2007 ’Amsterdam, Feel the Rhythm’ theme year
Throughout 2007, visitors to Amsterdam can experience a great amount of music and dance festivities during the tourist theme year Amsterdam Feel the Rhythm. For lovers of classical music and dance, as well as jazz, pop and exciting dance events. The whole month of July is devoted to Jazz in Rotterdam including the North Sea Jazz Festival. Pop, Classical and folklore festivals are happening in various towns, check Events for more details.
Holland Festival
29 May - 23 June
In June 1947, Amsterdam made history with the very first international music, dance and theatre festival. The international top-class of the art world has been ever present at the Holland Festival, and there is no shortage of inspiration this year.
Two dance highlights from the 2007 edition are: All Fours / Violet Cavern by the Mark Morris Dance Group from New York and the world premiere of the Nederlands Dans Theater I from The Hague that presents a new choreography by Paul Lightfoot & Sol Léon on location in the Westergasfabriek.
Location: Muziektheater, Stadsschouwburg, Theater Bellevue, Westergasfabriek
www.hollandfestival.nl
Dance on the Leidseplein and Feel the Rhythm
15 June - 15 July
In celebration of the 2007 theme year Amsterdam, Feel the Rhythm – music & dance, theatres on the Leidseplein present a dance event and platform. The specially constructed stage will host a slew of dance events including performances, workshops, the ‘Bal Moderne’, ballroom with a string quartet, dance parties and much more. Sections of the program include events put on by Julidans, 5 Days Off and various dance academies.
Starting on 15 June, there will be a dance event every Wednesday to Sunday on the Leidseplein. The Bal Moderne takes place on 15 June, and on 29 June and 13 July there will be a performance by the Rosas dance troupe from Brussels. The concept is simple: three short choreographed pieces of three minutes each specifically designed for people with little or no dance experience. The public then learns this within 45 minutes.
Every Saturday will be a spin-off of the Spin-Off event (normally in autumn) featuring hip-hop, breakdance and electric boogie, with open lessons and demonstrations by dance academies. Julidans will put on a Bollywood workshop on 4 July at 17:00, and a Faso Dance Theatre workshop on 11 July at 17:00.
Participating theatres include: Theater Bellevue, De Balie, Melkweg, Paradiso and Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Roots Festival
16 - 24 June
Annual festival with the crème de la crème of international acts within the genre. Aside from various performances in local clubs en concert halls, the festival is opened with Roots Open Air, a free open air event in Oosterpark on June 17th.
Experience the most exotic music at one of the many stages and taste various amazing dishes. Aside from a dazzling party, the festival is also a clear statement of multicultural Amsterdam: at the Amsterdam Roots Festival, everyone, from Cuban to Chinese, is family!
Location: Melkweg, Paradiso, Tropentheater, Concertgebouw, Oosterpark
www.amsterdamroots.nl
Lijnbaansgracht 234a
1017 PH Amsterdam
T: +31 (0)20 531 81 81
F: +31 (0)20 531 81 99 info@amsterdamroots.nl
Aqua Musica
29 June - 1 July
Aqua Musica celebrates 5th anniversary
June 29 - July 1, 2007
This year’s three-day nautical music festival will highlight Latin-American and Spanish baroque music. Concerts will take place in the most extraordinary locations, including the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and living room performances aboard historical ships. With the exception of the larger performances in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, most concerts are 35 to 40 minutes long without an intermission.
A typically Amsterdam event: this classical music festival takes place mainly on the water and in and around ships
www.aqua-musica.nl
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam
T +31(0)20-788 20 10, F +31(0)20-788 20 20
T +31(0)20-788 20 00 ma t/m za: 12.00 - 19.00 uur (reserveringen)
W www.muziekgebouw.nl (online reservations)
Concert: Live at Westerpark
June 27 - July 8, 2007
The Westergasfabriek (former gasworks) Culture Park will host a series of five pop concerts under the title, Live at Westerpark. Concerts include: James Morrison on June 27th, the Scissor Sisters on July 4th, Keane on July 6th and Björk on July 8th. The new park on the edge of the city center has gained in popularity among residents and visitors alike. The combination of a lush landscape and 19th century industrial architecture creates an exceptional atmosphere.
Westergasfabriek Gashouder
Haarlemmerweg 6-10
1014 BE Amsterdam
Telefoon 020 586 07 10
www.westergasfabriek.nl
www.mojo.nl
Festival Classique
15th to 17th June 2007
Various locations in The Hague
Festival Classique. A unique new festival in the heart of the Netherlands’ Royal City, The Hague. The Hague will be transformed into an oasis of classical music. The Hague is coming to life and for three days will be the venue for the very best in classical music, set in beautiful locations throughout the city. With dozens of concerts each day, at more than twenty indoor and outdoor venues, Festival Classique shows that it takes classical music seriously.
