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Welcome to the United States of America Dutch Performing Arts blog by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Our website features the very best in Dutch dance, film, literature, music and theater that can be found throughout the U.S. Please visit frequently for the latest Dutch performing arts events going on around the country.
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| The Luncatics @ Oerol Terschelling (2006). Photo: Hans Speekenbrink |
Previews:
Thursday, April 14 – Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Free admission
Premieres: Thursday, April 21 – Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM Woodruff Park – Atlanta, GA
Free admission
For review by David Lee Simmons in the Arts Critic ATL (April 25, 2011).
Group Intelligence: a mass MP3 experience is a spectacular outdoor event about the origins of life and water scarcity. It is a new, outdoor, science and public art experiment. The audience downloads an MP3 track in advance or borrows one from Out of Hand. They all press play at the same time and are guided through an hour-long experience around themes of water scarcity and origins of life chemistry.
During the experience, participants will walk, run, solve problems, laugh, play and build something extraordinary together. How hard the audience works is up to each individual, but the diversity of the group is key. Each performance is limited to 300 participants, but everyone is invited to watch the experiment unfold. Group Intelligence is suitable for ages 12 and up. Audiences are highly encouraged to wear close-toed, sensible shoes.
For almost 15 years, the Lunatics has been performing ingenious theatre in all kinds of places throughout the world. From soggy Dutch marshland to sweltering jungles, from bustling cities to barren deserts, the most absurd locations have served as the Lunatics* fairytale stage. Bizarre imagery transports the audience to an adventurous world that is wild, hilarious and moving at the same time. Realistic situations are connected with inexplicable, logic with mystery. Nothing seems what it is. Various light and sound effects, unique objects and idiosyncratic yet identifiable characters combine in The Lunatics’ performances to activate the imaginations of thousands. The locations are critical, as they provide a constantly changing backdrop that inspires the imaginations of both actor and audience; each story has not one, but hundreds of versions.
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| Out of Hand Theater Company. Photo: www.outofhandtheater.com |
Out Of Hand Theater makes new work for new audiences. We are a collection of writer/director/performers who make ravishing, athletic performances with and for our ever expanding, beloved community. Out Of Hand creates razor-sharp, delight-filled experiences by involving the audience in a new way every time, giving you a stake in the show; magnifying the places where we, artists and audience, share common ground, causing moments of mass intimacy, and embracing those who are unreached by conventional theater.
This is not the first time the two companies have been working together. The Lunatics and Out of Hand collaborated before for Hominid (2010), a story about depiction of the politics, intrigue and capacity for empathy we share with the other great apes. Science and Art collide in this international, location theatre collaboration.
Bardsongs movie trailer
Dutch production Bardsongs by Sander Francken has received the Signis Award, as announced on the Filmfest website.
This year’s Filmfest DC is their 25th anniversary. It took place at April 7-17, 2011 in Washington, DC.
April 18th, 2011 by Gabri
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| Merlijn Twaalfhoven during the preperations for Carried by the Wind in the Palestinian refugee camp Jalazon. Photo: Adam Sèbire. |
Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven is to receive aprestigious Unesco award. He will soon be able to call himself the ‘YoungArtist for intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds’.
Unesco has announced that Merlijn Twaalfhoven will receive the award for his efforts to transcend the boundaries between people and cultures and unite people through music. In the past few years the Dutch composer organised a number of projects in conflict areas such as the divided Cypriot capital Nicosia, a Slovak gypsy ghetto, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. He was able to bridge vast cultural differences through innovative concerts.
Inter-cultural dialogue is also the focus of Merlijn Twaalfhoven’s latest project The Air we Breathe, a vocal performance featuring fragments of pop, jazz and classical music, performed by singers from the Arabian, Bulgarian and Swedish musical traditions.
Merlijn Twaalfhoven will receive his award on 13 April from the hands of Unesco Director General Irina Bokova at the organisation’s Paris headquarters.
For an overview of all twenty young artists recognized for promoting dialogue between Arab and Western countries.
April 16th, 2011 by Gabri
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| Tiësto.Photo: facebook.com/tiesto |
For article by Adam Steward for MTV Newsroom (April 13, 2011)
For video of Tiësto talking about collaboration with Mark Knight on BeautifulWorld.
