Dutch Performing Arts Events

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Monokino US Tour

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Monokino. Photo: unknown

Monday, June 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM
The Trash Bar - New York, NY
Admission: $7
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Pianos - New York, NY
Admission: $8
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Coco 66 - Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $7
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Weapons of Mass Creation Festival -Cleveland, OH
Admission: $5
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Water Street - Rochester, NY
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Amsterdam based band Monokino has to date released one EP and 2 albums in China where the band is known for its distinct musical identity playing electronic pop music. Monokino’s sound has been spiced up in a rather kitschy way with a combination of melodious high pitched vocals, static keyboard, rock guitar and electronic/acoustic drum segments. In Holland, China and Germany, Monokino has received both critical and public acclaim for its indie music. Monokino is signed to Modern Sky, China’s largest independent record label. Monokino’s music is released by Konkurrent/My First Sonny Weissmuller in Benelux countries.

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Sander Kleinenberg. Photo: courtesey of the artist.

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Sander Kleinenberg – one of the biggest DJs in the world –

Friday, June 10, 2011 from 10:00 PM

Pacha NYC (New York, NY)

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Seattle International Film Festival presenting 4 Dutch Productions

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Johan Primero (2010)

Johan Primero (2010)
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 9:45 PM
AMC Pacific Place 11 - Seattle, WA
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Everett Performing Arts Center - Everett, WA
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Monday, June 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Admiral Theatre - Bremerton, WA
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In Johan Primero, Johan Puig is a 42-year-old man who spends his time driving 50 laps a day in his Citroen 2CV around the stadium which is home to the Barcelona football club. He never misses a lap, convinced that this ritual, which originated with his beloved father some 30 years previously (and whose ashes now ride around in the front seat), is the secret of the club’s success. He has constructed his life entirely around this daily routine, with regular stops throughout the neighborhood: at the local café, for a few cortados with his friend Jorge; at the playground to dispense football tips to neighborhood kid Leo; at the candy store to refresh his stash of Chupa Chups; and at the parking garage, for naps. One day, while he’s stopped at a red light, a girl named Paquita washes his windows. She’s cute, she’s friendly, she’s even a soccer fan…but will it be enough to get Johan out of his car?

Win/Win (2011)

Win/Win (2011)
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Egyptian Theater - Seattle, WA
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Neptune Theatre - Seattle, WA
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Friday, June 10, at 7:00 PM

Kirkland Performance Center - Kirkland, WA

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If a man gets everything he wants with almost no effort, can he ever be truly happy? Jaap van Heusden’s feature debut explores this central theme in the story of Ivan, a young analyst at an Amsterdam brokerage firm who has an uncanny gift for interpreting data. His savant-like abilities are soon discovered by the arrogant, no-nonsense Stef - one of the firm’s top traders - who takes the wunderkind under his wing. Ivan is an immediate sensation, raking in huge daily profits for the firm, receiving a swanky new apartment and getting amorous attention from the pretty receptionist he has secretly admired as dividends. But his gift comes at a great cost. As the profits and his reputation soars, Ivan feels increasingly detached from the rest of the world, soon forcing him to make a momentous decision. Win/Win is an absorbing character study that also subtly skewers the financial hubris that helped bring about the global economic crisis. In between Ivan’s brilliant stock trades, we see glimpses of real-life news reports about the collapse of Bear Stearns splashed across the trading floor’s video screens - warnings that are virtually ignored by the busy traders.

Heading West (2010) movie still. Photo: www.siff.net

Heading West (2010)
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM
AMC Pacific Place 11 - Seattle, WA
For ticketsFriday, June 10, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Egyptian Theater - Seattle, WA

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Heading West is a lovely study of everyday life, or, more specifically, the life of Claire, a 38-year-old woman living in Amsterdam whom we follow over the course of a single year. During this time, she cares for her young son, teaches at a school for deaf children, argues with her ex-husband, and flirts with a stranger. She has dinner with friends, visits her mother, goes shopping, checks up on the elderly neighbor, and makes her way from place to place in the city on her bicycle—even after an accident in which she breaks her arm. None of these experiences may be exceptional in their own right, but when taken together, they form a constellation of the highs and lows, large and small, that make up a life, and illustrate a whole which is more than the sum of its parts in this carefully observed, deeply personal film.

Shocking Blue (2010) movie still. Photo. www.siff.net

Shocking Blue (2010)
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM
AMC Pacific Place 11 - Seattle, WA
For ticketsTuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM
AMC Pacific Place 11 - Seattle, WA
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Willem, Jacques, and Chris have been best friends for as long as any of them can remember. In Shocking Blue, the three teens all live amongst the colorful expanses of Holland’s tulip fields, which serve as a backdrop for their adolescent games and escapades. No different from country boys everywhere, they approach the threshold of adult life while still clinging to the comforts of an idyllic childhood. Until, that is, the day a tragic accident tears the friendship asunder, resulting in the death of one of them under the wheels of an out-of-control tractor with Willem at the wheel. Suspicions arise that the accident may have had something to do with jealousy over the previous night, when Jacques had gone off for a romantic encounter with pretty, 15-year-old Marianne, but nobody is talking. Mark de Cloe’s second feature is a touching coming-of-age drama, but also a wistful meditation on a shattered friendship. Making excellent use of the bright hues and light of a warm Dutch summer, the film unspools in romantic, almost mythic tones and clearly bodes well for the future of the country’s acting talent with its attractive and surprisingly accomplished young leads.

Sintel (2010) movie still. Photo: www.siff.net

Sintel (2010)
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 9:30 PM
(shown as part of Animation United's screening)
SIFF Cinemea - Seattle, WA
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Sintel is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film. This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.

The Seattle International Film Festival's mission is to create experiences that bring people together to discover extraordinary films from around the world. It is through the art of cinema that we foster a community that is more informed, aware, and alive. The festival takes place from May 19 - June 22, 2011.

Dutch films at Brooklyn Film Festival

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Among Horses and Men (2010) movie still. Photo: courtesy of Brooklyn Film Festival

Among Horses and Men (2010) by Marjoleine Boonstra
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Indiescreen - Brooklyn, NY
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Monday, June 6, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Indiescreen - Brooklyn, NY
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Among Horses and Men directred by Marjoleine Boonstra (1959), who is also a filmmaker, artist, photographer and lives in Amsterdam. Among Horses and Men illustrates a unique portrait of a Nevada prison program that trains inmates to become horse trainers. While still officially in prison, the men work outdoors, breaking wild horses. Their own feelings and emotions are reflected in the behavior of the horses, which have been captured and caged for the first time, their freedom taken. During a period of three months, the prisoners struggle to win the animal's trust and to place the animal under emotional control. In the process, they do the same with themselves.

Among Horses and Men (2010)

Walzer (2010) by Rob Lücker

Monday, June 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Brooklyn Heights Cinema - Brooklyn, NY
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Tuesday, June 7 at 6:00 PM
IndieScreen - Brooklyn, NY
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Rob Lücker (1977) directed commercials for brands like Albert Heijn, Delta Lloyd, De Bijenkorf and SP. His graduation film Skoda won the Talent&Pro Award for Best Film of Dutch Audiovisual Academy's. Walzer is Lücker's first experimental production:

Scrap metal pikey Arec discovers a valuable treasure during his demolishing and gathering work in a dark basement. He decides to keep it for himself, but soon his two comrades grow suspicious and a fierce and nerve-racking struggle for power unfolds...

Walzer (2010)

The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF- formerly known as Brooklyn International Film Festival) is announcing its 2011 annual festival themed Plot. The festival has received over 2,200 films from 111 countries. 1,200 are US productions. The competitive event will run from June 3rd through June 12th at indieScreen, a brand new venue in Williamsburg, and the Brooklyn Heights Cinemas. The festival will present 120 film premieres and each film will be shown twice.

'Bride Flight' opens in the Paris Theatre in NYC

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The original 1953 flight. Photo: cover of Revue October 10th 1953, Nieuwe Revu.

