Programme 2020
Lieve vreemde
Maartje Wortel, Veddran Kopljar, Vincent Icke, Rinke Nijburg, Tudor Bratu, Robert Glas, L.A. Raeven, Alma Mathijsen, Tomas Dirrix, Yaïr Callender
Artists from various disciplines are invited to exchange letters about their creative lives, about community and the relationship between the two.
Holland Festival podcast
A fourpart podcast in the run-up to Holland Festival 2020.
Tongues Untied
Marlon Riggs
A personal documentary essay about the black gay scene in New York in the 1980s.
HF Young Night
Find out more about the 2020 festival programme.
Memories of My Body
Garin Nugroho
Juno, a young boy from Java, is discovering his own sexual identity.
Garin Nugroho x Commonland
Can we still turn the tide and maintain a habitable planet? And who is responsible for the changes that need to be made? Nugroho and Commonland will be sitting down to talk about just that.
The Planet – A Lament
Garin Nugroho
A healing lament in the wake of a natural disaster.
The Body Knows Better
Exhibition with new work about the expressiveness of the human body.
INFINI 1-16
Decoratelier in association with 16 artists
Modern spaces for conventional theatre.
Rusalka
Antonín Dvořák, Dutch National Opera
A water nimph yearning for the love of a human.
Curriculum
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
A learning piece for thinking dancers.
May
Louis Andriessen, Lucie Horsch, Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw, Cappella Amsterdam
Louis Andriessen composes ode to Frans Brüggen.
Archief Rufus Collins
The footage enables us to get to know Collins through interviews with him and other theatre makers who worked with him.
Prayers of the People
Kenyon Victor Adams “little Ray”, Bill T. Jones
Ensemble performance of Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
King Today
To what extent are King’s battle, and the issues he raised, relevant in the Netherlands today?
Drei Schwestern
Susanne Kennedy, Münchner Kammerspiele
‘A philosophical evening, visually astonishing’ – Süddeutsche Zeitung
Workshop dans
With dancers of Bill T. Jones’ company.
The Mysterious Lai Teck
Ho Tzu Nyen
Intriguing performance about a triple agent in colonial Southeast Asia.
Op hoop van zegen
Simon Stone, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Classic Heijermans play reimagined by director Simon Stone.
Beethoven
Hans van Manen, Toer van Schayk, Wubkje Kuindersma / Ernst Meisner / Remi Wörtmeyer, Dutch National Ballet
Ballet performed to majestic, sweeping compositions.
The Murder of Halit Yozgat
Ben Frost
Chilling opera about the reconstruction of a murder case.
Transe
Amir ElSaffar
Cultural reconciliation through healing musical ecstasy.
Glory & Tears
Love & Revenge: Rayess Bek, Randa Mirza, Mehdi Haddab, Julien Perraudeau
Arab music and B movies in an exciting new package.
Holland Festival Late Night
For everyone who doesn’t feel like going home yet there is the Holland Festival Late Night: on three Saturdays during the festival in the Bimhuis Café.
Associations
Bill T. Jones en gasten
Lively evening with Bill T. Jones and his sources of inspiration.
Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael; celebrated and maligned talent
We will be looking at Makeba’s journey from shy singer to political activist and her American period with Stokely Carmichael. An evening with spoken word and live music.
Once Upon a Time, an Iron Rose..
Rokia Traoré
Ode to the South African singer Miriam Makeba.
L’homme rare
Nadia Beugré, Studios Kabako
Provocative view on gender and masculinity.
Snarky Puppy in your studio
Bands get the chance to meet the Puppies and get some musical advice.
Helledansen
Concertgebouworkest meets Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès, Franz Liszt, Igor Stravinsky, with dance by LeineRoebana
De Wittgensteins
Jeroen De Man Toneelgroep Oostpool, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Het Nationale Theater
Portrait of an extremely wealthy, eccentric, artistic family in the midst of the events that shaped present-day Europe.
TAL.
BOG. & Het Zuidelijk Toneel
A philosophical, absurdist sound performance all about words.
Meet Elizabeth Diller
Architect & set designer of the New York High Line and Deep Blue Sea in conversation with Tracy Metz.
When Paths Meet
Sami Yusuf, Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest, Cappella Amsterdam
A boundless celebration of music from the heart.
Together Games
Ashley Fure, Simon Steen-Andersen, Ensemble Modern
Playful spectacle in sound by two adventurous composers.
Snarky Puppy
Acoustic
Fusion jazz in an intimate, acoustic performance.
the motown project
Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran
Eclectic mix of opera and soul.
Luistermutant 2020
Micha Hamel, Arlon Luijten, philharmonie zuidnederland
Classical music and ‘serious games’ in a radical listening maze.
Deep Blue Sea
Bill T. Jones, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Nigrini
Loneliness and connection in the midst of a sea of people.
Opera in the Park: Rusalka
Enjoy the free open-air screening of the enchanting opera Rusalka.
The Just and the Blind
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Drew Dollaz
Poetic, musical indictment of institutional racism in the US.
Nous pour un moment
Stéphane Braunschweig, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
The paradoxical depths of human relations.
Poetry Circle x Holland Festival
What is your identity? Who are you really? What are your roots and where is home? Four spoken word artists reflect on this subject: Sjaan Flikweert, Jasper Albinus, Jörgen Gario UNOM, Rachel Rumai Diaz.
Le Sacre du printemps/common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo
Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables, Sadler’s Wells
Inspired encounters between different dance traditions.
Porca Miseria
Trajal Harrell
Boundary-breaking dance trilogy.
Rituals of the new decade
A programme about saying goodbye to limitations in order to make space for new ways of being.
Vocal Classics of the Black Avant-Garde
Elaine Mitchener
Powerful interpretations of revolutionary African-American jazz.
Breakfast with Trajal Harrell
A breakfast conversation between choreographer Trajal Harrell and the Glamcult editorial team.
Take Part+ for art students and schools
Masterclass by spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph at the Poetry Circle Amsterdam
Students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie will be working with architecture firm Traumnovelle to design a public installation in the Muziekgebouw.
Architect Elizabeth Diller will be giving a lecture for students from the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and HKU University of the Arts Utrecht’s Scenography programme.
A range of activities are also being organised for students at the Hyperion Lyceum and the IMC Weekendschool.
Composer Ashley Fure will be working with composition students at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Multimedia artist Ho Tzu Nyen will be talking to young artists during studio visits at the Rijkakademie.
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