After 10 days of polling, and over 34,000 votes tallied from 108countries, the masses have spoken in the quest to find the biggest track tocome out of Miami Music Week 2011. One of our biggest DJ’s Tijs Michiel Verwestaka DJ Tiësto, and collaborator Mark Knight came in with a landslide win in thefinal days with their number one Beatport smash, Beautiful World,featuring Dino.
The Miami Music Week isn’t just a concert. It’s a week-long electronic and alternativemusical orgy featuring the world’s best talent and over 150,000 fans. Thisyear’s festival took place at March 22-27.
April 14th, 2011 by Gabri
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| Photo: www.pachanyc.com |
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pasha NYC – New York, NY
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Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano, two notable personalities with a single goal: to entertain as many people as possible with their deep and funky house sound. As a DJ duo, they are irresistible. Put them in a DJ booth together and instant interaction and chemistry is there, with an eye for the audience and an ear for each other. Effortlessly adapting to one another seems to be no problem for these two best friends and partners in crime.
From the moment they entered the DJ profession, they agreed to do something serious with their common passion: house music. Quickly after their first gig together Sunnery and Ryan established themselves as top DJs.
Besides performing, they are very busy with producing. Even that is something they do together. As if they don’t see enough of one another during gigs and their private lives, they’re also studio buddies. In May 2008 they released their first track ‘Pina’. One month later, Sunnery and Ryan released the club hit ‘Lift U Up’, ft. Melvin Reese and Chappell. After these successful productions, Sunnery & Ryan continued with many, many other great tracks.
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano @ Pacha NYC 5 Years Anniversary
Tonight they will be performing with Glenn Morrison and (main act) Avicii, who had only been producing a few months when his friends noticed that the productions were amazingly professional and that they had just witnessed a great talent being born.
What Avicii wants is to create music for people to listen to and come to love, whether it be at home or in a dark nightclub. Avicii puts great emphasis on melodies in his productions and wants to appeal to fans of many different house music genres. Avicii signed on to At Night Management in May 2008 and within a month the buzz around them spread noticeably and they were recognized on labels such as Joia Records, Vicious Grooves and Ministry of Sound, just to name a few. By the end of that month, Avicii had already signed a big deal with Vicious Grooves in Australia and were head on target to soon explode over the entire globe.
April 1st, 2011 by Gabri
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| Saint (2010) Directed by Dick Maas. Photo: www.headlines.nos.nl |
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Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM
For review in the New York Times by Mike Hale (22 April 2011)
An original and delightfully gruesome slasher film, Saint reimagines jolly old Saint Nick as a murderous bishop fulfilling a grisly prophecy under the December 5 full moon. Full of creative yuletide horror, Saint is a fun chiller that follows local teen Frank as he sets out on a bloody, high-energy battle to save Amsterdam from the wrathful “Sinterklaas” and his minions.
Trailer Saint (2010)
The much-discussed horror Saint has been selected for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York, as been announced proudly by director Dick Maas.
The Tribeca Film Festival, founded by Robert De Niro, takes place from April 20 to May 1, 2011. Next to Saint also the Dutch productions Black Butterflies and Bunny are selected by the festival.
April 1st, 2011 by Gabri
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Theatergroep Max., Performance in Which Hopefully Nothing Happens. Photo: Courtesey Theatergroep Max
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Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM
TPAC’s James K Polk Theater - Nashville, TN
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Wednesday, May 11 at 10:30 AM
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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM
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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM
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Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM
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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM
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We won’t promise you anything, but can we keep thatpromise? Joking is easy, it happens by accident. Performance in which Hopefully Nothing Happens is like a castle in the air, nothing and everything at the same time. Getdeliciously bored with a stumbling second, a detail that’s overlooked and anext moment that never arrives. Monty Python for children with an actor whoisn’t allowed to enter the stage, and a security guard who desperately tries tofind himself. Feel free to wander, they’re doing it too. Have a good sleep!
Trailer Performance in which Hopefully Nothing Happens
Theatergroep Max. is a company that makes accessible and adventurous theatre for young people, with the maximum possible assortment of theatrical means and an open, provocative air: grown-up theatre for XXS 4+, XS 6+, XM 8+, XL 10+, XXL 12+, XXXL 14+, for everyone who feels young, on location, on small and large stages. Max. wants to disrupt and seduce, tell fairytales, campfire and nonsense stories, and presents drudging, dangerous, loving people.