Friday, June 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM (first screening)
The Paris Theater - New York, NY
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Bride Flight (2008) is a lavish romantic drama inspired by the true story of the 1953 KLM flight that won the “Last Great Air Race” from London to Christchurch. The flight was dubbed “Bride Flight” by the international press, because of its special passengers; 40 Dutch immigrants, most of them young women with wedding dresses in their suitcases, traveling to join their fiancés who had already emigrated to New Zealand. Leaving behind the gloom and scarcity of post-WWII Europe, shy but sensual farm girl Ada, dogmatic Marjorie, and Jewish fashion designer Esther are filled with hope for a future of love and freedom. Each takes a very different path in their strange new land, but together with handsome bachelor Frank, they form a bond on the flight that continues to link them for decades to come. Honored with Audience Awards at film festivals across the country, Bride Flight evokes a time of slim choices and desperate optimism, with sweeping views of the New Zealand countryside, stunning period dresses, and the faint smell of Pinot Noir from the thriving vineyard Frank establishes in New Zealand.

Bride Flight (2008)

Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Starring: Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer, Pleuni Touw.

Screenwriter: Marieke van der Pol also wrote the best-selling novel.

A Music Box Films release.

Conference: The Funding of the Arts

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The Cooper Union. Photo: Abbott Miller.

Friday, June 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The evening will be concluded with a reception.
The Cooper Union - New York, NY
RSVP at: newyork@pvda.nl

The New York chapter of the Dutch Social Democratic Party – the ‘PvdA’ -presents in collaboration with the School of Art at The Cooper Union: “Who Serves the Arts Best?”.

A debate on public and private funding of the arts in the United States and the Netherlands. Due to rigorous cut backs in arts funding by the current government in the Netherlands, Dutch arts institutions and artists are looking to the United States to explore ideas for supplementing their budgets. Who serves the arts best, and how do we actually measure that? In one-on-one conversations, followed by a moderated panel, museum directors, chiefs of art institutions and foundations, policy makers, deans of art schools and artists will debate the transatlantic divide and build on a template for the future funding of the arts.

Farai Chideya (Radio Host NPR) will be hosting this afternoon of conversations and presentations and introduce the audience to several thought provoking discussions between prominent representatives of leading cultural institutions in the US and in the Netherlands.

Glenn D. Lowry (MoMA) and Axel Rüger (Van Gogh Museum) will start off the debate on cultural institutions by discussing the differences between the so-called Dutch ‘Rijks museums’ — substantially funded by the State — versus the many museums in the United States that work with a board of trustees and rely on private resources. Questions about funding models for the concert hall and the theatre, and their challenges in a changing world increasingly oriented towards consumerism and mass culture, will be debated by Clive
Gillinson (Carnegie Hall) and Melle Daamen (City Theatre Amsterdam).

How can cultural foundations pursue a public mission in the field of art and culture, and in what way is this possible without a subsidy system? Are cultural philanthropy and US-style fund raising desirable instruments to introduce in the Dutch cultural system? Is public funding diminishing in the Netherlands (and Europe), but getting more popular in the US? Nicolas Baume (Public Art Fund), Gitta Luiten (Mondrian Foundation) and Katie Hollander (Creative Time) will share their perspectives.

Policy makers in the cultural field, such as Rick van der Ploeg (Professor of Economics and former Dutch Secretary of Culture), will give their views on the future of the role of government in the arts in these times of budget cuts and reform. Can art revitalize the flagging economy and “be a source of jobs and economic stimulus,” as Rocco Landesman has argued (NEA), or is it a luxury that government should target first when making decisions on budget cuts?

Saskia Bos (The Cooper Union) and Mark Wigley (Columbia University) will engage in a conversation about funding and education, and open a session with educators, an artist, architect, designer and a theatre director. What does public and private funding mean to artists? Will the concept of cultural enterprise awaken the businessman who lives in many artists and spark creativity even more, or will it leave less room for innovation and lead to more mainstream productions?

For information please contact Gerald van Wilgen at vanwilgen@mac.com or 856-261-1673

Saskia Laroo on the US Summer Fests

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Saskia Laroo. Photo: Ruediger Schestag.

Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Asylum Hill Congregational Church - Hartford, CT
Admission: free
Sunday, June 5 2011 at 11:00 AM
Salvation Army - Brooklyn, NY
Admission: free
Sunday June 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Brotherhood Synagogue - New York, NY
Admission: free
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Forbes Library - Northampton, MA
Admission: free
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 6:30 PM
East Hartford Parks & Rec. - East Hartford, CT
Admission: free
Saturday, July 2, 2011 at tba
Norforlk Country Club - Norfolk, CT
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Sunday, July 3, 2011 at tba
Redding Town Green - Redding, CT
Admission: free
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at tba
Omi International Arts Center - Ghent, NY
Admission: free
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Royal Masala - Hartford, CT
Admission: free

Saskia Laroo, hailed by American public and press at large as "Lady Miles of Europe", is one of the few women trumpet stylists, blowing for more than three decades. Born July 31, 1959 in Amsterdam, she began on trumpet at age 8, never dreaming of becoming a professional musician. That all changed when Saskia, turned 18, after briefly majoring in mathematics at University of Amsterdam switched her focus to a career in music. She worked extensively in various groups from this point, at first mostly on upright bass, though eventually, on both bass and trumpet; the trumpet became her main instrument. Saskia Laroo combines today's music by uncontrived romps into new styles, eagerly limned as "nu jazz" or "swingin' body-music"--a vivacious blend of hip-hop, jazz, salsa, funk reggae, and world, that many other artists dare not venture. Her artistry and her groove ring vibrantly and free on her five albums journeying us through the music she has absorbed and plays from heart and soul.

The Saskia Laroo Band

"Molly says NO!" ft. Judith Mok in NYC

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Judith Mok. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Monday, June 6, 2011 at 6:00 PM

Bruno Walter Hall, Lincoln Center - New York, NY
Admission: free

Originally commissioned for the James Joyce Centenary celebrations in Dublin in 2004, Molly says No! is a dramatic recital written by famed Irish poet and screenwriter Michael O’Loughlin. It shows a different side of the fictional character of Molly Bloom, heroine of Ulysses. Here Molly is a serious artist, professional singer, foreigner, immigrant, bereaved mother, a complex modern woman in a male world. She sings the music she loves in her own words. This dramatic recital features music by Bizet, Mozart, Granados, De Falla, Schubert, Hugo Wolf as well as traditional Irish and Sephardic folk song.

Judith Mok has peformed Molly says No! throughout Ireland and abroad to great critical acclaim. This show has been invited to many venues, including Dublin Writers Festival, Dublin Bloomsday, Aspects Festival, the first Irish Literary Festival in New Delhi , India and Bhutan, and at many universities.

Judith Mok performs Molly Says No Part I

Judith Mok (Soprano). Her lieder, oratorio and opera repertoire led to appearances at numerous festivals including Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris and the Holland Festival. She has worked in North and South America and in almost every country in Europe, having sung with orchestras such as London Sinfonietta, the Netherlands Philharmonic, de Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, the Mozart Players, the Freiburgerbarock and Amsterdam Baroque, and the Vienna Symphony in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Queen Elisabeth Hall, Theatre du Chatelet and the Bastille, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires.

She has performed and recorded operas by Mozart, Philidor, Handel, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Wagner with conductors such as Berstein, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Rostropovitch, Edo de Waart, Ed Spanjaard, Hartmut Haennchen, JC Malgoir and many others.

Having dedicated part of her career to contemporary music, composers such as Louis Andriessen, Gerardo Gandini, Bob Zimmerman and Jeff Hamburg have written works for her which have been recorded on CD. She was also chosen by the Oscar-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun to perform his works in several countries.

Judith Mok has made many television and radio recordings in Europe , North and South America and India. She has sung and acted in several feature films with actors like Elliot Gould and Jacqueline Bisset, including the award-winning Goodnight Vienna.

'Dusk' at Bershire International Film Festival

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Schemer / Dusk (2010) movie still. Photo: www.imdb.com

Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Triplex Cinema #2 - Great Barrington, MA

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During a scorching hot summer the tension in a group of young friends runs so hight, they decide to murder one of the girls in their group. Dusk is a tragic ensemble film about the emergence of a fascist dictatorship within a group, a dynamic that requires the death of a scapegoat.

The Berkshire International Film Festival is a world-class festival that is an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Berkshires. BIFF showcases not only the latest in independent feature, documentary, short, and family films but also lively panel discussions and special events focusing on filmmakers and talented artists from both sides of the camera.

The festival takes place from June 2-5, 2011.

