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. frascati.nl
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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. muziekgebouw.nl
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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. toneelschuurproducties.nl
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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. toneelschuurproducties.nl
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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? dewarmewinkel.nl
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Indra’s Net by Meredith Monk is an immersive musical installation performance inspired by a Buddhist tale that illustrates the interconnectedness of all life. hollandfestival.nl
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Respublika invites the audience into an alternative, utopian world. Here, everyone is free to come and go, to eat, drink and take part in a six-hour trip with techno music, film, theatre and visual arts. hollandfestival.nl
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How do hidden traumas from the past continue to influence the present? Grandpa Puss; or how God disappeared is a family epic that spans three generations from the perspective of a young girl. hollandfestival.nl
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The Bacchae by Elli Papakonstantinou is a musical queer version of Euripides’ The Bacchae in which all forms of desire are encouraged by the god Dionysus. hollandfestival.nl
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Metamorphosis of a Living Room by director Toshiki Okada and composer Dai Fujikura is a musical theatre piece which explores the possibilities of spoken language and music as independent actors. hollandfestival.nl
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Simon McBurney is this Holland Festival’s opening piece – an enchanting thriller about activism, toxic masculinity and our relationship with animals. hollandfestival.nl
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Renowned thinkers discuss the great questions of our time. This anniversary 50th edition of the Nexus Conference examines the worldviews of Nietzsche and Van Gogh. Invited speakers include László Nemes, Valentina Vapaux and Emilie Gordenker. nexus-instituut.nl
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Julie Deliquet created a new opera adaptation of the 1975 Oscar-winning film Welfare by Frederick Wiseman, which chronicles the issues faced by people who live on welfare benefits. festival-avignon.com
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Milo Rau’s new opera places the Greek tragedy of Antigone in the Amazonian rainforest. A politically charged performance by European and Brazilian actors in collaboration with indigenous activists. festival-avignon.com
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For their performance Angela (a strange loop), director Susanne Kennedy and multimedia artist Markus Selg take the life of a woman to portray individual life as a journey and to ask what it means to be human today. Angela (a strange loop) is part of Holland Festival 2023. hollandfestival.nl
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Brideshead Revisited is a theatre production written by Florian Myjer and directed by Ward Weemhoff. It is based on Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel of the same name, in which a middleclass man tries to assimilate to the upper class. The play investigates identity as it relates to class. Is it possible to climb the social […]
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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 […]
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75th edition of Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for contemporary opera productions. Ammodo supports two productions: Picture a Day Like This and The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. festival-aix.com
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Commitment Phobe is a new play by Ira Brand and an exploration of doubt in a society that values certainty. With a live experiment, Ira Brand together with performer Tiana Hemlock-Yensen researches what it means not to know, not to choose, and keep moving. frascatitheater.nl
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Eline Arbo directs Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, a love story about Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Greek hero Achilles. ita.nl
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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. ita.nl
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In June, the 76th edition of Holland Festival will take place in Amsterdam, presenting a wide range of international performances in various disciplines. This year’s Associate Artist is musician and visual artist ANOHNI. Ammodo is production partner of Holland Festival and contributed to the following performances: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead […]
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Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine is a new opera production by Tyshawn Sorey (1980) about Afro-American civil rights activist and resistance figure Joséphine Baker. In Perle Noire, singer Julia Bullock explores the life and struggles of this icon from a present-day perspective. operaballet.nl
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Opera Forward Festival presents the world premiere of the musical-theatrical collage performance Ändere die Welt!. It shows a group of people in the aftermath of a revolution. They try to build a new existence while asking themselves: how do you change the world? With musical director, arranger and pianist Pedro Beriso, existing and new material was used […]
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