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any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
Jan Martens is a rising star in the international world of dance. The choreographer is motivated by his ability to see beauty in the incomplete human being. His dances are intense, physical, and tell a story. In this case: about the sense and nonsense of progress and about standing still as a f...
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Una costilla sobre la mesa: Madre
22 Sep '21 to 23 Sep '21
‘Extremely expressive, incredibly sensitive and radically honest.’ – De VolkskrantAngélica Liddell’s theatre is political, but also deeply personal. Her motto is to try to transform pain into beauty. Madre is a theatrical, baroque and fiery requiem, in which Liddell gives expression to the love...
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De Staat van de Stad
27 Sep '21
In conversation about broad prosperity in our city and region. With economist Kate Raworth, aldermen Van Doorninck, Moorman and Everhardt and the new Amsterdam ombudsman, Munish Ramlal.
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Skin of the mind
29 Sep '21 to 30 Sep '21
Skin of the mind presents a world premiere by Alan Lucien Øyen, an exciting new voice within the company who will debut his first work with NDT 1.
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Planet [wanderer]
07 Oct '21 to 08 Oct '21
After Vessel, Damien Jalet is back with the second volume: Planet [wanderer].
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Grief and Beauty
22 Oct '21 to 24 Oct '21
How do we perceive death, during and at the end of our lives? How do we accompany someone in their final moments? How do we mourn and say goodbye? What is left, at the end of a life?
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Common Ground
26 Oct '21
A ritualistic arena for two exceptional dancers: Common Ground is a choreographic game of chess. Anouk van Dijk lets two dancers battle it out in a unique duel of equality and betrayal, about power and submission.
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The play between
29 Nov '21 to 01 Dec '21
The first NDT 2 program of the season The play between presents two new voices to Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) that are idiosyncratic storytellers in their own right who will both present two new world premieres.
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Moving in concert
05 Dec '21
In Moving in Concert, Mette Ingvartsen creates a hallucinatory world of light, shadows, shapes and colours.
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The Nether
Het Nationale Theater brings you the Dutch version of the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller The Nether, directed by Nina Spijkers. We know Spijkers from her previous theatrical productions Laura H. and Temmen van de feeks. The Nether is like an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror on stage.
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The doctor
09 Sep '21 to 22 May '22
Robert Icke, the great talent of British theatre, will be our resident director for the next few years. He adapts classics in his own personal and radical way. As he did with Oedipus and Children of Nora at ITA. Now, he is making a contemporary adaptation of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
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A little life
29 Sep '21 to 02 Oct '21
No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Ivo van Hove adapted Yanagihara’s novel to theater and created a penetrating performance.
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The Hours
20 Oct '21 to 20 Feb '22
De uren (The hours) takes place on one day in the lives of three women, at three different moments in the 20th century: a book publisher, a housewife and the third is the writer Virginia Woolf. All three struggle with the question how to be yourself in a world that is tight like a straitjacket.
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Ibsen house
05 Nov '21 to 13 Nov '21
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
08 Dec '21 to 23 Dec '21
For 24 centuries, writers and theater makers have told the story of the daughter of the king, Medea, who is rejected by her husband and subsequently kills her children. Simon Stone mixes Euripides' play with the true story of Debora Green, an American woman who killed her children in the 1990s.
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La ménagerie de verre
26 Nov '21 to 28 Nov '21
La Ménagerie de verre (The Glass Menagerie), starring Isabelle Huppert, is Ivo van Hove's second direction for Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. In 2017 he made Vu du pont, based on the classic (Arthur Miller). In the new Van Hove Isabelle Huppert plays a cold-hearted mother on the verge of a breakdown.
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The Magic Mountain
12 Apr '22 to 01 May '22
Young Hans Castorp goes to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, to visit his cousin. He plans to spend 3 weeks with him there, but will end up staying for 7 years. He meets a collection of eccentric figures. Through these encounters he slowly acquires a layered image of contradicting views on life.
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Dutch Delight
At the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, dance festival Summer Dance Forever presents an eclectic mix of hip-hop dance from the Netherlands. In the theatre, the Eindhoven breakdance crew The Ruggeds will explore the boundaries of their dance style.
