Act You Age Festival Day Three

Blind Date - Liz King and Arthur Rosenfeld

Day three of Act Your Age festival started for me early with the performance 'She Was A Visitor' with Truus Bronkhorst. This performance is a collaboration of three dance makers of different ages and varied experience.
Following this quite intense and 'heavy' piece for the early Saturday was the light and touching 'Blind Date' at Turnzaal. I never heard about the Turnzaal in Maastricht but apparently it is the oldest gymnastics hall in the Netherlands.
Performance Blind Date by Arthur Rosenfeld with Liz King Arthur Rosenfeld (61) and Liz King (66), who got to know each other during Act Your Age Europe. Both makers are still dancing after a long international career. Their shared experience in combination with their different backgrounds - Arthur danced with Pina Bausch, Liz at the Stuttgart Ballet amongst other places – means that their combination on stage is as self-explanatory as it is full of contradictions. In the last few months they have together studied the universal need to connect with another person. We long for a partner, a friend and a companion. Their investigation resulted in Blind Date, a piece about internet dating for sixty year olds and older.

Suitable as the final performance in the programme, 'Last Day Of All' by choreographer Marco D'Agostin. Following the performance there was a short aftertalk with the audience, which was helpful to understand the piece we see mysterious rituals performed by a group consisting of various generations(dancers from 15 to 76 years).

Summering up I am looking back to an inspiring festival that has planted new ideas in my head about possible projects in the future.
http://www.actyourage.eu

Act Your Age Festival in Maastricht

The Act Your Age Festival on 12, 13 and 14 December in Maastricht the Netherlands aims to overturn and add to our existing ideas about aging and old age, taking dance as its starting point. It shows ‘the art of growing old’ in its full scope.

Besides dance performances by dancers aged between 16 and 88, there are lectures by academics and European opinion-makers about the older person and the aging body. There are (dance) workshops, in which you can dance yourself and get personally involved, and there are exhibitions.
But most important of all, there are meetings between the different generations, between science and art, and between experts in the field of aging and older people themselves.




Act Your Age Festival programme

Thursday 12 December/ Act your age
This day revolves around the broader cultural and social ideas that determine our vision of aging for a large part. Discover what it means to 'act your age'. What is expected of us, either implicitly or explicitly?

Friday 13 December/ Body & Mind 
The heart of the festival focuses on body and mind. Throughout our lives, we all have different experiences, our surroundings change and we change ourselves, both physically and mentally. How do we, as people, deal with change? Experts, dancers and choreographers share their vision.

Saturday 14 December/ Aging in practice 
On the third day of the festival, various experts share their knowledge in workshops. Join in and take inspiration from one another and from the power of the theme. The day is rounded off by lectures with practical tips & tricks.

For more information about the festival and programme: http://www.actyourage.eu

What age are you acting? - Silvia Gribaudi & Domenico Santonicola

Please be gentle - Alexis Vassilou

ROOFTOPTIGERRR

Theatre TIP: ROOFTOPTIGERRR - Futuristic theater carousel in the church

The performance takes place in the church on the square Fatima in Mariaberg neighborhood of Maastricht. An interactive performance in which the wishes and dreams of residents are processed. You can enjoy this interactive theatre performance from 1 - 10th of November.

Rooftoptigerrr, the theater performance, is part of the large-scale project Rooftoptiger set in four neighborhoods of Maastricht in order to bring local residents together through creativity.
This theater responds to the desire to do something. Spectacular close This interactive performance by the Antwerp based artists collective TimeCircus is presented by
Culture platform SoAP and Trajekt foundation.

Check the trailer!

For more information:
http://soap-it.eu/rooftoptigerrr

Rooftoptigerrr from SoAP on Vimeo.

Bruis Festival Maastricht 2013

Last weekend Bruis festival took over Maastricht with its 7th edition. I still remember when it all started on the market square in Maastricht with the unforgetable performance by Vive la Fête. It is wonderful to see how many people were there enjoying live music and acts like Miles Kane, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Montevideo, SX and many more.
The festival was brought to life in 2007, as an initiative of de Muziekgieterij. http://www.bruismaastricht.nl

PARKers at Frontenpark Maastricht

Lukas Kramer

From 31st of August until 8th of September you can (re)discover Frontenpark thanks to PARKers exhibition.

It is located so close to the historic city of Maastricht, however for many people including me a forgotten and unknown territory with a diverse scenery, cultural-historical, and nature. A lush ‘wild’ nature with traces of the industrial past and the remains of seventeenth-century fortifications.
In the near future, this area will be developed as the Frontenpark: a new city park on the north side of the city centre.
In the last forty years this place was quite neglected and forgotten and now it is in the starting point of transition to become a new urban landscape.
This is so exciting, it feels like Maastricht is growing up, literally growing.

Since this summer an extensive program of activities has started to take place in the Frontenpark. My first encounter with the Frontenpark happend last weekend at the opening of PARKers, curated by the Bart van den Boom and Ilona van den Brekel.
This is such a wonderful opportunity to get to know this new place and get inspired by nine temporary art installations.

PARKers presents nine temporary artworks/installations in public space by these artists: Jeroen van Bergen, Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros, Jens Brouwers, Stefan Cools, Paul Devens, Lucas Kramer, La Bolleur, Han Rameckers and Oscar Santillan.

PARKers is initiated by Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg, in collaboration with Bureau Europa and Van Eyck Academy.
www.frontenpark.nl

opening Saturday 31st August

Opening Exhibition FASHIONCLASH @ Museum aan het Vrijthof

Yesterday we celebrated a very special opening, our very first exhibition at a museum, FASHIONCLASH @ Museum aan het Vrijthof exhibition.
To celebrate the collaboration there were performances marking the partnership with the museum, a creative clash with fashion show, music, opera and dance performance. The presentations brought us back in time on this sunny day, making the history of Maastricht alive again and setting the new pats for the future.
In the fashion show performance models were wearing creations by designers Annemarije van Harten, Anya Liesnik, Branko Popovic, Nawie Kuiper, Atelier Milada, Saba Tark and Bregje Cox.
More information about the exhibition: http://www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl/page.aspx?id=473

Out of Storage Finissage

Today, March 25, Out of Storage is closing doors for the last time. This temporary museum for contemporary art has received 20.000 visitor in past 9 months. Yesterday evening the success was celebrated with a festive farewell party.
If you have missed it, today is your last chance!

This was the opening:
http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/07/out-of-storage.html