Florentina Holzinger’s opera performance Sancta combines Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna with elements of the Catholic liturgy to create a radically new vision of the Holy Mass. The result is a performance which brings together individual spirituality and faith, sexuality and pain, and shame and liberation. neonlobster.org
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Theatre maker and ITA director Eline Arbo creates an intense music-theatre experience based on the Norwegian song cycle Haugtussa (1899), which recounts the tale of a woman with supernatural gifts who finds no place in her community and decides to seek refuge in nature. ruhrtriennale.de
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Y is a choreography for four dancers which addresses the state of uncertainty in which we currently find ourselves by celebrating the power of asking questions. It is a dialogue between dance, music, literature and visual arts, created in collaboration with composer Alain Franco and Folkwang curator Antonina Krezdorn. ruhrtriennale.de
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SONGOFSONGS by Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot (BVDS) is a musical video installation and the second part of their diptych New Body Project. In a painterly video-diorama, four mime performers bring an homage to evolution. BVDS takes inspiration from the Biblical Song of Songs and translates this ancient text into a colourful vision of the future. bvds.nl
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Jongensuren is a theatrical homage to Dutch writer Andreas Burnier (1931-2002) whose novels and stories about identity and sexuality made her a queer icon. Koen Verheijden wrote a new play based on several of Burnier’s novels. schuur.nl
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After his successful Geschiedenis van geweld, theatre director Abdel Daoudi takes the next step in his investigation of humanity’s complex relationship to violence with the new play Branden. Branden (Incendies) is a 2003 drama by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad about a family torn apart by civil war. schuur.nl
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Renowned thinkers discuss the great questions of our time. This edition of the Nexus conference focuses on the need for a vision of the future in confused and confusing times. nexus-instituut.nl
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The Polish Project is a performance exploring the experiences of Polish migrant workers and the mix of physical and artistic labour. frascatitheater.nl
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Sun Eaters is a contemporary folk dance about the mythological origins of petrol which blends dances from Norway, Brittany and West Asia. frascatitheater.nl
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During their residence at Frascati, theatre artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera have researched the link between the European history of witch-hunts and the persecution of migrant workers from the Global South today. On 19 and 20 April they present their work in progress. frascatitheater.nl
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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 […]
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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. festival-avignon.com
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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. festival-avignon.com
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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 commissioned by SPRING from the following makers: Jaha Koo, Mette Ingvartsen, Begüm Erciyas, Michikazu Matsune & Martine Pisani, Bosse Provoost & Esra Velthuis, Janek Turkowski & Iwona Nowacka, Andrea Božić & Julia willms, Ainhoa Hernandez […]
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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. burostedelijk.nl
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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 […]
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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. operaballet.nl
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An old Armenian folktale about the search for harmony comes to life in a concert on a moving stage with a light show. hollandfestival.nl
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HARDKOOR is a ‘stand-up tragedy concert’ and a ‘stream of self-consciousness’ to techno, triphop and choir music. hollandfestival.nl
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Soloists, visual projections and electronics meet in a hallucinatory space, where the audience is free to roam. hollandfestival.nl
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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. hollandfestival.nl
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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. hollandfestival.nl
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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. hollandfestival.nl
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In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up as a grown woman. hollandfestival.nl
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