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rotterdam January - March 2020 Highlights, festivals, concerts, shows and films FESTIVALS Prospects & Concepts 2019. Photo Almichael Fraay of NowForever 2019. IJsvrij Festival A mini-festival full of winter fun, including a small-scale ice rink. Lonely Planet praised this romantic indoor ice rink as one of the three most beautiful in Europe. until 12 January Wooning Zesdaagse / Six Days of Rotterdam The best track cyclists in the world come together for fierce World Press Photo expo madison cycling on the The famous international photo wooden track. exhibition can be seen for three 2 - 7 January / Rotterdam Ahoy weeks in the Laurenskerk. 20 Jan - 9 Feb / Laurenskerk Black Denim Festival 3.0 Third edition with more extreme International Film Festival styles of punk like D-beat, Rotterdam (IFFR) Hardcore, Grind and Crust. During IFFR, the biggest film 19 January 13:00 / Baroeg Rotterdam festival of the year, Rotterdam becomes in an exciting film city. Chinese New Year With 500 films to choose from, The year of the mouse is cele- but also parties, talks, Q&As, brated with a lot of activities exhibitions and concerts, there in the city. is something for everyone. 20 - 26 January / West-Kruiskade and 22 January - 2 February / surroundings Various locations THE NEW CURRENT During Art Rotter- Afro Comic Book Festival dam Week, The New Festival for afro-comic fans with Current settles in the Spanish Cube, films, games, cartoons, cosplay, near the Van Nelle soul food, live paintings and Factory. Expect much more. an exciting mix of 1 February 12:00 / Theater Zuidplein installations, sculp- tures, videos and Art Rotterdam Week performances. Rotterdam will revolve around culture and contemporary art during Art Rotterdam Week. Throughout the week, the city bustles with special openings, exhibitions in museums and art institutions, guided tours, performances, pop-up shows, musical events and various fairs. For the first time, performance Museumnacht 010 art is represented as a Discover all the art and culture destination, an initiative of Art that Rotterdam has to offer in Rotterdam. one night. 5 - 9 February / Various locations 2 March 20:00 / Various locations Rotterdam Photo Arab Film Festival Sea containers form the During this festival, you backdrop for a photo festival can immerse yourself in the with work by emerging and wonderful world of Arabic established photographers from cinema. home and abroad. 26 - 29 March / LantarenVenster 6 - 9 February / Deliplein ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament One of the leading tennis tournaments with world-class tennis players. An impressive VIP area and fun activities at Sports Plaza and Tennis Plaza guarantee an exciting event for every sports fan. 8 - 16 February / Rotterdam Ahoy ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament MUSIC Devendra Banhart MaNga This band achieved second Sea Girls place at the Eurovision Song No river too deep or mountain Contest in 2010 with a mix of too high for the British Sea Girls. traditional Turkish and Western This band writes hits of the rock music. highest caliber: comparisons 10 January 21:00 / De Doelen with The Killers, The Kooks and Foster The People are now in PJ Morton full swing. Get ready for sultry soul à la Ray 26 January 21:00 / Rotown Charles and Stevie Wonder with an R&B-twist from (multiple) Devendra Banhart Grammy nominated singer PJ Devendra Banhart, once Morton. renamed the “High Priest of 14 January 20:30 / Bird L.A. Freak Folk”, leaves behind a swirling trail of mystical folk, IFFR / KINO Boogie Nights Vol. 4 raga-spirituals and Latin- Go clubbing in the glow of American rock. cinema’s finest visuals, and 1 February 19:30 / Annabel sing like a nightingale in the karaokebar with karaokehost. Nérija 24 January & 31 January 22:00 This extremely talented female KINO Rotterdam collective from the British jazz scene overwhelms with their mix Glow in the dark ‘Crazy Carnival’ from sixties hard bop, funk and Party to Techno all night long in soul to hip hop and township three different carnival areas. blues. 25 January 23:00 / Maassilo 11 February 20:30 / Bird BALTHAZAR Extravert, erratic, more colour, more polish and just a little more daring: Balthazar is rightly one of the most widely appreciated pop groups of this decade. Joe Armon-Jones 14 February 20:30 The keyboard virtuoso from Ezra Maassilo Collective, presents his new album and groovy mix of hip hop, funk and dub at BIRD. 16 February 20:30 / Bird Mondo Generator The Kelly Family Bass player Nick Olivieri is The legendary Kelly Family are coming with his band Mondo coming back to the Netherlands. Generator, hopefully he’ll keep 21 February 19:30 / Rotterdam Ahoy his clothes on this time. The LA trio plays a steamy combination Jools Holland feat. Special of cool rock and popping punk. Guests KT Tunstall & Ruby Turner 14 March 19:00 / Baroeg Expect a revue full of blues, rock ‘n’ roll, soul and pop ... and of Jett Rebel course that unmistakable flair Jett Rebel stays very close to that only Jools Holland has! himself: a man and his music. 