Program
23 - 26 November 2011
Huis a/d Werf
Bear v Shark
14+
Concept and Direction: Arlon Luijten, Composer: Elizabet van der Kooij and Ben Lammerts van
Bueren, Producer: Sascha van Veen, Music Coach: Corrie van Binsbergen, Sound Technician: Thomas Koopmans, Concept: Bart Visser, Cast: M.A. Whiteside, Yorick Heerkens, Jorien Zeevaart
and Shani Leiderman, Band: Pepe Garcia and Jan Willem Troost
"The question is simple, like most philosophical questions: who would win in a fight between a bear and a shark?" Bear v Shark is a musical theatrical excess, a philosophical satire on the impact of mass media on our human lives and perceptions. How fun is life in a society which is gradually 'funnerising'?
BITCH!
14+
Director and Concept: Charles Hens, Music: Richard Wagner, Assistant Producers: Ruben
Kist Sánchez and Jaleesa Williams, Cast: boys from the Amsterdam ROC, Stichting Werkmeester,
FC NewAmsterdam, De Valk Talent Factory et al
BITCH! is a piece of physical opera theatre. It about boys, about running away, fighting, longing. About the desire to be free, about becoming who you really are. Opera producer Charles Hens worked on this short opera with a group of young boys. The music of Richard Wagner is brought into the centre of the modern world.
A Chair on Two Legs
14+
Director: Matthias Mooij, Composer: Thomas Myrmel, Assistant Producers: Selma Hanzon and Elisa Somsen, Cast: Marc Kaptijn, Matthias Mooij, Thomas Myrmel and Piotr Baranski, Choir: Utrechts Operakoor
A Chair on Two Legs is about people's strange wish to die at the peak of their abilities, in order to be remembered forever. It is an opera full of expression on the minor difference between heroes and traitors.
Change Your World
VocaalLAB (the Netherlands)
14+
Stage Director/Musical Director: Romain Bischoff together with Mariëlle Vester, Composer: Rogier Bosman, Cast: pupils from Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein, Inge den Haan, Stijn Hoes, Catalijne Janssen, Tom Kortbeek, Rombout Stoffer and Maarten Zaagman, Lighting: Jeroen Smith/Evelements, Light Technician: Sicco Peterse, Sound Technician: Casper Schipper, Stage Designer: Lode Bruins, Choreographer: Enigma Huijzer, Culture Coordinator of Oosterlicht College: Edien Lammers
Change Your World is a musical theatrical show by and for young people, made by pupils from Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein in co-production with VocaalLAB. The show is about all the concerns youth have and all the things they occupy themselves with in every-day life. It is based on global themes, using original texts and recent news items. The composition by Rogier Bosman gives young pupils the opportunity to interpret and show these in their own way. It is a mix of intriguing song, spectacular rhythms and unexpected sound explosions.
Elvis 2.0
14+
Director: Jan Hulst and Kasper Tarenskeen, Composer: Kasper Tarenskeen, Librettist: Job Tarenskeen, Assistant Producer: Joella Reket, Cast: Kirila Kraal, Kasper Tarenskeen, Xander Vrienten, Nathan Klumperbeek and Job Tarenskeen
Elvis 2.0 is about the desire for change and the need to keep moving. Elvis is a boy who has all he could possibly wish for. One day, he notices that despite his successes his life has come to a standstill. He decides to go to a three-star hotel in Malerba at the expense of his father to – as his friends mockingly say– "go search for himself". By some whim of fate he ends up on the other side of the world. In this strange environment he meets an enchanting people, who teach him to have faith in himself.
King of the Universe
14+
Concept, direction, composition and performance: Robin Coops, Assistant Producer: Marieke
Verdonk
A concert during which an eternally anonymous star reveals himself. In his performance, theatre producer and composer Robin Coops finds himself in a no man's land between pop music, theatre and opera. King of the Universe is about a would-be hero, who very much wants to become one.
