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Unmercifully gracious, 'Shirokuro' builds on hammered Ustvolskaya @HollandFestival

by Fransien van der Putt
27 June 20138 July 2016
5 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The collaboration between pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama and choreographer Nicole Beutler in the performance 'Shirokuro', seen last week at the Holland Festival, provides a beautiful perspective on two piano sonatas by Galina Ustvolskaya. 'Shirokuro' means black and white in Japanese. Despite strong visuals and impressive co-protagonists on stage, the Russian composer's absolute music is never explained and therefore retains its sheer power.

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Russian flowers and Beatrix @HollandFestival

by one of our members
26 June 201330 March 2022
3 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Gorgeous dresses, big sunglasses and high heels. It is clear that the performance by the famous Moscow theatre company Theatre of Nations also attracted a large Russian audience. Men in suits occasionally talking to their sleeves seem to testify to Russian billionaires present. But nothing could be further from the truth when suddenly Princess Beatrix steps into the auditorium with her entourage.

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'El Djoudour' is interesting as a cultural-political project, but does not convince artistically @Holland Festival

by Fransien van der Putt
14 June 201330 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Men and women together on the dance floor, it is still forbidden in large parts of the Muslim world. Two years ago, the dance performance 'Nya' was at the Holland Festival, a piece written on the skin of nine Algerian dancers, mostly B-Boyz from the streets, but also the son of a ballet teacher from Algiers participated. This year, French choreographer Abou Lagraa, his wife Nawal Ait Benalla and much of the Algerian cast returned to the Holland Festival with a piece in which women also dance.

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Abou Lagraa: gender separation frustrates Arab man

by Maarten Baanders
8 June 201330 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival

'That men and women in the Islamic world live apart from each other, that is a big frustration,' says choreographer Abou Lagraa. 'That is what El Djoudour is about.'

Because of his background, Abou Lagraa has a special, enlightening perspective on these issues.

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Meistersinger @HollandFestival convinces musically only

by Henri Drost
6 June 20138 July 2016
2 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Cowardly knight defeats untalented rule fetishist with help from wise cobbler and wins singing contest and the hand of coquettish goldsmith's daughter. Or: boy meets girl on the streets of Nuremberg and decides to enter the local version of Nuremberg's got talent. The judges send him away, but he gets the audience vote. Wagner wouldn't be Wagner, however, if he didn't take about five hours for this story.

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What else are we looking forward to at @hollandfestival?

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

This month is all about the Holland Festival. Culture Press reports almost daily. What are we most looking forward to?

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L.A. Dance project at @hollandfestival: falling in love with dance, if only for an evening

by Ruben Brugman
3 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Benjamin Millepied is a glamour boy who conquers everything in his path: from actress Natalie Portman to the Paris Opera ballet. In reality, after the premiere in Amsterdam, the Frenchman looks like a

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Blood, sweat and candle wax in Fabre's Wagner vision at @hollandfestival

by Henri Drost
29 May 20138 July 2016
5 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Delusions of grandeur, self-mutilation, forced cannibalism, a gruesomely realistic rape scene and to top it all off: a candle being spat out.

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The Dry Piece, Keren Levi, photo © Anne van Kooij

Keren Levi at Theatre Kikker with unique documentary and smart performance.

by Fransien van der Putt
29 May 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Shelly Kling's documentary 'Inside Envelopes' does away with the brave image that dance imposes on itself. 'The Dry Piece', on the other hand, is a performance that goes beyond provocation and seduction with nudity. A

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Peter Blok does a Don Draper

by one of our members
29 May 201329 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men....

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Chetouane's Sacre du Printemps: could we possibly do without that damn sacrifice?

by Fransien van der Putt
23 May 20138 July 2016
5 min read
DANS

During Spring Utrecht, 'Sacré Sacre du Printemps' was on show. Vaslav Nijinsky's infamous dance to Igor Stravinsky's revolutionary music premiered 100 years ago. Choreographer and director Laurent Chetouane resists the heart of the story: the sacrifice.