26 February 20:15 / De Doelen But then all facets of that music; honest and pure, without frills. Weval Expect the unexpected from all- The producer duo Harm Coolen rounder Jett Rebel. and Merijn Scholte Albers can 24 March 20:00 / Old Luxor Theatre mix the most diverse influences - from mainstream pop to free jazz - into electronic music that sounds fluid, compelling and stylish. 28 February 20:30 / Maassilo Amsterdam Klezmer Band The band plays klezmer and Balkan, ska and jazz, gypsy and hip hop. It is everything, but above all it is a party. 29 February 20:30 / LantarenVenster Weval FILM IFFR IFFR: To live and die in L.A. (1985) Neo noir crime film were boundaries between good and evil gradually fade away. 8 January 19:30 / KINO Rotterdam Royal Ballet: Sleeping Beauty Enjoy 180 minutes of live ballet Open doek tijdens Rotterdam from London on the big screen. Dag (IFFR) 16 January 20:15 / On Rotterdam Day during the Cinerama Filmtheatre IFFR, young filmtalent is given the opportunity to show their André Rieu 70 years young work at LantarenVenster. During this unique anniversary 24 January / LantarenVenster event, you will be taken into the world of André Rieu and Opera: Agrippina (handel) the spectacular locations of his Mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato performances. shines in the lead role of 18 January 19:00 / Agrippina, a dark comedy about Pathé Schouwburgplein deception and betrayal. 29 Feb & 8 - 9 Mar / Harry Potter and the Order of Pathé Schouwburgplein the Phoenix in concert Watch this movie while the Big classic: The Exorcist (1973) musicians from Rotterdam People were known to become ill Philharmonic Orchestra watching it. Some fainted. Some overwhelmingly bring the film ran out of the theatre in tears. music to life. Every Thursday & Sunday in March / 15 - 19 Jan 19:30 / De Doelen Cinerama Filmtheatre THEATRE Jonathan Jeremiah Tania Kross Opera singer Tania Kross goes from Mozart to Madonna in a musical ode to those who made Amsterdam Sinfonietta & themselves immortal with their Jonathan Jeremiah music. With ‘Broader than classical’, 16 February 14:30 / the orchestra enters into a Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg collaboration with artists from outside the classical world, Madeleine Roger whereby both parties step out of Lovely folk songs sung smoothly their comfort zone. by a beautiful, crystal-clear 13 January 20:00 / New Luxor Theatre voice reminiscent of a young Joni Mitchel. Dorona Alberti 29 February 20:30 / Kleine Walhalla Dorona Alberti (Gare du Nord) and her band immerse Recirquel – My Land themselves in the world of The combination of dance, espionage and glamour with the acrobatics, music, light and most iconic songs from early and illusion makes My Land a more recent James Bond films. very successful example of 17 January 20:30 / Kantine Walhalla contemporary narrative circus. 25 March 20:00 / Old Luxor Theatre Sven Figee With his organ and piano, he Russel Howard plays music from Bach, Vivaldi Russell Howard, one of the best- and Schumann that effortlessly selling acts in British stand-up, flows into works by The Beatles returns with his biggest ever to arrive at his own work via globe-spanning stand-up tour Booker-T and Jimmy Smith. ‘Respite’. 9 February 15:00 / Kantine Walhalla 31 March 20:00 / New Luxor Theatre DANCE Scapino Cathedral Double bill: Redo + heritage of... This innovative dancer investigates his Hindustani roots in a unique way through breakdance and popping. Uniform 18 January 20:15 / Maaspodium Four individuals make an attempt to discard their own identity and IVGI & GREBEN – De voorlopers merge with the masses. For this choreographer duo, 13 - 15 February 20:15 / Maaspodium ‘De voorlopers’ is a depiction of a powerful idealism and Sometimes, I wonder alternative paths in art and life. In Sometimes, I wonder 5 February 20:30 / a triptych of Jirí Kylián’s Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg exceptionally rich oeuvre is shown. Scapino Ballet Rotterdam: 19 - 23 February 20:00 / Cathedral New Luxor Theatre Impressive choreographies by Marcos Morau to the music of Scapino Ballet Rotterdam - Pearl Arvo Pärt, played by Sinfonia Ed Wubbe’s choreography is Rotterdam. full of sensuality and splendor, 6 - 9 February 20:15 / but also with decadence and Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg intrigue. 5 - 7 March 20:15 / Par terre / dance company - Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg À mon bel amour Modern dance, popping, krump Conny Janssen Danst: KIEM and ballet come together in A work with ten dancers about a universal counterpart to an resilience, enthusiasm and animal mating dance. vitality. 12 February 20:15 / 13 - 14 March 20:15 / Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg Theatre Rotterdam Schouwburg De S. Lohmanlaan Ro Vinkenstraat Boezemlaan Groen van Prinstererstraat Heemskerkstraat de Ziedewijstraat Hoogenwaardstraat A.