The wondrous creatures, demonic dreams and magical monsters of medieval artist Hieronymus Bosch star in the show Bosch Dreams of the circus group The 7 Fingers (Canada) produced by Theatre Republique in Copenhagen. From September 23 to November 4, 2016 the show can be seen at 24 theaters in The Netherlands and Belgium.
In 2014 three young lads won over the audience in Edingburgh, during one of the most important international theater festivals of the year, with their show Bromance. Bromance is a mix of circus, dance, Bboying, tricking, freerunning, Cyr wheel, parkour and acrobatics. Bromance has won the Total Theatre and Jackson Lane Award for Circus at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014.…
After sold-out performances and rave reviews after its premiere in 2015, the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is returning to The Netherlands this autumn with his performance Fractus V. On 10 & 11 September at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg and 13 & 14 September at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
Twenty-six years ago Luuk van Eijk and Jaap van Baasbank started the festival Julidans with their own selection criteria. Their criteria were: “basically anything that is not a ballet,” “Dance of the stubborn kind” or just “what we like.” Nowadays the programming is owned by the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam (by dance programmer Anita van Dolen), the production of…
Positive reviews followed after the debut of “Attrape Moi” (Catch Me!) Of the Canadian Flip Fabrique, at festival Circo Circolo in 2015. The “Theaterkrant” wrote: “The quality of the acts is insanely high. Yes, there used balls, cones, straps, Hula Hoops and a trampoline. With almost all of those attributes Flip Fabrique reaches new heights.…
Jamie Adkins began his career at the age of 13 in San Diego, California where he delighted passers-by as a street performer. Later, in San Francisco, he joined the Pickle Family Circus. Then this eclectic clown, juggler, balancing artist and one-hundred percent poet joined Montréal’s Cirque Éloize. In Circus Incognitus, virtuoso clown Jamie Adkins is the vulnerable everyman, who has…
In 1999, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting caused a huge stir. For the first time, Wim Vandekeybus created a performance not about the chemistry between men and women, but a primal desire in a world of men alone – fierce, wild, naive and playful. Spellbinding footage and dance sequences, supported by David Byrne’s sensual soundtrack, flow into…
Get Lost (previously Ervaar Daar Hier Theater) presents the performance Sharira -‘Fire Desire’ by the Indian Chandralekha Dance Company in March 2016. This groundbreaking performance festival brings outstanding international choreographers and theater makers to the Netherlands.
In March Montreal’s Virginie Brunelle is on tour in the Netherlands and Belgium. Brunelle is known for male-female relationships in a post-romantic world. Her highly physical, flesh-baring works are distinctly contemporary, yet with a beautifully textured palette of pure movement.Complexe des genres explores the quest for identity, despite paralyzing doubt and an obsessive desire for perfection.
Blood Links traces William Yang’s scattered family’s migration from China to Australia over a hundred years ago. Defying conventional theater, Yang presents an intimate monologue with over 500 slide images that explores the ties which bind families. Yang is one of Australia’s most respected artists and a world-renowned photographer. Yang is in the Netherlands from the…
