Snow Whites at Todaysart Festival, The Hague (NL) September 2009
With :
Arja van Manen, Dorsaf Iben Nasser, Florence Rapati, Guillemette Ferrié, Ilse Klimsop, Irenke Pleijsier, June McGrane, Leonie Overgaag, Marleen Kleinstapels, Naomi Canard, Toni Schwartz, Viridiana Hernandez, Yolande van Welij
Sound : Ludovic Germain
Camera and editing : Thomas Courcelle
Costume design and realization : Roël Stassart
Montage : Véronique Adler, ISOTOM
Production the Hague : RobertK Art Productions
Special thanks to :
Anastasia Chiarella, Paul Cornelissen, Leo Sterrenburg
The prospect of having performance artists dressed up like Disney’s Snow White parading with toy guns in the city hall caused quite a stir in The Hague over the last weeks. It is not that the Dutch are easily scandalized – they are rather hardened in matters of artistic provocation - but the consistency in the branding of a city such as the The Hague is becoming a more important principle than artistic freedom. The Hague likes to present itself as the international capital of peace and justice, and to start with, the officials in charge of city marketing didn’t like the theme chosen by Todaysart festival 2009, “The Hague City of Conflict”.