Tickerts from http://www.haagsuitburo.nl/
Dial 0900-8282000 (40 c p/m)
www.festivalclassique.nl
Arrow Rock Festival
01/06/2008- 30/06/2008
Spykweg 30
City: 8256 RJ Biddinghuizen
Phone: 0900-300 12 50 E-mail: info@arrowrockfestival.nl
June 2007: The very first festival for classic rock music only. Lovers of this genre can watch shows by all great classic rock artists from the mid 1960s who are featured during this two-day festival. The three-day festival presents an impressive line-up of both rock legends and new masters of rock on its two stages. A definite must for all young and not so young rockers.
www.arrowrockfestival.nl
Price 69,00
Fields of Rock Walibi event grounds, Biddinghuizen
16 through 17 June, 2007
Fields of Rock is starting to become a well-known name among true rock and metal enthusiasts. This year’s festival also boasts an impressive line-up that includes Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Slayer and Motörhead, all of whom guarantee a good dose of musical roughage. Bands like Korn, Life of Agony and Type O Negative will also be taking the main stage, tent stage or smaller third outdoor stage.
Terschelling Oerol Festival
15/06/2007- 24/06/2007, Waddenzee Island
The theme this year will be Tall Tales
For ten days you can enjoy theatre and musical shows performed in various locations throughout the island, both outdoors and indoors.
Terschellings Oerol Festival is an annual location-specific theatre festival held on the Dutch island Terschelling in mid-June. Location-specific theatre, theatre in barns, sheds and on the streets, modern dance, opera, visual art, music and the various cross-overs are the ingredients of a festival that uses the whole island as its stage. Over the past 25 years, the festival has grown from a small-scale street festival into an internationally recognised, multi-disciplinary festival.
Terschellings Oerol
Zuid-Midslandweg 4
8891 GH Midsland-Terschelling
Tel. 0562 - 448 448
Fax. 0562 - 449 087
Mail: info@oerol.nl
Address: Landerum 5, 8893 HZ Terschelling Landerum
Phone: (+31) (0)562 44 84 48 E-mail: info@oerol.nl
De Parade
Rotterdam 21 June to 1 July
Address: Museumpark
City: 3015 CB Rotterdam
Phone: (+31) (0)33 465 45 55 E-mail: info@deparade.nl Target group:
Colourful tents, treehouses and other quirky structures recreate – along with cabaret-style performances, oddities, attractions and world-cuisine restaurants – an olde-world fair vibe at this travelling festival. It opens in Rotterdam’s Museumpark (21 June-1 July) before travelling to The Hague’s Westbroekpark (6-15 July) Don’t miss "The Live Jukebox"! The Parade is a live panorama of theater, dance, music, art, entertainment, magic, attractions and spectacle.
www.deparade.nl
Forsythe - Morris - Fonte
June 16-24
In 2007 the Holland Festival celebrates its 60th birthday. To mark this anniversary the Dutch National Ballet presents a special programme showcasing two premieres by the American dance-makers Nicolo Fonte and Mark Morris. The programme also features Steptext, a work by the American choreographer William Forsythe. All performances are accompanied live by Holland Symfonia conducted by Andrew Mogrelia
Location: Muziektheater
www.het-ballet.nl
Dutch National Ballet
Waterlooplein 22
1011 PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
telephone: 00 31 (0)20 551 82 25
telefax: 00 31 (0)20 551 80 70
email: info@het-ballet.nl
North Sea Round Town
01/07/2007- 31/07/2007
Address: blues/jazz
City: 3011 AB Rotterdam
Phone: (+31) (0)15 215 77 56 E-mail: info@northseajazz.nl Description: The North Sea Round Town open-air music festival is a lumbering-up exercise to the North Sea Jazz festival. Jazz music is performed by national and international artists on stages throughout the city.
www.northseajazz.nl
North Sea Jazz Festival
blues/jazz 13, 14 & 15 July 2007
Address: Ahoy’-weg 10
City: 3084 BA Rotterdam
Phone: 0900-235 24 69 Fax: (+31) (0)10 293 33 99
E-mail: webmaster@abnamrowtt.nl
Live festival with international artists. Well over eight hours of ‘live’ music per day on thirteen stages at the same time. More than one thousand jazz musicians take part, ranging from new talent to well-established names. Type:
NORTH SEA AROUND TOWN
Preceding, during and after the North Sea Jazz Festival concerts, jazz lunches, lectures, expositions and after-parties until dawn will be the order of the day in downtown Rotterdam. The heart of Rotterdam will beat in the rhythm of jazz for two weeks, a good reason travel to Rotterdam a bit sooner!
Internationale Folkloreade Enschede
20/06/2007- 24/06/2007
7511 GD Enschede, Overijsel
Phone: (+31) (0)53 432 25 24 E-mail: info@sif-enschede.nl
Spectaculair, temperamental and colourful folklore dance festival is an open air festival with about 12 groups from various countries taking part. The festival takes place in the main streets of Enschede and the evening performances at the Schouwburg theater.
www.sif-enschede.nl
Italian summer opera
21 June - 7 July
The 17th century interior of the Scheepvaartmuseum (Dutch Maritime Museum) affords a unique ambiance and backdrop for the comedic opera, Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena. In the courtyard of the Scheepvaartmuseum, the ‘Knight of the Sad Countenance’ and his servant Sancio will endure their tragicomic misunderstandings.
www.donchisciotte.nl
Location: Scheepvaartmuseum, Kattenburgplein 1
Phone 0900-0191 (€ 0.40/min.; daily 09:00-20:00
EXHIBITIONS AND SPORT
Cinedans
30 June - 2 July
Cinedans International Dance Film Festival draws a picture of what a dance film could be: dance registration, documentary or animation.
