Holland Festival

The Holland Festival has been presenting the international top performers in the field of theatre and music since 1947, combined with new up-and-coming talents. A festival that introduced big names to Dutch audiences, stars like Maria Callas, Igor Stravinsky, Pina Bausch and theatre direction by Heiner Müller and Ingmar Bergman.

Holland Festival 2024

Holland Festival is the largest international performing arts festival of the Netherlands and one of the oldest festivals of Europe. The festival was established in 1947 and will celebrate its 77-year anniversary in 2024. It takes places every year, In June, in and around Amsterdam, at various locations, both indoors and outdoors, both large-scale and intimate, both online and offline.

Holland Festival is artist-driven. It places the creators centrally and presents performing arts to make you see, feel or experience other perspectives. Through the participation of many (inter)national artists, the festival takes you on an adventure, it surprises you and encourages you to think.

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HOLLAND FESTIVAL IN ITA

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Tiago Rodrigues based his piece on the stories of aid workers in disaster areas. His pure, sincere approach makes for an intense, empathic experience of an extreme reality that most of us only know from the news.
Language NP Language no problem Eu não sou só eu em mim Grupo Cena 11 Dance Eu não sou só eu em mim
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One of Brazil’s most important and daring dance companies will present an energetic piece that questions and affirms identity and unicity through dance, technology and philosophy.
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ALFA sees a group of European Alfa Romeo aficionados come together as a club to share their passion for the Italian car brand. They talk about the club newsletter, the contents of the event calendar and the annual trip abroad.
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Legendary British theatre company plays with text, music and physical action in new work. Both light and disconcerting, comical and deadly serious.
Language NP Language no problem Hamlet – In the Folds of Time Christiane Jatahy Theater Hamlet – In the Folds of Time
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In Christiane Jatahy’s unconventional interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet wakes up, after four centuries of being the quintessence of male melancholy, as a grown woman looking to get things straight with her past.
Language NP Language no problem The Romeo Trajal Harrell, Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble Dance The Romeo
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Picture a single dance for everyone, inspired by a world as it might have been. Choreographer Trajal Harrell’s The Romeo imagines this dance for people of all origins, genders and generations, of all tempers and moods.
Language NP Language no problem The Second Woman Anna Breckon & Nat Randall Theater The Second Woman
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In The Second Woman Georgina Verbaan repeats a single scene 100 times over a 24-hour period. Starring opposite her are 100 different male participants drawn from the local community. In each scene the two performers meet on the stage for the first time.