{"id":97668,"date":"2025-06-19T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=97668"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:05:00","slug":"no-change-leert-hoe-je-codes-los-kunt-laten-in-het-holland-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/no-change-leert-hoe-je-codes-los-kunt-laten-in-het-holland-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"No Change teaches how to let go of codes at the Holland Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday 18 June, the shorts offered the bravest resistance. In the stands of Frascati 1, the tension was palpable. Would DD Dorvillier still manage to free her foot from the garment without using her hands? Restrained laughter can be heard here and there, but there is also silence. Who never tries that: kicking out trousers like that? And don't we all experience the occasional failure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The performance No Change, programmed at Frascati on Tuesday and Wednesday because of the Holland Festival, gave us a new insight into the world of Trajal Harrell. He also brings outside his sanctuary on the north bank of the IJ the kind of experimental dance we see very little of here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Own code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are performances that bring their own code. For a viewer unfamiliar with them, these can be quite difficult to place. In this case, by the way, I am speaking entirely for myself. For example, I didn't know whether I liked <em>should<\/em> find. That was also because I felt that everyone around me knew things I didn't. And was looking very serious. Or was just bored. Could be too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that is the sense of exclusion that art sometimes brings: even a regular theatre can seem intimidating to a non-regular visitor. Not because the building or the offering itself is intimidating, but because all the other more regular visitors seem to know something you don't. This is why a punk feels uncomfortable at Mahler at the Concertgebouw, and why a ballet lover will feel rejected at an intrusive piece of mourning art from Lebanon. However unjustified.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slapstick<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this time I couldn't take a stand at DD Dorvillier's seemingly loose-sand movements and wondered if we were now watching a literal reconstruction of an improvisation from 2005, which would again make it fit the festival theme found earlier that repetition of form does not necessarily lead to repetition of impact? Such long sentences, then. That's what you get.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Dorvillier's movements, her wrestling with garments and cords, those unruly devices containing microphones that all record sound: it was very funny, bordering on slapstick here and there. But so then you think you are watching too superficially. While there is no wrong way to watch. That much I know after decades of watching theatre professionally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dead pan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until suddenly a male emerges and plays a few notes on a ready piano before leaving through a side door. All completely 'dead pan', that is, with the steely face that belongs to absurdist comedy. Laughter rolls through the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No Change thus jettisons your own ideas about how to relate to such theatre. Yet another reason why Trajal Harrell's input as associate artist of this Holland Festival is so refreshing. You wouldn't easily experience something like this outside this context. Too bad the auditorium was only half full.\u00a0<\/p>\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;\">Experienced: No Change by DD Dorvillier at Frascati ikv Holland Festival.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandfestival.nl\/nl\/no-change-or-freedom-is-a-psycho-kinetic-skill\">No Change, or \"freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill\" - Holland Festival<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woensdag 18 juni bood het broekje het dapperste weerstand. Op de tribune van Frascati 1 was de spanning om te snijden. Zou het DD Dorvillier nog lukken om haar voet uit het kledingstuk te bevrijden, zonder haar handen te gebruiken? Ingehouden lachen klinkt hier en daar, maar het is ook stil. Wie probeert dat nooit: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97669,"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":"","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","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,8843,3059,4759,11688],"tags":[766,16000,58],"class_list":["post-97668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holland-festival","category-podiumkunst","category-specials","category-theater-podiumkunst-2","category-word-lid","tag-frascati","tag-hf25","tag-recensie"],"views":569,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a1PSZ000001EA5N2AW_original-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122782,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/06\/holland-festival-afgesloten-met-wereldklasse-en-de-nieuwe-generatie\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":0},"title":"Holland Festival concludes with world-class acts and the new generation\u00a0","author":"Holland Festival","date":"29 June 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The 79th edition of the Holland Festival drew to a close with a final weekend packed with theatre, music, opera, dance and a rave. The weekend began in Amsterdam with Caroline Guiela Nguyen\u2019s LACRIMA, a production about the cut-throat world behind haute couture, and the exuberant Bilderschlachten, and in Heerlen with A Possibility\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PERSBERICHTEN&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PERSBERICHTEN","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/service\/persberichten\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":100832,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/03\/echt-luisteren-empathie-en-veranderende-perspectieven-in-het-79e-holland-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":1},"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. The first part is a musical walk to Carr\u00e9, with visitors using an app to sound an orchestral work through the city. In the auditorium, the full composition is then...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;beleid&quot;","block_context":{"text":"beleid","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/beleid\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Jba1BC32zE4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":108710,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/koning-willem-alexander-en-koningin-maxima-aanwezig-bij-opening-holland-festival-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":2},"title":"King Willem-Alexander and Queen M\u00e1xima present at opening of Holland Festival","author":"Holland Festival","date":"13 May 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"His Majesty the King and Her Majesty Queen M\u00e1xima will attend the opening performance of the 79th edition of the Holland Festival on Wednesday evening 3 June in Amsterdam. Two works by composer Huang Ruo will be performed at Koninklijk Theater Carr\u00e9: City of Floating Sounds and Shattered Steps. From various starting points scattered...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;beleid&quot;","block_context":{"text":"beleid","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/beleid\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":106502,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/the-artists-are-present-and-have-no-shame\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":3},"title":"The Artists Are Present. And Have No Shame","author":"Stichting ICK","date":"7 May 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"19 and 20 May \u2013 Frascati, Amsterdam ICK Dans Amsterdam presents a two-day programme featuring performances, installations and a triple bill. On Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 May, ICK Dans Amsterdam presents the two-day festival *The Artists Are Present, and Have No Shame*. This programme features established artists and a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DANS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DANS","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/podiumkunst\/dans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":119896,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/06\/brechts-first-play-in-holland-festival-een-even-vrolijk-als-onmisbaar-helder-stuk-over-cancel-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":4},"title":"Brecht\u2019s First Play at the Holland Festival: a piece on cancel culture that is as cheerful as it is refreshingly clear","author":"Wijbrand Schaap","date":"19 June 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Seldom have I gone to a Holland Festival performance with so much fresh reluctance. Even less often have I returned from a Holland Festival performance feeling as happy, cheerful, joyful, and intellectually enlightened as I did from Brecht's First Play, on Thursday, June 18th, 2026. The reluctance stemmed from the fact that the play Baal, an early work by Bertolt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PODIUMKUNST&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PODIUMKUNST","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/podiumkunst\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":126594,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/07\/een-theatrale-dj-set-over-hoe-iedereen-altijd-in-transitie-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":97668,"position":5},"title":"A theatrical DJ set about how everyone is always in a state of transition","author":"Theaterfestival Boulevard","date":"20 July 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Met TRANS- presenteren theatermakers Emma van den Elshout en Just van Bommel een energieke theatrale DJ-set waarin verandering centraal staat. De voorstelling gaat op donderdag 6 augustus 2026 om 20.45 uur in premi\u00e8re tijdens Festival Boulevard en is vervolgens te zien tot en met 11 augustus in Tent Blauw op\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boulevard&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boulevard","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/genre\/service\/specials\/boulevard\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yKke-ppi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97675,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97668\/revisions\/97675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}