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mesh theatre and dance

BERNADETTE STOKVIS LEAVES END OF SUMMER AS BUSINESS DIRECTOR OF MAAS THEATRE AND DANCE

by one of our members
24 April 202424 April 2024
2 min read
policy, PRESS, PODIUM ART

Bernadette Stokvis is leaving after 11 years of service as business director of Maas theatre and dance. Her successor will be recruited soon. Stokvis has been business director at Maas since 2013. Before that, she was initiator, artistic coordinator and later business director of Korzo The Hague. Thanks in part to her leadership, Maas is a BIS company and also the largest theatre and dance company for youth in...

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The best shit show in years comes from Rotterdam

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 February 202418 February 2024
2 min read
Featured, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

It seems that at the inset performances of Maas Theatre&Dans' latest, 'Stuntkont', a few schools have already complained. Classes even walked out. Logical perhaps, at least for adult school teachers who can't take poop-and-pee jokes. Children from 6 to 106 can only laugh really hard at them. So poop-and-pee jokes turn out to be more amusing than I myself expected. At least when they are made...

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CHILDREN KICK OFF FIRST CHILDREN'S THEATRE WEEK AT MAASPODIUM

by one of our members
12 October 2023
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART, THEATER

ROTTERDAM - On Wednesday 18 October at 16:30, the kids of the Maaspodium can be followed via livestream as they give a look before and behind the scenes at various theatres throughout the Netherlands, kicking off the first ever National Children's Theatre Week. Together with presenter Tirsa With, they will show how much fun theatre is! As a new initiative of the National Theatre Fund,...

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Farewell performance 'I'm not here for a while' by Moniek Merkx must be seen

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

How beautiful art for children can be when a real artist is involved. When themes like death, falling in love, loneliness and exclusion are made palpable in such a beautiful way that you step outside with a deeper feeling about life? With theatre-maker Moniek Merkx, you can. A year ago, she stepped down as artistic director of...

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I'm not here for a while (8-108): The performance that literally wasn't there for a moment

by one of our members
23 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, PODIUM ART

On Thursday 7 April 2022, family performance Ik ben er even niet (8-108) will premiere at the Maaspodium, Rotterdam. The show turned out to be aptly titled, as Ik ben er even niet was actually supposed to premiere in December 2021. But due to corona lockdown, both the premiere and the rest of the tour could not go ahead. Now...

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MESH GIVES LIGHT THANKS TO CHILDREN

by one of our members
13 January 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS

The façade of the Maaspodium in Rotterdam will be colourfully lit with children's drawings for the next few weeks. In the idea of "theatre gives colour to life", children could submit colour plates over the past few weeks, which the theatre uses to drag its façade through the dark days and a lockdown. Business leader Bernadette Stokvis: "Children literally keep our stage alive". A lockdown during the...

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TWO LIVESTREAMS AND PRESS CONFERENCE FOR TODDLERS BY MAAS THEATRE AND DANCE

by one of our members
28 December 202129 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SERVICE

The weekend of Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 January 2022 will be a special theatre weekend despite the lockdown, because then Maas theatre and dance will broadcast live two existing performances as well as a unique Toddler Press Conference. The Great Save Your Ass Show (6+) and Lampje (8-108 yrs) were due to play several times in front of an audience during the Christmas holidays, but will instead play...

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Jolanda Spoel seamlessly forges hip-hop and classical together in Melomaniac. And that is quite difficult

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 October 202130 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Featured, MUSIC, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPONSORED

'They come from two worlds, but work together towards something that is one. Jolanda Spoel has done that perfectly'. Katinka Reinders, head of education at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, is enthusiastic after one of the first play-in performances of Melomaniac at Maas Theatre & Dance. Just now, a room full of somewhat timid secondary school students turned into a churning group of lovers of...

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New Maas Theatre and Dance management sets high stakes with peppery game show

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 October 202129 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

We spend much of our lives saving our asses. You'd better be a bit cheerful about that, because life isn't manufacturable anyway. These are no small life lessons that René Geerlings, the new boss of Rotterdam-based Maas Theatre and Dance, deploys in his first play as artistic director. Still...

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