers: a mini guide

Writers Unlimited is the most fun literary festival in the world. We can know, because we have been there twice now. Whether the comparison with all those 20 million other literature festivals in the world is entirely pure, we don't know. We do know that a lot of the writers who attend Writers Unlimited agree with us. At least during those few days and especially nights in January.
A few reasons.
1: Seks
Op Writers Unlimited gaat minstens één programma altijd over sek...

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Figaro and The Fonz on a scooter in an entertaining choreography for set pieces

It is the turnout of the evening: riding around on a scooter, barber Figaro gets involved in a crazy adventure in which Count Almaviva wants to snatch the beautiful Rosina from the hands of her guardian Doctor Bartolo. Three Bertas, meanwhile, literally tear Basilio's clothes off in an ingenious dance in front of three sets in which the action moves at lightning speed from inside to outside and... 
Wacht even. Drie Berta’s?
Jawel, regisseur Laurence Dale durft het aan om Rossini te  ‘corrig...

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IDFA 2013 opent met strijd in Syrië

Een beetje decadent was het wel gisteravond. In feestelijke stemming met het glas in de hand naar de aftrap van de 26e editie van het documentairefestival IDFA in Tuschinski, en dan anderhalf uur kijken naar de lotgevallen van een groepje Syrische opstandelingen in de volledig kapotgeschoten stad Homs.

Het met steun van het IDFA Bertha Fonds gerealiseerde Return to Homs van Talal Derki toont in de vorm van ongepolijste direct cinema een beeld van de strijd zoals we dat - alle media ten spijt - ...

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Subtle but dull Fokine fine lead to Van Manen's 'Corps' and promising premiere of EGPC at the Dutch National Ballet

The bodies of Fokine, Van Manen and EGPC in the Dutch National Ballet's new programme 'Corps' are vastly different, though they all dance a form of ballet. It is the differences in stakes (decorative or expressive, stylised control or individual surrender, full of symbolism or stripped of it) and the key role for the ensemble that make the programme extremely interesting. Besides the fact that EGPC seems to be on its way to an artistic breakthrough.

The Red Piece - photo by Maarten Vanden Abeele

Oppressive (audience) manipulation in The Red Piece

'Don't let anyone leave the room without having experienced or felt something.' That is surely and surely the mission with Flemish Ann Van den Broek's work. If the mood swings in The Red Piece don't do much to you, your retinas will burn out from the changes in lighting design. You might just think you are being manipulated as an audience. But you gladly allow it.

Mondrian, Verhoeven and human rights in Netherlands-Russia year

With all the critical coverage of Russia that Putin and his supporters provoke, we would almost forget that we are in the middle of the Netherlands-Russia year sitting. A screening of Paul Verhoeven's war film will take place tonight at the Pioner Gorky Park in Moscow Black Book, as a kick-off to

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