OUR HOUSE Amstelstraat 24, 1017 DA Amsterdam Tel. 020 820 2906 In recent decades, electronic music has grown from an underground scene to a global phenomenon. Only one thing was missing: a place to experience the electronic dance culture and its history. Our House is ready to fill that gap. The high-tech museum experience is…
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GALERIE DE ZAAL
Galerie de ZaalKoornmarkt 42611 EE DelftNederlandTel: 015 214 59 13Mob.:06 24 11 21 30 A gallery specializing in contemporary, usually abstract art run by Marja en Jan-Willem Groenendaal. No street frontage, just a bell on a door. This is a wonderful huge space that is a former Salvation Army hall. Open Thursday – Saturday 12-17…
TIM WALKER Wonderful Things at Kunsthal, Rotterdam
The stories Walker tells are complex and the sources of their inspiration are diverse and complicated. Sometimes he takes fashion shots for the world’s top designers; sometimes he takes portraits of celebrities; sometimes his work recreates or takes inspiration from stories of the past. In all cases the photographs are multifarious, very colourful and have an air of mystery about them
THE SHEEP SONG by FC Bergman and Toneelhuis Antwerp at Theatre Rotterdam
There is the blind woman with the aggressive guide dog, a shiny matador carrying a bull’s head in a blanket and a puppet in a booth who seems to have overdosed on Viagra. The sheep is overawed by a world that has such people in it, but is always the outsider, always a stranger in a strange land.
OSCAR by Scapino Ballet at Theater Carré in Amsterdam
One of the most dazzling sequences involved two of the dancers climbing atop an artificial horse (it was white and headless, with wheels installed beneath its hooves) and then gliding around the stage to produce an effect of unnatural, and thus unforgettable, elegance.
The DELFT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Festival marked the first full year of its new Artistic Director, Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze.The theme was People & Stories. A lot of those stories and people, and indeed composers, came from Ms. Gvetadz’s part of the world. And, not surprisingly, the emphasis this year was very much on the piano. Read the reviews of the performances we attended . . .
RADIUS Contemporary art and ecology
RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology Kalverbos 202611 XW DelftThe Netherlands RADIUS is a center for contemporary art and ecology. It are located in the city of Delft and stationed in the pump house and water basin belonging to the Delft water tower, a historical monument and architectural landmark. With five hundred square…
St Paul and the Broken Bones at Zuiderpark Theater in The Hague
Not your conventional frontman, Paul Janeway has the looks of someone who got bullied at school but he has an amazing voice (think Otis Reading or Wilson Pickett) as well as a mesmeric stage presence.
