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Paris

Netherlands closes a special embassy

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 October 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This week, the curtain officially fell on Theatre Emabassy, a club of inspired people who had Dutch artists collaborate with artists in developing countries such as Honduras, Bhutan and Congo. The performances that resulted were only sporadically seen in the Netherlands, but every now and then a project made a broad impression here too, such as 'Op Hoop van Zegen', played by real fishermen, but from Mali.

It was one of the first of the many funeral ceremonies on Wednesday (October 3),...

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Faustin Linyekula stages the "fundamental resemblance between Negroes and ballerinas" with "La Création du Monde" (Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud), #HF12.

by Fransien van der Putt
13 June 201226 January 2018
4 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

The 1923 Afro-Cubist dance classic can be seen at Music Theatre today and tomorrow, commented on by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula. "Europeans have no idea that they are denying the shared history of Africa and Europe. Belgium is part of everyday life in Congo, but Belgians hardly know anything about Congo, or it is the clichés about poverty

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CineCrowd shows at short film festival Go Short that crowdfunding works

by Leo Bankersen
17 March 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

In the short Dutch film Ceci n'est pas un rêve, which premiered at the festival Go Short (Nijmegen, 14-18 March), the cityscape of Paris slowly transforms into a dreamscape. You could call it a surrealist documentary, in which filmmaker Amos Mulder has incorporated influences from early German film pioneer Walter Ruttmann as well as modern computer animation. With further...

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Originality rewarded at Oscars 2012

by Leo Bankersen
27 February 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

You can hardly claim it was a surprise result, because for weeks - what shall I say, months - The Artist had been mentioned as a surefire Oscar favourite. Still, the crowning of this largely silent French black-and-white film that pays tribute to the end of the silent film era in Hollywood is proof that originality still counts in...

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Enschede population wants legoblocks church preserved. Support asked for twitter action @stoanloatn

by one of our members
29 September 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

What art can accomplish. At least Enschede gained a church, thanks to the people of festival Grenswerk, which lasts until 2 October. Because, where there used to be a somewhat dull square next to Enschede's railway station, there is now a church made of colourful Lego blocks. Intended as a multifunctional festival pavilion. Temporary too, because the lego building blocks can...

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#HF11 'The select' is neat and well behaved and on stage lacks the raw emotion of Hemingway's novel

by one of our members
18 June 201130 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Photo Mark Barton Could Prime Minister Rutte cum suis' anti-advertising by dismissing art as destined for leftist types and other idiots already be having an effect? You would almost think so when you see the rather poorly filled halls during the performances at the Holland Festival. There are more than ten people sitting in the front row, but still the...

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#HF11: They're going to make another big cut to the Russians at Toneelgroep Amsterdam

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Cologne and Paris may not have been built in a day, but it took less than three days to fly to the moon. A warped comparison to say that a show that rattles three days before its premiere can turn out to be an unimaginable hit on the premiere itself. So something like that could happen with The Russians, the latest show

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#HF11 Unadorned, austere and powerful "Flûte Enchantée" by Peter Brook

by one of our members
10 June 201129 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Papageno showed off without his feathers last night. Indeed, the entire direction of Une flûte enchantée was an unadorned pleasure. Sober. Integral. You can't get a Dutch audience wilder than with such an approach. Compliments, then, to Peter Brook. At the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ was the Dutch premiere of Brook's adaptation of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. The production turned...

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"That of the other person being hell. I can get so worked up about that": Laura van Dolron makes theatrical mincemeat of Sartre.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 April 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

She is a 'stand-up philosopher'. With that self-coined term, she created a new form of theatre, halfway between cabaret, a lecture and theatre. She plays with her own role, deploys actors as if they were puppets, but ultimately turns out to be their plaything, as good as that of fate. In short: Laura van Dolron is a case apart. She makes...

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The deeper caverns of an adult film festival. Sven Schlijper on safari during IFFR 2011

by one of our members
5 February 201130 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, Literature House, SPECIALS

The International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its fortieth edition with a fitting XL programme. That Roman numeral XL not only indicates respectable age. It also says something about size: this fortieth also bursts with the intiguing programme, with screenings at no less than forty locations throughout the inner city of Rotterdam. Inside the festival walls is...

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