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PODCAST - Naomi Velissariou's permanent quest: 'I wonder if I should do interpretation or connection as an artist.'

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 August 20213 August 2021
1 min read
ACTUAL, Boulevard, Featured, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

Naomi Velissariou (1984) was actually supposed to be at the Bossche Festival Boulevard 2021 with more performances. This year, her entire trilogy 'Permanent Destruction' would be performed in a setting like club rave. Fierce musical theatre, based on playwrights Sarah Kane and Heiner Müller, and concluded with the more subdued work 'Pain against Fear'. All parts have received rave reviews from audiences and press, but...

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Amsterdam Museum runs conversational campaign for Golden Coach

by one of our members
2 August 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, PRESS

The Amsterdam Museum is running an innovative campaign for the exhibition The Golden Coach in collaboration with various agencies and creatives. Sharing knowledge and starting a national conversation about the controversial carriage is the goal. Head of Communications & Marketing at the Amsterdam Museum Maurice Seleky explains why this was chosen: ''The exhibition The Golden Coach tells...

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On citation law, De Wereld Draait Door and John de Mol's claim robot (Angry Spirits Podcast with Ewout Jansen)

by Michiel Lieuwma
11 July 202111 July 2021
1 min read
INTERNET, MEDIA, PODCAST, TELEVISION, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

In 2014, The Cutter published a review of De Wereld Draait Door. What not many people will know is that prior to that moment, there was a weeks-long battle behind the scenes over this publication. De Wereld Draait Door tried with all its might to stop the episode by not giving permission to quote the footage. Initially,...

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Michiel Peeters (TivoliVredenburg) - We want to make visual art a more prominent part of our programme

by Udo Prinsen
9 July 20212 July 2021
5 min read
ANIMATION, ANIMATION31, BECOME A MEMBER

Public space is dressed up with visualisation, music video and art in many places, including TivoliVredenburg. Either via projection mapping on buildings during events, or via LED panels in shop windows and abris, but also as digital art during performances and lobbies in theatres. In TivoliVredenburg, in the heart of Utrecht, they even create separate events for it. Canvas is a programme that...

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FUNERAL FOR STREET CULTURE - A Critical Celebration and Mourning of Counter Culture A group project by Metro54 and Rita Ouédraogo and hosted by Framer Framed

by one of our members
2 July 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Over the past year, the global pandemic and reignited Black Lives Matter protests have had a huge impact on our daily reality. A Funeral for Street Culture seeks to explore and make visible the sense of loss and other consequences of these events within art and culture. The group project, curated and initiated by Metro54 and curator Rita Ouédraogo,...

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Holland Festival celebrated the live arts in corona time

by one of our members
30 June 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS, PODIUM ART

The 74th edition of the Holland Festival closed last weekend with the performances Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou, Age of Rage by ITA-Ensemble and Pierrot Lunaire by Marlene Monteiro Freitas. The festival collaborated with two associate artists, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and French-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne. Twenty-three companies performed one hundred and eleven performances over twenty-five days. The festival presented seven world premiere... You can log in now

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On a world tour at Square Theatre with video installation Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta by Su Tomesen

by one of our members
24 June 2021
2 min read
PRESS

Plein Theatre presents from 13 July to 30 July the extraordinary four-channel video installation Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta by artist Su Tomesen. The video installation shows the daily life of street vendors on four different continents. Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta Street Vendors: Medellín, Tirana, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta is about how private companies occupy urban public space every day and...

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Between Past and Future. Frank Scheffer films a fruitful meeting between East and West #HF21

by Leo Bankersen
22 June 202130 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Saturday 26 June at the Holland Festival, a special evening around two music films by Frank Scheffer: the documentary Inner Landscape and the opera film Si Fan. Supplemented by a short live performance by Chinese musician Wu Wei. This will present a musical journey from the seventh-century Tang Dynasty to contemporary electronic music. An evening with unexpected perspectives.

Eye and IFFR celebrate anniversary with Vive le Cinéma - Filmmakers leave the screen

by Leo Bankersen
8 June 20218 June 2021
8 min read
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For the exhibition of the anniversary programme Vive le Cinéma! Art & Film, Eye Filmmuseum and the Rotterdam Film Festival invited five filmmakers to create work for the three-dimensional space. Intriguing installations that play with camera and viewer, image and meaning.

Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre

by one of our members
7 June 202130 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June...

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Dance & theatre collective Movementalist, in collaboration with Plein Theater, presents the Movement Expo Aceleratio at the NDSM Fuse from 27 May (premiere) to 30 May.

by one of our members
11 May 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

The art of slowing down in times of pandemic. Aceleratio is an interdisciplinary performance installation that aims to confront online and offline audiences with struggle, freedom, courage and comfort, from the need to embody these times. Artistic directors Dayna Martinez Morales & Vincent Verburg are the initiators of Movement Expo Aceleratio. Ten experienced and very different performers in...

