Archive 2010

Tradition as a source of renewal was the festival’s common thread in 2010. The festival opened at the Carré theatre with a homage to Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum by Amal Maher. Starchitect Zaha Hadid designed a pavilion for Bach’s music, while Boris Charmatz and Jérome Bel presented a three-piece devoted to Merce Cunningham, one of the all-time greatest choreographers. A Japanese Noh performance was the fourth in a series of traditional Japanese theatre forms. Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Sam Mendes, went side by side with current-day contributions like that of Pieter Stein and Simon McBurney, whose A Dog’s Heart, composed by Alexander Raskatov, had its world premiere during the Holland Festival.