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LENIN
25 Jan '19 to 27 Jan '19
LENIN is a theatre production about the final months in the life of Wladimir Ilyitsch Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union. Rau has chosen the human, not only the political element as the core of his performance.
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An evening with Milo Rau
29 Jan '19
In onze reeks An evening with... praten we met een kunstenaar over zijn of haar werk. Deze avond is dat theatermaker en artistiek leider NTGent Milo Rau, die centraal staat in in het festival Brandhaarden.
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Empire
29 Jan '19 to 30 Jan '19
What do we mean by the word 'flee'? And what about 'homeland'? What does the new Europe look like? As the final piece in the European Trilogy, a three-year research project into the myth and reality of Europe, Milo Rau presents Empire, biographical close-ups of people who have come to Europe as...
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Five Easy Pieces
01 Feb '19 to 02 Feb '19
Can you let your children re-enact the life of the child murderer Marc Dutroux? Together with the Ghent arts centre CAMPO, Milo Rau and his International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) for the first time created an ambitious project staged with children between the ages of 8 and 13. Using...
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Die 120 Tage von Sodom
02 Feb '19 to 03 Feb '19
The 120 days of Sodom was written by De Sade in 1785 and is about rich gentlemen who act out their sadistic lusts in a castle on a group of young people. In the 1975 film, Pasolini moved the events to the Italian Salò, the capital of Mussolini's fascist regime. The carnal atrocities in De Sade'...
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La Reprise - Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)
05 Feb '19 to 06 Feb '19
One night in April 2012, Ihsane Jarfi talked to four young men on the corner of a street in front of a gay club in Liège. Two weeks later, he was found dead on the outskirts of a forest. He was tortured for hours and violently murdered. The crime shook the whole city.
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The Fountainhead
05 Jan '19 to 19 Jan '19
The Fountainhead is the fascinating portrait of the brilliant young architect Howard Roark, who follows his calling and sets himself up against those who spinelessly parrot the views of others; of Peter Keating, a fellow architect who sells his soul for commercial success and public esteem; of ...
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Dagboek van een verdwenene
08 Dec '18 to 08 Jun '19
The form of the work is unique: a series of 22 songs for tenor and piano, with an addition of three songs in the middle for a small choir of women and a mezzosoprano representing the gypsy girl Zefka. Ivo van Hove directs top singers Ed Lyon, Peter Gijsbertsen and Marie Hamard, and ITA actors H...
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D. Quixote
18 Jan '19
Flamenco innovator Andrés Marín is Don Quixote of La Mancha. In an energetic , Marín brings the tragicomic hero to life on the battlefield of the 21st century. With the same social criticism and a good dose of humour, Andrés Marín sets off as the knight errant. On skateboard, with boxing gloves...
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LA ESPINA que quiso ser flor o la flor que soñó con ser bailaora
19 Jan '19
“Mercury, masterly innovative,” that is how The New Yorker described Olga Pericet. The dancer from Córdoba recently received the Spanish National Dance Award 2018 for her wonderful mix of flamenco, contemporary dance and Spanish classical with which she is capturing the public and the press acr...
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Amsterdammer van het Jaar
20 Jan '19
During Amsterdammer of the Year we celebrate the city of Amsterdam. We celebrate citizenship, togetherness and the selfless efforts of many people who make the city more beautiful, more liveable and whole.
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The Fountainhead
05 Jan '19 to 19 Jan '19
The Fountainhead is the fascinating portrait of the brilliant young architect Howard Roark, who follows his calling and sets himself up against those who spinelessly parrot the views of others; of Peter Keating, a fellow architect who sells his soul for commercial success and public esteem; of ...
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Dagboek van een verdwenene
08 Dec '18 to 08 Jun '19
The form of the work is unique: a series of 22 songs for tenor and piano, with an addition of three songs in the middle for a small choir of women and a mezzosoprano representing the gypsy girl Zefka. Ivo van Hove directs top singers Ed Lyon, Peter Gijsbertsen and Marie Hamard, and ITA actors H...
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Scènes uit een huwelijk
06 Feb '19 to 31 Mar '19
Scenes from a Marriage premiered in February 2005 in the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam has staged Ingmar Bergman’s classic play in such a way as to create intimate spaces in the most unexpected of places. Three sets of actors enact the couple Johan and Marianne whi...