Mezrab
14+
Artistic Director: Sahand Sahebdevani, with: Parwin Akhbari and Stefanie Janssen,
Assistant Producer: Kim Langenberg
Sahand Sahebdivani is not a singer, but he is the son of the best singer ever: Parwin Akhbari, his mother! Her voice reflects everything she went through in her life. When she was young, she wasn't allowed to sing, but Sahand improvises pieces of music to which he can make her voice heard.
Through YouTube Sahand has asked musicians from all over the world to send him music to which his mother can sing.
MonteverdISH – A Hiphop Break-dance Opera
ISH /VocaalLAB (the Netherlands)
Director: Marco Gerris & Arnout Lems, Musical Director: Arnout Lems & Romain Bischoff, Choreographer: Marco Gerris & Break-dancers, Music: Claudio Monteverdi & Perquisite, Assistant Director: Dunya Khayame, Cast: Marcel Andriessen, Shailesh Bahoran, Laura Bohn, Jörg Brinkmann, Jeantrey Duivestein, Christie Finn, Israel Golani , Harm Huson, Thomas Krikken, Ben Mathot, Nienke Otten, Carl Refos, Annie Tangberg, Robert Thomas Villedieu, Irie Weergang Bove and Marijn Zwitserlood
Who says hip-hop and opera don't mix? In MonteverdISH, a hip-hop break-dance opera, ISH shows that the two can be combined! In this ultimate cross-over production, break-dance and hip-hop merge with opera and classical music. ISH and VocaalLAB transform the opera l’Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and music by Perquisite into their own unique piece. It is an impressive story which brings together the pursuit of power and the power of love.
Othello
Likeminds (the Netherlands)
14+
Director: Benji Reid, Assistant Director: Josephine van Veen, Assistant Producer: Julia Groen, Actors: Achmed El Jennouni and Olaf Aït Tami, Voice: Oukje den Hollander
The Likeminds' young generation and British hip-hop phenomenon Benji Reid joined forces. The young actors manipulate Shakespeare's characters, and this has some deadly consequences. The question which remains at the end of the story is: Who will take the blame?
Smells Like Tahrir Spirit
Theatergroep DOX, Het Lab Utrecht and Yo! Opera (the Netherlands)
14+
Director: Joost van Hezik, Composer: Bart van de Lisdonk, Text: Youth from Utrecht and Cairo, Choreographer: Jeanine Coco, Live Music: Floris van Bergeijk, Light Designer: Yuri Schreuders, Stage Designer: Esmee Thomassen, Cast: Alexa Hakkenbrak, Zahra Lfil, Christopher van der Meer, Santhino Piqué, Judith Rijsenbrij, Hidde Aans Verkade and Annemarie Westerveen
This show was created by comparing the personal stories of two groups of young people. All the pupils in the audience were asked to put their own thoughts on paper. Students in Egypt were asked to do the same. These texts were assembled and put to music - music about a revolution in a country where freedom did not exist; music about a country where everything is available, but where no one is aware of this luxury. Music by and for young people on unbridgeable differences and striking similarities.
Het starende meisje
Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium)
14+
Composer: Jan Van Outryve, Producer: Cleo Jansen, Cast: Aline Goffin, Joris Caluwaerts and Frederic Meulyzer
Two musicians and a singer are inside a dark but colourful room. They are talking about a staring girl, who wanders around the city, and on a child who one day turned into a bed. Their strange stories and sounds create an atmosphere between dream and reality, between the spooky and the comic. The world of Tim Burton. A world in which anything is possible.
Sound of Protest
Concept, Direction and Composition: Thanasis Deligiannis, Live Electronics: Ji Youn Kang
Fascinated by the sound of protests, Thanasis Deligiannis joined Yo! Opera in August 2010. Sound of Protest is topical, sharp and confronting. On the basis of sounds of protests from all over the world, Thanasis presents an experience of the senses you will long remember. You will be in a small room which is completely filled with video images and the intense sounds of angry people, people who demand justice or who raise their voices because they want others to hear their discord. What does indignation sound like in Japan? And what is the sound of injustice in Greece?