International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) is the premiere membership organization in the world today servicing and supporting the professional community of performing arts for young audiences. Their membership is comprised of a growing worldwide network of artists, producers, presenters, agents, educators and students that are dedicated and involved in producing, presenting and promoting all forms of theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and more.
April 1st, 2011 by Gabri
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| Bardsongs movie still. Photo: Courtesy by Filmfest DC |
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Landmark’s E Street Cinema – Washington, DC.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Landmark’s E Street Cinema – Washington, DC.
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Bardsongs is about a fascinating marriage of story and song, the triptych of musical morality tales that compose the unique Bardsongs sprang from the mind of established Dutch documentary filmmaker Sander Francken. Intertwined with musicians performing songs written for the film, the stories take place in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India; in the city
of Djenne in Mali; and in the Ladakh region in India. In the first story, a collector of plastic waste is philosophical about the cards he’s dealt in life. In the second story, a determined
young boy is urged on by his Koran master to spend a week in the big city searching for the greatest part of all knowledge and is surprised at the answer. In the last story, a hapless farmer endures conflicting advice on his way to sell an animal at market. Evocatively photographed and engagingly acted, Bardsongs is clever, benevolent, and charming.
Bardsongs is spoken in Hindi, Bambara, and Ladakhi with English subtitles
This year is the 25th anniversary of Filmfest DC. They are proud to reach this quarter-century landmark of introducing Washington, DC to the consistently provocative and innovative films of international cinema, as Anthony Gittens (director) mentions on the website.
April 1st, 2011 by Gabri
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| Michael Varekamp. Photo: jazzmobile |
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Birdland – New York, NY
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Friday, April 8, 2011
2:00 PM: Master Class – Garde Arts Centre – New London, CT
6:50 PM: M&G w/ Patrons – Garde Arts Centre – New London, CT
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Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Langston Hughes Library – Corona, Queens
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Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Shrine – Harlem, NY
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Michael Varekamp, raised in Europe with his roots in Trinidad, started playing the trumpet at the age of 10. When he is 12 he is deeply affected by a Louis Armstrong album which he finds among his father’s music collection. At age of 13 he starts leading his first little jazz band. In 1996 he graduates cum laude at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague Holland.
After this period he plays extensively around the world with several groups including the Surinam band Fra Fra Sound. The participation in this band was an artistic breakthrough for Michael. The music of Fra Fra is connecting jazz with Caribbean and African roots. He plays at festivals, clubs and concerts in Australia, South Africa, Great Brittania, Cuba, Tunisia, Malta, United States, Israel, Mali, Burkina Fasso The Baltics and all over of Europe.
While being on tour he regularly gives workshops and guest lectures. He regularly contributes to film, radio and tv productions. Besides playing the trumpet Michael sings and composes for the various bands and he developed the educational program Little Louis for kids.
April 1st, 2011 by Gabri
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| Ferry Corsten. Photo: www.mixing.dj.com |
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Dutch superstar Ferry Corsten has consistently been voted one of the top 10 DJs in the world (according to DJ magazine’s definitive Top 100 DJ chart) for five years. He’s played for hundreds of thousands of fans – sometimes at once – in amphitheaters, fields and nightclubs from Australia to Russia to white-hot Ibiza. He took the party island’s “Best Trance DJ” prize at the annual DJ Awards ceremony this year and two years ago; got tailed by some road-tripping fans on a Southern Comfort-sponsored, 26-city bus tour of America; and had his life’s work interpreted in music, video and décor at his annual Masquerade event “Full on Ferry”, at 12,000-capacity arena Ahoy in his hometown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
It’s all in a year’s work for the man who’s been called the “architect, pioneer, and instigator” of trance music’s global dominance. But within the close-knit international DJ community, Corsten’s regarded as something else too: A studio auteur with a fierce sense of sonic rightness; a real-deal producer who works solo, sans engineer, and creates the most complete, energetic, melodic records in dance music.
Corsten has also used his high profile for good, serving as an ambassador for the KidsRights Foundation, which increases awareness of the plight of disadvantaged children worldwide. He boasts his own clothing line, Signature F, via Washington, D.C.-based iKY Clothing.
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