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We are the forest. Christiane Jatahy achieves maximum impact at #HF16

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 June 201630 March 2022
4 min read
VISUAL, FILM, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

There are countries in the world, where the boundaries between art disciplines are not as sharply drawn as they are here. The Holland Festival, under the new leadership of Ruth MacKenzie, is catching us up. She is bringing events here where the boundaries between visual art, performance, video, film and performing arts can no longer be drawn. Events that generate meaning in ways that are quite new to us, such as The Encounter, last week, and Gardens Speak, later this week.

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Holland Festival 2016: urgent, challenging and inviting

by Maarten Baanders
10 February 201620 February 2017
8 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, FILM, Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

Never before has the Holland Festival placed itself at the centre of society as it is today. The 2016 programme is steeped in the turbulent times in which we live. The Netherlands holds the presidency of the European Union this spring. Artistic director Ruth Mackenzie has taken this fact unflinchingly to give 'Europe' a wide place in the programming. In presenting...

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Rotterdam under the sign of Arab film

by Leo Bankersen
11 November 201529 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Arab Camera film festival in Rotterdam opens on a light-hearted note from an unknown film country. In From A to B, three rich kids from the Emirates learn to stand on their own two feet.

Farewell and nostalgia define 33rd Night of Poetry

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 September 201529 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, MUSIC

Listening to a short poem is sometimes hard work. This was evident during the Night of Poetry, held for the 33rd time on Saturday 19 September. At a poem that ends in brief toneless silence from the poet after four short sentences, the experts separate themselves from the amateurs in the audience. Clap quickly, before the next poem is over. Or.

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Masses in the Kloosterkerk (photo Christiaan de Roo)

Mozart, Kortjakje and the princess

by Frans van Hilten
18 September 201530 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PERSONAL

Last weekend 250 years ago, nine-year-old Mozart arrived in The Hague with his parents and sister Nannerl. He arrived on 11 September 1765 to perform at the stadholder court. Due to illness, the Mozarts ended up staying for nine months and the young composer wrote several works here. Harpsichordist and conductor Jörn Boysen organised the festival Mozart in The...

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Zeros, ones and the public; what is digital art?

by Helen Westerik
6 June 201529 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival

The new format of the Holland festival puts the spectator first. Plenty of visible events, free performances and being in the middle of the city. It's director Ruth McKenzie's trademark. It is therefore not surprising that she does not shy away from the digital universe. After all, what better way to share than digital art? But what then is digital art...

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Cemeteries actually want more theatre. Get used to it.

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201528 May 2015
6 min read
DANS

Last week, the planned dance performance Q61 Cemetery at a cemetery in Alkmaar caused a stir. After threats, it was cancelled. Still, we have to get used to theatre in the cemetery. Because it is changing. A reaction from a bereaved person and the cemetery manager. It was big news. And it started with summary proceedings. Relative Leen Spaans objected to a dance performance at...

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The whole world is a fan of the UFC, now the Netherlands

by Daniel Bertina
10 April 201530 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Two men in a cage. Super trained and muscular to the marrow. Small gloves, bit in, tok on for protection. Scantily clad except for bermuda shorts. Some reinforcing tape wrapped around a joint here and there. At Stockholm's Tele2 Arena, a 30,000-plus crowd screams like mad. This modern gladiatorial spectacle is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

"It's TIME!!!" roars ringmaster Bruce Buffer. Swede Alexander Gustafsson and American Anthony 'Ru...

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Holland Festival throws open the doors and gets fresher than ever #hf15

by Maarten Baanders
28 January 201528 January 2015
5 min read
ACTUAL

Just over a month earlier than usual, the Holland Festival is presenting its new programme this season. There is every reason for this. With the arrival of Ruth Mackenzie as artistic director, a fresh wind is blowing through the festival. Annet Lekkerkerker talks about the changes in the video below. The presentation of the brochure - finally readable thanks to a new design - shows...

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One and a half million for art. Provided it is directly demonstrably useful

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 July 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

One and a half million euros sounds quite a lot. So a cry of joy will be heard here and there now that Jet Bussemaker is allocating that extra amount to culture. After all, this is yet another make up after the almost 300 million her ministry took from the sector earlier. However, the conditions the culture minister attaches to the money tell a different story: the money is only for art that is demonstrably useful.

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

by Fransien van der Putt
20 June 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Susanne Marx is at Oostblok, the former Muiderpoort theatre in Amsterdam, for two days with the performance 'Girl Loos'. You could call 'Meisje Loos' a critical family performance: for young and old, about growing up and playing with obligatory 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.

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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.

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VPRO honours Reinbert de Leeuw

by Thea Derks
8 May 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

On 8 September next, pianist, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw hopes to turn 75 and this will be celebrated with a range of events. These include a three-day festival dedicated to him in The Hague and Amsterdam at the end of September, and he will be the central composer in the NTR Saturday Matinee next season. In addition, a CD box set of his recordings will be released, and later this year I hope to publish my recently completed biography on Reinbert de Leeuw. Together with producer Aad van Nieuwkerk, I made ...

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'FATFORM is fat enough for all free radicals'

by Daniel Bertina
28 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Two years ago, a couple of artists from collective FUCK and production company Vinger.nl annexed the roof of Kraaiennest shopping centre in Amsterdam Southeast, and stomped FATFORM out of the ground. An elusive art project, rooftop party and free state. Now they have moved up a hundred metres.

Sandwiched between the drab, modernist Bijlmer flats, megalomaniac high-rise and new buildings, the Djame Masdjied Taibah mosque, vacant shopping malls and underground station Crow's Nest houses the new incarnation of...

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'More room for proven talent'

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 April 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Historical material, shall we call it. The letter from Halbe Zijlstra, outgoing State Secretary for Culture, and Uri Rosenthal, the equally outgoing Foreign Minister on the international cultural policy of populist Holland. As cold and matter-of-fact as the fallen Rutte government dealt with culture, so is the formulation of cultural policy in an international perspective, according to the...

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Ambitions City Promotion made Grenswerk hopeless.

by Henri Drost
22 February 20128 July 2016
5 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

Festival Grenswerk was told on Tuesday 21 February that it must stop after three successful years because it does not match the ambitions of Stichting Enschede Promotie. The festival set up in 2009 was given a thick set of demands by the alderman that it could not meet after a scathing report by this revamped VVV.

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Small selection of great suffering for Christmas week

by one of our members
22 December 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, BECOME A MEMBER

There will definitely be no investigation into a corporatisation of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. According to the proposal, a council majority wants to have the opportunities to earn more money and save on expenses investigated. A political party earlier suggested that many more visitors and revenue could be brought in with a less elitist programme. At the Money Museum in Utrecht

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Order of Tax Advisers severely criticises VAT increase for performing arts: 'theatres will be in exceptional position'

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 November 20108 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

The Rutte government is defending the VAT increase on admission tickets to theatres and concerts, claiming that it will straighten out an exception for the arts. However, this does not appear to be true, according to a response from the Order of Tax Advisers to the proposal. "The Bar Association additionally points out that the explanatory memorandum notes that for the performing arts on...

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