Programme 

Holland Festival x OBA: In perspective

Safae el Khannoussi

What perspectives on art and society do authors like Daisy Hildyard offer, and how do artists use books as a source of inspiration for a performance? Discover the festival programme through literature.

Welcome to a Night in Asbestos Hall

Bar Bario, Suzy Blok

A night of pulsating frequencies in collaboration with curator and cultural advisor Suzy Blok and Bar Bario.

One Ocean

Small Island Big Song

Artists from islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans bring an ode to resilience, culture and the ecological vulnerability of their habitat. Live music and film footage interweave traditions and generations into a Gesamtkunstwerk.

Atlas Orchestra

Joël Bons, Atlas Orkest

Atlas Orchestra brings over 40 musicians from various cultures together in a unique and exciting sound palette in which centuries-old instruments converge in an entirely new composition.

Introduction: Atlas Orchestra

Joël Bons

Introduction on the Atlas Orchestra.

We Are The House: Salon

Tomoko Mukaiyama

WE ARE THE HOUSE is a question mark that invites us to fantasize and think about our needs, about our lives with each other and as part of a natural and technological world. In theatre Likeminds pianist and director Tomoko Mukaiyama creates, transforms and deconstructs the house. Traditionally, the house is seen as a shelter that offers protection against the elements from outside, but does it protect us from danger from within? Also, the house is seen as guardian of the unguarded moment, a source of creativity, from which we face the world. But can we build this house anywhere, even without the walls that give us privacy? In salons of the house, artists and experts present a tea ceremony, performances and discussions. With, among others, physician and activist Rebecca Gomperts, artist Noa Jansma and filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus. Throughout all this, associations from Amsterdam-Noord make themselves heard. Including a local choir, Colourful Goodies, an Iranian organization for meaning and meeting and an initiative against waste and for connection. The salon is a space where people, who may never have seen each other before, come together, connected by themes of the various presentations. The interaction between artists, experts, makers from Amsterdam-Noord and the public varies through the different presentation forms (lecture, video work, ritual, performance, offering something). This gives the public the opportunity to participate in different ways (dialogue, sitting together, walking, standing or lying down, while all senses are addressed).

Ring of Our Time

World Opera Lab, Miranda Lakerveld, Balaan Tumaan ensemble, Sanjat Band, Oworonshoki performers, Colectivo Sujuy Ja’

Forty artists from Nigeria, Iraq, Indonesia, Mexico and Northern Europe joining forces to create a new opera. An epic, ecological tale for our age, in which myths, rituals and music from five different civilizations meet. 

In C

Sasha Waltz, Het Nationale Ballet

Dance performance set to Terry Riley’s legendary minimalist composition In C, in which the individual dancer’s creative freedom must relate to the group.