Dutch DJs are taking over Pacha NY

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Sander van Doorn
Thursday, June 3, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pacha NY - New York, NY
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Thought to be a technical and musical genius by many, Sander van Doorn is without a doubt one of the worlds most essential, influential and popular DJ/Producers in dance music today. In very short order, Sander has become a brand synonymous with excellence – both production wise, and in front of the thousands he plays to nightly. He is truly one of the strongholds in dance music, a generation defining artist that reshapes our perception of what dance music can be, and he does it all with that electrifying Sander van Doorn smile. Sander van Doorn is electronic music royalty. He’s a hit-maker, a tastemaker, and musical visionary. With boundary pushing preciscion, Sander has taken music, clubbing and production to the next level. He’s been awarded so many honors from industry and peers alike that his mantle is permanently bowed. Poll after poll cement his status as one of the worlds best, and you can bet that whatever the position or rank he holds, in the hearts and minds of his fans he is always #1.

Fedde Le Grand
Friday, June 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pacha NY - New York, NY
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2009 has been a truly phenomenal year for Dutch artist Fedde le Grand. With a glittering career that includes worldwide number ones, packed arenas, throbbing dance floors, A-list collaborations, a raft of international awards and a debut artist album Output that hit over 60 countries worldwide, it’s been a year that has cemented his reputation as one of the most forward-thinking, in-demand, creative forces in global music. But though this may have been an impressive ‘beginning’, it was just that – a beginning. There was more to come from le Grand and the world was about to sit up and take notice of the Dutchman. Let Me Think About It, The Creeps and 3 Minutes to Explain all followed, setting club-land on fire and stamping Fedde’s name all over the global music charts. There was nobody anywhere that fell short of Fedde’s magic, including Grammy Award-winning Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am, international electronic godfather Fatboy Slim and Madonna. That the Queen of Pop should have picked up on Fedde came as no surprise to anyone with one eye on his meteoric career. After using Put your hands up to promote her Sticky and Sweet tour, she then requested Fedde’s remix skills for her global smash hit Give It 2 Me.

Sander Kleinenberg
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pacha NY - New York, NY
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Sander Kleinenberg is a Dutch DJ and producer. Born in Delft in 1971, he started DJing in his early teens playing at local bars. After getting his start in production in 1996, some of the biggest DJs in the world, including Sasha, Deep Dish, and Max Graham have used his tracks on their mix compilations. My lexicon and Sacred are examples of his trancier production work, while The Fruit and Work To Do are examples of a more funk-tinged house. His most recent compilations fall under the Everybody moniker, and reflect the style of DJing that he is playing out at the time.

Afrojack
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Pacha NY - New York, NY
Admission: $54,43

The stars must've been aligned just right when Nick van de Wall (better known as Afrojack) saw his first ray of light. Music was his first love since his early youth. He started playing piano when he was only five. Being a very creative student, Afrojack spent most of his time listening to all kinds of music while studying. It was no surprise that it didn't take him long to turn the tables and start making music instead of just listening to it.

Befitting his position as the leading figure of the Dutch new wave, his success stretches far beyond his home turf; 2010 has seen him become one of the most in demand DJ/producers of any nationality.

With a peerless reputation as a producer - including Lady Gaga’s Alejandro and Madonna’s Revolver, his signature style is bringing him the kind of remix requests that most dance artists will only ever dream of.

Dutch Composer Ruben Naeff got inspired by the Dutch Prime Minister

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The Deviant Septet. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 7:30 PM (world premier)
Greenwich House Music School - New York, New York
Admission:$15

Inspired by Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, about a soldier who sells his soul to the devil, the New York based Deviant Septet presents a concert with a different instrumentation and a Faustian spirit. Especially for this program, the Dutch composer Ruben Naeff (1981) wrote For the Deviants: a tribute to the deviant voice, which was inspired by the Faustian pact that the current Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte recently had made with the politicians Verhagen and Wilders.

When Naeff began working on the piece, he started looking for Faustian themes, inspired by Stravinksy's Histoire du Soldat and Zappa's Titties and Beer, that both will be performed at the concert, too. He realized after a while that he had been occupied by such a theme for quite a while: recently the leader of the Dutch conservative party, Mark Rutte, had barely won the elections and eventually chose to form a government that included the populist anti-Islam party that just had won tremendously. The choice for this controversial coalition partner was not obvious: he ignored the socialist party, who had got just one single seat less, and chose to include the conservative Christian party, which had dramatically lost half of its seats in parliament.

Ruben Naeff. Photo: UvA FNWI

Educated in both mathematics and music and recently employed as an economist, Ruben Naeff finds himself in an attempt to comprehend the world and set it to music. His love for mathematics led him to write De Bètacanon (The Scientific Canon), a paean for science that was commissioned by the Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant and in which the fifty scientific topics of the newspaper's eponymous project were sung in a canon in four voices. The financial crash of 2008 inspired him to write The Dancing Dollar, in which he set both Citigroup's share price and its former chairman's words to music, and where he asked the Dollar for a dance. After that, many economically inspired pieces came to life, including a businessman's Elevator Pitch for solo flute and a neoliberal creed Credo for chamber choir, with texts from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Ruben embraces all kinds of music and strives to write music that inspires and moves.

NY screening of award winning 'Can I Kick It' by Jos Dirkx

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Can I Kick It? (2010) movie still. Photo: courtesy of the filmmaker.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Roger Smith Hotel - New York, NY
Admission: free

Can I Kick It? tells the untold story of women’s football in South Africa. Together with the incredible team of Nations United, an organization consisting of 7 campaigns, 1 film, and an active dialogue all blending the art of film-making and the idea and goal of global unity led by Chaker Khazal, we have an action-packed week ahead of us.
Documentary maker and founder/director of Girls & Football SA, Jos Dirkx, won “Best Documentary” at the Festival du TV et Cinema in Beirut, Lebanon, which represents the second biggest film festival in the Middle East region. It is the first time that this award has been given to a female director and a female led initiative since 1939, when the awards and film festival were founded.

Jos Dirkx was born in Rio de Janeiro and has since been traveling the world with her parents and brother. She has lived in Brazil, Bangladesh, Spain, Senegal, The Netherlands, Canada, Norway and currently resides in South Africa. Her passion for social justice and gender equality has propelled her participation in projects, debates, fund raising and campaigning for increased public awareness of women’s rights, and her hands-on experience with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has furthered her dedication to making social justice and gender equality a worldwide priority.

She has worked on various projects, including projects for victims of the Tsunami, as well as on services for commemoration of World War II survivors and victims and has volunteer experience teaching theatre in South Africa and English in Sudan. She has spoken in various European countries about Female Genital Mutilation.

Next to the screening, the new technology and heath campaign of Girls & Football SA will also be launched.

Gerald van Wilgen in the Theatre at the American Legion Hall

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The Importance of Being Earnest. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Friday, May 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Friday, May 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Theatre at the American Legion Hall - Collingswood, NJ
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Celebrate Collingswood with Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, presented by The Collingswood Shakespeare Company. Join Oscar Wilde in his visit with Walt Whitman as they watch this hilarious play.

Gerald van Wilgen is an ambitious multi faceted playwright, writer and director who doesn’t shy away from big ideas.
His recent play Quaerere (work-title) is an epic tale of three characters dealing with entitlements, destiny and self-determination. In Rites of Passage and Constant Revolution at the Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania, he directs a divers group of artists and community participants to create new rituals and find their own voice.
For the Collingswood Shakespeare Company he has also directed William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. He is the facilitator of a the Coffee & Shakespeare group that meets monthly at the Collingswood Public Library as well.
Gerald van Wilgen holds an MA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and studied directing at the Walnut Street Theatre School in Philadelphia and the HB Studios in New York.

IPAY Dutch Youth Theater Consortium Tour ft. Speeltheater Holland

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Speelteater, De Maan. Photo: Jørgen Koopmanschap

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Samueli Theater - Costa Mesa, CA
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Overture Center for the Arts, Capitol Theater - Madison, WI
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Friday, May 6, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre - Cleveland, OH
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Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM
Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre - Cleveland, OH
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM
RVCC Arts - Somerville, NJ
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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM
RVCC Arts - Sommerville, NJ
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Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM
RVCC Arts - Somerville, NJ
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Painted Bright Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
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Friday, May 20, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Painted Bright Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
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Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Painted Bright Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
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For several reviews on Perô (or Mysteries of the Night)

Perô (or Mysteries of the Night), an adaptation of the popular children’s book by French author Michel Tournier, will make its California debut at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in the Family Series on April 23 with two performances. This award-winning production from Speeltheater Holland of the Netherlands tells the story of Perô, a baker in a tiny Italian village with a broken heart. Perô loses the girl he has loved since childhood after she runs off with a flashy house painter. He stops baking and closes his bakery. Using puppets, actors, singers and live musicians, this charming tale of love comes to life.

