Productions

Tot Nut en Genoegen

The Mime theatre group Bambie and choreographer Klaus Jürgens take over the new theatre for a week with two performances and a potentially unforgettable Quick Sketches.

In Tot nut en genoegen, choreographer Klaus Jürgens tries to escape our hurried and two-faced world. Modern man withdraws to far-away places in nature or to a Buddhist monastery; he hugs cows or jumps from a bridge with a long rubber band around his feet.

cconcept Klaus Jürgens | choreography and performance Klaus Jürgens and Peter Cseri | people in the back Mischa van Dullemen, Herbert von Karajan, David Byrne, Christiaan Barnhard, mr. Nicolaas Scholtens and Hanna Schygul | dramaturgy, coach and choreography Thomas Falk | decor design Andreas Denk i.c.w. Martijn Fernandez Cordoba | setting performance Martijn Fernandez Cordoba and Alex van Zanten | light design Otto Eggersgluess | sound Martin J. A. Lambeek | technics Hans Hof | musical accompaniment Wiebe Gotink | production Markus Schnizer | thanks to Douwe Ket, Grand Theatre, Jan van Ommen/Sugar Factory, Bambie | design video projections Kristal Montana | artistic advice Andrea Boll

Recensies: 

“Klaus Jürgens and Peter Cseri build Tot nut en genoegen into a fine wordless dance play in the best tradition of the Hans Hof Ensemble. They are well matched, the little squirt and the big dark oaf Cseri. The latter especially is a discovery. Never before did the Hungarian dancer show himself so at home in the movements of poetic slapstick” (Annette Embrechts de Volkskrant 2006)

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Balkan & Brasil

Music: World Series brings together musicians who fashion ideas from different cultures into new stories. Improvisors from all parts of the world set to the task of making something new from differences and similarities: music in world-wide encounter.

Ceumar (BR): Singing, gitar | Oleg Fateev (RU): bayan (button accordion) | Simone Sou (BR): percussion, drums | Ben Mendes (NL): saxophones, clarinet | Patrick Kuschel (NL): bass

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Dallas

A road movie, a hallucinated trip, a very personal ode to America…

That is the performance Dallas, where actor and theatre maker Marien Jongewaard and dancer and choreographer Truus Bronkhorst try to relate to images and o

Concept, director Marien Jongewaard | performance Truus Bronkhorst, Marien Jongewaard | lyrics Rob de Graaf

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Brides for Peace

Brides for Peace is the last performance in the series about the Seven Cardinal Sins by Jens Van Daele. In Brides for Peace, the Flemish choreographer explores greed and lust.

Inspired by the story of the Italian artist Pippa Bacca, the performance is an indictment of the world in which we live, where greed and lust are commonplace. Pippa Bacca died tragically during a artistic experiment in 2008.

She hitchhiked from Italy to the Middle East in a bridal dress with a sign saying ‘Peace’ on her chest.

Choreography Jens Van Daele | Dance Patricia van Deutekom, Angela Herenda a.e. | Light design Tom Verheijen

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Hondenliefde

In her work Ulrike Quade combines various disciplines such as puppetry, visual arts, and theatre. She designs and makes large, expressive puppets that she lets perform with ‘speaking parts’. In a way that is often poetic, she manages to draw the spectator into the fantasy world on stage.

Together with Kees Roorda (The Glass House) she created and performs in the new production Hondenliefde that plays on the edge of love and hate. From their encounter arises the poetic grey areas of melancholy and bitterness, of poignancy and anger, of stagnation and progress.

Concept Ulrike Quade, Kees Roorda | Lyrics Kees Roorda | Design and dolls Ulrike Quade | Performance Ulrike Quade, Kees Roorda, e.a.

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Iberica Sunday's: Espelho

In the three-part Iberica Sunday's, you will meet with international artists who originate from the area of the Iberian Peninsula. In the south of Europe, surrounded by sea, Portugal and Spain have for centuries enjoyed a rich and high-spirited musical culture. The musical guests from this part of the world display their roots and their passion in a renewed way.

Traditions from the Iberian Peninsula are unraveled and interwoven with other styles. Musical boundaries are crossed in these performances, and connections are made with other musical worlds and musical styles.

Mónica Triga singing | Randal Corsen grand piano | Reno Steba bass | Enrique Firpi percussion

Recensies: 

The press:
‘Powerful voice’ - ‘Fascinating music by this unique singer’ ‘Appealing songs passionately interpreted’ - ‘Unusual appearance in the world of Portuguese music.’

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Drumix! The Next Generation

In program The Next Generation two generations of drummers, fathers and their children, share the stage in this unique concert.


Gianna Tam the Surinamese-Dutch daughter of Lucas van Merwijk, and June Fermie daughter of Bart Fermie prove that a flawless sense of rhythm and showmanship run in the family. They learned the business from their fathers, but have since earned reputations very much their own. The doubling in Drumix!

Composition band Lucas van Merwijk, Gianna Tam, Bart and June Fermie

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The Cloud

A guided tour of the history museum of the future

In the international theatre documentary The Cloud, Space transports the audience 50 years into the future to look back at the year 2010.

Mirjam van der Linden in de Volkskrant: “Chapeau for the artist who knows how to seduce a group of strangers to participate in a closing ceremony in which a watermelon functions as sacred bread and almost everyone in the circle  makes a devout wish.”

Klaus M. Schmidt in West-Deutsche Zeitung: "Yet, one is touched by the performance because it presents the reality with an alienating  view at the future, outside of the protected environment of the theatre.”

Hans-Christoph Zimmerman in General-Anzeige: "A stunning and disrupting evening.”

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Pandit Nayan Ghosh

Pandit Nayan Ghosh (1956) is universally praised as being unique in the world of North Indian music. It is exceptional that he is recognized as a master for his solo and accompaniment skills on the tabla, as well for his mastery of ragas on the sitar. It is rare for a musician to achieve such a degree of skill that he can perform with either instrument.
On the sitar, Nayan Ghosh seeks the deep and true spirit of the raga. His technique is perfect and his sense of nuance and form is as highly developed.
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Iberica Sunday's: ¡Aqua!

In the three-part Iberica Sunday's, you will meet with international artists who originate from the area of the Iberian Peninsula. In the south of Europe, surrounded by sea, Portugal and Spain have for centuries enjoyed a rich and high-spirited musical culture.

The musical guests from this part of the world display their roots and their passion in a renewed way. Traditions from the Iberian Peninsula are unraveled and interwoven with other styles.
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