{"id":97210,"date":"2025-05-02T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=97210"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:08:16","slug":"wereldpremieres-bij-het-holland-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/05\/wereldpremieres-bij-het-holland-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"World premieres at the Holland Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In less than a month and a half, the Holland Festival will burst into life at 16 venues in Amsterdam and 1 in The Hague. This year, 10 co-productions will have their world premiere. From major international productions with themes like ecology and female autonomy, to a first meeting between two artists admiring each other's work. We list them for you:...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/welcome-to-asbestos-hall\">Welcome to Asbestos Hall<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Trajal Harrell and his dancers is a project in which they transform Likeminds into a space for experimentation and development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New to the Holland Festival is the HF Lab, which actively involves young people in the festival. This year, 15 young people will work together with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/hf-lab-x-degasten-performance-wakka\">DEGASTEN<\/a><\/em>\u00a0create a performance based on Harrell's work.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/study-for-life\">Study for Life<\/a><\/em>, the collaboration between choreographer Tero Saarinen and Asko|Sch\u00f6nberg to music by Kaija Saariaho, makes everyone move.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Music and musical theatre<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forty musicians from different cultures are on stage together for the first time with the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/atlas-orkest-2025\">Atlas Orchestra<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Initiated by Jo\u00ebl Bons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/forbidden-echoes\">Forbidden Echoes<\/a><\/em> will have its world premiere, alongside Hani Mojtahedy's existing song cycle, a new work for Ney, Iranian percussion and strings by Nader Adabnejad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/one-ocean\">One Ocean<\/a><\/em> is a new project in which artists from Pacific and Indian Ocean islands pay tribute to the resilience of their culture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/otemba\">Otemba - Daring Women<\/a><\/em>, the musical theatre performance composed by Misato Mochizuki, is based on the painting Portrait by Pieter Cnoll, <em>Cornelia van Nijenrode, their two daughters Catharina and Hester, the enslaved Surapati and an enslaved woman (Batavia, 1665) by Jacob Coeman<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/ring-of-our-time\">Ring of our Time<\/a><\/em>is an epic, ecological story for the 21st century, in which myths, rituals and music of five civilisations meet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the residency of jazz pianist <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/craig-taborn\">Craig Taborn<\/a><\/em>\u00a0at the BIMhuis, he will collaborate with local musicians. He will also engage in an improvisational blind date with Trajal Harrell in <em>Welcome to Asbestos Hall<\/em> in which both respond to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Theatre&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/de-seizoenen\">The seasons<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Het Nationale Theater directed by Eric de Vroedt is an adaptation of Ali Smith's books about the seasons, nature, Brexit, and the comfort of unexpected encounters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">This year's Holland Festival takes place from 11 to 29 June<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In minder dan anderhalve maand barst het Holland Festival los op 16 locaties in Amsterdam en 1 in Den Haag. Dit jaar zijn er 10 coproducties die in wereldpremi\u00e8re gaan. Van grote internationale producties met thema\u2019s als ecologie en vrouwelijke autonomie, tot een eerste ontmoeting tussen twee kunstenaars die elkaars werk bewonderen. We zetten ze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":97211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":null,"activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6695,38,4760,11917,8843,3059,4759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans","category-holland-festival","category-muziek-podiumkunst-2","category-persberichten","category-podiumkunst","category-specials","category-theater-podiumkunst-2"],"views":554,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Small_Island_Big_Song_One_Ocean_P-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100832,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/03\/echt-luisteren-empathie-en-veranderende-perspectieven-in-het-79e-holland-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":97210,"position":0},"title":"True listening, empathy and changing perspectives in 79th Holland Festival","author":"een van onze leden","date":"4 March 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Holland Festival opens on 3 June with City of Floating Sounds by Huang Ruo, a concert in two parts. 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