Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

World premiere of Apokalypsis, a new composition by James Wood.

In collaboration with Collegium Vocale Gent, BL!NDMAN [sax] and Darius Battiwalla.

Apokalypsis was commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.

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Pictured: BL!NDMAN [sax]

Songs for a Passerby is a VR opera by Celine Daemen about the human relationship to the transient nature of reality.

It recently won the Immersive Grand Prize at Venice International Film Festival 2023.

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In/with/in is a triptych of works in which different creators usher in season 2023-2024 with their diverse artistic ideas, prevailing crossovers between dance, visual art, design and music.

NDT 1 performs new choreographies by Tao Ye and the choreographic duo Imre van Opstal & Marne van Opstal and an existing work by Marco Goecke.

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For this concert, drummer Sun-Mi Hong will play a new piece inspired by scenes from her documented dreams. She has invited a versatile group of musicians into her dreamworld, including a trumpet player, an organist and a bass player.

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Photo: Dion Bierdrager

Cadela Força (Bitch Strength) by Carolina Bianchi and her collective Cara de Cavalo is a three-part performance about rape, femicide and violence against women.

Part one is called A noiva e o boa noite cinderela (The Bride And The Good Night, Cinderella) and was created in co-production with Frascati Producties.

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In the Solo Duets series, Kunstinstituut Melly presents two solo exhibitions simultaneously. This edition shows work by Kelly Sinnapah Mary and Lucy Beech.

Kelly Sinnapah Mary makes paintings, tapestries, sculpture, and artistic interventions drawing from the history and folklore of the Caribbean. Her exhibition The Fables of Sanbras showcases existing and newly commissioned artworks and is her first in The Netherlands.

Lucy Beech is preoccupied with how waste shapes society. In the exhibition Ooze, she presents three video works: her new film Flush, commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly, and the Dutch premieres of Warm Decembers (2022) and Reproductive Exile (2018).

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Pictured: Duck, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, 2023

In 2023, De Ateliers opened Woonhuis, a new experimental exhibition space for both current participants and alumni to present their work.

The first Woonhuis fellow is British author, artist and art critic Huw Lemmey.

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Pictured: Gvantsa Jgushia, S. Dadiani 23 (After Nineli Todua), presented at the opening exhibition of Woonhuis, 2023. Photo: Gert-Jan van Rooij.

Lehman Trilogy chronicles the history of cut-throat American capitalism. ITA’s Dutch-language adaptation of the West End/Broadway performace is directed by Guy Cassiers.

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Centraal Museum Utrecht has invited Pauline Curnier Jardin for her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.

The French artist will display existing and new work, including her latest film Adoration, about the forgotten story of women in Casa di Reclusione Femminile, a Venetian prison for women.

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World premiere of Flights of the Angokok, a new composition by Lera Auerbach.

In collaboration with Nederlands Kamerkoor.

Flights of the Angokok was commssioned by Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.

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Pictured: Lera Auerbach (Photo: Rafael DeStella)

The 36^th edition of IDFA presents a varied ten-day programme of documentary cinema, including the Ammodo-backed Envision Competition.

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Pictured: still from The Fabulous Ones, Roberta Torre (Envision Competition 2022)

Ben Wendel is a versatile musician who easily switches between different instruments and genres. From bassoon to tenor sax and from jazz to classical. Tonight is the premiere of his new composition.

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Photo: Anouk van Kalmthout

With this production, Nina Spijkers gives the viewer a sneak peak into different living areas of a building in the Netherlands. Portraits of four very different people. An eclectic view of our society. Self-written scenes and musical forms bring the characters to life and connect them with each other. Music, lyrics, soundscapes and sounds, spoken word, and absurd humor form a mosaic of people next to, above and below each other. What brings us together in a society in which individualism predominates? Are we closer to each other than we often feel?

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Freaky Friday Face Off is a new theatre production written by Florian Myjer and directed by Ward Weemhoff.

The play investigates the politically sensitive subject of representation. Can a man play a woman? Can a white person play a black person? Can a heterosexual person play a queer person?

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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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ATMEN is the second performance of the trilogy RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION in which Beutler searches for a new balance between humans, earth, animals and technology.

After two shows at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam on 18 and 19 October 2023, ATMEN will tour in various theatres from January 2024.

Also check out Eyes Wide Open, a short documentary about Nicole Beutler by Ammodo Docs.

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In the new production The Balancing Act, choreographer Ann Van den Broek explores the relationship between the interests of the individual versus the community.

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My Heavenly Favourite is Ivo van Hove’s theatre adaptation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s prize-winning novel of the same name.

A story about a veterinarian and his obsession for a fourteen-year-old girl.

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World premiere of Mirror Music and Nonet, two new compositions by Ryoji Ikeda.

In collaboration with Ensemble Modern.

Mirror Music and Nonet are the result of a composition commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.

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Pictured: Ryoji Ikeda (Photo: Niklas Park)

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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New composition by Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and her band.

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Pictured: Kaja Draksler

Loek de Bakker directs a stage adapation of Orlando, a 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf about someone who lives through three centuries in continually changing surroundings, social classes, roles and gender identities.

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Superposition is a humoristic play approaching cultural difference from a mathematical perspective.

Director Vanja Rukavina mirrors his bicultural background against the theory of superposition in quantum mechanics: a particle may exists in two (or more) states at once.

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The Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company presents an extra festive touring programme to celebrate its tenth anniversary.

It comprises three new creations as well as Valse Fantaisie, a classical performance by choreographer George Balanchine.

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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