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A radical reimagining of Nijinsky’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, told from the perspective of the nymph rather than the faun. Seven dancers and a recomposed Debussy score by Jonathan Bonny explore power, identity, and perception. At Theater Rotterdam I ran the show as FOH engineer on an Allen & Heath SQ5, and mixed the performance to a standing ovation.

There’s a moment during the Amsterdam 750 finale where Edsilia Rombley’s voice filled the cathedral-sized tent on Museumplein, but she wasn’t there. The video feed cut to her standing on top of the Johan Cruijff Arena, singing live, her voice soaring across the city through our systems. For once, I wasn’t listening critically, wasn’t mentally adjusting frequencies or worrying about latency. Just goosebumps. The voice, the presence, the audacity of the production - it all just worked. Sounded and looked terrific.

Fourteen speakers, one afternoon, and the delicate dance of fitting headset microphones in Cinema 1 of the Eye Filmmuseum. The European Foodservice Summit brought restaurant leaders from across Europe together for a day of insights into the future of hospitality.

This fall, I’m hitting the road, not with the usual synth-loaded DJ or a rock band, but with the iconic rabbit herself—Miffy!