Holland Festival - 78th Edition with Trajal Harrell
Holland Festival is an international festival for the performing arts. Every year, we offer theatre, dance, music, opera, and other multidisciplinary art forms from a myriad of cultures in various venues throughout Amsterdam from the 11th to the 29th of June in Amsterdam, and one show in Den Haag.
Author: HOLLAND FESTIVAL
The 78th edition of the Holland Festival will take place from June 11th to 29th. Each year, the Holland Festival presents a carefully curated program featuring excellent artists in theatre, dance, music, opera, and other multidisciplinary art forms from around the world. We strive to offer art that you would not otherwise see in the Netherlands.
Founded in 1947, the Holland Festival is the largest international performing arts festival in the Netherlands and one of the oldest festivals in Europe. It takes place every year in June in and around Amsterdam, in various locations, indoors and outdoors, large-scale or intimate, online and offline.
Holland Festival - 78th Edition with Trajal Harrell
Dear readers,
The Holland Festival would like to share exciting news regarding their programme this year, and extend an invitation to all arts and culture lovers.
Holland Festival is an international festival for the performing arts. Every year, we offer theatre, dance, music, opera, and other multidisciplinary art forms from a myriad of cultures in various venues throughout Amsterdam. This year, with dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell as associate artist, there will be a clear focus on dance in the programme. Together with the programming team, they have concocted an exhilarating, expressive, vulnerable, poetic, precise, evocative edition of our festival spanning from the 11th to the 29th of June in Amsterdam, and one show in Den Haag.
As an artist-driven festival, the artists programmed are encouraged to present their latest work at the edge of the expected, creating a dynamic, diverse, and surprising assortment of performances. Harrell, for instance, will also be performing parts of his repertoire multiple times throughout the festival, namely Caen Amour and Sister, or He Buried the Body,which are both being organised in the Stedelijk Museum!
This year’s festival will once again feature a rich palette of international exchange and cross-pollination. In One Ocean, artists from islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, united in the Small Island Big Song collective, will bring an ode to the resilience and culture of their habitats. In Ring of Our Time, by the Amsterdam-based World Opera Lab, forty artists from Nigeria, Iraq, Indonesia, Mexico and Northern Europe present a new ecological opera. Composer Joël Bons’ Atlas Orchestra brings forty top musicians from Asia, the Middle East and Europe together for the first time on one stage. Forbidden Echoes by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedy, German producer Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars) and compositions by Golfam Khayam and Nader Adabnejad promises to be a concert full of wistfulness, beauty and fierce protest.
These are but a taste of the range of cultures present this year. Please find the full programme here to learn more about it.
As expected, as an international festival, we offer productions in a variety of languages. We make sure to sub or sur-title every spoken performance in both Dutch and English- and we all speak the same language of dance!
Extra tip: Students and CJP pass holders can visit the Holland Festival for € 13-15 (exclusive intermission drink) on most shows! And for everyone up to the age of 39 who is curious about performing arts and wants to know more about artists and themes covered in the Holland Festival, we also offer big discounts on selected performances: the HF Young Favourites, which you can visit for only € 25.
(Participation in HF Young is free, but you have to register.)