Netherlands Consulate-General - Los Angeles, California

Dance

Street4onE in World Hiphop Dance Championship at Hiphop International 2009
Loews Lake Las Vegas Spa Resort, Las Vegas, NV
July 29 – August 2, 2009
Additional info: Hiphop International, Street4onE
The group Street4onE will represent the Netherlands, competing with over one thousand of the world's best street dancers, at the 2009 World Hiphop Championship in Las Vegas. The group's unique style blends elements of nu style, breakdance, poppin', lockin', krump, afro style, capoeira, and old school hiphop.

Music

Amstel Quartet
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, August 2, 2009
Deer Valley Music Festival, Park City, UT, August 4-6, 2009
Additional info: Deer Valley Music Festival, LACMA, Amstel Quartet
The Amstel Saxophone Quartet will be back in LA this Summer, after a very successful series of concerts here this past Spring. On August 2nd, they will perform a concert as part of the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is also broadcast live on the KUSC radio station. After their LA stop, they will travel to Utah, where they are included in this year's lineup for The Deer Valley Music Festival (DVMF) - the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera's summer home in the mountain resort town of Park City, Utah.

Saskia Laroo
NedFest, Nederland, CO
August 26-28, 2009
Additional info: NedFest, Saskia Laroo
Dutch jazz trumpet sensation, Saskia Laroo takes the main stage at the 11th Annual outdoor music festival in Nederland, Colorado (just 17 miles west of Boulder).

Visual Arts

Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings
Bower Museum, Santa Ana, CA
July 11 – August 23, 2009
Additional info: Bowers Museum
A collection of rare etchings from the John Villarino Collection are the subject of this exhibition of works by Rembrandt. Each of the 36 images, created between 1629 and 1654 depicts individuals from the vagrant population of 17th-Century Dutch society.

Continuing

Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
June 6 – September 16, 2009
Additional info: The Portland Art Museum, M.C. Escher
The Portland Art Museum presents an exhibition of prints, drawings and printing material by Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. The exhibition traces the development of the artist's style from early stylized landscapes to his later repeated geometric patterns, providing insight into his working process.

Marcel van der Vlugt
White Square Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
April 10 – July 10, 2009
Additional info: White Square Gallery, Marcel van der Vlugt
Work from Marcel van der Vlugt's photographic series Greetings from Beauty are included in the group exhibition “Beauty is the New Punk” at White Square Gallery in Las Vegas.

Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi
MAK Center for Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
May 21 – August 23, 2009
Additional info: MAK Center, Pages Magazine
An exhibition by Rotterdam-based Iranian artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi (collectively “Pages”) in conjunction with a 2-month residency at the MAK Center in Los Angeles as part of the Urban Future Initiative program (funded by the US Department of State).