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1 year of Corona in the City - Outdoor exhibition and online relay broadcast

by one of our members
10 May 202129 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Saturday 15 May 2021 marks exactly one year since Mayor Femke Halsema opened the Amsterdam Museum's digital exhibition Corona in de Stad. A digital exhibition about the effects of the corona virus on the city of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. To commemorate 1 year of Corona in the City, the Amsterdam Museum will be showing from 15...

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New resource for home-watching film buffs: Cinéart's Directors' Collection

by Leo Bankersen
5 May 202130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Distributor Cinéart, which specialises mainly in European arthouse, presents the Directors' Collection. New and old work by leading film authors.

Patrick Dupond danced in No Man's Land (5 March 2021)

by Ruben Brugman
17 March 202130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, PERSONAL

Male ballet dancers have heroes. Ever since ballet training. A few of them are timeless, like Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. After that, tastes vary, depending on which period you danced in and which style particularly suits you: Anthony Dowell, Peter Martins, Carlos Acosta, or more recently Sergei Polunin and Daniil Simkin. Last week, one of my dance heroes passed away: Patrick...

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Amsterdam Museum presents exhibition Golden Coach - 18 June 2021 to 27 February 2022

by one of our members
9 March 202115 March 2021
15 min read
PRESS

The exhibition The Golden Coach opens at the Amsterdam Museum on Friday 18 June. After a restoration of more than five years, the Golden Coach is back on public display for the first time. The carriage will be on loan to the Amsterdam Museum until February 2022. With this, the carriage temporarily returns to the city that used it in...

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"The promise of the empty room" is a nice initiative, but ignores the new normal of the culture consumer

by Onno Weggemans
1 February 20211 February 2021
7 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

People will not be eager (in large numbers) to go to packed halls again. Many 'old' culture visitors can be considered lost. The cultural sector faces a twofold challenge: to minimise this loss and to look for new audiences even more than usual.

Two unique (dance) productions created in pandemic Tears of Peter and the National New Year's Blessing

Two unique (dance) productions created in a pandemic: Tears of Peter and the National New Year's Blessing

by Ruben Brugman
9 January 202130 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, DANS, PODIUM ART, BECOME A MEMBER

It is remarkable to see two productions bringing together dance and faith in a short time. Dancer Marijn Rademaker (former soloist Het Nationale Ballet) portrays the suffering of the apostle in Di Lasso's Tears of Petrus by Nederlands Kamerkoor and Dance Company Nanine Linning, dancer and recently assistant artistic director of The Dutch Don't Dance Division Kiran Bonnema portrays the change in the life of the still-young patriarch Jacob in EO's National New Year's Blessing.

Dutch playwrights still have no idea about the quality of the stage work of their predecessors.

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 December 20208 December 2020
3 min read
HERITAGE, LITERARY, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Dutch theatre is thriving, despite frantic attempts by various Rutte cabinets to bring it down. And even though money is always short as a result: a lot of new theatre is being made. More than ever, even. But.

There is a but.

Do {not} touch: from calm, dreamy distance to the urge to touch in IDFA's virtual reality

by Helen Westerik
21 November 202030 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, DOCUMENTARY, MEDIA, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation.

Unmissable livestreams in November Music

by Thea Derks
2 November 20204 November 2020
6 min read
MUSIC, November Music, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

Meanwhile, November Music is keeping its nerve: the management is betting on live concerts with up to 30 people in the audience. In an email update to press and public, she did express her concerns: 'It will be some exciting days. After next Tuesday's press conference, we will know whether November Music 2020 can definitely go ahead.

New European Ensemble violist Emlyn Stam: 'The best is yet to come!'

by Thea Derks
30 October 20205 November 2020
10 min read
MUSIC, November Music, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

This year, November Music not only has a house composer, but also a house ensemble, the New European Ensemble. Naturally, the Hague club will play in the opening concert with Seung-Won Oh's Bosch Requiem. And, of course, they present a portrait concert with greatest hits by composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho.

Uncompromising dance artist Koert Stuyf still inspires (1938-2020)

by Ruben Brugman
27 October 202030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS, In Memoriam, BECOME A MEMBER

Every dancer is nostalgic. Heroes or icons of the dance world are given a special and honourable stage place in the inspiration of young dancers, of choreographers and also of the public. So too Koert Stuyf and Ellen Edinoff, and their Contemporary Dance Foundation.

FROM WHAT WILL WE REASSEMBLE OURSELVES

by one of our members
28 September 202030 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, VISUAL, PRESS

A group exhibition conceived by Anna Dasović and curated by Natasha Marie Llorens. Exhibition design by Arna Mačkić and Studio L A.

Netherlands Film Festival 2020 - Pushing boundaries with Directors' Forum

by Leo Bankersen
24 September 202024 September 2020
7 min read
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The 40th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival pushes the boundaries. Corona makes everything go differently. Now in more than 100 theatres across the country, and also online. For groundbreaking work, there is the sixth instalment of the Directors' Forum.

Radio Futura: Why the subsidy system needs the most radical overhaul possible.

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 September 202021 September 2020
5 min read
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The hybrid German-English model combines the best of three worlds. But it also involves major changes. Artists will no longer all live in Amsterdam, but in one of eight or 10 urban cultural regions.