Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Birds of a Kind is a play by Libanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad about a relationship against the backdrop of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict.

Alize Zandwijk, who previously directed various of Mouawad’s other works, brings the play in Dutch translation and with actors from the ITA ensemble.

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After exhibitions on Rembrandt and Vermeer, Rijksmuseum hosts another large-scale exhibition around one of the great Dutch painters of the seventeenth century: Frans Hals (1582/83-1666).

With over fifty works from various collections, including the National Gallery in London and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.

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Pictured: Portrait of a Couple, Frans Hals, c. 1622

Theatre adaptation of the novel The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Georgian writer Nino Haratischvili, directed by Nina Spijkers. A monumental family epic spanning six generations between 1900 and now.

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Roberto Devereux by Italian belcanto composer Gaetano Donizetti is the story of the love between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

The role of Sir Gualtiero Raleigh is played by Mark Kurmanbayev, one of the participants of the Ammodo-supported Dutch National Opera Studio.

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The New Body Project by artist duo Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot consists of two parts: an exhibition called WOMBTOMBS, now on display at Mu Hybrid Art House, and a theatre performance called Song of Songs, which will run in the fall of 2024.

WOMBTOMBS is a series of cocoon-like hiding places which serve as both memorial site and incubator, showcasing polyphonous soundscapes and video work.

During the exhibition, visitors can participate in grieving events on 7, 14, 21, 28 April and 5, 12, 19 and 26 May. These events start at 15.00 hours.

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My Oma is large group exhibition focusing on the figure of the grandmother, which includes new commissions, existing work, performances and events.

Participating artists include Yto Barrada (France), Meriem Bennani (Morocco), Marcos Kueh (Malaysia), Jota Mombaça (Brazil) and Buhlebezwe Siwani (South Africa).

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Play by Nita Kersten about ‘The Last Poets’, a collective of poets and musicians active during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

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Goddess Change is a reading group by artists Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz. Participants discuss passages from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) and other feminist science fiction texts.

The four sessions take place on 23 March, 20 April, 25 May and 22 June, from 15.30 to 17.30 hours.

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The 60th edtion of the Venice Biennale. This year’s curator of the exhibition is Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil.

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Pictured: work by Dora Budor at the Venice Biennial 2022

Solo exhibition of Polish artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, who is part of the Roma people and makes art around the Roma experience.

The presentation includes one of the most important and largest works in the oeuvre of Mirga-Tas: Re-enchanting the World (2022).

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Pictured: fragment from Re-enchanting the World, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, 2022

Rite of Spring presents two films inspired by existing music compositions, which are performed live by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam.

Brazilian theatre and film maker Christiane Jatahy (this Holland Festival’s associate artist) made a film to accompany Music in Common Time by American composer Caroline Shaw.

Greek visual artist and director Evangelia Kranioti made a film to accompany Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring.

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HARDKOOR is a ‘stand-up tragedy concert’ and a ‘stream of self-consciousness’ to techno, triphop and choir music.

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Fifty pianos in a large circle in Amsterdam’s Gashouder form the basis for an overwhelming and at times thunderous composition.

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During the Ammodo Masterclass, a number of talented young conductors are instructed by leading conductor Christian Thielemann for three days. They are given the opportunity to lead the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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Angelica Liddell opens the 78th edition of Festival d’Avignon with an homage to Ingmar Bergman in which she calls on ghosts, demons and nightmares.

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Ammodo supports two co-productions at the 33rd edition of Julidans, an international festival for contemporary dance.

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Pictured: C A R C A Ç A, Marco da Silva Ferreira, 2023

In the group exhibition Soils, international artists, designers, farmers and activists explore a renewed connection between humans and the soil they live on.

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Giacomo Puccini composed his Il trittico as a trio of one-act operas, the first evoking horror, the second sadness and the third laughter. Now for the first time, the three short operas are performed together by Dutch National Opera. This concludes the Puccini cycle that conductor Lorenzo Viotti and stage director Barrie Kosky have produced over three seasons.

With multiple roles for members of the Ammodo-supported Dutch National Opera Studio.

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Do Not Run Fly presents three dance performances by NDT 1: a new work by Marcos Morau (supported by Ammodo), a new work by Yoann Bourgeois and Solo Echo (2012) by Crystal Pite.

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After a racist incident in a football stadium, actor and theatre writer Clayton Nascimento delves into the origins of the racism he encounters every day.

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In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up as a grown woman.

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Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines a dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods.

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Marta Górnicka has created a play based on the testimonies of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish mothers and children who have fled war and persecution.

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The biblical opera Samson (1733) was the result of an ambitious collaboration between Voltaire and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but has unfortunately been lost to history. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon have taken on the challenge of reconstructing this forgotten piece about Samson, the chosen one of God.

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Pictured: The Blinded Samson, Lovis Corinth, 1912

Iranian visual artist Navid Nuur presents When Doubt Turns into Destiny, a solo exhibition in which he combines his own research into the neighbourhood to the notion of impermanence.

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SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht presents contemporary dance and theatre performances by international artists.

Ammodo supports the creation of new (co-)productions.

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Pictured: RUSH, Mette Ingvartsen, 2024

An old Armenian folktale about the search for harmony comes to life in a concert on a moving stage with a light show.

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British theatre company Forced Entertainment plays with text, music and physical action in a new work that is both light and dead serious.

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Soloists, visual projections and electronics meet in a hallucinatory space, where the audience is free to roam.

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Brazilian band Metá Metá and members of The Ex play a new, contemporary soundtrack to the classic film Limite (1930).

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Two contemporary music theatre pieces on one evening: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) about the insanity of King George III of England and The Kafka-Fragments (1987), a succession of forty miniatures expressing Kafka’s existential anxiety. Directed by Barrie Kosky.

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Pictured: portrait of Franz Kafka

The 2024 edition of the European nomadic biennial Manifesta is held in Barcelona.

In close dialogue with local communities, Manifesta investigates the possibilities for social change through contemporary art and culture.

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