Heroine – A Female Lament
Concept, Artistic Direction, Composition, Music, Performance: Kim- José Bode, Assistant Producer: Mirjam Zwanenburg, Dancer: Ana Ladas, Visual Art and Set Design: Farhad Vilkij
Heroine, a Female Lament is a 15 minute music drama – a multi discipline performance for dance, music, video and live electronics. The triangle between music, image and movement is the basis for the idiom used in this miniature drama. The music by Kim-José Bode forms a clear basic framework. It is the story's starting point and it creates the right atmosphere for a journey into the inner world of a female hero – a heroine.
STURM
Concept and Play: Lindertje Mans, Milena Haverkamp, Joost Steltenpool, Voice: Jan Polak, Assistant Producer: Sacha van Sprundel
In this 15 minute electro-opera Lindertje, Milena and Joost get into your head to loosen up those screws even further, and to make your mental leaps reach Olympic heights. Passion and insecurity, silent goose flesh and popping eardrums: it's all part of the game. You can always grow up later!
Talkin ‘bout a Revolution
Concept: Rian Evers, Pauline ten Böhmer, Director: Rian Evers, Assistant Producer: Janneke
Gorthuis, Actors: Pauline ten Böhmer, Merlijn Runia
'It isn't enough to talk about it, one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it, one must work on it.' A provoking and compelling show in which you are being prepared for a revolution. ....But first things first, let's talk!
Trekhaak gezocht
Artistic Director: Tjerk Ridder
Last year, musician Tjerk Ridder travelled thousands of miles through Europe with a caravan, but without a car. On the pretext of 'Wanted: Towing Hook', he let himself be led through Europe by people who were willing to help him. On his journeys, Tjerk encourages those who help him to realise their dreams.
De tweede mijl
Text and Composition: Anthony Dunstan, Director and Producer: Abel Nienhuis, Assistant Producers:
Pauline Otten and Job Rietvelt, Cast: Kasper Tarenskeen, Nora Fischer and Coert van der Berg, Band: Gabor Csongrádi, Paul Medeiros, Daniel Mester, Beno Kiss, Andris Buikis and Eva Maria Mitter
This opera describes the search of the young artist Martin for inspiration and meaning. He just moved to Amsterdam and does voluntary work for homeless people. That is how he hopes to hear stories and meet characters he can use in his new opera, and for his studies at university. However, he fails. He doesn't hear any good stories and neither does he meet anyone he is able to trust. He gets stuck in his work. That is when he is confronted with ethical and artistic dilemmas he never expected to come across.
Veldwerk
Chief Director: Leen Braspenning, Coach: Lotte van den Berg (OMSK), Producer and Manager: Ylona Supèr, Realisation/Assistant Producers: Brian Den Hartog and Dyan Jakupovic, Cast: Harald Austbø, Tjalling Schrik, Wessel Schrik, Arthur Wagenaar and Roel van Doorn
Veldwerk is a growing series of musical community portraits. A journey from town to town. It's a concert, a show and documentary all at once. It's about the people. About Henk and Ingrid, the Dutch average couple. But also about Arthur, Harald, Roel, Tjalling and Wessel – the musicians of Susies Haarlok. For this project, they step into the streets of Utrecht to talk to local residents. Their song texts are based directly on these conversations. Susies Haarlok wants to know: Who are the people? What do they do? And what do they think of each other?
Yo!/ISH Residency
With the cooperation of: Internationale Schakelklassen, Niels Vermeulen and Ken Srisangkhan
Assistant Producers: Vera Andeweg and Kirtin Görtz
25 pupils have been working together for five days with a teacher of ISH and a music teacher. The ideas of the students are input for an exciting performance in which break-dance moves are combined with music.
