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At age 79, Brazilian music legend Arthur Verocai is coming to the Netherlands with the music from the 1972 album with which he challenged the musical conventions of the time. The producer, arranger and guitarist will work with the Metropole Orchestra and young artists he inspired for this unique performance in The Concertgebouw. 

Many say it is one of the best albums ever made. The 29-minute masterpiece expertly blends different musical influences and embodies the sound of Brazil at the seventieswith strings, guitars, pianos, breakbeats, basslines, synthesizers, vocals, saxophone and percussion. Bossanova, samba, jazz, MPB, psychedelica and funk combine effortlessly.

The album was recorded in Rio de Janeiro and produced, arranged and directed by Arthur Verocai himself. It transcends the genre of Brazilian music and resounded to many other musicians. Verocai’s album was often sampled by artists from the hip hop scene, including MF Doom, Ludacris & Common, Little Brother and Action Bronson, adding to its cult status. 

Many musical greats contributed in the making of the album at the time, from the magnificent singers Célia, Carlos Dafe and Oberdan (Banda Black Rio) to percussionist Pedro Santos and Paulo Moura on saxophone. This time, Verocai will be conducting the Metropole Orchestra and he will be accompanied by young(er) guest artists for whom he was an inspiration. An evening you do not want to miss!

🎨 Cultural

Manon Schreurs

Holland Festival Young

Arthur Verocai & Metropole Orkest

Performance

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How can the legacy of Haitian voudoun, urban dances and experimental film affect a performative process? The Afro-Brazilian choreographer, dancer and visual artist Ana Pi will have a dialogue with 20th century avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, as well as with her mentor Katherine Dunham, known as the queen mother of black dance.



Deren and Dunham did several years of research into the dance culture in Haiti, which became a radical turn in their artistic practices. A new way of thinking, the relationship between the body and the camera, a book and hours of recording for one, for the other the creation of a dance technique that would transform the future of choreography.



In The Divine Cypher, in a dreamed and danced conversation with Deren and Dunham, Pi looks at how these movements resonate today and what remains of these holy ritual dances. Which gestures survived as elements of current dances? The circular Haitian dances are echoed in the cyphers, the battleground inside a circle, of street dance. In this exquisite solo, Ana Pi interweaves the sacred and the everyday, tradition and the present, collective and individual memory.

🪩 Party

The Divine Cypher

Nightlife

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HARDKOOR is a stand-up tragedy concert, a stream of self-consciousness to techno, triphop and choir music.

Prior to her fortieth birthday a single mom and artist withdraws from public life for a year. From the stillness of her burnout (which she defines as a crisis of the entire system, both physically, mentally and spiritually), she battles against the racing of time, against the societal images she’s trying to escape from by (not) conforming to them, and against her excessive self-awareness and self-criticism. Through a personal and exhausting endeavor of language, music and movement, she carves a path towards a life without shame, in which the endless pursuit for validation gives way to radical self-love and a not-so-boring-balance.

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Gabija Sturytė

HARDKOOR

Limited amount of discount tickets available for everyone under 40. Activate discount here: https://bit.ly/Sign-up-HFYoung

HARDKOOR is a stand-up tragedy concert, a stream of self-consciousness to techno, triphop and choir music.

Prior to her fortieth birthday a single mom and artist withdraws from public life for a year. From the stillness of her burnout (which she defines as a crisis of the entire system, both physically, mentally and spiritually), she battles against the racing of time, against the societal images she’s trying to escape from by (not) conforming to them, and against her excessive self-awareness and self-criticism. Through a personal and exhausting endeavor of language, music and movement, she carves a path towards a life without shame, in which the endless pursuit for validation gives way to radical self-love and a not-so-boring-balance.



Limited amount of discount tickets available for everyone under 40. Activate discount here: https://bit.ly/Sign-up-HFYoung

The House with the Ocean View is one of the most daring durational performances where human endurance is put to the test. In this re-performance by Abramović a performer lives in the museum’s exhibition area for twelve consecutive days and nights following strict rules that include fasting, being silent and showering three times daily.


The performance takes place in the recreated installation of Marina Abramović’s original performance from 2002: a platform with three sparsely furnished spaces that serve as a bedroom, living room and bathroom, separated from visitors by ladders with knives for rungs. The audience is invited to silently connect with the performer. 

The performance will take place from 5 through 16 June at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as part of the large retrospective exhibition of Marina Abramović’s work. The performance can be visited during the museum’s opening hours.

In collaboration with the Holland Festival there will also be three special evening openings for a limited number of people on 8, 11 and 15 June.

On 11 June, guides from the Stedelijk Museum will give introductory talks about performance art especially for HF Young and Young Stedelijk members; it is also possible at all times to take part in the performances Counting the Rice and Work Relation.

The evening openings for the performance The House with the Ocean View are a joint initiative from Holland Festival and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

HF Young

The House with the Ocean View - Marina Abramović

Theatre

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A theatre performance based on the stories of aid workers in disaster areas. 

Dans la mesure de l'impossible, ‘So far as to be impossible'… - this is how far the stories go of the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders humanitarian aid workers, that director Tiago Rodrigues spoke with to create his piece. It is also the length to which the aid workers will go to make a difference. 



Rodrigues is known for his sincere, simple and poetic way of storytelling. Four actors directly address the audience, telling personal stories about experiences in the field in French, English and Portuguese (with suritles). Their emotions, doubts and considerations illustrate the sharp divide between their mission and resignation, between their safe lives back home and the profound misery of the impossible world they work in.



The set and music are a marvel of simplicity, with subtle shifts very naturally altering their form and meaning. A staggeringly humane piece that hovers between two worlds, between living and surviving, between the possible and impossible...

‘The proximity of suffering, danger and violence, but also of human dignity and resilience, gives them access to a way of reading the world that we’re incapable of.’

- Tiago Rodrigues

Dans la mesure de l'impossible

Cristo Pruppers

Adam

Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

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Arthur Verocai & Metropole Orkest

The Divine Cypher

The Divine Cypher

HARDKOOR

HARDKOOR

HARDKOOR

The House with the Ocean View - Marina Abramović

Dans la mesure de l'impossible

The House with the Ocean View - Marina Abramović

Dans la mesure de l'impossible

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