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Holland Festival 2017


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Flexn ©Stephanie Berger

 

This year the Holland Festival will celebrate it's 70th birthday. In honour of this milestone, a lot of different worldrenown artists will return to Amsterdam. The Holland Festival is the largest international performingarts festival in The Netherlands. The festival presents theatre, dance, music, musictheatre and opera of (inter)national artist throughout different locations in Amsterdam. This year the festival will take place from the 3th until the 25th of June 2017. This year our mainprogram will consist of 50 productions with 142 performances, concerts or events and 36 contextprogram's. Of these 50 productions, 17 are world premieres and 32 Dutch premieres.

 

Our danceprogram consists of:

 

Alain Platel and Les Balet C de la B, who will return to the Holland Festival with their new work nicht schlafen. In this performance, nine dancers will dance around a sculpture of dead horses designed by visual artist Berlinde de Bruyckere. Nicht schlafen focusses on the furious emotions and confusion that arose at the beginning of the 20th century. These emotions let to the tragedies of both worldwars.

20-22 June, Koninklijk Theater Carré

More info: http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2017/nicht-schlafen/

 

Rito de Primavera is a dansperformance by Chilean choreographer José Vidal. Vidal creates a ritual especially for the current time with 50 dancers, an electornic soundtrack provided by dj and Multi-instrumentalist Jim Hast and a euforic mise-en-scené. The dancers and audience will come together in this mysthic underground rave in Zuiveringshal West

4th until 6th of June, Westergasfabriek, Zuiveringshal West

More info: http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2017/rito-de-primavera/

 

Flexn brings the Streets of Brooklyn, New York, to the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Choreographer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray, director Peter Sellars and the Flex community from Brooklyn bring the complexity of the American society to the stage. They use different dancestyles -flex, snapping, bone-breaking, dancehall and bruk up- to tell inspiring and powerfull stories about love and justice. A dancerevolution on a soundtrack comprised of reggae, pop and hiphop.

9-10 June, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

More info (including a trailer): http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2017/flexn

 

In Danse de Nuit six dancers perform a choreography by Boris Charmatz on a square in the city, in the open air.  Using minimal resources, they are dancing a brutal choreography. They also talk, including the words of an emergency doctor after the shooting at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Charmatz – his exceptional performances making him a Holland Festival favourite – is now exploring the limits of what is permissible behaviour. What do we do when we are confronted with brutal violence in our society? What chance does civilised behaviour have? You can visit this performance free of charge.

8th until 10th of June- Anton de Komplein

more info: http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2017/danse-de-nuit

 

The Dutch National Ballet brings Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy to Europe for the first time. Ratmansky himself calls this ‘my most personal work’. In this choreography he explores the complex relationship with his homeland Russia. 17, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30 June 2017 – Nationale Opera & Ballet

More info: http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2017/shostakovich-trilogy/

 

 

 

 

  

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