The Holland Festival aims to offer an international programme with a broad base extending as far as more popular genres such as pop music and entertainment. It also aims to breakthrough the artificial division between "high" and "low" culture.
The Festival also wants to provide a conscious contribution to erasing the boundaries between the different (dramatic) arts, such as "music", "opera", "theatre" and "dance". In practice, it becomes apparent that many productions presented by the Festival cannot easily be labelled. "The future is with impure art: the pure concert, the pure show and the pure exhibition are increasingly facing problems. They no longer offer room for artists to present themselves." Festival visitors have to be surprised, in a little sense, with combinations of arts they have not seen before.
June
The Holland Festival will take place during the entire month of June in Amsterdam’s top cultural venues. Main venues include Het Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Het Muziektheater, the Stadsschouwburg and the Westergasfabriek.
