“Penthesilea” After Von Kleist. Let’s Rock
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that...
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A Question of Diversity: In Conversation with Paulien Geerlings
Paulien Geerlings is the head dramaturg at Amsterdam’s The Toneelmakerij, a theatre company...
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Marching the Streets with an Empty Protest Board: Where Lies the Power of Protest?
On Saturday 19 November 2022, I witnessed the performance Hands Up! by dancer and choreographer...
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“Who Killed My Father,” Young Vic
‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of...
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Ivo van Hove’s “Age of Rage” at Barbican
Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by...
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New European Drama Repertory for Young People: Age of Rage
As a documentary theatre maker, I am typically interested in individuals and characters whom I...
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True Inner-Emotion: Butoh Festival Amsterdam 2020
The Butoh dance – born in Japan in the late ’50s, and welcomed and metabolized by the West in the ’80s – is not annulled in the stereotype of a technique handed down and transmittable, but lives an ever new epiphany in the individual experience of each dancer whose results, formally indefinable, go from improvised performative intervention to the extreme of the choreographic mechanism.
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“A Little Life”: Adaptation and Mixed Reality
There’s a colloquialism within the theatre community that ‘you know lighting design is good when...
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“Angels in Suits” – The Operas of George Benjamin & Martin Crimp
The dramaturgy of love’s intertwining with violence has been a recurring theme in the...
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Opera Forward Festival: Amsterdam, March 2018
If you ask any resident of Amsterdam: “how did the National Opera House look from the...
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How Can We Transform The World Through One’s Self? Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival
In Waves: Transforming The World Through One’s Self At Amsterdam’s Butoh Festival In...
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Impact From Trivia–Jan Versweyveld And “What Is Stage–Dynamics Of Seeing”
In early September, around 20 participants, including I, have ended a magical month as theatre...
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Performance Research/Performance Practice-ASAP Event, UvA
ASAP is a new initiative of both staff members and students from the Theatre Studies department at the UvA in order to create space for exchange within and around the department of Theatre Studies.
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Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.
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Structured Flood: Challenges And Restrictions In The Work Of Choreographer Daniel Linehan
Choreographer and dancer Daniel Linehan places dancers in a hyper-structured environment. In this...
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Avignon Part 8: “Grensgeval (Borderline)” – A Theatrical Exploration of The Refugee Crisis.
Grensgeval (Borderline). Based on Les Suppliants by Elfriede Jelinek. Directed by Guy Cassiers,...
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Avignon Part 7: Ibsen Reinvented – Simon Stone’s “La Maison d’Ibsen”
Ibsen Huis (La Maison d’Ibsen) Directed by Simon Stone, dramaturgy and translation by Peter van...
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Ivo van Hove’s “Scenes from a Marriage”
Intimacy burns. A couple pummels each other in an endlessly repetitive cycle from which there is...
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Sander Veenhof: Staging Audience Against Isolation
Sander Veenhof is a hands-on futurist, creating interactive experiences to explore scenario’s for...
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Connecting Shakespearean “Roman Tragedies”
Over six hours, three Shakespearean tragedies – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony And...
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