(OLD)Fashion(ed) Exhibition Opening & Stroop premiere

(OLD)Fashion(ed) exhibition at Museum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht opened this evening. The opening featured premiere of  the performance 'Stroop', created by Project Sally and designer Sabine Staartjes. For this project they where connected to the craft of syrup, and in particular collaborated with Canisius company.

(OLD)Fashion(ed) is a collaboration with FASHIONCLASH, Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) and Museum aan het Vrijthof.

Four choreographers, four fashion designers were inspired by crafts like metal shaping, papermaking, wheat weaving and syrup making. They created four danced fashion shows or four fashionable dance works, with untrained dancers between the ages of 63 and 80. The project started of with its first presentations during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014.

At Museum aan het Vrijthof you can also visit the exhibition (OLD)Fashion(ed), which will have its festive opening on 21 September and run until 16 November.
More informatiomn about the exhibition: http://www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl/page_nieuws.aspx?id=598

During the Dutch Dance Festival in Maastricht all four performances of (OLD)Fashion(ed) will be performed. Two of the performances will be shown in the Toneelacademie, and the other two in the monumental Museum aan het Vrijthof during the Dutch Dance Festival (October 3 -5). You can buy a combination ticket that allows you to see all the performances, on the time of your choice -> here

(OLD)Fashion(ed) Participants 
- Dunja Jocic (choreographer), Romy van Eijk (designer) & Ben van Berlo (crafts man)
- Dario Tortorelli (choreographer), Anke Huyben (designer) & Leo Hoegen (crafts man)
- Andrea Leine(choreographer), Linda Friesen (designer) & Ingrid Reinhoud (crafts woman)
- Ronald Wintjes (Project Sally), Sabine Staartjes (designer) & syrup makers craftsmen

More information about the project: http://fashionclash.nl/oldfashioned/

Images of the performance Stroop and exhibtion.
All images in courtesy of FASHIONCLASH.

FASHIONCLASH at FEE Academy Finals

Last weekend FEE Academy Finals took place at hotel Merici in Sittard.
The jury panel, consisted of Kiki Niesten, Hadewych Minis, Chequita Nahar, Garderone +, FASHIONCLASH, had a very tough task to choose three winners out of eight talents.

Congratulations to FEE Academy winners: Jet Teunis, Mirte Engelhard & Ine de Haes.

Among the eight finalists there where several FASHIONCLASH Festival participants like Jolka Wiens, Joelle Boers, Sabine Staartjes and one of the winner Arhnem based designer Mirte Engelhard who participated at FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2012 in collaboration with Nikki Giling.

More pictures at BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG

FEE Academy Expo & Participants

FEE Academy has selected eight designers who will compete against other to become one of the FEE Academy participants. 

On January 25 there (from 2 pm) is an exposition opening at FEE Concept Store in Sittard. After the exposition that will be open until February 8th a professional jury panel will select the 3 most promising  designers to enter the FEE Academy.

The jury panel team consists of Kiki Niesten, Hadewych Minis, ABK Maastricht and FASHIONCLASH.

FEE Academy presents:
Kavita Bachasingh, Jolka Wiens, Sabine Staartjes, Joelle Boers, Mirte Engelhard, Jet Teunis, Lieselotte Noordover, Ine de Haes


FEE Academy is an initiative by Fee Concept Store + Cafe: http://fee-conceptstore.nl

Documentary Project ‘VerWeven’ by Nina Willems

Please introduce yourself to our readers. (Who are you, where do you come from and what is your field of specialization?)
My name is Nina Willems, I’m from Utrecht and I studied Theatre Performance at the Toneelacademie in Maastricht.

What inspires you in general?
I’m very inspired by the work of visual artists like Mark Rothko, James Turrel and Bill Viola. In theatre performance, I think Kris Verdonck and Dries Verhoeven are very inspiring artists.