This week the city of Groningen will once again dominate the European music stage. The 31st edition of the European Music and Showcase Festival Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) takes place from 11-14 January at various locations in Groningen. What once started out as a simple band competition between Dutch and Belgian bands in the mid 1980s has evolved into a multi-disciplinary music festival and an international media event that stimulates the circulation of European repertoires and festival networks. Continue reading “Eurosonic Noorderslag: Research or Recognition?”
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A Dancing Museum
by Carmen van Bruggen
‘It is time to see, to make visible and bring alive the moving bodies of a culture’
Boris Charmatz in Manifesto for a Dancing Museum.
She wears dirty sneakers, blue Adidas sweatpants and a simple grey t-shirt. Her outfit, however, reveals nothing of the styles she dances: Russian Folkdance and ballet. It has a brilliant effect, the banging of her sport shoes on the museum floor, while she plays both the male and female roles of classical pieces. Of course she is a contemporary dancer. She does whatever she wants. She mixes styles, appropriates any role and enjoys the absence of any clear dance rules. Continue reading “A Dancing Museum”
Rodin on Tour in Groningen!
By Margreta van Kammen
Together with other master students of the curator track in Groningen, I follow a course taught by the director of the Groninger Museum, Andreas Blühm, on Rodin and the current Rodin exhibition in the Groninger Museum.
Symposium: Philosophy and Literature
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen and Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen
invite you for the symposium
Philosophy and Literature
Wednesday December 21, 2016
10:30 – 18:00
Virtual Reality Experience of Reading
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Stéphane Mallarmé
With this quote in mind, how much has the experience of reading changed over time and what does the experience look like in the age of digital technologies? Continue reading “Virtual Reality Experience of Reading”