Choreography course Normality No More in Rotterdam

Fri 10 Jan 2025

Have you always wanted to dance in a Conny Janssen Danst choreography? Are the Friday evenings in January and February 2025 (and 1 Sunday morning) still free in your agenda? Read on quickly: After the Dansmakers XL collaborations with SKVR and the successful choreography course HOME at the beginning of this dance season, Conny Janssen Danst is offering a choreography course from January 10th. This time, the newest performance Normality No More, a co-production with Via Berlin and Ragazze Quartet, is the starting point for the course. Do you have at least 3 years of dance experience and are you 16 years or older? Then this is your chance!

From Januray 10 to February 21 2025 HUIS Conny Janssen Danst offers a choreography course in which you work towards your own short version of ‘Normality No More’ in 6 rehearsals. You will work with teacher and dancer Laura Costa in the studio of Conny Janssen Danst with the dance material and the working methods of the performance. You also create your own frases and learn from the creative contributions of your fellow students. During one of the final rehearsals choreographer Davide Bellotta or Conny Janssen will prepare you for the performance evening.

Performance
You will perform the result of this choreography course on Friday evening, February 21 2025, in the theater studio of HUIS Conny Janssen Danst. You can invite your own guests to come and watch.

Visit to the premiere on December 20, 2024 in Theater Rotterdam
After registering, you will receive an opportunity to reserve a free ticket for the premiere of Normality No More on Friday, December 20, 2024 in Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg. This way, you can get to know the performance and be inspired by the dancers of Conny Janssen Danst, the acting of Dagmar Slagmolen and the music of Ragazze Quartet. You will also meet your fellow students, because we try to place you next to each other in the theatre as much as possible.

Interested

Register before December 9, 2024 and pay via the link below*
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Rehearsal dates:
Friday January 10, 2025 – 8:00-10:00 PM
Sunday January 19, 2025 – 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Friday January 24, 2025 – 8:00-10:00 PM
Friday January 31, 2025 – 8:00-10:00 PM
Friday February 7, 2025 – 8:00-10:00 PM
Friday February 14, 2025 – 7:00-9:00 PM

You will dance the performance for an audience on:
Friday evening 21 February 2025 (reserve your agenda from 17:00. Definitive times will follow later)

Location
The rehearsals and the performance will take place in the beautiful studios of
HUIS Conny Janssen Danst
Dolf Henkesplein 3, Rotterdam

Course price
235,- (incl. VAT)

* The course can only take place if the number of registrations is sufficient. You will be notified of this no later than December 13, 2024. When we need to cancel the course, your registration fee will be refunded.

Over Normality No More
What do we consider to be normal? And who decides? In Normality No More – a fusion of musical theatre, modern dance and classical music – three highly rated companies create a neurodiverse experience on stage. Boundaries between normal and strange, neurotypical and neurodiverse, spectator and participant will disappear. Where are you on the spectrum? The performance will premiere on December 20, 2024 at Theater Rotterdam and will tour theaters throughout the Netherlands from December 2024 to April 2025.

Schuberts Winterreise revisited, met choreografie van David Bellotta
The choreography in Normality No More is in the hands of Davide Bellotta, who worked as a dancer in the company for many years. Besides being a choreographer, this multi-talented artist is also musician, composer, performer and filmmaker. In this co-production, under the coaching guidance of Conny Janssen, Davide makes his debut for the main auditorium. He lets seven dancers of the company make a journey through their own inner world, just as the musicians and actress do. To break free, to free themselves and each other from prejudices, labels and stigmas. To ultimately celebrate the differences exuberantly.

© Raymond de Vries

Normality No More | Schubert’s Winterreise revisited

Conny Janssen Danst, Via Berlin & Ragazze Quartet | Tour NL

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