Speeltheater Holland is a non profit touring theater company based in Edam in the Netherlands. Founded in 1976, the company has performed theater for children for more than 30 years.The company’s performances range in size from small plays using one to three actors as well as larger scale productions. Speeltheater Holland creates theater for children of all ages and sometimes for adults as well. The productions include the use of puppets combined with acting and other theatrical disciplines. In addition to developing and presenting performances, Speeltheater Holland also seeks to be a breeding ground for young (puppet) theater makers and a place where new forms of co-operation can be experimented with and cultivated.

Speeltheater Holland, Perô. Photo: Dirk Buwalda

Next to the public shows, Speeltheater Holland also scheduled a number of school performances. For more info: www.speeltheater.nl/Enews.html

International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) is the premiere membership organization in the world today servicing and supporting the professional community of performing arts for young audiences. Their membership is comprised of a growing worldwide network of artists, producers, presenters, agents, educators and students that are dedicated and involved in producing, presenting and promoting all forms of theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and more.

Armin van Buren at Roseland Ballroom

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Armin van Buren. Photo: courtesy of the artist

Friday, May 20, 2011 at 9:00 PM

(ft. Blake Jarrel, opening set by Zack Roth & Audien)
Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY
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Review on Armin van Buuren by Douglas on usatrancemovement.com (May 20, 2011)
Review on Armin van Buuren by Kid Alien on lessthan3.com (May 21, 2011)

Armin van Buuren has been named number one in the prestigious DJ MAG Top 100 poll four times in a row, as the first DJ in the history of the DJ Magazine and an indication of his prolific output over the more than 14 years he’s been dj’ing and producing. Being the official World’s Most Popular DJ is just one of his many achievements, but the driving force behind his success is an overriding passion for dance music.

Being the world’s number 1 DJ sees the Dutch DJ perform at some of the world’s biggest and best festivals, clubs, events and shows. One of the highlights of 2010 was Armin’s DJ set at the Museumplein in Amsterdam in July, during the honoring of the Dutch soccer team.

For his fourth artist album, Mirage, Armin kicked off another Armin Only World tour: Mirage. After the first show in the sold-out Jaarbeurs in Utrecht on November 13th, Armin will continue to travel the globe with shows in 15 different countries, ranging from Australia to Ukraine, Argentina, Libanon and more. The Blu-Ray/DVD of Armin Only – Mirage, including the highlights of the kick-off and many extra’s and specials, has been released in February 2011.

The Arcos Orchestra ft. Highlights from the Lowlands

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Beth-El Chapel/Temple Sanctuary, Temple Emanu-El - New York, NY

Free admission

Pre-concert talk with Hans Kox and Vanessa Lann at 6:00 PM

Beth-El Chapel, Temple Emanu-El - New York, NY

The Arcos Orchestra shall conclude its 2010-2011 Season at Temple Emanu-El with a fabulous program of outstanding works by composers almost completely unknown in the United States. Highlights from the Lowlands features the North American Première of the Viola Concerto by Holocaust victim Leo Smit (1900-1943) with Emily Deans as soloist, along with music by Hans Kox (b. 1930), Tristan Keuris (1946-1996) and a world première by American-in-Amsterdam Vanessa Lann (b.1968).

Arcos was founded in 2005 by conductor John-Edward Kelly and concertmaster Elissa Cassini. Inspired by the great creative spirit of Béla Bartók - who himself once sought to found such an orchestra - the Arcos Orchestra offers the listener an artistic bridge from the known to the unknown, extending from the origins of European musical culture to the most exciting contemporary music of our time. Bartók's comprehensive attitudes towards music and music-making, together with his ability to merge the currents of past and future into a language that speaks directly to the human heart, permeate everything the Arcos Orchestra stands for.

Consisting of outstanding young players from around the world, the Arcos Orchestra approaches orchestral playing with the chamber musician's sense of discipline: individual instrumental mastery; in-depth knowledge of the composer's life & music; and selfless co-operation in service of the composer's intentions. Although many chamber orchestras now perform without conductor, the Arcos Orchestra follows a more traditional path, believing that the conductor increases both their scope of repertoire and the musical unity that can be achieved. The relationship of conductor to orchestra is not a typical one, however: by design, the Arcos Orchestra conductor is integrated into the music-making like one player of many, working with the musicians to attain a lively exchange of ideas in rehearsal and spirited focus in concert. The result is a degree of synergy between players and conductor rarely found today.

Candy Dulfer performs at John Lyman Center and The Spirit of NY

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Candy Dulfer. Photo: www.fergusoncenter.cnu.edu

Friday, May 13, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Cruise ship 'The Spirit of New York', Smooth Jazz Sunset Cruise
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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM
Cruise ship 'The Spirit of New York', Smooth Jazz Moonlight Cruise
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Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM
John Lyman Center for the Perfming Arts - New Haven, CT
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A very special Spring Edition kick off to a Smooth Cruise season as Candy Dulfer returns to the United States for the first time in two years. Cruise the Hudson River aboard the luxurious Spirit of New York cruise ship and listen to the music of this world renowned, Grammy-nominated saxophonist. Enjoy a fantastic May evening with views of the moonlit Manhattan skyline, indulge in delicious food and fine beverages, and enjoy a rare US performance by the extraordinary Candy Dulfer.

Candy Dulfer first picked up the saxophone at the tender age of six. Performing since age seven, bandleader of Funky Stuff since age fourteen, international recording artist since age nineteen, touring the world since age twenty. Has recorded and / or performed with artists like Prince, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Van Morrison, Maceo Parker, Sheila E., Mavis Staples, Lionel Richie, Beyoncé, Pink Floyd, Chaka Khan, David Sanborn, Larry Graham, Marcus Miller, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Cliff, George Duke, Blondie, Jools Holland, Jamie Cullum, Angie Stone, Tower of Power, The Time, Alan Parsons, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, Joey DiFrancesco, Jonathan Butler, and many others.
Over 30 years and two decades after her Grammy-nominated recording debut in 1990, the sizzling saxophonist has earned a reputation as a high-energy performer with charisma and sex appeal to burn.

Bingo Players in NY and LA

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Bingo Players. Photo: Courtesey Bingo Players Music

Friday, May 6, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Webster Hall, Grand Ballroom - New York, NY
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Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Balasco Theater - Los Angeles, CA
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Bingo Players (Paul Bäumer & Maarten Hoogstraten) have been topping in Beatport charts ever since their collaboration with Chocolate Puma on the smash hit Touch Me. Their release Chop was a huge club hit, reaching no. 2 on the Beatport charts and stayed in the top 10 for weeks.
After that, their remixes for Joachim Garraud (Are You Ready), Sir James (Special), Ron Caroll (Bump To Dis) and Kristine W (Feel What You Want) were also big tunes and huge Beatport hits. In 2009 they reached the no. 2 and no. 1 spot again with the tracks Disco Electrique and Devotion. The latter track stayed on no. 1 for over a week and in the top 10 for over a month!
Nowadays almost every DJ supports the Bingo sound. Think of names like David Guetta, Axwell, Fedde Le Grand, Martin Solveig, Laidback Luke, Roger Sanchez, Sander Van Doorn, Sebastian Ingrosso and many more. With the launch of Hysteria Bingo Players permanently establish themselves as the predominant high flyers of the international House scene. With focus on dominating the world of bingo in 2010, hold on to your bingo cards; it’s game time!

Chomain Vasser ft. Jeffry Lewis at Friedman Benda Gallery

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Chomain Vasser. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Friday, May 6, 2011 at 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Friedman Benda Gallery - New York, NY
Admission: free

Dutch band Chomain Vasser consists of Rik (guitar), Rik, Cesco (drums), Joris (guitar), Patrick (bass) and Maries (guitar, vocals). Their music is described as Indie/Folk Rock and is influenced by artists like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Mozart, Bonny 'Prince' Billy, Wu Tang Clan, Kool Keith, Beck, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Devendra Banhart, Sonic Youth, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Beethoven, Velvet Underground and Daniel Johnston.

Chomain Vasser

Tonight they will perform at the opening reception of Rik Meijer’s debut at the gallery, entitled, I Am Still What I Wanted to Be, which will open on April 21st and continue through May 28, 2011.

Politcs on Film Festival ft. 'Majesty' and 'First Mission'

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Majesty (2010) movie still.

