For Culturebot | Date of publication: Thursday January 5, 2017 In his short Welcome to PuSh in the program of the coming edition of his festival Norman Armour… Read more
BAAD! | Showcasing the Bronx Culture Cauldron
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday March 2, 2016 Last fall artist and party curator Lucien Smith and real estate developer Keith Rubinstein organized ‘a star-studded’ rave… Read more
Mothership of a Fleet of Festivals | My First Under the Radar
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Monday February 29, 2016 At the beginning of his show Now I’m Fine, Ahamefule J. Oluo tells us about his boyhood. About… Read more
Escaping the Exotic | Finding New Common Ground with the Middle East
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Friday December 11, 2015 After a couple of questions from his Amsterdam audience, all with a predictable Western bias, Ossama Halal could… Read more
‘We never use texts. We use the sounds of people talking as a kind of score’
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday November 18, 2015 A snow-white expanse, filled with thousands of words, exquisitely shaped in a font called Delicious-Roman. That is what… Read more
A World Premiere Doubling as a Grand Finale
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday October 14, 2015 It is an epic; monumental and intimate at the same time. It lasts for five hours, but does… Read more
When every performance becomes an act of composition | One to one with Marino Formenti, piano ‘pugilist’ extraordinaire
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Wednesday December 10, 2014 It happened while the pianist was playing a work by the American composer Morton Feldman, which runs to… Read more
Theater should be a transformative experience | Milo Rau’s cheerful and non-cynical brand of political drama
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Friday October 17, 2014 An interview by Joost Ramaer Milo Rau’s political theater projects are almost always multistage rockets. Only, with him,… Read more
The Mystery of Common Inspiration
For Culturebot | Date of publication: Tuesday September 16, 2014 Right after the opening of the third and last performance of 600 HIGHWAYMEN‘s The Record in the Dutch city… Read more