At center stage, a short runway under bright light - six people standing around batteries of various tools. With such a "picture" start speaking "Hague drums» (Slagwerk Den Haag) - one of the most prestigious European ensembles. Since its inception in 1977, they gradually realized their fundamental program: play acutely contemporary works and to expand the horizons of the sound of percussion instruments.
 
Innovative ideas in their work can live together with the desire to bring to the music they play, as can be greater and more diverse audience, from avant-garde to experienced connoisseurs of youth who were interested in something unusual. Program "Hague shock" include and elaborate pieces of music luminaries such modern and contemporary music, as Mauricio Kagel, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Steve Reich, and interactive action, involving the audience in the action. House music audience also expects this number - "Music for applause," which starts in earnest audience heats it makes more urgent to catch waves of rhythmic energy coming from the stage, to feel a variety of designs, they feel almost ritual power.
 
The ensemble performed with great success in almost all European countries, the USA, the Middle and Far East. He actively collaborates with other musical groups, dance troupes, theaters, is involved in visual art projects. Contemporary composers willingly trusted musicians premieres of his works created specifically based on their tools and skills honed "Hague strikers."