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ICP performs in Brooklyn, NY during their statewide tour

 

Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 9:00PM
Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY 

ICP: Instant Composers Pool is touring the US, and will make a stop in Brooklyn. ICP is a mixed ensemble: part jazz band, part chamber orchestra. On stage, the space between Misha’s piano and Han’s drums is occupied by a thorny string trio: viola, cello and doublebass. Across from them is a five-piece horn section, three reeds and two brass. As in Ellington’s band, distinctive, individual players can merge beautifully on the written material. » Read more «

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April 11th, 2013 by

Dutch films shown at Tribeca Film Festival

 

Raw Herring. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Wednesday April 17 through Sunday April 28, 2013
Tribeca Film Festival – New York, NY

The Dutch are well presented at the annual Tribeca Film Festival. Four films are shown during the festival including a documentary about the Dutch herring fishers, a new picture by famous director Paul Verhoeven, the North-American premiere of a Dutch horror picture and a movie collaboration between Belgium and the Netherlands.

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April 2nd, 2013 by

Frances-Marie Uitti performs in Richmond, VA and Washington, DC

 

Frances-Marie Uitti, Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Friday April 12, 2013 at 7:00PM
Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes – Washington, DC

Saturday April 13, 2013 at 7:00PM
St James’ Episcopal Church – Richmond, VA

Dutch-American composer and performer Frances-Marie Uitti pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato/articulated playing, that her previous work with a curved bow couldn’t attain.

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March 29th, 2013 by

“LENA” presented at the EUNIC Disappearing Act European Film Festival in New York

 

Lena, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Tuesday April 16, 2013 at 8:30PM
Bohemian National Hall – New York, NY

Festival runs from Tuesday April 9 thru Sunday April 21, 2013
Disappearing Act European Film Festival – New York, NY

Presented by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Christophe van Rompaey’s Dutch-Flemish film LENA was part of the official selection for the Toronto International Film Festival and Les Arcs European Film Festival.

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March 27th, 2013 by

Dutch DJs Sander van Doorn and Armin van Buuren in New York on March 30

 
Sander van Doorn. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Saturday March 30, 2013
Sander van Doorn, Marquee – New York, NY
Armin van Buuren, Madison Square Garden – New York, NY

Dutch DJs Armin van Buuren and Sander van Doorn will both be performing in New York coming weekend. Armin van Buuren will touch down at Madison Square Garden with his  ”A State of Trance 600 ‘The Expedition’ world tour” and Sander van Doorn will perform at Marquee as a start of his US tour.

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March 26th, 2013 by

Netherlands Dance Theater returns to the USA

 

Wednesday April 3, 2013 at 7:30PM
Friday April 5, 2013 at 8:00PM
Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC

Wednesday April 10, 2013 JOYCE GALA
Thursday April 11, 2013 at 8:00PM
Friday April 12, 2013 at 8:00PM
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

Celebrated worldwide for its sleek, flawless dancing and galvanizing theatrical flair,Nederlands Dans Theater, one of the world’s most applauded contemporary dance companies, returns to American shores for a national tour that promises to pull out all the stops. At least six U.S. premieres, including dances by Jiří Kylián, Medhi Walerski and collaborations between the company’s Artistic Director, Paul Lightfoot, and its Resident Choreographer, Sol León,are among the highlights. For audiences unable to see the 30-member company on stage, as the first contemporary dance troupe to be part of Pathé Live transmissions, Nederlands Dans Theater will be seen in close to 250 American » Read more «

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March 26th, 2013 by

New Directors/New Films festival features the premiere of Die Welt by Alex Pitstra

 
Die Welt. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Tuesday March 26, 2013 at 6:15PM
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center – New York, NY

Thursday March 28, 2013 at 8:30PM
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1, MoMA – New york, NY

The New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. One of the features is Die Welt by Dutch filmmaker Alex Pitstra.

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March 25th, 2013 by

Screening of The Palace by Ruud Satijn at Fort Myers Film Festival

 

 

The Palace. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Sunday March 24, 2013 at 4:00PM
Fort Myers Film Festival
Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
– Fort Myers, FL

Fort Myers Film Festival presents The Palace by Dutch director Ruud Satijn. The Palace is about fourteen year old Machteld, who on her first ever night out discovers that the grown up world in disco The Palace is not as mysterious, romantic or exciting as she expected it to be, and realizes she would rather stay a girl for a little while longer.

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March 22nd, 2013 by

New York Opera Society presents Hans Pieter Herman in Washington and New York

 

Hans Pieter Herman, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Saturday March 30, 2013 at 1:00PM
Society of the Cincinnati – Washington, DC

Friday April 5, 2013 at 8:00PM
Symphony Space – New York, NY

Internationally acclaimed Dutch baritone Hans Pieter Herman (“Highly Engaging”- New York Times, ” a vocal phenomenon”- Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv) presents an evening of serious and humorous songs by Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Poulenc, Laitman and others. The New York Opera Society brings Mr Herman to Washington, DC and New York City. He will be accompanied by pianist Jason Wirth. Hans Pieter Herman is known for his combination of vocal beauty, dramatic intensity and comedic skill.

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March 22nd, 2013 by

Dutch DJ’s take over Miami during Ultra Music Festival 2013!

 

 

Photo: courtesy of the artist

Friday, March 22 through Sunday, March 24, 2013
Ultra Music Festival – Miami, FL

Ultra Music Festival is considered the world’s premiere electronic music festival and the Dutch DJ’s are very well represented as usual. The 15th Ultra Music Festival will see the festival expand into two weekends, held from March 15 to 17, and March 22 to 24. Both of these weekends will coincide with the beginning and end of Miami Music Week.

For up to date info about (Dutch) performances, locations and tickets: http://ultramusicfestival.com/

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March 21st, 2013 by