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Husbands and wives
12 Dec '18 to 24 Feb '19
One day you look up and it’s bad. Jack and Sally are getting divorced. We don’t want to make a big thing about it, they claim. It is a mutual decision, we’re both fine. But for their friends Gabe and Judy, it is an incredible shock. Is our marriage as good as we think it is, they wonder. Jack a...
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Ibsen huis
13 Dec '18 to 23 Feb '19
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
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Medea
06 Mar '19 to 09 Mar '19
Simon Stone made a radical adaptation of Euripides’s Greek tragedy about the daughter of the king, who is replaced with a younger woman by her husband and kills her children out of revenge. He turned it into a contemporary story. He let himself be inspired by the true story of an American docto...
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Vallende man
14 Mar '19 to 30 Mar '19
American author Don DeLillo is the most eminent chronicler of his country and his time. In numerous novels and stories, he researches the often destructive impact of large events and social changes – such as the Cold War and nuclear threat, the digital age and globalization – on the lives of or...
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In wankel evenwicht
27 Mar '19 to 12 Apr '19
What if a befriended couple rang your doorbell one evening to ask for shelter? Fear is in their eyes. They can’t say what they’re afraid of. You think it’s a strange situation, but they’re friends and your daughter’s old room is vacant. So you offer them shelter.
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Dood in Venetië
04 Apr '19 to 13 Apr '19
Thomas Mann is thirty-six when he meets a young man during a holiday in Venice. The event inspires him to write one of his most famous works, Death in Venice. In it, writer Gustav von Aschenbach falls in love with young Tadzio, who is spending his holiday at the Lido together with his mother. H...
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De stille kracht
01 Dec '18 to 11 Apr '19
The hidden force is an enthralling story about the misunderstandings and incomprehension between cultures, as well as between close relatives. The downfall of Otto van Oudijck makes us painfully aware of the impossibility to fully understand others.
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Het hout
17 Apr '19 to 25 Apr '19
As a child, Jeroen Brouwers spends time in a Japanese POW camp in Indonesia. After the war, he is sent to boarding school in the Netherlands. It’s a prison camp and a concentration camp rolled into one. In his early novel Sunken red, he writes: ‘I do not understand the fundamental difference be...
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Een klein leven
18 Apr '19 to 28 Apr '19
Geen boek heeft de afgelopen paar jaar miljoenen lezers zozeer in de ban gehouden en aangegrepen als Een klein leven van de Amerikaanse schrijver Hanya Yanagihara.
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D. Quixote
18 Jan '19
Flamenco innovator Andrés Marín is Don Quixote of La Mancha. In an energetic , Marín brings the tragicomic hero to life on the battlefield of the 21st century. With the same social criticism and a good dose of humour, Andrés Marín sets off as the knight errant. On skateboard, with boxing gloves...
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LA ESPINA que quiso ser flor o la flor que soñó con ser bailaora
19 Jan '19
“Mercury, masterly innovative,” that is how The New Yorker described Olga Pericet. The dancer from Córdoba recently received the Spanish National Dance Award 2018 for her wonderful mix of flamenco, contemporary dance and Spanish classical with which she is capturing the public and the press acr...
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Talent on the Move
05 Feb '19
Every year the Holland Dance Festival offers a national platform for young up-and-coming dance talents from Codarts Rotterdam, the leading centre for contemporary Dutch dance. For the eleventh year running, this 2019 festival edition is proud to introduce the next generation of top dancers.
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SWAN LAKE
09 Feb '19
Dada Masilo, one of the most exciting young choreographers in South Africa, brushes the dust from Swan Lake and adds her own South African roots to it. The result is a respectful, fresh version that raises questions about gender boundaries and homophobia in an AIDS-affected country.
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lostmovements
12 Feb '19
Marc Vanrunxt was one of the big names of the innovative dance wave that flooded Flanders in the early eighties. A few generations on, Jan Martens takes care of the follow-up and continuation of this wave.
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INVITED (8+)
17 Feb '19 to 17 Feb '19
How can you let the audience participate in a choreography? With the dance performance INVITED, Seppe Baeyens is trying to answer this question. With dance as a common language he seeks an alternative way of living together and thus establishing a community with dancers and audiences.