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Research shows: nothing so immutable as the art public

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 May 201329 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

More people go to popular art than 'high' or 'canonical' art. Researcher Andries van den Broek has researched this. Therefore, there are now figures explaining the word 'popular' and 'elite'. So

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Writer Kier-La Janisse at Imagine symposium on women and madness

by Leo Bankersen
14 April 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

The symposium on disturbed women in horror films held at the Imagine Festival this Sunday afternoon was actually quite a reassuring gathering. You don't have to be disturbed yourself to have a fascination with horror. At least you could infer that from

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Culture Council with two new women on business tour.

by one of our members
26 March 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Two new members of the Council for Culture once again show how thinking about art is changing: Jessica Mahn and Annick Schramme are women, which was necessary in this white male stronghold, but they are especially

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How to choose from the profusion offered by the Tefaf

by Madeleine Red
18 March 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Suppose you have a small capital in your pocket. And you go to the Tefaf for a day. It's a festive feeling: an art gift for yourself. But once inside, there's a good chance you'll be shocked. Because how to choose from 30,000 objects? In those 265 stands from renowned galleries from 20 countries: Argentina, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan? And which corner will you look in? Antiquities? Or modern, antiquarian, design? Will you go for a sculpture, a canvas, jewellery, chair or a book?

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Cinedans festival: the images move. So.

by Fransien van der Putt
2 March 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Fransien van der Putt, dance expert from Culture Press, and Helen Westerik, film expert, attended the opening of Film Festival Cinedans and were amused, but not always by the programme.

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Cultural anthropologist on stage

by Madeleine Red
17 February 201330 March 2022
5 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of UtrechtMarjolein Jegerings (21) is studying cultural anthropology at Utrecht University and went to Guatemala last year for her undergraduate research on conflict mediation. When she had just returned, she called

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Choreographer Cecilia Moisio: scared to death of the 1950s

by Maarten Baanders
6 February 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

''You would think: women are emancipated. But people long for the clichés and prejudices about women from the 1950s again. If you dress super-feminine, you get whistled at like a dog. But how should

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Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mainly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in

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Does it luckily still involve sex on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

How many male genitals Yasmine Allas had weighed in her hand. For a while, that was the question during Writers Unlimited's most shameless programme to date. This latenight talk show addressed the question of how shameless writers actually dare to be these days. Kristien Hemmerechts, always good for a few firm statements, met her peers in

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Heartfelt plea against Arab shame culture #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 January 201330 May 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

Lebanese writer Hanaan al-Shaykh (Beirut, Lebanon, 1945) opened Wrtiters Unlimited on Thursday 17 January with a blazing argument against Arab culture of shame. This, according to the writer whose books The story of Zahra, Women between sky and sand, Beirut blues and Only in London have been translated into Dutch, so deep in

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2012 cinema year: attendance stable, Skyfall and Intouchables top the list

by Leo Bankersen
8 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2012 cinema year was that two completely different films were the biggest crowd-pleasers. First, the new James Bond Skyfall, of course, with almost 2 million visits. But that the number two (1.2 million) is a

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Marion von Tilzer wins Women's Composition Prize MCN with Rote Schuhe

by Thea Derks
8 October 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Amsterdam, 8 October 2012 During the well-attended Classical Music Day at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the prize winners of the competition for women composers were announced this afternoon. The day was organised for the 11th time by Music centre Netherlands (MCN), which will cease to exist on 1 January. Thanks to an anonymous bequest, explicitly intended for women composers, three prizes could be awarded.

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VARA honours Barbara Strozzi, tone poet at lonely level

by Thea Derks
21 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

No fewer than eight collections of arias, cantatas, duets and sacred works were published by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677). She enjoyed great prestige in the Accademia degli unisoni founded by her father, and lived off her compositions.

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In Accordion Wrestling, 10 Finnish wrestlers compete with 1 accordion player. The weirdest show on #hf12

by Daniel Bertina
18 June 201229 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

One by one, Helsinki Nelson's wrestlers come running onto the stage of the City Theatre. On the mat is the biggest of the bunch, lying on his stomach, stretched out in a defensive position. Alternately, his opponent tries to tip him, pushing him flat on the mat with both his shoulders. In vain. Accordion punk rocker Kommi Pohjonen comes on, and...

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