15th March. Choreographer Matthew Day presents Figures for Landscapes, a work for an ensemble of dancers that migrates across different sites with distinctive histories…
Read more8th March. 26 years after the publication of his ground-breaking book The End of History, Francis Fukuyama understands that the…
Read more22nd – 24th February. Every year in February, the largest indoor blues festival takes place in the Netherlands. During this…
Read more7th February – 26th May. Trouble in Paradise is an extraordinary selection of contemporary art works from the private collection…
Read more9th February – 12th May. For Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) graphic art was a medium he could experiment with to his…
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The weekly jazz sets at Utrecht’s Back and Fourth, led by house drummer Jean Clair, always deliver with great jazz in a cool, laid back bar. Every Wednesday around 9pm a different group of musicians assemble, all chosen by Jean Clair
Janine Dijkmeijer, General Director of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) since 2014, will step down from her position after this season 2018/2019.
16th February – The penultimate concert of the Februari chamber music festival in The Hague, with Brahms as its annual theme. This time, the great Alban Berg Ensemble Vienna opens the evening with two waltz classics by – Johann Strauss, arranged for chamber ensemble and harmonium (a protestant version of the organ) by Alban Berg.
Rembrandt was essentially a storyteller, depicting characters from all walks of life, in all circumstances, almost like a painterly equivalent of Shakespeare. All human life is there . . .
Art Rotterdam was not only a haven for art collectors. It presented an overview of the international contemporary art scene, and the opportunity to ask questions, for those who wished to amass knowledge about the art world and gather inspiration from these artworks.
Contemporary dance likes to deal with contemporary issues, from fast-paced, technology infused society that we live in, to other less tangible concepts about being, time and space. Sanne Clifford & Co stayed in a rather superficial sphere, trying to question how we connect or disconnect in daily life
WITH HARTMUT HÖLL AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW.
Renee Fleming, the great dame of sopranos, is in town for a Liederabend with her long-time piano partner Hartmut Höll. The wonderful Concertgebouw is sparkling in all its glory, and the main hall is (for a Liederabend) remarkably full.
15th & 16th February. A young boy waits for the birth of his baby sister… He can’t wait to tell her all about the swifts which nest not far from the top window of their pointy house… it’s nearly time, she’s nearly here. Perfect is an…
