37-year-old choreographer Sasha Waltz is seen as the leading talent on the international dance scene. Her reputation is based on the Travelogue trilogy, along with the piece Allee der Kosmonauten. Since January this year, she is one of the artistic directors of prestigious Berlin theatre the Schaubühne am Lehninerplatz, taking over the mantle from greats such as Peter Stein en Luc Bondy. The Holland Festival will be presenting her most recent productions Körper and Na Zemlje in the programme for June.
Holland Festival 2000 encompasses 41 different productions in the area of theatre, musical theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, pop and world music. The total of 110 productions and concerts will be taking place in the major theatres and concert halls of Amsterdam.
There are three programme elements on offer:
An ode to Frank Zappa, with concerts, performances and films, as well as the first ever live performance of his magnum opus 200 Motels; Top theatre from the Low Lands: 8 new theatre productions, created specially for the festival, from the leading theatre-makers in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium; Electronic Soundwaves: concerts featuring the work of Dutch pioneers of electronic music and their young, contemporary proteges from the Netherlands and Japan.
The programme also features further productions by young theatre-makers from many parts of the world who, thanks to their unique vision, are destined to become highly influential figures within the world of international theatre, including Richard Maxwell from New York, Argentinean Federico León and German Stefan Pucher. In cooperation with the Nederlandse Opera, Holland Festival is producing a long-cherished project by opera director Pierre Audi. He will be combining a number of compositions by Canadian composer Claude Vivier into a full evening’s programme of opera entitled Rêves d'un Marco Polo, to be performed in a massive old gas tank. In addition, the festival is offering three other opera productions: Diary of one who vanished by Leos Janacek, performed by the English National Opera, and the version by recent recipient of the most significant European theatre award, director Romeo Castelucci, of Monteverdi’s madrigals in his musical theatre production Il combattimento di tancredi e clorinda. Following last year’s highly successful open-air live projection of Wagner's Ring to 16,000 people, this year Aida will be shown live from Het Muziektheater on a giant video screen.
The total of 110 performances and concerts will take place in the most illustrious theatres and concert halls in Amsterdam, including Het Muziektheater, the Concertgebouw, the Stadsschouwburg, Koninklijk Theater Carré, Paradiso, De Melkweg and the Westergasfabriekterrein.
The complete programme of the Holland Festival will be published on the Internet on Wednesday 3 May at www.hollandfestival.nl. Tickets will be available from 3 May and can be ordered online from www.hollandfestival.nl or by telephone on +31 20 6211288 (outside of the Netherlands), 0900-0191 (in the Netherlands), and from the participating theatres.