Band ISK
With the cooperation of: Internationale Schakelklassen and Erwin Willemse
Two girls and four boys, who all have their own musical tastes, form a band especially for the festival. Band coach Erwin Willemse teaches them the tricks of the trade and prepares them for their very own stage performances.
Ik, Held
With the cooperation of: Gerrit Rietveld College and Nard Verdonschot
Pupils from Gerrit Rietveld College have composed a mini opera, which centres around the theme Young Heroes. They wrote libretto and music themselves and also put it on stage.
Tante is jarig!
With the cooperation of: De Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap
Several pupils from De Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap perform the opera Tante is Jarig [Aunt's Birthday]. It is based on the story of Floddertje by the famous Dutch author of children's books Annie M.G. Schmidt.
Make Some Noise!
With the cooperation of: DJ Optimus, Sarah Sötemann, Alexa Hakkenbrak
Various band and DJs from schools in Utrecht take up the challenge to blend elements of classical music into their own repertoires, with the help of several professionals. A real treat, which rocks the foundation of the Huis a/d Werf!
nooTcentrale
Stichting Polly: Aart-Jan van der Linden, Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden and Judit Grotenhuis. By courtesy of Allerd van den Bremen.
Admit it: you also dream of a different life every now and then. A life as a beat boxer, or as a singer with a gorgeous voice. Maybe you image that your YouTube clip is suddenly being watched by millions of people. How do they do it? The answer is simple: they visited the nooTcentrale. Becoming a megastar yourself is easy: just come to the nooTcentrale too! Within minutes you have made your own video clip. It is even more fun to make a clip together with all your friends!
N2O
Designer: Jake de Vos and Dyane Donck
Have in-depth talks on life, meet new people, or settle an argument. Take your seat next to the installation, put on the headphones and try to start a good conversation. The headphones mute all sounds from the outside world, so that you will imagine yourself in another reality, which is both hallucinating and absurd.
Huis a/d Werf
Bear v Shark
14+
Concept and Direction: Arlon Luijten, Composer: Elizabet van der Kooij and Ben Lammerts van
Bueren, Producer: Sascha van Veen, Music Coach: Corrie van Binsbergen, Sound Technician: Thomas Koopmans, Concept: Bart Visser, Cast: M.A. Whiteside, Yorick Heerkens, Jorien Zeevaart
and Shani Leiderman, Band: Pepe Garcia and Jan Willem Troost
"The question is simple, like most philosophical questions: who would win in a fight between a bear and a shark?" Bear v Shark is a musical theatrical excess, a philosophical satire on the impact of mass media on our human lives and perceptions. How fun is life in a society which is gradually 'funnerising'?
BITCH!
14+
Director and Concept: Charles Hens, Music: Richard Wagner, Assistant Producers: Ruben
Kist Sánchez and Jaleesa Williams, Cast: boys from the Amsterdam ROC, Stichting Werkmeester,
FC NewAmsterdam, De Valk Talent Factory et al
BITCH! is a piece of physical opera theatre. It about boys, about running away, fighting, longing. About the desire to be free, about becoming who you really are. Opera producer Charles Hens worked on this short opera with a group of young boys. The music of Richard Wagner is brought into the centre of the modern world.
A Chair on Two Legs
14+
Director: Matthias Mooij, Composer: Thomas Myrmel, Assistant Producers: Selma Hanzon and Elisa Somsen, Cast: Marc Kaptijn, Matthias Mooij, Thomas Myrmel and Piotr Baranski, Choir: Utrechts Operakoor
A Chair on Two Legs is about people's strange wish to die at the peak of their abilities, in order to be remembered forever. It is an opera full of expression on the minor difference between heroes and traitors.
