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Rotterdam

Rotterdam Theatre: more music, more visitors

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 January 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Everywhere, arts attendance is falling dramatically, except, for now, in Rotterdam. There, the Rotterdamnse Schouwburg managed to keep the number of paying visitors the same, or even increase slightly to over 147,500, in its first real cultural disaster year 2012. In its own press release, the management (currently in the hands of Jan Zoet) attributes this to sharper programming and revivals of successful productions, and an increase in the number of concerts:

A world of strange wonders where nothing is right making everything right

by Henri Drost
4 January 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

Einstein on the beach: a five-hour minimalist opera with no plot, no intermission. An opera with an almost mythical status, with images that have become theatre icons, but which hardly anyone has actually seen.

Disbanded Tilburg dance innovators go into fitness for parkinson's patients

by one of our members
26 December 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Sat another note in the post. One of many, these weeks. About a club that had only just been set up by the government. With the accompanying millions, which because of the PVV's vindictiveness have now been dumped in the local ditch. Its creators have already found a new purpose for themselves a few months ago: to improve the well-being of Parkinson's patients. But Dance House Station South is now thus a thing of the past. We quote:

Dutch opening Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, which this year also embraces television

by Leo Bankersen
13 December 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Vijftien jaar na Peter Delpeuts Felice, Felice krijgt het International Film Festival Rotterdam weer een Nederlandse opening. De 42ste editie van dit toonaangevende evenement gaat op 23 januari van start met de wereldpremière van The resurrection of an asshole van Guido van Driel, zo maakte festivaldirecteur Rutger Wolfson vanmiddag bekend.

Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

by one of our members
16 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
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What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...

VVD gets it right: theatre closed for two days

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 September 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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Quite a few VVD people were angry with us, because last year we made the Rotterdam alderman for culture caught stupid: she argued that cultural institutions did not need to open during the week at all, because hard-working people only had time for art on weekends anyway.

Culture Council hands out in second round

by one of our members
13 August 201229 March 2022
1 min read
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Yet money for the National Academy of Visual Arts, money for an orchestra merger in the south of the Netherlands and 4.7 million for a knowledge institute for amateur art. The clear-cutting of the Dutch cultural sector has become a little less extreme thanks to a second advice from the Council for Culture. Besides the aforementioned positive assessment, there is also money for a knowledge institute for the creative sector

Volkskrant fails: not 'region' but Randstad suffers

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 August 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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I would like to take a moment to put this one to you. Quote from this morning's volkskrant, where editor Harmen Bockma makes a valiant attempt to list all the figures of culture carnage, but fails a little in doing so. It also remains difficult to identify the fallout in the basic infrastructure add to the dropout at the fund, but it is proving altogether difficult to discern what

Nancy Wiltink: 'a good story has to smell like blood'

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 June 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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People asking for clarity often clamour for "names and (back) numbers", but in classical music, that fuss with names and numbers is precisely why nobody understands anything anymore. So, according to ex-marketer and now storyteller Nancy Wiltink, it's not only about your story, but also whether that story is

Soul Seek is the world's first internet opera. With a nod to Mulholland Drive.

by Daniel Bertina
10 May 201230 March 2022
4 min read
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"For me, opera is much more than just music," says Israeli director Sjaron Minailo. "It may sound a bit pompous, but my internet opera is completely in the tradition of Richard Wagner. Soul Seek is really a multimedia gesamtkunstwerk, in which fashion, web design and digital media, play, cinema, theatre, dance and experimental music merge into one. Without one element...

Halbe Zijlstra has made history.

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 April 201229 March 2022
4 min read
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After the presentation of the Rotterdam and The Hague arts recommendations, and a few days to weeks before the harsh judgements of the Council for Culture, and a few months before the devastating reports of the Performing Arts Fund, it is starting to become clear how drastically the Dutch cultural sector is being hit

Read More "Halbe Zijlstra has made history.

Cultural merger fever could have serious consequences

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

In Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Theaterfestival, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and a few more clubs will 'work closely together'. In The Hague, this applies to Het Nationale Toneel and youth theatre house Stella Den Haag, while in Rotterdam

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...

