It’s one week away from the premiere of FAUST [working title] at the Dutch National Opera. I am working in the production as dramaturgical adviser. A key concept that the artistic team will be integrating into this work is the notion of the body and performative repertoire as a cultural…
Catch the online performances of this year’s Mannheimer Sommer Festival, running this week. On Friday, 17 July 2020, I will be giving the keynote lecture, “Opera and the Exotic in Us”. This will be followed by an online discussion moderated by NTM diversity officer Sophie Kara, the designated director of…
YouTube crashed during our live-stream, but luckily we made an offline recording. You can now watch the performance on the YT link below. Six weeks ago, Festival KUUB was migrating its program online due to the pandemic. Lonneke, asked if I have a piece that can be performed online. I…
[NL] Voor de 2020 editie van KUUB Festival (curated door Lonneke Van Heugten) schreef ik een online muziek/performance stuk over pandemie-veroorzaakte isolatie en de noodzaak van samen eten. Samen met trompettist Thijs van den Geest en dichteresen Willemijn van den Geest en Yanaika Zomer, ik nodig jullie uit om mee…
Dearest friends, the Berlin Senate, last week, decided to extend the theatre closure due to the Corona pandemic until July 31, 2020. Because of this regulation, there will be no events at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse until the end of summer break. This means the restaging of »sonus — the sound…