Every edition focuses on one specific dance film maker, with a retrospective of the artist’s complete oeuvre. The Cinedans Award winner is selected from the many hundreds of entries from various countries.
Location: Rialto, De Balie, Filmmuseum, Vondelpark Open Air Theatre
www.cinedans.nl
Filmmuseum Vondelpark
Vondelpark 3, 1071 AA Amsterdam
Postbus 74782, 1070 BT Amsterdam
tel. 020 5891 400
e-mail info@filmmuseum.nl
James Nachtwey – World Photos
Foam, Keizersgracht 609 (Tel: 020 551 6500 )
Online: www.foam.nl
Time: Daily 10am-5pm (until 9pm Thu, Fri); Price: EUR 6
For more than 20 years, James Nachtwey has been taking photographs in the crisis regions of the world: Rwanda, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Romania, Somalia, Chechnya. He is one of the most influential and most-published contemporary photographers documenting wars, disasters and their consequences. His photographs allow us to see into the backgrounds of power and reduce anonymous horror to individual fates.
OUDE KERK
24 April-17 June
World Press Photo
Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23 (Tel: 020 625 8284 )
Online: www.worldpressphoto.nl
Time: 10.30am-5.30pm Mon-Sat, 1pm-5.30pm Sun; EUR 6 (EUR 4)
The prestigious annual exhibition of award-winning photo-journalism – which opens in Amsterdam before travelling onto 40 countries worldwide. The best photos from 2006 are shown in the following categories: Hard News, Reportage, People in the News, Sports News, Sport Backgrounds, Contemporary Questions, Daily Life, Portraits, Art & Entertainment, and Nature. Although the exhibition can often be confronting (there is something intrinsically powerful about a still – as opposed to moving – image), it remains a veritable hommage to the photo-journalist who often works in life-threatening conditions to report the news.
Paul Chan: Lights & Drawings
Until 10 June
Stedelijk Museum CS, Post CS Building, Oosterdokskade 5 (Tel: 020 573 2911 )
Online: www.stedelijk.nl
Time: Daily 10am-6pm; Price: EUR 9
Light and shadow are the literal and figurative focus of this exhibition by American artist and activist Paul Chan (1973, Hong Kong). His projections, together with charcoal drawings, collages and digital studies are presented in six rooms. The works all revolve around the digital animation series ’The 7 Lights’ which Chan has been working on since 2005 and which will ultimately consist of seven pieces. This exhibition is Chan’s first major museum presentation in Europe.
Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam
Open for the public daily 10 am - 6 pm.
Entrance fees € 9,00; reduced: € 4,50; children 0-7 and MJK free
Plein Air at Gemeentemuseum
17 February until 10 June
Lithographs and etchings
The painters of the Barbizon School were frequently also skilled engravers. Through lithographs and etchings, their work reached a wider public and was disseminated via periodicals. This exhibition will therefore include an important group of French prints from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, on show to the public for the first time in many years.
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 41
2517 HV Den Haag
tel. 31 (0)70 3381111
www.gemeentemuseum.nl email: info@gemeentemuseum.nl
A-Style Dutch TT Assen
27/06/2008- 30/06/2008
Address: De Haar 1, 9405 TE Assen
Phone: 0900-388 24 88 E-mail: info@tt-assen.com Description: The 76th TT of Assen is a unique spectator event. Traditionally, the Dutch TT for motorbikes - the Dutch Grand Prix - is held on the last Saturday in June. Type:
Price adults: 20,00
Children 13-15 15,00
Younger children free
UEFA World Under-21 Championship
http://www.euro2007.nl/.
The European football cream of the crop will meet between 10th-23rd June, during the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands. Arnhem and Nijmegen are two host towns where the matches will be held (Heerenveen and Groningen being the other two).
Arnhem host town
During the June European Championship events will be held in the decked-out centre of Arnhem. On the 13th & 14th June a 21 hour-long football marathon will be held, where everyone will ‘play the ball’, including; children, youngsters, companies, VIPs, sport associations, etc. The scoreboard will be the centrepiece, with the event naturally being underscored by an outstanding fringe programme. On Thursday 14th June Radio 538 will set up a festival on the Kerkplein; with a podium, performers and a radio
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Why would you want to go to Schagen. Well, indeed, you’d better ask yourself this question twice. It is certainly a cute little town with not much to offer the casual visitor, except a wonderful traditional market every Thursday in the summer. This is the time when getting into the train from Amsterdam for 50 minutes is worthwhile. Make sure to take the 9:22am train from Amsterdam central station in the direction of Den Helder. Then get off at Schagen where the traditional coaches wait for the train from Amsterdam to arrive before they go around the town. It is certainly not a bad thing to do if you have plans to visit Texel (island just north of Den Helder) on Thursday afternoon and Friday.
