Strike Me Pink Productions is a new English-language theater company based in Amsterdam with an annual program of new and adapted repertoire, often depicting queer story lines. With stories otherwise left untold, we aspire to enrich Amsterdam’s cultural scene while simultaneously transcending gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Strike Me Pink is run by Artistic Director Ralph…
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MUSEON-OMNIVERSUM
At Museon-Omniversum everything revolves around the earth, people and a sustainable future!
Fulldome Journey at Museon Omniversum in The Hague
The world that Julius Horsthuis has created with RECOMBINATION takes us beyond the stars to the infinite capabilities of computers using the Mandelbrot Set, a basically short but infinitely complex mathematical formula. By adding, and mixing and matching more formulae truly endless possibilities are opened up . . . this is a really amazing experience the likes of which I guarantee you will never have had before. It’s like travelling through the images from the Hubble telescope only more so, much more so.
JACOB JOHN SHALE on . . . The Arts
Each month Amsterdam-based writer Jacob John Shale reports on aspects of the arts which originate in, or are connected to, The Netherlands. This month, an essay on the 2017 speculative and highly original biopic about Van Gogh called Loving Vincent. Billed as the world’s first fully painted film it brings to life and expands on Van Gogh’s paintings and characters.
PATRICIA PICCININI at Kunsthal, Rotterdam
So, what is Patricia Piccinini’s Metamorphosis at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam? Is it an old fashioned freak show or is it more than that? She describes her work as dealing with “unexpected consequences” and the bulk of the exhibition is made of life size, hyper-realistic sculptures of . . . err . . . freaks. There is a life-size human baby with a pig’s snout, a huge female pig suckling her off-spring that have distinctly human features. There is a young girl with very hairy legs seated on the floor in a corner cradling something that is neither human nor animal but has features of both. . .
Samir Calixto’s LA NOCHE ETERNA
It is this imagination of the eternal night that choreographer Samir Calixto and the prestigious Ensemble Black Pencil are searching for. They have found each other in the desire to create a performance based on existing compositions (from baroque to contemporary repertoire) and new choreography, which together make tangible our archetypal relationship to the dark side of nature. It is a dialogue with the unknown: not from the audacious desire to bring light into darkness, but as the acceptance of night as part of our existence.
Jonathan Nagel’s Eventually in Amsterdam
At first inanimate and unmoving, the dancers slowly aroused themselves and produced increasingly drastic movements by the loudening and warped sounds of the assertive bass. It alluded suitably to Nagel’s idea of control and ‘losing grip’ of power. Here also initiated a dialogue between the dancers and the audience. Each performer approached the audience; two crawled toward us while contorting their bodies, another ran and abruptly stopped and transfixed their gaze into our eyes.
IN THE DUTCH MOUNTAINS by NDT1 at Amare in The Hague and on tour
The melodramatic, cinematic almost, soundtrack of the song suited the piece wonderfully and the thunderous opening sequence foretold of things to come. In the Dutch Mountains was danced on a dimly lit stage in front of a projected backcloth with stormy skies, waving grasses and crashing seas. Both the staging and choreography had strong undertones of German Expressionism, even of old black and white films by Fritz Lang, but it also felt rather like a danced opera, Wagnerian in places.
