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

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 Beautiful World. 

After 10 days of polling, and over 34,000 votes tallied from 108 countries, the masses have spoken in the quest to find the biggest track to come out of Miami Music Week 2011. One of our biggest DJ's Tijs Michiel Verwest aka DJ Tiësto, and collaborator Mark Knight came in with a landslide win in the final 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 alternative musical orgy featuring the world's best talent and over 150,000 fans. This year's festival took place at March 22-27.  

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

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

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.

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

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 that promise? 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. Get deliciously bored with a stumbling second, a detail that's overlooked and a next moment that never arrives. Monty Python for children with an actor who isn't allowed to enter the stage, and a security guard who desperately tries to find 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

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

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

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.