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ZIEL \ ROUH
19 Feb '19
In ZIEL or ROUH (the Arabic word for 'soul'), two different disciplines enter into confrontation: music from Al-Andalus and contemporary dance collide, chafe, search and find each other in this performance. Two disciplines, two civilisations, two conceptual frameworks, two traditions produce so...
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Gulliver
27 Feb '19
In Gulliver, primary school pupils between the ages of six and nine give shape to their own, ideal, world. They do this with personally created movements and texts, like mature people who learn to give content themselves to a series of dance lessons. In a period of four months in total, two sch...
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Du désir d'horizons
12 Mar '19
With Du désir d'horizons, the choreographer and pioneer of African contemporary dance Salia Sanou returns to his favourite themes: loneliness and deviance, individual versus collective, origin and uprooting, borders and banishment.
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Histoire(s) du Théâtre II
20 Mar '19
What is theater? What do emotions and history mean on a stage? And can you find truth there? In the series Histoire(s) du Théâtre, directors and choreographers - with the most diverse backgrounds - examine these questions from a personal perspective. After director Milo Rau, it is now the turn ...
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All hands on deck
24 Mar '19 to 26 Mar '19
Two top companies join forces in All Hands on Deck. Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and de Wëreldbänd bring out the best in each other in a show full of dance, music and slapstick.
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Second Nature
02 Apr '19 to 04 Apr '19
Second Nature contains the acclaimed works Bedroom Folk (2015) by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar and Solo Echo (2012) by Crystal Pite. In addition, the world premiere of a new work by young promising choreography duo Imre van Opstal and Marne van Opstal can be seen.
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Vier verhalen en een dag (6+)
14 Apr '19
After the success of the musical theatre production Kintsukuroi, which premiered at Oerol in 2014, Spinvis and his partner Saartje Van Camp embark on an exciting new collaboration with Introdans.
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Settle for More
26 Apr '19 to 29 Apr '19
Settle for More shows a wealth of powerful plays by young and established talents. Both Bryan Arias and Felix Landerer, young dancers and remarkable choreographers, create their very first work for NDT 2. As well as these two world premieres, the company is staging the dynamic quartet Simple Th...
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Brave new world 2.0
30 Apr '19 to 01 May '19
After Carousel and Salam, Brave New World 2.0 is the third performance in which director and choreographer Guy Weizman presents a world that is changing faster than you can keep up with. A world where everyone is looking for a new story, but at the same time struggling to escape from entrenched...
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Leve Larbi
02 May '19 to 03 May '19
With Leve Larbi (Long live Larbi), Introdans presents three works by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Loin, Orbo Novo and the Dutch premiere of Pure. Cherkaoui's flowing, organic dance language and the dizzyingly fast arm movements that are so characteristic of his work, take the dancers to ...
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Vessel
14 May '19 to 15 May '19
“I want to address the energy we had in the womb, that primal energy of our very first breath,” so says choreographer Damien Jalet. He and visual artist Kōhei Nawa have, together with a group of seven dancers, created a fascinating and visually stunning work, based on the contradictions of the ...
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8: METAMORPHOSIS
18 May '19 to 18 May '19
In 8: METAMORPHOSIS, choreographer and theatre maker Nicole Beutler challenges you to leave the familiar behind and embrace change. Change is inevitable. Nothing remains the way it was. On the one hand we crave change, on the other hand we cling to the familiar. How do you deal with this?...
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Sol & Paul XXX
Sol & Paul XXX celebrates the thirty-year collaboration between NDT's house choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot with five monumental works from their oeuvre: Start to Finish (1996), Subject to Change (2003), Shutters Shut (2003), Shoot the Moon (2006) , and Same Difference (2007). Ea...
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Unboxing Ballet
27 Jun '19
Meet the stars of the future in a programme that links classical ballet at the highest level with works by the self-willed choreographers Daniela Cardim, Wubkje Kuindersma and Milena Sidorova.
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The Fountainhead
05 Jan '19 to 19 Jan '19
The Fountainhead is the fascinating portrait of the brilliant young architect Howard Roark, who follows his calling and sets himself up against those who spinelessly parrot the views of others; of Peter Keating, a fellow architect who sells his soul for commercial success and public esteem; of ...