Change Your World
VocaalLAB (the Netherlands)
14+
Stage Director/Musical Director: Romain Bischoff together with Mariëlle Vester, Composer: Rogier Bosman, Cast: pupils from Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein, Inge den Haan, Stijn Hoes, Catalijne Janssen, Tom Kortbeek, Rombout Stoffer and Maarten Zaagman, Lighting: Jeroen Smith/Evelements, Light Technician: Sicco Peterse, Sound Technician: Casper Schipper, Stage Designer: Lode Bruins, Choreographer: Enigma Huijzer, Culture Coordinator of Oosterlicht College: Edien Lammers
Change Your World is a musical theatrical show by and for young people, made by pupils from Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein in co-production with VocaalLAB. The show is about all the concerns youth have and all the things they occupy themselves with in every-day life. It is based on global themes, using original texts and recent news items. The composition by Rogier Bosman gives young pupils the opportunity to interpret and show these in their own way. It is a mix of intriguing song, spectacular rhythms and unexpected sound explosions.
Elvis 2.0
14+
Director: Jan Hulst and Kasper Tarenskeen, Composer: Kasper Tarenskeen, Librettist: Job Tarenskeen, Assistant Producer: Joella Reket, Cast: Kirila Kraal, Kasper Tarenskeen, Xander Vrienten, Nathan Klumperbeek and Job Tarenskeen
Elvis 2.0 is about the desire for change and the need to keep moving. Elvis is a boy who has all he could possibly wish for. One day, he notices that despite his successes his life has come to a standstill. He decides to go to a three-star hotel in Malerba at the expense of his father to – as his friends mockingly say– "go search for himself". By some whim of fate he ends up on the other side of the world. In this strange environment he meets an enchanting people, who teach him to have faith in himself.
King of the Universe
14+
Concept, direction, composition and performance: Robin Coops, Assistant Producer: Marieke
Verdonk
A concert during which an eternally anonymous star reveals himself. In his performance, theatre producer and composer Robin Coops finds himself in a no man's land between pop music, theatre and opera. King of the Universe is about a would-be hero, who very much wants to become one.
Mezrab
14+
Artistic Director: Sahand Sahebdevani, with: Parwin Akhbari and Stefanie Janssen,
Assistant Producer: Kim Langenberg
Sahand Sahebdivani is not a singer, but he is the son of the best singer ever: Parwin Akhbari, his mother! Her voice reflects everything she went through in her life. When she was young, she wasn't allowed to sing, but Sahand improvises pieces of music to which he can make her voice heard.
Through YouTube Sahand has asked musicians from all over the world to send him music to which his mother can sing.
MonteverdISH – A Hiphop Break-dance Opera
ISH /VocaalLAB (the Netherlands)
Director: Marco Gerris & Arnout Lems, Musical Director: Arnout Lems & Romain Bischoff, Choreographer: Marco Gerris & Break-dancers, Music: Claudio Monteverdi & Perquisite, Assistant Director: Dunya Khayame, Cast: Marcel Andriessen, Shailesh Bahoran, Laura Bohn, Jörg Brinkmann, Jeantrey Duivestein, Christie Finn, Israel Golani , Harm Huson, Thomas Krikken, Ben Mathot, Nienke Otten, Carl Refos, Annie Tangberg, Robert Thomas Villedieu, Irie Weergang Bove and Marijn Zwitserlood
Who says hip-hop and opera don't mix? In MonteverdISH, a hip-hop break-dance opera, ISH shows that the two can be combined! In this ultimate cross-over production, break-dance and hip-hop merge with opera and classical music. ISH and VocaalLAB transform the opera l’Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and music by Perquisite into their own unique piece. It is an impressive story which brings together the pursuit of power and the power of love.
Othello
Likeminds (the Netherlands)
14+
Director: Benji Reid, Assistant Director: Josephine van Veen, Assistant Producer: Julia Groen, Actors: Achmed El Jennouni and Olaf Aït Tami, Voice: Oukje den Hollander
The Likeminds' young generation and British hip-hop phenomenon Benji Reid joined forces. The young actors manipulate Shakespeare's characters, and this has some deadly consequences. The question which remains at the end of the story is: Who will take the blame?