Berlin 2012 - Dutch debut Hemel wins Critics Award

by Leo Bankersen
18 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Dutch film Hemel was chosen as best film in the Forum section for young cinema by the jury of international critics at the Berlin festival. This is a fine success for director Sacha Polak who delivers her first feature-length film with this drama about a young woman who has lost her way in search of love. Heaven, after a...

Culture Council given little leeway

by one of our members
16 February 201230 March 2022
3 min read
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He barely showed his face in recent months, rarely engaging in debate with artists or the public. Now that the mega budget cut on culture is law, and nothing can be changed about it until 2016, we can follow Halbe Zijlstra's victory lap again. Also on twitter.

IFFR 2012: Raw and sensitive Serbian debut awarded twice

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

Smiling, she lets a boy film her with his mobile phone and she happily wriggles into lascivious curves in the process. But when he really wants to see her breasts she flinches. Yet later she will go much, much further and she gets staggeringly little in return. Jasna, the rebellious protagonist from Cliff (Clip), is a Serbian teen...

41st International Film Festival Rotterdam opens with disturbing French drama 38 Témoins

by Leo Bankersen
25 January 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Compared to previous editions, you could almost call the choice of opening film that kicks off the Rotterdam Film Festival tonight almost un-Rotterdamian. No wild young debut, exotic Asian or artistic crossover this time. The French book adaptation 38 Témoins, which has its world premiere in Rotterdam tonight, is the seventh feature by Walloon actor/director Lucas Belvaux and has already been acquired...

Austerity year review 2011. Or how the PVV cry 'Arts subsidies we abolish' was widely heard

by one of our members
28 December 20118 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

While 2010 was still the year of PVV positions on culture that were suddenly shared by other parties ("we are abolishing art subsidies"), the year 2011 fell under their implementation. What was striking was the ease with which regional and local administrators also wielded this same machete, as PVV spokesperson Bosma did not fail to testify. For instance, in the municipality of Almelo, 30 % went àff from...

One hundred and thirty thousand visitors for the Cultural Press Office in 2011. The bar for 2012 is high.

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 December 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

That frightens us quite a bit ourselves. We knew that the Cultural Press Agency was doing pretty well, but we didn't really think a reach of more than 100,000 people was possible. After all, we had done nothing in the way of marketing. Just posting content and not giving away free tickets. And only once something with a bare female breast in it. Enfin....

Investing in culture is economically valuable, but not with us ...

by one of our members
12 December 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

A Belgian professor was good enough to compare the own revenues by venues from the US, the UK and Belgium; in all three countries, the companies raise about 42% of their budgets themselves. The innovation professor also reiterated that research shows that investing in culture contributes to economic prosperity ... a wisdom that ...

Daily news: Sale in Rotterdam, protests in Amsterdam and an arts centre closes in the south

by one of our members
23 November 201130 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Culture sector signs agreement on youth pass Eight umbrella organisations in the culture sector signed a covenant on Wednesday advocating the continued existence, albeit in modified form, of the Culture Card. It should remain free, but will henceforth only give discounts on cultural outings. The 15-euro credit will disappear because the state will no longer provide subsidies. Instead, students in the...

Progress news: Give Act no more for culture, Utrecht more expensive and Purmerend stops all subsidies

by one of our members
18 November 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Lower House approves Tax Plan 2012 (...) Furthermore, the adjusted Giving Act was also passed. The 7 million euro tax support shifts from cultural institutions to sports and music associations. Source: Belasting.nl 18 Nov 11 Utrecht - Culture may cost something - by Wouter de Heus (...) this week, when I finally saw the renewed operating plan for the Music Palace in...

Region review: chain letters in Rotterdam, only 1 year right to renewal in Zierikzee, and Eindhoven not happy with Chamber Choir

by one of our members
10 November 201130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Groningen municipality cuts back on Gezinsbode The municipality is going to cut back 150,000 euros on publishing city notices in the Groninger Gezinsbode. The City Council wants to publish decisions and permits electronically from now on, for example on the municipality's website. (...) The number of pages in the Gezinsbode will be halved. (...) source: OogTV 10 Nov 11 Most councillors expect subsidies to be cut...

Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

by one of our members
17 October 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'...

Mayor Hoes provides proof: for the VVD, art is only about sport anymore

by one of our members
7 October 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the as mayor of Maastricht ancillary runner Onno Hoes. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days, he gave...

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