Holland Festival Enhances its Position as International Production Company

Holland Festival Enhances its Position as International Production Company

AMSTERDAM, March 4/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Holland Festival is presenting its programming for the 62nd
edition, themed Serenity & Anxiety. One of the productions standing out this
year is Varese 360 degrees, which covers the complete body of work of
French-American composer Edgard Varese, supported by video images by video
artist Gary Hill. Another striking production is Eine Kirche der Angst vor
dem Fremden in mir, created by Christoph Schlingensief - the German theatre
and film artist. By producing Varese 360 degrees, the Holland Festival is
living up to its ambition to evolve into an international (co-)production
company.

Varese 360 degrees, the first production to be staged by the Holland
Festival for a long time, will also visit Festival d'Automne in Paris and
London's South Bank Centre. In addition, the Festival is co-producing a
number of productions, including the opera Aquarius by Goeyvaerts in
collaboration with the Flemish Opera; plus the opera Adam in Exile in
cooperation with the Netherlands Opera.

On top of that, the Holland Festival is continuing its tradition of
bringing contemporary music; work by the icons of the performing arts; as
well as important international theatre pieces.

Festival highlights

This year, the festival will open with the Three Solos and a Duet
programme to be performed by the world-renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
and dancer Ana Laguna. The festival includes many multidisciplinary
productions including Heiner Goebbels' I Went to the House but Did Not Enter,
which consist of three tableaus sung by the Hilliard Ensemble; as well as a
production brought by the Osaka's Bunraku-Za theatre, which rarely ventures
outside of Japan. The music and opera programming turns the spotlight on the
opera Passion by the French composer Dusapin as well as the dance opera Medea
by Sasha Waltz & Guests. The theatre programming gives pride of place to the
future Artistic Directors of Munich's theatre companies. Johan Simons is
directing Hiob, adapted from the book by Joseph Roth, for the Munchner
Kammerspiele; while Martin Kusej is directing Woyzeck by Georg Buchner for
the Bayrisches Staatsschauspiel. Other must-see events are South African
theatre maker Brett Bailey's and Indian theatre maker Roysten Abel's musical
spectacle The Manganiyar Seduction.

The Holland Festival takes place in several venues in Amsterdam, from 4
June till 28 June 2009. Tickets can be purchased at
http://www.hollandfestival.nl.

Source: Holland Festival

For more information/accreditation, Press Officer Ms. Esmee Meertens at +31(0)20-788-21-12 or esmee@hollandfestival.nl

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