Smells Like Tahrir Spirit
Theatergroep DOX, Het Lab Utrecht and Yo! Opera (the Netherlands)
14+
Director: Joost van Hezik, Composer: Bart van de Lisdonk, Text: Youth from Utrecht and Cairo, Choreographer: Jeanine Coco, Live Music: Floris van Bergeijk, Light Designer: Yuri Schreuders, Stage Designer: Esmee Thomassen, Cast: Alexa Hakkenbrak, Zahra Lfil, Christopher van der Meer, Santhino Piqué, Judith Rijsenbrij, Hidde Aans Verkade and Annemarie Westerveen
This show was created by comparing the personal stories of two groups of young people. All the pupils in the audience were asked to put their own thoughts on paper. Students in Egypt were asked to do the same. These texts were assembled and put to music - music about a revolution in a country where freedom did not exist; music about a country where everything is available, but where no one is aware of this luxury. Music by and for young people on unbridgeable differences and striking similarities.
Het starende meisje
Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium)
14+
Composer: Jan Van Outryve, Producer: Cleo Jansen, Cast: Aline Goffin, Joris Caluwaerts and Frederic Meulyzer
Two musicians and a singer are inside a dark but colourful room. They are talking about a staring girl, who wanders around the city, and on a child who one day turned into a bed. Their strange stories and sounds create an atmosphere between dream and reality, between the spooky and the comic. The world of Tim Burton. A world in which anything is possible.
Sound of Protest
Concept, Direction and Composition: Thanasis Deligiannis, Live Electronics: Ji Youn Kang
Fascinated by the sound of protests, Thanasis Deligiannis joined Yo! Opera in August 2010. Sound of Protest is topical, sharp and confronting. On the basis of sounds of protests from all over the world, Thanasis presents an experience of the senses you will long remember. You will be in a small room which is completely filled with video images and the intense sounds of angry people, people who demand justice or who raise their voices because they want others to hear their discord. What does indignation sound like in Japan? And what is the sound of injustice in Greece?
Heroine – A Female Lament
Concept, Artistic Direction, Composition, Music, Performance: Kim- José Bode, Assistant Producer: Mirjam Zwanenburg, Dancer: Ana Ladas, Visual Art and Set Design: Farhad Vilkij
Heroine, a Female Lament is a 15 minute music drama – a multi discipline performance for dance, music, video and live electronics. The triangle between music, image and movement is the basis for the idiom used in this miniature drama. The music by Kim-José Bode forms a clear basic framework. It is the story's starting point and it creates the right atmosphere for a journey into the inner world of a female hero – a heroine.
STURM
Concept and Play: Lindertje Mans, Milena Haverkamp, Joost Steltenpool, Voice: Jan Polak, Assistant Producer: Sacha van Sprundel
In this 15 minute electro-opera Lindertje, Milena and Joost get into your head to loosen up those screws even further, and to make your mental leaps reach Olympic heights. Passion and insecurity, silent goose flesh and popping eardrums: it's all part of the game. You can always grow up later!
Talkin ‘bout a Revolution
Concept: Rian Evers, Pauline ten Böhmer, Director: Rian Evers, Assistant Producer: Janneke
Gorthuis, Actors: Pauline ten Böhmer, Merlijn Runia
'It isn't enough to talk about it, one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it, one must work on it.' A provoking and compelling show in which you are being prepared for a revolution. ....But first things first, let's talk!
Trekhaak gezocht
Artistic Director: Tjerk Ridder
Last year, musician Tjerk Ridder travelled thousands of miles through Europe with a caravan, but without a car. On the pretext of 'Wanted: Towing Hook', he let himself be led through Europe by people who were willing to help him. On his journeys, Tjerk encourages those who help him to realise their dreams.
