29 juin 2008

Let´s celebrate the letter H!

Home bitter home: I did find a lovely place for me in Amsterdam, but I will not be able to buy it for very obscure reasons. Patience, I say. Last week, I graduated as a voodoo master, and burned 40 puppets at the effigy of my bank advisor.

Home virtual Home: Still working on my website… Link follows very soon.

Hoi Ahoy: North Sea Jazz coming. More in the mood for fusion, jazz-rock, electronic jazz, not talking about core content like Charles Lloyd, Herbie Hancock, Sergio Mendes, Angie Stone, George Benson, Deodato, Victor Wooten, Angélique Kidjo, Phil Woods, Maceo Parker, Zappa, The Mars Volta. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, C-Mon & Kypski, DJ Maestro featuring Rik Mol & Ro Krom, and DJ Tin Tin sound interesting. I finally decided to stay over in Rotterdam for 3 days, instead of travelling back and forth. This will be the occasion of a bit of city seesighting. Rotterdam being for Netherlands almost the same as the Ruhr area for Germany, it sounds very promising to me. I am already looking forward to seeing the port, great modern architecture, the Kubuswoningen etc.

Ha Ruhrgebiet! I will be soon in Wuppertal and Bonn/Cologne in September again. I hope to meet you all.

Heart & Ears: Beating at a pace of 8/4 beats/min. And every step a broken beat. Ears-related only: I am attending Massive Attack next week, Radiohead on the grass with a bottle of red wine and some nice music fellows, and SMV feat. Stanley Clark, Victor Wooten & Marcus Miller in Sept.

Holidays: Arriving in Dax on 23rd of August, I will be surfing on cold waves in Mimizan at the end of August, and on cool vibes in Marseille at the beginning of Sept. I plan to bike from Dax to Mimzan along the coast, between 2 colored strips: sea and forest, under a bleeding sun.

Headaches: Not recently.

Hup Germany hup! …tonight, risking a lot for supporting beloved Germany in Holland.

Hoi! From Amsterdam

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My Friends,
Let's celebrate the letter H.
Home bitter home: I did find a lovely place for me in Amsterdam, but I will not be able to buy it for very obscure reasons. Patience, I say. Last week, I graduated as a voodoo master, and burned about 40 puppets at the effigy of my bank adviser.
Home virtual Home: Still working on my website… Link follows very soon.
Hoi Ahoy: North Sea Jazz coming. More in the mood for fusion, jazz-rock, electronic jazz, not talking about core content like Charles Lloyd, Herbie Hancock, Sergio Mendes, Angie Stone, George Benson, Deodato, Victor Wooten, Angélique Kidjo, Phil Woods, Maceo Parker, Zappa, The Mars Volta. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, C-Mon & Kypski, DJ Maestro featuring Rik Mol & Ro Krom, and DJ Tin Tin sound interesting. I finally decided to stay over in Rotterdam for 3 days, instead of travelling back and forth. This will be the occasion of a bit of city see-sighting. Rotterdam being for Netherlands almost the same as the Ruhr area for Germany, it sounds very promising to me. I am already looking forward to seeing the port, great modern architecture, the Kubus-woningen etc.
Ha Ruhrgebiet! I will be soon in Wuppertal and Bonn/Cologne in September again. I hope to meet you all.
Heart & Ears: Beating at a pace of 8/4 beats/min. And every step a broken beat. Ears-related only: I am attending Massive Attack next week, Radiohead on the grass with a bottle of red wine and some nice music fellows, and SMV feat. Stanley Clark, Victor Wooten & Marcus Miller in Sept.
Holidays: Arriving in Dax on 23rd of August, I will be surfing on cold waves in Mimizan at the end of August, and on cool vibes in Marseille at the beginning of Sept. I plan to bike from Dax to Mimizan along the coast, between 2 colored strips: a blue one (the sea) and a green one (the forest), under a bleeding sun.
Headaches: Not recently
Hup Germany hup!tonight, risking a lot for supporting beloved Germany in Holland.

20 juin 2008

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Openluchttheater

Date: Friday 27 June 2008

Event time: 8 pm

Location: Vondelpark, Amsterdam

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch gaat undercover in open lucht dansen! Gehuld in boerka, en in trance.

Vanaf 8 pm: lekker Nerderlands praten.
Om 9 pm trekken we onze borka aan, voor drie choreografieen met de dansgrope KRISZTINA DE CHÂTEL.

De van oorsprong Hongaarse Krisztina de Châtel heeft de afgelopen dertig jaar ruim vijftig choreografieën en twee dansfilms gemaakt. In haar voorstellingen gaan dans, muziek en beeldende kunst een samenspel aan.

BOERKA IN LANDSCHAP
Een gezichtsloze danseres, gehuld in boerka, doemt op uit de verte. Ze tast de omgeving af - op zoek naar een uitweg - en stuit op een muur die haar begrenzing vormt. Krisztina de Châtel maakte deze solo voor danseres Francesca Monti en de ruimte van Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen. Een grote glazen muur en de oneindige Hollandse horizon vormden belangrijke ingrediënten voor de choreografie. Speciaal voor het Openluchttheater Vondelpark wordt de solo aangepast: nu wordt de omgeving van het Vondelpark betrokken in de choreografie.

Choreografie: Krisztina de Châtel
Dans: Francesca Monti,
Viool/altviool: Heleen Hulst
Muziek: György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages for Strings - een selectie uit de delen voor solo viool en solo altviool
Kostuum: AZIZ

GO:
Choreografie: Massimo Molinari
Dans: Francesca Monti
Muziek: Simeon ten Holt - fragmenten van Soloduivelsdans II, uitgevoerd door Polo de Haas (piano)
Kostuum: José Drabbe
Lichtontwerp:Bernie van Velzen

TRANZ
Choreografie: Alekszandr Szivkov
Dans: Alekszandr Szivkov
Muziek: Plastikman, Björk
Kostuum: Alex Kissel
Met dank aan Aryeh Weiner, Laura della Longa,
ArtEZ Dansacademie,
Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel

http://www.openluchttheater.nl/
http://www.dechatel.nl

3 juin 2008

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ The Karnatic Lab

Event Location
Badcuyp, Eerste Sweelinckstraat 10, 1073 Amsterdam
Meeting @ Zaal Noordpool

Event Time
Tuesday, June 10 2008

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch goes scientific.

Na de de Bimhuis Dance & Music Labor op maandag, oefent JUYD in de in Karnatic Labor. Vanaf 19.00u
Een cultureel avontuur met musici en specifieke klassische muziekelemente uit Züd-Indiёn. De jongste ontwikkelingen in hedendaagse muziek en jazz met niet-westere invloeden worden in eigentijdse composities en improvisaties ten gehore gebracht door muziekanten o.l.v. van Ned McGowan en Gijs Levelt. Vanaf 20.30u