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Dagboek van een verdwenene
08 Dec '18 to 08 Jun '19
The form of the work is unique: a series of 22 songs for tenor and piano, with an addition of three songs in the middle for a small choir of women and a mezzosoprano representing the gypsy girl Zefka. Ivo van Hove directs top singers Ed Lyon, Peter Gijsbertsen and Marie Hamard, and ITA actors H...
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LENIN
25 Jan '19 to 27 Jan '19
LENIN is a theatre production about the final months in the life of Wladimir Ilyitsch Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union. Rau has chosen the human, not only the political element as the core of his performance.
Close
An evening with Milo Rau
29 Jan '19
In onze reeks An evening with... praten we met een kunstenaar over zijn of haar werk. Deze avond is dat theatermaker en artistiek leider NTGent Milo Rau, die centraal staat in in het festival Brandhaarden.
Close
Empire
29 Jan '19 to 30 Jan '19
What do we mean by the word 'flee'? And what about 'homeland'? What does the new Europe look like? As the final piece in the European Trilogy, a three-year research project into the myth and reality of Europe, Milo Rau presents Empire, biographical close-ups of people who have come to Europe as...
Close
Five Easy Pieces
01 Feb '19 to 02 Feb '19
Can you let your children re-enact the life of the child murderer Marc Dutroux? Together with the Ghent arts centre CAMPO, Milo Rau and his International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) for the first time created an ambitious project staged with children between the ages of 8 and 13. Using...
Close
Die 120 Tage von Sodom
02 Feb '19 to 03 Feb '19
The 120 days of Sodom was written by De Sade in 1785 and is about rich gentlemen who act out their sadistic lusts in a castle on a group of young people. In the 1975 film, Pasolini moved the events to the Italian Salò, the capital of Mussolini's fascist regime. The carnal atrocities in De Sade'...
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La Reprise - Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)
05 Feb '19 to 06 Feb '19
One night in April 2012, Ihsane Jarfi talked to four young men on the corner of a street in front of a gay club in Liège. Two weeks later, he was found dead on the outskirts of a forest. He was tortured for hours and violently murdered. The crime shook the whole city.
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Scènes uit een huwelijk
06 Feb '19 to 31 Mar '19
Scenes from a Marriage premiered in February 2005 in the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam has staged Ingmar Bergman’s classic play in such a way as to create intimate spaces in the most unexpected of places. Three sets of actors enact the couple Johan and Marianne whi...
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Allemaal mensen
10 Feb '19
Wegens grote belangstelling een extra voorstelling op maandag 26 november.
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Husbands and wives
12 Dec '18 to 24 Feb '19
One day you look up and it’s bad. Jack and Sally are getting divorced. We don’t want to make a big thing about it, they claim. It is a mutual decision, we’re both fine. But for their friends Gabe and Judy, it is an incredible shock. Is our marriage as good as we think it is, they wonder. Jack a...
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JA
13 Feb '19 to 15 Feb '19
After his solo's Oumi and DAD (jury selection Theaterfestival 2017), Golden Calf winner Nasrdin Dchar brings us the new solo performance JA (YES).In the top ten of most stressful events, number seven is: getting married. Saying yes leads to more sleepless nights than having children or losing y...
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Celia!
16 Feb '19
In the new musical performance Celia! by Urban Myth, two Cuban icons meet each other: Celia Cruz and Celia Sánchez. Susan Visser plays Celia Sánchez, a heroine of the Cuban revolution and the right hand of Fidel Castro. Manoushka Zeegelaar Breeveld is Celia Cruz. She fled to America during the ...
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Ibsen huis
13 Dec '18 to 23 Feb '19
Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone writes and directs a grand family epic about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof.
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De Indië Monologen
21 Feb '19 to 22 Feb '19
Seventy years after the independence of Indonesia, our colonial history is under the spotlight. Today almost two million Dutch people have an Indonesian background. How does this history impact on our country and our lives? And how do we want to relate to that history? De Indië Monologen (the I...
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Het Duel
23 Feb '19 to 24 Feb '19
Jacob Derwig and Joris Smit play the leading roles in Het duel (The duel), a stage production of Anton Chekhov's only short novel. Jeroen De Man (Ondertussen in Casablanca, Ondine) directs this performance in which the question of what constitutes 'good living' is being fought out by a great ca...