De tweede mijl
Text and Composition: Anthony Dunstan, Director and Producer: Abel Nienhuis, Assistant Producers:
Pauline Otten and Job Rietvelt, Cast: Kasper Tarenskeen, Nora Fischer and Coert van der Berg, Band: Gabor Csongrádi, Paul Medeiros, Daniel Mester, Beno Kiss, Andris Buikis and Eva Maria Mitter
This opera describes the search of the young artist Martin for inspiration and meaning. He just moved to Amsterdam and does voluntary work for homeless people. That is how he hopes to hear stories and meet characters he can use in his new opera, and for his studies at university. However, he fails. He doesn't hear any good stories and neither does he meet anyone he is able to trust. He gets stuck in his work. That is when he is confronted with ethical and artistic dilemmas he never expected to come across.
Veldwerk
Chief Director: Leen Braspenning, Coach: Lotte van den Berg (OMSK), Producer and Manager: Ylona Supèr, Realisation/Assistant Producers: Brian Den Hartog and Dyan Jakupovic, Cast: Harald Austbø, Tjalling Schrik, Wessel Schrik, Arthur Wagenaar and Roel van Doorn
Veldwerk is a growing series of musical community portraits. A journey from town to town. It's a concert, a show and documentary all at once. It's about the people. About Henk and Ingrid, the Dutch average couple. But also about Arthur, Harald, Roel, Tjalling and Wessel – the musicians of Susies Haarlok. For this project, they step into the streets of Utrecht to talk to local residents. Their song texts are based directly on these conversations. Susies Haarlok wants to know: Who are the people? What do they do? And what do they think of each other?
Yo!/ISH Residency
With the cooperation of: Internationale Schakelklassen, Niels Vermeulen and Ken Srisangkhan
Assistant Producers: Vera Andeweg and Kirtin Görtz
25 pupils have been working together for five days with a teacher of ISH and a music teacher. The ideas of the students are input for an exciting performance in which break-dance moves are combined with music.
Band ISK
With the cooperation of: Internationale Schakelklassen and Erwin Willemse
Two girls and four boys, who all have their own musical tastes, form a band especially for the festival. Band coach Erwin Willemse teaches them the tricks of the trade and prepares them for their very own stage performances.
Ik, Held
With the cooperation of: Gerrit Rietveld College and Nard Verdonschot
Pupils from Gerrit Rietveld College have composed a mini opera, which centres around the theme Young Heroes. They wrote libretto and music themselves and also put it on stage.
Tante is jarig!
With the cooperation of: De Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap
Several pupils from De Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap perform the opera Tante is Jarig [Aunt's Birthday]. It is based on the story of Floddertje by the famous Dutch author of children's books Annie M.G. Schmidt.
Make Some Noise!
With the cooperation of: DJ Optimus, Sarah Sötemann, Alexa Hakkenbrak
Various band and DJs from schools in Utrecht take up the challenge to blend elements of classical music into their own repertoires, with the help of several professionals. A real treat, which rocks the foundation of the Huis a/d Werf!
nooTcentrale
Stichting Polly: Aart-Jan van der Linden, Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden and Judit Grotenhuis. By courtesy of Allerd van den Bremen.
Admit it: you also dream of a different life every now and then. A life as a beat boxer, or as a singer with a gorgeous voice. Maybe you image that your YouTube clip is suddenly being watched by millions of people. How do they do it? The answer is simple: they visited the nooTcentrale. Becoming a megastar yourself is easy: just come to the nooTcentrale too! Within minutes you have made your own video clip. It is even more fun to make a clip together with all your friends!
N2O
Designer: Jake de Vos and Dyane Donck
Have in-depth talks on life, meet new people, or settle an argument. Take your seat next to the installation, put on the headphones and try to start a good conversation. The headphones mute all sounds from the outside world, so that you will imagine yourself in another reality, which is both hallucinating and absurd.
