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Here you can find links to articles from American news outlets that feature Dutch performing arts such as dance, theater, film, literature, and music.
 MUM, Photo: Courtesy of the artist Date: March 30, 2012
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
News Item: Movie reviews: ‘Position Among the Stars’ & ‘Mum’
Two “Distinctively Dutch” — and diametrically different — documentaries give deeper definition this weekend to the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival’s “Faces of Others” theme and to the symbiosis of directors emotionally tied to their subjects.
‘Position Among the Stars’ receives 3.5 stars / ‘Mum’ receives the maxiumum amount of 5 stars
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 Date: March 29, 2012
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
News Item: Movie review: ‘Girl With Black Balloons’ a portrait of artist seeking order
Take a cue from your tulips and get into Netherlands mode for the “Distinctively Dutch” component of this year’s Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival, starting tonight with a beautiful 60-minute documentary “Girl With Black Balloons.”
First-time director Corinne van der Borch is Dutch but the subject and venue are quintessentially American: She was initially drawn to New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel for its architecture and history but, once there, stumbled upon a greater human fascination in the form of Bettina Grossman.(Click link to read more)
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 Date: March 2, 2012
Source: Chemical Magazine
News Item: Hardwell wins award for Best Breakthrough Artist at the International Dance Music Awards – interview with Hardwell about being nominated.
Chemical Magazine: Hi, How are you?
Hardwell: I’m doing great! Just woke up after a powernap and heading towards dinner and the club later on.
Chemical Magazine: Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on being nominated for “Best Breakthrough DJ” for the International Dance Music Awards. How are you feeling about that?
Hardwell: Thanks! It’s an honour to get nominated for such a big award! I’ve had a great year in 2011 and I’m it’s going very well in 2012 also. To get a nomination for an award out of USA is also something special as it shows the recognising I get in the States. I played here a lot past year and the crowds are nothing but amazing here. Seeing the EDM scene blow up this year is amazing! Click link to read more.
Source: Chemical Magazine
 Date: March 23, 2012
Source: Beatsmedia
News Item: Armin van Buuren wins 4 International Dance Music Awards
Last night, at the International Dance Music Awards show in Miami, Armin van Buuren received 4 awards. The Dutch DJ/producer, who’s in the middle of his A State of Trance 550 world tour, won the IDMA’s for ‘Best Trance Track’, ‘Best Global DJ’, ‘Best Radio Mix Show DJ’ and ‘Best Podcast’. Armada Music, the label of which Armin van Buuren is co-founder, won the prestigious award for ‘Best Global Record Label’ for the fourth year in a row. (Click link to read more)
Source: Beatsmedia
 Date: March 22, 2012
Source: Miami Hurricane
News Item: Interview Nobody Beats The Drum
Ultra marches to the beat of a new drum
For a group of guys who started their career as DJs by simply “fooling around” with music, they have come a long way – Nobody Beats the Drum will play at Ultra Music Festival’s Worldwide Stage at 11 p.m. Friday. “It’s our first time in Miami,” said Jori Collignon, one of the group’s DJs. “We’re on our way there now and wearing our swim trunks and flip-flops; we can’t wait to get there.” Originally from Utrecht, a city about 19 miles away from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the three members of Nobody Beats the Drum fondly remember deciding to take their hobby to the next level. (Click link to read more)
Source: Miami Hurricane
 Date: March 16, 2012
Source: The Millions
News Items: The Crushing Beauty of Nescio’s Amsterdam Stories (review)
It’s not surprising that it took more than 50 years after his death, for the works of the Dutch writer Nescio to be translated and published in America. It wasn’t until after WWII that he gained any notoriety in the Netherlands and he only became a beloved member of the Dutch canon posthumously. As Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, writes in his introduction to Amsterdam Stories, the first collection of Nescio’s work to appear in America, “[Nescio] wrote very little, and he wrote small.” His longest work is 42 pages long. His entire published oeuvre, including editor’s notes and some unpublished fragments, fits in this 161 page volume. Nescio wrote in a handful of years between 1909 and 1942 and almost nothing in the 1920s and 1930s.(Click link to read more).
Source: The Millions
 Date: March 7, 2012
Source: Village Voice
News Item: Convento
A fertile portrait of the creative marriage between the organic and inorganic, Convento gazes reverentially at the mad-scientist designs of Christiaan Zwanikken, a Dutch kinetic artist living in a restored 400-year-old Portuguese monastery with his former ballerina mother, Geraldine, and brother Louis. Christiaan’s work, which involves animating animal skeletons with whirring, buzzing servomotors, is one of resurrection but also, fundamentally, of communion between man and nature that’s echoed in Louis’s care of live animals and Geraldine’s gardening and cooking—all endeavors that are linked via director Jarred Alterman’s evocative close-ups of working hands. (Click link to read more)
Source: Village Voice
 Date: March 7, 2012
Source: All About Jazz
News Item: Eric Vloeimans /Florian Weber: Live at the Concert Gebouw (2012)
In a career spanning the intimate chamber jazz of Fugimundi to the electrified Gatecrash, Eric Vloeimans has emerged as a trumpeter with uncommon instincts, relentless lyricism and an astute ear for musical partnerships. It’s been three years since his last recording as a leader—Heavens Above (Challenge, 2009)—but in the interim there’s been an expansive five-CD career retrospective, V-Flow (Challenge, 2010), that shouldn’t be mistaken as any suggestion that he’s done all there is. If anything, V-Flow consolidates and contextualizes Vloeimans’ career to date, setting the stage for even better things to come. On the strength of Live at The Concertgebouw, the trumpeter’s first-recorded encounter with German pianist Florian Weber, the future is already looking more than fine. (Click link to read more)
Source: All About Jazz
 Date: March 3, 2012
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
News Item: Afrojack on His Debut Album, His Hair and Working With Friends
‘I like the storytelling of instrumental club tracks way more than doing pop songs,’ the DJ says
“I want to keep it really true to myself and to my roots,” Nick van de Wall, better known as Afrojack, tells Rolling Stone of his vision for the debut album he hopes to release this September. The 24-year-old Dutch DJ and producer first introduced Americans to his dense, aggressive electro sound with the 2010 club smash “Take Over Control,” before becoming a mainstream chart-topping presence when he teamed up with Pitbull, Ne-Yo and Nayer for last year’s mega-single “Give Me Everything.” Afrojack is now back at home in Holland, after spending the better part of this year holed up at Hollywood’s Paramount Studio writing and producing tracks, many of which will find a home on his first full-length release. (Click link to read more)
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Date: February 20, 2012
Source: Publishers Weekly
News Item: Review of the first English translation of Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
It’s little wonder that J.H.F. Grönlöh (1882–1961) wrote these biting and perceptive stories under the pseudonym Nescio (Latin for “I don’t know”). In most of them a sensitive artist mocks businessmen who slave away in offices and fail to contemplate the beautiful natural world. Grönlöh himself was an executive of a trading company in Amsterdam, apparently the very embodiment of the middle-class rectitude his characters despise. (Click link to read more)
Source: Publishers Weekly
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