Conny Janssen Danst - NEXT #2

NEXT is Conny Janssen Danst's newest and perhaps most adventurous project since 2024. The new initiative offers a talented choreographer the opportunity to create a compact production with the company's dancers every year. NEXT is a performance with urban energy that pops up in unexpected, diverse locations. In 2025, you can see NEXT in Rotterdam in Worm and HUIS Conny Janssen Danst, but also on the campus of Erasmus University and in the richly decorated Grote of Sint Janskerk in Schiedam.

Dalton Jansen

For this second edition of NEXT, Rotterdam's Dalton Jansen will take on the challenge of developing new work with seven dancers and taking it into the city. The ambitious, young choreographer and enterprising maker has already won several awards for his passionate way of working, including the BNG Dance Award 2021, the 'VSCD Jonge Zwaan 2022' for the most impressive dance production for young people and in 2024 the Charlotte Köhler Theater Talent Award.

Dalton's choreographies are at the intersection of hip hop and contemporary and always highlight current social themes. In 2021 he founded his own dance company BLACK BIRDS in Rotterdam-West. For Theater Rotterdam he made JAH (2024) and in collaboration with DOX and Toneelmakerij a current adaptation of Giselle.

This new collaboration with Conny Janssen Danst in NEXT #2 is a wonderful follow-up to his successful choreographic contributions in 2020 for the talent development program DANSLOKAAL 8 and in 2023 in VERS&GERS.