TRY OUT Conny Janssen Danst: NEXT 2

Discover NEXT: the adventurous pop-up project by Conny Janssen Danst. For the 2nd edition, this year the challenge is for Rotterdam maker Dalton Jansen to bring urban energy to unique locations in Rotterdam and the surrounding area with seven dancers. Starting in…WORM!

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 appears in unexpected, diverse locations. After a successful collaboration in 2024, Conny Janssen Danst is happy to return to WORM in 2025 to premiere with seven dancers in a brand new choreography by Dalton Jansen!

Rotterdam maker Dalton Jansen: ambitious, passionate, committed and enterprising

The ambitious, young choreographer and enterprising maker Dalton Jansen has already won several prizes with his passionate way of working, including the BNG Dance Prize 2021, the 'VSCD Jonge Zwaan 2022' for the most impressive dance production for young people and in 2024 the Charlotte Köhler Theater Talent Prize.

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 RotterdamWest. For Theater Rotterdam, he created JAH (2024) and, in collaboration with DOX and Toneelmakerij, a contemporary adaptation of Giselle. This new collaboration with Conny Janssen Danst in NEXT #2 is a great follow-up to his successful choreographic contributions in 2020 for the talent development program DANSLOKAAL 8 and in 2023 in VERS&GERS.

'Dalton Jansen appeals to the raw and intimate in his work, unites different dance languages and juxtaposes reconciliation with distance.' Jury BNG Bank Dance Prize (2021)

'NEXT offers a stage for creativity and innovation of makers and dancers and at the same time pushes the boundaries of traditional performance locations. Presenting work at different locations and for different occasions breaks through fixed patterns, allowing makers to develop a new perspective on their work. With Dalton Jansen as choreographer of this second edition, I am convinced that the audience will be taken on a dynamic, urban dance adventure.' Conny Janssen