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Archive 2024

The 2024 edition of the festival saw a great many Brazilian artists come to Amsterdam in the wake of associate artist Christiane Jatahy, including Arthur Verocai in a sold-out Concertgebouw and Clayton Nascimento in a dazzling political solo about racism. Jatahy herself presented four productions, including Crossings, made especially for the Holland Festival. Particularly notable were the durational performances: Georgina Verbaan played the same break-up scene for 24 consecutive hours in The Second Woman by Australia’s Anna Brecken and Nat Randall. Victor Pilon shovelled sand for 12 days straight in his performance Sisyphe, which emphasised life’s absurdity, but also its beauty. And outright spectacular was Georg Friedrich Haas’ 11.000 Saiten in which 50 pianos each with slightly different tunings filled the Gashouder with a deluge of sound. 

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Welcome to the Holland Festival archive! The history of our festival dates back to 1947. Through the programs of each festival edition we aim to tell this history here. Currently our archive has been digitised from 1990 onwards, more history is to follow soon. Sadly some information is only available in Dutch but we aim to be as bilingual as possible. For additions or tips send an email to [email protected].

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