Politics on Film is a project of the Washington Political Film Foundation and is made possible by an alliance with the Bipartisan Policy Center. It is an annual, bipartisan film festival based in Washington DC dedicated to providing a platform for films that tell stories of America’s politics and policies. The festival celebrates the power of film to educate and motivate, as well as entertain. The Festival also celebrates the historic and ongoing legacy of films about American government and democracy, as well as related stories and themes from an international perspective.
This year's festival includes two Dutch productions:

Majesty

Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM
West End Cinema - Washington, D.C.

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One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens in Majesty. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.

Majesty (2010) trailer (in Dutch).

First Mission

Saturday, May 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM
West End Cinema - Washington, D.C.

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First Mission is a real life drama about the lives and work of a team of doctors on their remote outpost of International Frontline Doctors in South America. The team consists out of young Doctor Marina, the Logistics Manager Barry, Project Coordinator Thijs and local staff members Orlando and Diego; who all work under very difficult and dangerous circumstances. Marina, the lead character, finds out that on the torn continent of Latin-America, it is not about winning prizes, but about being part of the match it self, and that all that matters is to be able to make a difference, even if it is a small one.

First Mission (2010) trailer (in Dutch).

Jennifer Johnson Cano ft. Gwyneth Wentink at Merkin Hall

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Monday, May 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Center - New York, NY
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Introducing Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano, Winner of the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Peter Marino Debut Prize, the Princeton University Concerts Prize, the Saint Vincent College Concert Prize, and member of the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera. Tonight, Jennifer will perform together with Gwyneth Wentink, alumna of Young Concert Artists.

Jennifer Johnson Cano (Schumann Mezzo-Soprano, He/She) St. Louis, Missouri. Equally at home in the worlds of opera, lieder and chamber music, Jennifer Johnson Cano made her principal role debut as The Muse/Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffman with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She went on to appear on the Chicago Opera Theater stage as Kate Julian in Britten’s Owen Wingrave in 2009. Other roles include Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro and Sandman in Hansel and Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera. She was a 2009 recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Award and a 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition Winner. As First Prize winner in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Ms. Johnson Cano appears in her recital debuts this season, as well as singing Ludmila in the Bartered Bride, and Wellgunde in Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera; upcoming engagements include a recital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and a tour with Musicians from Marlboro.

As a daughter of Dutch-Hungarian musicians, Gwyneth Wentink started playing the harp at the age of five and had her first performances at the age of six. Her extraordinary talent was discovered soon and she received her lessons from Erika Waardenburg at the age of eight till she completed her studies with highest possible marks and was awarded a distinction ate the age of nineteen.
Gwyneth is reknowed for her passionate performances, amazing range of colours and incredible technique. At 28 years old, she has performed solo recitals and solo concertos with top ochestras all over the world. In addition to her concerto performances, Gwyneth is a dedicated chamber musician.
Gwyneth played solo recitals all over the world. She performed extensively in Europe and throughout the USA in more than 16 states and has won numerous first prices.

Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera ft. Eva-Maria Westbroek

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Eva-Marie Westrbroek in Lady Macbeth von Mzensk. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Friday, April 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY

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Monday, April 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY

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Thursday, April 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY
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Monday, May 2, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY

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Monday, May 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY

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Sunday, May 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM

The Metropolitan Opera - New York, NY

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The Met has assembled a stellar cast for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine: Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods, in his first performances of the role with the company. Deborah Voigt (pictured above) adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the Wälsungen twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey. Levine, who has conducted every complete cycle of Wagner’s masterpiece performed by the Met since 1989, says, “The Ring is one of those works of art that you think you know, but every time you return to it, you find all kinds of brilliant moments that hadn’t struck you with the same force before.”

Die Walküre, Eva-Maria Westbroek at The Metropolitan Opera

The Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. The young artist also participated in master classes with James McCray. She is the winner of the first International Competition of Rome, the Angelica Catalani Competition, and the Santa Maria Ligure Competition.

Ever since her breathtaking interpretation of Lady Macbeth von Mzensk in Amsterdam, she is celebrated as a star in the Netherlands.

Hofstra Celebrates 28th Annual Dutch Festival

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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
South Campus, Harvard University - Hempstead, NY

Admission: $5 / $3 (Children under 12 free)

Dutch jazz musicians had reflected Americans before the war and this continued to varying degrees until the late 1950s. In the 1970s jazz gained acceptance in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and government funding. Since then many jazz musicians choose the Netherlands as a place to study or settle.

This year, classical jazz music will fill the gardens and tents on the south campus. Enjoy delicious Dutch fare, shop with local vendors, stroll our beautiful gardens and pick up a plant or two at our annual arboretum sale. Magic, puppets and craft activities will delight the children. Feature program includes Fleurine an award-winning Dutch vocalist, accompanied by an all-star Dutch band Dutch Delights.

The Dutch Festival has evolved into one of the University’s biggest and most popular events, attracting thousands of visitors to Hofstra the first Sunday of every May, rain or shine. Every year, when the weather is cooperative, the Dutch Festival boasts thousands of tulips all over the South Campus. There are also food and craft vendors and a wide assortment of children’s activities and live music and dance entertainment.

Ton Koopman becomes Artist-in-Residence with The Cleveland Orchestra

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Ton Koopman. Photo: Marco Borggreve

Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Severance Hall - Cleveland, OH

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Friday, April 29, 2011 at 4:00 PM (Masterclass)

Gartner Auditorium, CMA - Cleveland, OH

Admission: free
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Severance Hall - Cleveland, OH

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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, OH

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Friday, May 6, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Severance Hall - Cleveland, OH

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Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 2:00 PM (concert prelude) and 3:00 PM

Severance Hall - Cleveland, OH

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Ton Koopman, an internationally acclaimed specialist in Baroque repertoire, makes his first appearances as Artist-in-Residence conducting The Cleveland Orchestra. In his role as a regular guest conductor, Mr. Koopman will lead the Orchestra in multiple programs and concerts through the 2012-13 season. He will also teach public masterclasses annually for students in the community.

About Ton Koopman’s debut with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Akron Beacon Journal said, “Ton Koopman showed himself to be a terrific fit for the Cleveland Orchestra in this impressive debut.” Following that debut, Mr. Koopman was invited by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst to return as Artist-in-Residence to work regularly with the Orchestra in Baroque and Classical repertoire. Mr. Koopman said, “When you play baroque music with a symphony orchestra, you should try transfer as much as you can from the sound and style of the baroque orchestra. When I conducted in Cleveland last, I remember how excited I was that the same orchestra could make such a different sound.”

Ton Koopman will lead upcoming Cleveland Orchestra programs with music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Handel in Baroque and Beyond Festival concerts April 28-May 8.

The founder and conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Mr. Koopman is also an accomplished harpsichordist and organist. His ensembles have toured extensively in Europe, the U.S., and Asia, and have recorded all of Bach’s secular and sacred cantatas.

The Cleveland Orchestra. Photo: Roger Mastroianni

Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and its summer home at Blossom Music Center, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, concert programming, and community engagement.

Dutch Productions on the San Francisco International Film Festival

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SF Internaional Film Festival. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society

The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival returns April 21 - May 5 for two weeks of cinematic excellence, combining more than 100 unique programs of the finest independent, documentary and international film with a range of marquee premieres, spectacular live events and tributes to world-renowned talent. It brings the best in world cinema to the Bay Area and presents the following Dutch film:

A Cat in Paris is a movie for children of all ages, who will root for the undercats in this beautifully animated caper set against the cityscape of Paris. A sneaky feline, a mute girl, her police detective mom and a big-hearted cat burglar join forces to combat a gangster and his bumbling sidekicks. With short Specky Four Eyes (9 min). A Cat in Paris screenings:

Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA

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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at12:30 PM

New People - San Francisco, CA

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A Cat in Paris movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society

In The Ligh Thief, a simple electrician affectionately known as Mr. Light finds himself in a difficult position when a politician embraces his dream of generating wind energy for his impoverished town. This stirring allegory of a man confronting injustice and tyranny dramatizes the challenges facing the developing economies of post-Soviet Central Asia. The Light Thief screenings:

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:15 PM

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA

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Monday, April 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA

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Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM
Pacific Film Archive - Bekeley, CA
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The Light Thief movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society

Position Among the Stars is winner of the IDFA 2010 Awards for Best Feature-length Documentary and Best Dutch Documentary.

