Queen Nobel holds Court Day. All the animals complain about the evil tricks of Reinaert de Vos. Bruun de Beer and Tibeert de Kater have to go get Reinaert, but he always outsmarts them. Only when his daughter Rosseline insists does Reinaert appear at the court of appeal.
Reinaert is convicted… He seems to convince Queen Nobel of his innocence with a sublime story. But Reinaert underestimated one person: his daughter.
The age-old story is adapted especially for this performance by two-time Golden Griffel winner Simon van der Geest.
Oene van Geel (winner VPRO/Boy Edgar Prize 2013) creates a versatile musical composition, in which each player has their own musical idiom.
The satirical animal story is translated into a climate lawsuit in which the ‘rights’ are seduced into corruption, in which the youth rises up against the old guard.
A multimedia family performance with the puppeteers and dancers of Duda Paiva Company, musicians of the New European Ensemble and singers of Holland Opera.
Reinaert de V. is fun for everyone aged 7 and over.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, In C by Terry Riley and new work by Salvador Breed in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, In C by Terry Riley and new work by Salvador Breed in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, In C by Terry Riley and new work by Salvador Breed in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, In C by Terry Riley and new work by Salvador Breed in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
Spring Festival is the annual festival for new music, organized by the composition department of the Royal Conservatoire den Haag.
Every year, the youngest generation of composition students at the Royal Conservatoire presents themselves with new work. They show through their performances, installations, concerts and spectacles that the composition department has lost none of its radicality and inquisitive attitude in all these years.
The New European Ensemble will perform ‘La Arqueologia del Neon’ by composer in residence Oscar Bettison and new compositions by Aaron Israel Levin, Annija Zarina and Hesce Mourits.
Grand World Premiere Around Iconic Poem
A world premiere at the India Dance Festival! This year, the festival opens festively with the spectacle performance Cloud Messenger.
Cloud Messenger is a contemporary, interdisciplinary music and dance performance at the intersection of Indian and Western traditions. The creators previously signed for the special dance adaptation of Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha in previous editions of the India Dance Festival. This performance is a collaboration between professional and non professional arts institutions.
Cloud Messenger is inspired by the ancient poem ‘Meghaduta’ by one of India’s greatest poets, Kalidasa. In this poem, an exiled nature spirit, lonely and longing for his beloved, asks a cloud to bring a message of love to her. Clouds are seen as the fleeting celestial bodies that can connect people with each other. A provocative idea in a time when people, institutions, and governments seem to be moving further apart from each other. What does this more than two thousand years old, magical poem say about the current time, which is called the loneliest century ever?
Composers Samhita Mundkur and Boudewijn Ruigrok looked for common ground and differences between Indian and Western composition techniques for the new music. They drew inspiration from the ancient Sanskrit of the original poem and from the interpretation given by the British composer Gustav Holst in his composition from 1913. Dancers, under the direction of Gauri Sharma Tripathi, bring a challenging mix of modern dance and classical and modern Indian dance styles, accompanied by the New European Ensemble, soloists, and a large, specially assembled choir of singers from the Hague and Indian community. Together, they create a connection between past and present, between India and the West, and with each other…
Cloud Messenger is a production by Klapstuk in co-production with Korzo, developed in collaboration with Zangam, and supported by the Municipality of The Hague, Fund for Cultural Participation, société Gavigniès, Cultuurschakel, Cultuurfonds, Fonds Podiumkunsten, and Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.