Ballet Vlaanderen dances work by Merce Cunningham, Jonah Bokaer and William Forsythe: three American choreographers. Each with their own vision, identity and unique language of movement. Pond Way – Merce Cunningham Cunningham drew his inspiration for this work from his earliest childhood memories of skipping stones across pond. The ballet became a meditative experience in…
As the curtain rises on Moeder, the audience is immediately plunged into an uncertain world, in which the stable identities and topographies that orient our movements and perceptions are held in suspension. Where are we, exactly? And who, out of all these figures, is the mother? Is she even there? Or is she, not merely absent,…
You’ve found the home of the 2 Meter Sessions: An legendary archive of music sessions. Songs in different renditions. From a single guitar and a small or acoustic version to complete bands that go full throttle with an electric set. We’ve recorded them all. In 1987, when a managing director of the Dutch radio station 3FM…
A fantastic ensemble excels in breathtaking fighting scenes, deadly intrigues and heartbreaking arias of world-famous plays. Night by night they steer towards unprecedented triumphs. That is on one side. On the other side three stage technicians work in the backstages’darkness. Their lives, which usually remain hidden, now recede into the light. Familie Flöz has created a…
For Wim Vandekeybus love is perhaps the most intangible and capricious of all our inner states of mind: it moves mountains, and creates immeasurable heights and depths. It gives strength, but causes devastating pain when it turns against you. Love inspires poetry: it is exalted and cursed. Following the captivating soundtrack in nieuwZwart (2009), Wim Vandekeybus is…
BOSCH DREAMS pays homage to the painter Hieronymus Bosch and the surrealist movement he inspired. The contemporary circus show takes you on a fantastic journey through surreal imagery that delves into Bosch’s fabulous and saturated universe. Pictures come to life right in front of you as the amazing acrobatic artists from The 7 Fingers unleash their playfulness…
Fractus V is a creation with five, very different, contemporary dancers. The French virtuosic dancer Dimitri Jourde has a circus formation. The American Johnny Lloyd comes from a Lindy Hop background and is originally a musician. The Spanish dancer Fabian Thomé Duten started his career as a flamenco dancer with Joaquin Cortés and Patrick Williams…
“One of the most original, haunting and troubling productions I have encountered in 20 years of Edinburgh Festival visits” – Daily Telegraph, 2008 Wegens aanhoudend succes presenteert Muziektheater Transparant voor het derde achtereenvolgende seizoen de voorstelling Ruhe. Een unicum, en bepaald niet voor de hand liggend. Want toen het boek De SS-ers van Armando en…
Is it possible for love to blossom and endure inside the walls of a psychiatric institution? With that question in mind, director Luis Guenel Soto and the actors of Teatro Niño Proletario visited several Chilean ‘loony bins’. They had already gained an initial impression of such places after studying the impressive book El infarto del…
A new generation of variety artists is coming to the stage to fuse man and puppet together, creating a fascinating entity in a terrific, technically innovative treat for the senses: DUMMY is the Variety Show 2.0! The idea was first conceived by 24 year old director and artist extraordinaire, Eike von Stuckenbrok, in collaboration with…