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Going Global
The international hip-hop festival Summer Dance Forever is going across the border! The festival presents an impressive blend of international dance performances. Let yourself be inspired by the rich hip-hip culture from other countries.
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who killed my father
02 Sep '21 to 21 Nov '21
Ivo van Hove adapted Who Killed My Father, by literary sensation Édouard Louis, for the stage. Van Hove turned the very outspoken book into a monologue, especially for Hans Kesting.
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Cliënt E. Busken
13 Sep '21 to 25 May '22
Maria Kraakman will make her debut as director with Cliënt E. Busken, a monologue played by Gijs Scholten van Aschat and musician Jip van den Dool. The text is based on the latest novel by Jeroen Brouwers.
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Familiekroniek
25 Sep '21 to 26 Sep '21
Binge watching with master storyteller Nasrdin Dchar: experience three of his successful solo performances in one night.
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Trojan Wars
07 Oct '21 to 09 Oct '21
An astonishing binge-watch marathon on the fascinating and destructive power of war.
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age of rage
07 Oct '21 to 10 Oct '21
In Age of Rage, Ivo van Hove tells a primordial story of how revenge haunts and wrecks successive generations. This performance is in line with earlier large-scale social productions such as Roman tragedies and Kings of war.
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De vreemdeling
01 Nov '21 to 02 Nov '21
For a new project, artist Michiel Voet travels to Algeria. There, he and his old friend Karim Ramtani will reminisce about their shared past in Amsterdam. When Ramtani doesn’t show up at the place they agreed to meet, Voet decides to go look for his friend.
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The future is not what it used to be
09 Nov '21
Everything is constantly changing. Nothing ever stays the same. We cannot stop the clock. But time does go by.
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Before/After
23 Nov '21 to 25 Nov '21
In the play Vorher/Nachher, German writer Roland Schimmelpfennig creates the tiniest shift in those lives, and they will never be the same again.
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age of rage
08 Dec '21 to 23 Dec '21
In Age of Rage, Ivo van Hove tells a primordial story of how revenge haunts and wrecks successive generations. This performance is in line with earlier large-scale social productions such as Roman tragedies and Kings of war.
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Hollandsch Glorie
A spectacular, humorous show dealing with Dutch history by Toneelgroep Oostpool in Amsterdamse Bostheater
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Battles and metamorphoses of a woman
09 Sep '21 to 24 Feb '22
One day, Édouard Louis finds a photo of his mother from twenty years ago. A happy young woman, full of hopes, full of dreams. But Édouard only knows his mother to be completely unhappy, trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife.
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Childs Carvalho Lasseindra Doherty
At the invitation of the Théâtre de la Ville and the Théâtre du Châtelet, performance collective (LA)HORDE presents a show featuring the work of four different choreographers: Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty.
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FAMILY TREE MONOLOGUES
06 Oct '21 to 16 Oct '21
In a series of quickly sketched, short, comic and personal monologues, Joy Delima talks about her search for her roots and about her experiences as a young black woman in the Netherlands. She traces her roots and her own political awakening in the field of institutional racism and exclusion.
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TUTTI
19 Oct '21 to 20 Oct '21
Introdans celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with all its dancers, in ballets by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Mauro Bigonzetti and with the magnificent singers of A Filetta and Assurd - Enza Pagliara - Enza Alessandra Prestia. With Tutti, the company presents two absolute audience favourites as th...
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Melomaniac (12+)
27 Oct '21
Dancers, musicians, and a DJ challenge each other in a battle for the attention of the audience. Ultimately, they find each other in that which unites them – their love for music. Piercing music, music that you can feel in your guts. Together with the musicians of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch ...
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Een oprechte ode aan de ironie
28 Oct '21 to 01 Dec '21
De Warme Winkel retreats to a seductively beautiful island with great cultural-historical value. Here they meet the reality TV stars Earl Daniël and Lesley Versprille among others and take on the challenge: will irony remain their strongest weapon or ...
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Casablanca
13 Nov '21 to 14 Nov '21
A performance about passion, freedom and the desire for a better world.
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Children of Nora
06 Jan '22 to 16 Jan '22
Nora slams the door of her house, ending her marriage. It became one of the most famous final scenes in theater history. Robert Icke wrote and directed a sequel in which he shows how Nora's choices affect her children.