T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam Tel 06 48166966 The ‘Treehouse’ opened in November 2019. Treehouse rents out approximately 110 studio spaces to artists and creatives from all art and design disciplines: theater makers, writers and musicians, painters, draftsmen, (fashion) designers, graphic designers, video and visual artists. Every (prospective) professional with a creative profession…
The emphasis is very much on the visual arts in the May COLOUR SUPPLEMENT with some excellent exhibitions – Max Pechstein at Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Giselle Kuster at Van Bommel van Dam museum in Venlo, New New Babylon at Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Oltre Terra by Studio Formafantasma at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam plus two amazing installations at Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen/The Hague. We also cover two outstanding dance events – the Dutch National Ballet’s Lady Macbeth and NDT2’s brilliant Falling Into Shadow.
Museumplein Honthorststraat 20, 1071 DE Amsterdam Situated between the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum on Amsterdam’s Museumplein the Modern Contemporary Museum (Moco) is an independent museum with a wide range of inspiring modern, contemporary and street art. Also with a museum in Barcelona, Moco exhibits Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, KAWS, Jeff…
Figures in Extinction [2], the second of the joint ventures between NDT’s Crystal Pite and British theatre director Simon McBurney, is part of NDT’s new show, From Here Now Far which premiered last night at the Amare in The Hague. Their award winning first collaborative work, Figures in Extinction [1.0] premiered in The Hague last year
For the performance the theatre itself becomes this environment with the orchestra pit filled with trees and plants and foliage encroaching half-way into the auditorium. The stage itself is dominated by a huge grey mound (earth/rock/lava?) and from beneath it the stirrings of life can be detected as six characters gradually emerge from the dark undergrowth.
In the opera JS Bach – The Apocalypse by OPERA2DAY and the Dutch Bach Society, which will premiere on 17th January, this life story uses this life story to depict the mechanisms that can lead to radicalization and polarization.
Wereldmuseum (formerly Museum Volkenkunde) Steenstraat 12312 BS Leiden Tel 088 – 00 42 800 Wereldmuseum (formerly Museum Volkenkund) is one of the oldest ethnological museums in the world and is at the center of current events. The museum makes you curious about the enormous cultural diversity that the world has to offer. Wereldmuseum is a museum…
This middle sequence all had a very 1950s feel about it which was emphasized by the mother’s fantasy/dream sequence. This entailed five girl dancers with bouffant hair styles in high heels and tight skirts wearing dark-glasses and chiffon headscarves like characters from American television ads for domestic cleaning products or breakfast cereals.