In the latest chapter in Helmrich’s (Shape of the Moon, SFIFF 2005) artful portrait of a Jakarta family, the grandmother journeys from the countryside to motivate her university-bound granddaughter. The domestic drama takes place amid increasing materialism and traditional Islam, while Helmrich’s virtuoso style transforms the everyday into art. Position Among the Stars screenings:

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Pacific Film Archive - Bekeley, CA
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA
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Position Among the Stars movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society

My Joy is about a taciturn truck driver who hits the pitted asphalt road for a journey into rural Russia and encounters with peculiar folk—an old man still plagued by the Great War, a teenage prostitute who shuns kindness, a trio of tramps who wander the wasteland like an unholy trinity—in this surprising guignol about a republic in decline. My Joy screenings:

Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - San Francisco, CA

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My Joy movie still. Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society

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Carice van Houten awarded for Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival 2011

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Carice van Houten in Black Butterflies (2011). Photo: courtesy of the artist

The award winners for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced on the website...
Congratulations to Carice van Houten for her role in Black Butterflies!

The 10th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City.

The world competition winners were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 21 countries, which includes the Netherlands. Carice van Houten won the award for Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film in Black Butterflies.
Best New Director prizes were awarded for both narrative and documentary films, selected from all feature films by a first-time director throughout the program. Awards were also given in four categories in the short film competition. This year’s Festival included 93 features and 60 short films from 40 countries.

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival runs until May 1.

Joop van den Ende's Stage Entertainment on Broadway with Sister Act

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Joop van den Ende and Pattina Miller. Photo: Peter James Zielinsk.

Producers Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment (Joop van den Ende productions) brought the new Broadway musical, Sister Act to the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) with the opening night, last night (April 20, 2011).

Tickets for the show are available.

Based on the smash-hit film, Sister Act features an original score by 8-time Oscar and 10-time Grammy Award winner Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Enchanted) and direction by 4-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks (La Cage aux Folles, A Funny Thing…, Guys and Dolls.)

Disco diva Deloris Van Cartier (Olivier Award nominee Patina Miller) has dreams of hitting the big time. But when she walks in on a "hit" of a different kind, the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look - a convent! At first, Deloris - disguised as "Sister Mary Clarence" - has trouble adjusting to life under the strict rule of Mother Superior (Tony Award winner Victoria Clark). But when she transforms the convent's choir into the most glorious new musical act in town, Deloris forms a lasting bond with her newfound friends… and the gang that's chasing her finds itself up against an unstoppable team of soulful sisters!

Sister Act: A Divine Musical Comedy Coming to Broadway!

The record-breaking production has been seen by over a million people and was nominated for four Olivier Awards, including Best Musical, as well as seven Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers Choice Awards, winning two. The show's Original Cast Recording is also a big favorite with fans, recently reaching Number 1 on the iTunes Soundtrack chart. A German production will open in Hamburg in December 2010, followed by productions in Australia, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Italy, France and Spain soon after.

US Premiere: REIGEN ad lib by Dood Paard

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Dood Paard, REIGEN ad lib. Photo: Sanne Peper

Thursday, April 28 and 29, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim - New York, NY
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Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim - New York, NY
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For article by Nicole Estvanik Taylor in the American Theatre (March 2011)

Dood Paard, an Amsterdam-based theater collective without a director or set designer, performs REIGEN ad lib, a verbatim and uniquely contemporary staging of playwright Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen (Full Circle, 1897). Scandalous during its time, Reigen was banned for more than 20 years, with only one unauthorized performance in Budapest in 1912. Performing on vintage mattresses, Dood Paard members are costumed in underwear and gaudy attire while sexual acts are intimated through stroboscopic projections of artist Marco Brambilla’s video Sync from Destricted (2006), a collection of short erotic films by various artists. This program is supported in part by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.

Dood Paard presents REIGEN ad lib - GUGGENHEIM New York

PEN World Voices Festival

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Monday, April 25, 2011 at 5:30 PM
The Public Interllectual (ft. Linda Polman)

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Revolutionaries in the Arab World (ft. Abdelkader Benali)

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

9:30 AM - Working Day: Keynote Addressses

(ft. Frank Westerman e.g.)

Admission: RSVP to jessica@pen.org by April 22

6:30 PM - A Literary Safari: A Unique Experience

(ft. Abdelkader Benali e.g.)

Admission: $10 / $12

7:00 PM - China in Two Acts

(ft. Ian Buruma and Linda Polman e.g.)

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7:00 PM - Diaspora Capitals

(ft. Arnon Grunberg e.g.)

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9:15 PM - WikiLeaks

(ft. Ian Buruma and Geert Lovink e.g.)

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Friday, April 29, 2011

8:45 PM - Best Translated Book Awards

(Nominated: Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke)

Admission: free
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Kara Bogaz - The Black Mouth
Introduction by Frank Westerman and book presentation of Engineers of the Soul
Admission: $5

PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature was launched in 2005. PEN World Voices is a week-long literary festival in New York City. The Festival was launched by PEN President Salman Rushdie. The Festival was composed of programs, readings, conversations, and debates that showcase international literature and new writers. The Festival is produced by PEN American Center, a nonprofit organization that works to advance literature, promote free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.

The festival is now in its seventh year, and this year brings many changes, including a new director and a new home. For the first time ever, the festival will take place on and around the High Line and at The Standard, New York, though we’ll be producing events at some favorite former festival venues, too.

Bunny at Tribeca Film Festival

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Bunny (2010). Photo: screen shot by Rolf Dekens

Friday, April 22, 2011 at 9:30 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 - New York, NY

Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 3:45 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8

Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 6:45 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8

Sunday, May 01, 2011 at 2:30 PM

Tribeca Cinemas Theater 2

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The short film Bunny, who was shot by the Dutch cameraman Rolf Dekens has been selected for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It is the first of four productions that Dekens has shot during the past two years in the US.

For the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, the short film program will be presented in eight thematic programs and a wide range of cultural perspectives. Drawn from 2,862 submissions, the program represents 21 countries, next to the Netherlands it includes Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Haiti, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Black Butterflies at Tribeca Film Festival

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Black Butterflies (2011). Photo: www.theaterguide.nl

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 9:00 PM (world premier)

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7 - New York, NY

Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 - New York, NY

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 - New York, NY

Friday, April 29, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5 - New York, NY

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For an article on Carice van Houten reflecting on her latest role as a tragic poet in the Wall Street Journal by Elizabeth Fitzherbert (April 1, 2011).
For a review by Leslie-Stonebraker in the New York Press (April 22,2011).

A film, by Paula van der Oest, about poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, Black Book) finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her government-censor father (Rutger Hauer), the poet witnesses an unconscionable event that will alter her life's course.

Black Butterflies is nominated for Tribeca Film Festival's world narrtive competition.

Trailer Black Butterflies (2011)

In her native country The Netherlands, Carice van Houten (1976) has become one of the most beloved actresses. She won several awards, including four Golden Calves for best actress and was voted ‘Best Dutch Actress of All Time’ by the Dutch audience in 2008. Her stunning performance in Paul Verhoeven’s war epic Black Book marked the beginning of Carice’s international breakthrough. In the Tom Cruise/ Bryan Singer film Valkerie, she stars in the female lead as Nina Von Stauffenberg.

In 2006 Carice shines as Jewish singer Rachel Stein in Paul Verhoeven’s critically acclaimed Black Book. For her role in Black Book Carice receives her third Golden Calf for best actress. In The Netherlands the film is exclaimed the best Dutch film of all times. Her role in Black Book launches Carice’s international career.

Rutger Hauer was born in Breukelen, Netherlands, the town lending its name to NYC neighbourhood Brooklyn. It has been twenty years since Hauer took the American movie scene by storm. What most Americans don't know is that Rutger has had a very successful film career before he was ever known to American artists. His first turn at movies found him teamed up with Paul Verhoven (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) in the highly acclaimed Turkish Delight. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture and went on to become the most successful film in Dutch history. From there, Rutger starred in many highly acclaimed roles including the Verhoven masterpiece Soldier of Orange.

Out of Hand ft. The Lunatics - ' Group Intelligence: a mass MP3 experience'

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The Luncatics @ Oerol Terschelling (2006). Photo: Hans Speekenbrink

Previews:

Thursday, April 14 - Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Emory University - Atlanta, GA

Free admission

Premieres:
Thursday, April 21 - Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Woodruff Park - Atlanta, GA

Free admission

For review by David Lee Simmons in the Arts Critic ATL (April 25, 2011).

Group Intelligence: a mass MP3 experience is a spectacular outdoor event about the origins of life and water scarcity. It is a new, outdoor, science and public art experiment. The audience downloads an MP3 track in advance or borrows one from Out of Hand. They all press play at the same time and are guided through an hour-long experience around themes of water scarcity and origins of life chemistry.

