AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS: This year's
Holland Festival, which occupies most of June, has increased its showing of non-European theatre companies.
Another unique event featured at the
Holland Festival 2011 is a contemporary dance performance on May 8 at Al-Hussein Cultural Center by young Dutch choreographer Monique Duurvoort, who works with young Jordanian dancers, in cooperation with the Zakharef Dance festival, to recreate her performance (with local dancers).
The
Holland Festival in Amsterdam opens in grand fashion this year with performances by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna.
After the Second World War another revival took place, this time on the occasion of the
Holland Festival in 1950, an attempt by the battered Netherlands to honor and to maintain its cultural heritage, The actor-director Johan de Meester, a pioneer of open-air theater in both Flanders and the Netherlands who in the period 1923-40 had inspired a wave of open-air performances, mounted a large-scale open-air performance of Elckerlijc on the Grote Markt in Brussels in 1947, an homage to the Brabant novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Herman Teirlinck, who had adapted the text.
The International Association of Theatre Critics (I.A.T.C) in association with the
Holland Festival held a Colloquium in Amsterdam 17-20 June 2009 with the theme "Forced to tour/tour de force?" Delegates from across the world gathered to discuss this interesting topic.
Classical festivals he's performed at include the Salzburg Festival, Munich Opera,
Holland Festival and Israel Festival.
It is the first of its sort to be seen ever in Holland at the occasion of the annual
Holland Festival held in June in Amsterdam.'' Picture by Hugo Glenginning, courtesy
Holland Festival.
By far the biggest arts event of the year in the Dutch calendar - the
Holland Festival entertains Amsterdam for 3 whole weeks.
Dikker's ephemeral music, which is sometimes too dolorous and contains few operatic themes, was performed live with the pic at 1999's
Holland Festival. Intertitles are in Dutch or Italian.
So it is no wonder that each year, as the scorching summer of South Australia drifts into fall, a proud group of transplanted Dutch hold what has become a defining homage to their land: the
Holland Festival. The most recent of these celebrations, the Millennium Intercontinental
Holland Festival 2000, was held at the Dutch Community Social Club grounds in the northern suburbs of Adelaide.
"It began when sales for the
Holland Festival started.