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Revolutions (12+)
03 Mar '19 to 04 Mar '19
Revolutions by The National Theater is inspired by the dystopian novels 1984 by George Orwell and The Circle by Dave Eggers. Noël Fischer (Polleke, Leo & Lena and Het Schaap Veronica) directs this youth performance with live DJ and video walls, which takes place in the year 2084....
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Medea
06 Mar '19 to 09 Mar '19
Simon Stone made a radical adaptation of Euripides’s Greek tragedy about the daughter of the king, who is replaced with a younger woman by her husband and kills her children out of revenge. He turned it into a contemporary story. He let himself be inspired by the true story of an American docto...
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Vallende man
14 Mar '19 to 30 Mar '19
American author Don DeLillo is the most eminent chronicler of his country and his time. In numerous novels and stories, he researches the often destructive impact of large events and social changes – such as the Cold War and nuclear threat, the digital age and globalization – on the lives of or...
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Amsterdam XXX jr.
15 Mar '19 to 29 Mar '19
XXX jr. is onze ITA-juniorproductie, een bijzondere voorstelling over vriendschap in Amsterdam, , losjes gebaseerd op Een klein leven. Iedereen die tussen de 15 en 20 jaar is en van acteren houdt, kan hiervoor auditie doen.
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Heisenberg
15 Mar '19 to 17 Mar '19
Crackling love game between two unpredictable particles. Johan Simons directs this first Dutch-language adaptation of Heisenberg (translation: Ariane Schluter) in which top actors Hans Croiset and Elsie de Brauw appear on stage together.
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Histoire(s) du Théâtre II
20 Mar '19
What is theater? What do emotions and history mean on a stage? And can you find truth there? In the series Histoire(s) du Théâtre, directors and choreographers - with the most diverse backgrounds - examine these questions from a personal perspective. After director Milo Rau, it is now the turn ...
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The way she dies
27 Mar '19
Whoever reads, knows that a book can change us. What you read translates to the language of your own life. A book such as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina could well be the collection of all the lives that have changed been slightly or radically changed by it. Director Tiago Rodrigues: “We chose Anna Ka...
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The Fountainhead
05 Jan '19 to 19 Jan '19
The Fountainhead is the fascinating portrait of the brilliant young architect Howard Roark, who follows his calling and sets himself up against those who spinelessly parrot the views of others; of Peter Keating, a fellow architect who sells his soul for commercial success and public esteem; of ...
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LA ESPINA que quiso ser flor o la flor que soñó con ser bailaora
19 Jan '19
“Mercury, masterly innovative,” that is how The New Yorker described Olga Pericet. The dancer from Córdoba recently received the Spanish National Dance Award 2018 for her wonderful mix of flamenco, contemporary dance and Spanish classical with which she is capturing the public and the press acr...
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All hands on deck
24 Mar '19 to 26 Mar '19
Two top companies join forces in All Hands on Deck. Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and de Wëreldbänd bring out the best in each other in a show full of dance, music and slapstick.
Close
Second Nature
02 Apr '19 to 04 Apr '19
Second Nature contains the acclaimed works Bedroom Folk (2015) by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar and Solo Echo (2012) by Crystal Pite. In addition, the world premiere of a new work by young promising choreography duo Imre van Opstal and Marne van Opstal can be seen.
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Hamlet (8+)
04 Apr '19 to 07 Apr '19
The creators of Lang & Gelukkig, Woef Side Story and Snorro now present a new family show, based on the most famous play of all time: Hamlet. Director Pieter Kramer once again produces a performance that is full of rushed costume changes, grotesque fistfights and swinging songs. Alex Klaass...
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Dood in Venetië
04 Apr '19 to 13 Apr '19
Thomas Mann is thirty-six when he meets a young man during a holiday in Venice. The event inspires him to write one of his most famous works, Death in Venice. In it, writer Gustav von Aschenbach falls in love with young Tadzio, who is spending his holiday at the Lido together with his mother. H...
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De Kersentuin
13 Jun '19 to 23 Jun '19
After having stayed in Paris for several years, the widow Ranevskaya returns to her family home in Russia. She encounters a changed world. The family’s debts have become so great that the house and estate will have to be auctioned. Businessman Lopakhin sees a way out. He proposes to cut down th...
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Een klein leven
06 Dec '19 to 22 Feb '20
No book has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara.