During the experience, participants will walk, run, solve problems, laugh, play and build something extraordinary together. How hard the audience works is up to each individual, but the diversity of the group is key. Each performance is limited to 300 participants, but everyone is invited to watch the experiment unfold. Group Intelligence is suitable for ages 12 and up. Audiences are highly encouraged to wear close-toed, sensible shoes.

For almost 15 years, the Lunatics has been performing ingenious theatre in all kinds of places throughout the world. From soggy Dutch marshland to sweltering jungles, from bustling cities to barren deserts, the most absurd locations have served as the Lunatics* fairytale stage. Bizarre imagery transports the audience to an adventurous world that is wild, hilarious and moving at the same time. Realistic situations are connected with inexplicable, logic with mystery. Nothing seems what it is. Various light and sound effects, unique objects and idiosyncratic yet identifiable characters combine in The Lunatics' performances to activate the imaginations of thousands. The locations are critical, as they provide a constantly changing backdrop that inspires the imaginations of both actor and audience; each story has not one, but hundreds of versions.

Out of Hand Theater Company. Photo: www.outofhandtheater.com

Out Of Hand Theater makes new work for new audiences. We are a collection of writer/director/performers who make ravishing, athletic performances with and for our ever expanding, beloved community. Out Of Hand creates razor-sharp, delight-filled experiences by involving the audience in a new way every time, giving you a stake in the show; magnifying the places where we, artists and audience, share common ground, causing moments of mass intimacy, and embracing those who are unreached by conventional theater.

This is not the first time the two companies have been working together. The Lunatics and Out of Hand collaborated before for Hominid (2010), a story about depiction of the politics, intrigue and capacity for empathy we share with the other great apes. Science and Art collide in this international, location theatre collaboration.

'Bardsongs' by Sander Francken wins Signis Award

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Bardsongs movie trailer

Dutch production Bardsongs by Sander Francken has received the Signis Award, as announced on the Filmfest website.

This year's Filmfest DC is their 25th anniversary. It took place at April 7-17, 2011 in Washington, DC.

Merlijn Twaalfhoven receives Unesco award

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Merlijn Twaalfhoven during the preperations for Carried by the Wind in the Palestinian refugee camp Jalazon. Photo: Adam Sèbire.

Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven is to receive aprestigious Unesco award. He will soon be able to call himself the 'YoungArtist for intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds'.

Unesco has announced that Merlijn Twaalfhoven will receive the award for his efforts to transcend the boundaries between people and cultures and unite people through music. In the past few years the Dutch composer organised a number of projects in conflict areas such as the divided Cypriot capital Nicosia, a Slovak gypsy ghetto, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. He was able to bridge vast cultural differences through innovative concerts.

Inter-cultural dialogue is also the focus of Merlijn Twaalfhoven’s latest project The Air we Breathe, a vocal performance featuring fragments of pop, jazz and classical music, performed by singers from the Arabian, Bulgarian and Swedish musical traditions.

Merlijn Twaalfhoven will receive his award on 13 April from the hands of Unesco Director General Irina Bokova at the organisation’s Paris headquarters.

For an overview of all twenty young artists recognized for promoting dialogue between Arab and Western countries.

Tiësto's 'Beautiful World' #1 on Miami Music Week 2011

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Tiësto.Photo: facebook.com/tiesto

For article by Adam Steward for MTV Newsroom (April 13, 2011)

For video of Tiësto talking about collaboration with Mark Knight on BeautifulWorld.

After 10 days of polling, and over 34,000 votes tallied from 108countries, the masses have spoken in the quest to find the biggest track tocome out of Miami Music Week 2011. One of our biggest DJ's Tijs Michiel Verwestaka DJ Tiësto, and collaborator Mark Knight came in with a landslide win in thefinal days with their number one Beatport smash, Beautiful World,featuring Dino.

The Miami Music Week isn't just a concert. It's a week-long electronic and alternativemusical orgy featuring the world's best talent and over 150,000 fans. Thisyear's festival took place at March 22-27.

Avicii ft. Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and Glenn Morrison at Pacha NYC

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Photo: www.pachanyc.com

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pasha NYC - New York, NY
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Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano, two notable personalities with a single goal: to entertain as many people as possible with their deep and funky house sound. As a DJ duo, they are irresistible. Put them in a DJ booth together and instant interaction and chemistry is there, with an eye for the audience and an ear for each other. Effortlessly adapting to one another seems to be no problem for these two best friends and partners in crime.   From the moment they entered the DJ profession, they agreed to do something serious with their common passion: house music. Quickly after their first gig together Sunnery and Ryan established themselves as top DJs.
Besides performing, they are very busy with producing. Even that is something they do together. As if they don’t see enough of one another during gigs and their private lives, they’re also studio buddies. In May 2008 they released their first track ‘Pina'. One month later, Sunnery and Ryan released the club hit ‘Lift U Up’, ft. Melvin Reese and Chappell. After these successful productions, Sunnery & Ryan continued with many, many other great tracks.

Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano @ Pacha NYC 5 Years Anniversary

Tonight they will be performing with Glenn Morrison and (main act) Avicii, who had only been producing a few months when his friends noticed that the productions were amazingly professional and that they had just witnessed a great talent being born.

What Avicii wants is to create music for people to listen to and come to love, whether it be at home or in a dark nightclub. Avicii puts great emphasis on melodies in his productions and wants to appeal to fans of many different house music genres. Avicii signed on to At Night Management in May 2008 and within a month the buzz around them spread noticeably and they were recognized on labels such as Joia Records, Vicious Grooves and Ministry of Sound, just to name a few. By the end of that month, Avicii had already signed a big deal with Vicious Grooves in Australia and were head on target to soon explode over the entire globe.

Saint at Tribeca Film Festival

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Saint (2010) Directed by Dick Maas. Photo: www.headlines.nos.nl

Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM

AMC Loews Village 7-1 - New York, NY

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 11:59 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7 - New York, NY

Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM

AMC Loews Village 7-1 - New York, NY

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM

AMC Loews Village 7-3 - New York, NY

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For review in the New York Times by Mike Hale (22 April 2011)

An original and delightfully gruesome slasher film, Saint reimagines jolly old Saint Nick as a murderous bishop fulfilling a grisly prophecy under the December 5 full moon. Full of creative yuletide horror, Saint is a fun chiller that follows local teen Frank as he sets out on a bloody, high-energy battle to save Amsterdam from the wrathful "Sinterklaas" and his minions.

Trailer Saint (2010)

The much-discussed horror Saint has been selected for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York, as been announced proudly by director Dick Maas.

The Tribeca Film Festival, founded by Robert De Niro, takes place from April 20 to May 1, 2011. Next to Saint also the Dutch productions Black Butterflies and Bunny are selected by the festival.

IPAY Dutch Youth Theater Consortium Tour ft. Theatergroep Max.

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Theatergroep Max., Performance in Which Hopefully Nothing Happens. Photo: Courtesey Theatergroep Max

Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM
TPAC's James K Polk Theater - Nashville, TN
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Wednesday, May 11 at 10:30 AM

Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 12:30 AM
Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM

Ethel M Barber Theater - Evanston, IL

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We won't promise you anything, but can we keep thatpromise? Joking is easy, it happens by accident. Performance in which Hopefully Nothing Happens is like a castle in the air, nothing and everything at the same time. Getdeliciously bored with a stumbling second, a detail that's overlooked and anext moment that never arrives. Monty Python for children with an actor whoisn't allowed to enter the stage, and a security guard who desperately tries tofind himself. Feel free to wander, they're doing it too. Have a good sleep!

Trailer Performance in which Hopefully Nothing Happens

Theatergroep Max. is a company that makes accessible and adventurous theatre for young people, with the maximum possible assortment of theatrical means and an open, provocative air: grown-up theatre for XXS 4+, XS 6+, XM 8+, XL 10+, XXL 12+, XXXL 14+, for everyone who feels young, on location, on small and large stages. Max. wants to disrupt and seduce, tell fairytales, campfire and nonsense stories, and presents drudging, dangerous, loving people.
International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) is the premiere membership organization in the world today servicing and supporting the professional community of performing arts for young audiences. Their membership is comprised of a growing worldwide network of artists, producers, presenters, agents, educators and students that are dedicated and involved in producing, presenting and promoting all forms of theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and more.

