The Jig

October 26 - November 3, 2010

October 26   at Nublu, New York
November 2 at Kenny Castaways, New York
November 3 at Fontana's, New York

The Jig brings raw, uncut instrumental funk. Three cool horns and an ultra tight rhythm section with Hammond organ create a crispy funk sound inspired by heroes like The Meters and Bootsy Collins. Vintage, with style and a contemporary urge. The band plays almost exclusively their own material. Catchy, soulful, deep, funky. Some of their songs are already known as underground-dancefloor-hits.

Fret Magazine: "Chrystal clear and groovy, with a nicely bouncing horn section taking over control."

LiveXS Magazine: "The Jig is a cool asset on every festival. Jit it!"

Dutch bands at CMJ

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival dominates New York City with 5 nonstop days and nights of over 1,200 live band performances and dozens of films from October 19 - 23. This year there are four Dutch bands invited to play.

De Staat                 October 21 at Ace of Clubs
The Black Alantic    October 22 at The Living Room
Daily Bread             October 23 at Arlenes Grocery
Moss                      October 23 at Bowery Poety Club

More info: http://cmj2010.com/

Great Noise Ensemble - De Materie

October 24, 2010

October 24 at 6:30pm
National Gallery of Art, East Building (Washington)

You can't call "De Materie" small. Louis Andriessen is one of the biggest composers in Europe, and his vocal-orchestra piece "On Matter" opens with a bang, literally, that's repeated 144 times at full volume. And this piece's Washington premiere is by far the biggest thing ever essayed by the still-new Great Noise Ensemble, a group founded a few years ago over Craigslist. In fact, this Oct. 24 performance at the National Gallery shows a small group demonstrating large-scale ambitions -- and one of the most important compositions of the late 20th century. -- Anne Midgette (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)

Mister Anansi

October 23 at 6 PM, Kennedy Center (No reservations)

October 24 TBA, Embassy of the Netherlands

October 25 AM, Public schools (Reservations 202-944-6558)

October 26 AM, Public schools (Reservations 202-944-6558)

October 26 at 2 PM, Children's Medical Center (No reservations)

Wijnand Stomp, a.k.a. Mister Anansi, turns folktales from around the world into theatre for all ages. He is a unique link in the world of narrative traditions and over the years he has managed to carve out his own spot in the world of theatre and storytelling.

Over the years he has developed a style that is entirely his own. His energetic mix of physical, musical, visual and textual elements makes for powerful performances. With humour, contagious cheek and a dash of wisdom Wijnand Stomp is able to move audiences of all ages. He has an exceptional mimicry and his easy and flexible voice enables him to change parts instantly infusing his words with strong imaginative power. As soon as the snake of his stories starts twisting and turning you are, for a brief moment, taken to a different world.

Meat

October 8, 2010

Friday at 7:30 PM

Meat (Netherlands, 2010; 85 min.)
Directors: Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seygerth

A butcher and his neighborhood butchery both appear at first perfectly normal, but relationships are not what they seem in this sexually charged standout drama from the 2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival. The butcher (Titus Muizelaar) operates a seemingly ordinary life and business, but once the young and intoxicating assistant Roxy (Nellie Benner) starts working at his shop, everyday life soon begins to take on unexpected new forms. After business hours, employer and employee relationships shift and change as the two take part in bizarre psychological games, with art student Roxie capturing events on her video camera.

Their journey takes them on a wild ride and offers a glimpse behind the veil of normalcy, with dark consequences. Veteran Dutch filmmakers Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs will be in attendance for this North American premiere.

Cast: Nellie Benner, Hugo Metsers, Titus Muizelaar

LelleBelle

October 8, 2010

Friday at 9:30 PM

LelleBelle (Netherlands, 2010; 85 min.)
Director: Mischa Kamp

An innocent and at the same time sexually charged look at a girl's coming of age.
(Caution: Unrated/NC-17, w. explicit sexual content)

19-year old violinist Belle lives in a small farming village in the Netherlands. Everyone around her seems obsessed with sex: her boyfriend, her sister and especially her mother. But Belle's only interest is her violin, and she is put off by the constant flirting and mating of her peers.

Belle works hard to prepare for the admissions exam to the conservatory. Her technique is good, but her dispassionate attitude stands in the way of her sucess. Against the advice of her teacher, Belle escapes to the city to train as a professional violinist. Living in her new environment among the other students, Belle is surprised to discover her own sexual desires. When she finds she has a particularly sensitive ear lobe, this finally sets off the passionate musician inside her. Belle understands that without excitement she will fail at auditions, so she sets out on an erotic journey of discovery full of lust, sex and love.

Cast: Anna Raadsveld, Benja Bruijing, Charlie Dagelet, Tom Van Landuyt

Circles of Soul

October 3, 2010

Circles of Soul is a 7 minute piece filled with funk, lyrical phil-o-sophies, breakin and personal stories. Including Bulgarian and Kurdish influences mixed in a Hip Hop expression. In other words the official presentation of Philip Rachid's alter ego "Soultrotter".

“As I stroll on astral globes,
I know that I do not know.
What will come will go.
I am nothing, but nothing is all.
So I flow with universal soul.
The journey is my goal”
      -Soultrotter-

Didy Veldman 'Frame of View'

November 2 - November 7, 2010

Tuesday - Wednesday: at 7:30pm
Thursday - Friday:        at  8:00pm
Saturday:                     at  2:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday:                        at  2:00pm & 7:30pm

The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Tickets: 212-242-0800 or http://www.joyce.org/


Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman has a successful career as a free lance choreographer. Creating works for many of the world's leading dance companies. Trained in numerous techniques at the Scapino Academy in Amsterdam, she went on to dance with Scapino Ballet, Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve and Britain's Rambert Dance Company. She worked with international choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Bruce and many others. She began choreographing in 1987, creating work for the repertoires of all three companies, as well as independently.

In 2008 Didy created 'Frame of View' for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New-York. It is a re-staging of 'Track' for the Swedish Youth Company.

http://www.didyveldman.com/

Sander Kleinenberg at Cielo

September 30, 2010 at 10pm

Tickets: http://www.clubtickets.com/

Sander Kleinenberg knows how dancefloors work: he’s instigated ‘sweaty’ scenes around the world, observing what makes people move from Belfast to Buenos Aires. Ultimately, the mechanics of the dancefloor revolve around just one thing: good dance music. Sander knows about this, too. His own vinyl creations are saturated in clubland so that they virtually perspire dry ice and radiate glitterball shards from their grooves. It’s time to get back to basics, to stop watching the DJ and get back on the dancefloor.

Ferry Corsten At Pacha NYC

Friday October 1, 2010

Doors open at 10:00pm

Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/

The Dutch superstar 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.