'Bardsongs' by Sander Francken at Filmfest DC

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Bardsongs movie still. Photo: Courtesy by Filmfest DC

Friday, April 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Landmark's E Street Cinema - Washington, DC.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Landmark's E Street Cinema - Washington, DC.
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Bardsongs is about a fascinating marriage of story and song, the triptych of musical morality tales that compose the unique Bardsongs sprang from the mind of established Dutch documentary filmmaker Sander Francken. Intertwined with musicians performing songs written for the film, the stories take place in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India; in the city
of Djenne in Mali; and in the Ladakh region in India. In the first story, a collector of plastic waste is philosophical about the cards he’s dealt in life. In the second story, a determined
young boy is urged on by his Koran master to spend a week in the big city searching for the greatest part of all knowledge and is surprised at the answer. In the last story, a hapless farmer endures conflicting advice on his way to sell an animal at market. Evocatively photographed and engagingly acted, Bardsongs is clever, benevolent, and charming.

Bardsongs is spoken in Hindi, Bambara, and Ladakhi with English subtitles

This year is the 25th anniversary of Filmfest DC. They are proud to reach this quarter-century landmark of introducing Washington, DC to the consistently provocative and innovative films of international cinema, as Anthony Gittens (director) mentions on the website.

Michael Varekamp presents Louis Armstrong and Clifford Brown

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Michael Varekamp. Photo: jazzmobile

Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Birdland - New York, NY
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Friday, April 8, 2011
2:00 PM: Master Class - Garde Arts Centre - New London, CT
6:50 PM: M&G w/ Patrons - Garde Arts Centre - New London, CT
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Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Langston Hughes Library - Corona, Queens
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Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Shrine - Harlem, NY
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Michael Varekamp, raised in Europe with his roots in Trinidad, started playing the trumpet at the age of 10. When he is 12 he is deeply affected by a Louis Armstrong album which he finds among his father's music collection. At age of 13 he starts leading his first little jazz band. In 1996 he graduates cum laude at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague Holland.

After this period he plays extensively around the world with several groups including the Surinam band Fra Fra Sound. The participation in this band was an artistic breakthrough for Michael. The music of Fra Fra is connecting jazz with Caribbean and African roots. He plays at festivals, clubs and concerts in Australia, South Africa, Great Brittania, Cuba, Tunisia, Malta, United States, Israel, Mali, Burkina Fasso The Baltics and all over of Europe.

While being on tour he regularly gives workshops and guest lectures. He regularly contributes to film, radio and tv productions. Besides playing the trumpet Michael sings and composes for the various bands and he developed the educational program Little Louis for kids.

Ferry Corsten at Best Buy Theater

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Ferry Corsten. Photo: www.mixing.dj.com

Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM

Best Buy Theater - New York, NY

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Dutch superstar Ferry Corsten has consistently been voted one of the top 10 DJs in the world (according to DJ magazine’s definitive Top 100 DJ chart) for five years. He’s played for hundreds of thousands of fans – sometimes at once – in amphitheaters, fields and nightclubs from Australia to Russia to white-hot Ibiza. He took the party island’s “Best Trance DJ” prize at the annual DJ Awards ceremony this year and two years ago; got tailed by some road-tripping fans on a Southern Comfort-sponsored, 26-city bus tour of America; and had his life’s work interpreted in music, video and décor at his annual Masquerade event “Full on Ferry”, at 12,000-capacity arena Ahoy in his hometown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
It’s all in a year’s work for the man who’s been called the “architect, pioneer, and instigator” of trance music’s global dominance. But within the close-knit international DJ community, Corsten’s regarded as something else too: A studio auteur with a fierce sense of sonic rightness; a real-deal producer who works solo, sans engineer, and creates the most complete, energetic, melodic records in dance music.

Corsten has also used his high profile for good, serving as an ambassador for the KidsRights Foundation, which increases awareness of the plight of disadvantaged children worldwide. He boasts his own clothing line, Signature F, via Washington, D.C.-based iKY Clothing.

Amina Figarova Sextet US Spring Tour

2011-03-18T22:30:00.000-04:00

Amina Figarova. Photo: www.borneocoloours.com

Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Nighttown - Cleveland, OH
Admission: $20

Friday, April 01, 2011 at 8:30 PM

Nighttown - Cleveland, OH

Admission: $20

Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM

The Ellen Theatre - Bozeman, MT

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Whitworth University - Spokane, WA
Free admission

Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Gene Harris Jazz Festival, Jordan Ballroom D - Boise, ID

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Friday, April 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Gene Harris Jazz Festival, Stueckle Sky Center - Boise, ID

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Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM

South Florida Jazz Society - Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Jazz in the Grove Jazzfestival - Bay Springs, MS
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Amina Figarova is one of the most productive jazz composers and talented jazz piano players from Europe. Amina started playing piano and composing at a very early age. She studied as a classical concert pianist at the Baku Conservatory, jazz performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Amina made her recording debut with Attraction in 1994, and was accepted into the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Colony in Aspen, Colorado in 1998.

With her husband multi-flutist Bart Platteau central to the three horn frontline Ms. Figarova arranges for her sextet, she plays compelling, artful and heartfelt changes on the urbane, bluesy lyricism originally developed by the likes of Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, et al. Though the recipient of rigorous Russian musical education in the classics, Amina has come to identify her sound with these master mainstream-progressives of recent jazz decades after having explored aspects of the avant garde (in September Suite, her shocked and sad response to terrorists attacks on American soil) and multi-keyboard fusion-oriented funk (on Another Me).

Amina is stylistically wide-ranging, unwilling to be pinned down, but most of her compositions on her album Above the Clouds (2008) continue in the direction she set forth on Come Escape With Me, a 2005 release which reached top 10 status on the Jazzweek radio airplay charts (two tracks preview her next project, a suite for nonet). Throughout the entire album Amina's measured, graceful, touching pianism and cooly-controlled ensemble writing demonstrate commitment and ease with a jazz idiom.

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Seattle International Film Festival presenting 4 Dutch Productions

Dutch films at Brooklyn Film Festival

'Bride Flight' opens in the Paris Theatre in NYC

Conference: The Funding of the Arts

Saskia Laroo on the US Summer Fests

"Molly says NO!" ft. Judith Mok in NYC

'Dusk' at Bershire International Film Festival

Dutch DJs are taking over Pacha NY

Dutch Composer Ruben Naeff got inspired by the Dutch Prime Minister

NY screening of award winning 'Can I Kick It' by Jos Dirkx

Gerald van Wilgen in the Theatre at the American Legion Hall

IPAY Dutch Youth Theater Consortium Tour ft. Speeltheater Holland

Armin van Buren at Roseland Ballroom

The Arcos Orchestra ft. Highlights from the Lowlands

Candy Dulfer performs at John Lyman Center and The Spirit of NY

Bingo Players in NY and LA

Chomain Vasser ft. Jeffry Lewis at Friedman Benda Gallery

Politcs on Film Festival ft. 'Majesty' and 'First Mission'

Jennifer Johnson Cano ft. Gwyneth Wentink at Merkin Hall

Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera ft. Eva-Maria Westbroek

Hofstra Celebrates 28th Annual Dutch Festival

Ton Koopman becomes Artist-in-Residence with The Cleveland Orchestra

Dutch Productions on the San Francisco International Film Festival

Carice van Houten awarded for Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival 2011

The award winners for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced on the website...Congratulations to Carice van Houten for her role in Black Butterflies!

The 10th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City.

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival runs until May 1.

Joop van den Ende's Stage Entertainment on Broadway with Sister Act

US Premiere: REIGEN ad lib by Dood Paard

PEN World Voices Festival

Bunny at Tribeca Film Festival

Black Butterflies at Tribeca Film Festival

Out of Hand ft. The Lunatics - ' Group Intelligence: a mass MP3 experience'

'Bardsongs' by Sander Francken wins Signis Award

Merlijn Twaalfhoven receives Unesco award

Tiësto's 'Beautiful World' #1 on Miami Music Week 2011

Avicii ft. Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and Glenn Morrison at Pacha NYC

Saint at Tribeca Film Festival

IPAY Dutch Youth Theater Consortium Tour ft. Theatergroep Max.

'Bardsongs' by Sander Francken at Filmfest DC

Michael Varekamp presents Louis Armstrong and Clifford Brown

Ferry Corsten at Best Buy Theater

Amina Figarova Sextet US Spring Tour

The award winners for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced on the website...
Congratulations to Carice van Houten for her role in Black Butterflies!