Conny Janssen Danst provides opportunities for young talent through DANSLOKAAL, the talent development project where young artists are invited to develop new work together with the dancers of Conny Janssen Danst. In its annual DANSLOKAAL the dance company opens its doors to a varied group of creative artists.
For each event artistic director Conny Janssen selects promising choreographers with diverse backgrounds in collaboration with Dansateliers and Korzo. The contributors to DANSLOKAAL 12 are:
- Bas van der Kruk (Dansateliers)
- Sarada Sarita (Korzo)
- Charlie Skuy (Conny Janssen Danst)
In DANSLOKAAL they get the opportunity to work on the development of their own signature within the professional context of the company. The result is a surprising dance evening with three new pieces, created for and with the dancers of Conny Janssen Danst.
Sarada Sarita (Korzo) – EDIFY US
In our deepest, darkest, most broken states – when everything is lost – how do we build ourselves and each other up?
What is our inner light and how do we shine, empower and (de)construct ourselves and society, facing complex structures of beliefs?
EDIFY US is a homage to our leaders, teachers, guides and ancestors who enlighten us. And also to all those who get lost in the darkness along the way.
How do you perceive the other… yourself? What do you see? What do others see in you? What do you want to see?
I JUST DON’T SEE IT is toying with expectations. In the course of three chapters, we see the dancers posing, projecting and playing with egos, vulnerability and honesty. And a touch of vanity. For, let us be honest: aren’t we all a bit vain?
Charlie Skuy (Conny Janssen Danst) – MEISJE
What if the pastoral and idyllic life was a lie?
Perhaps there is a secret realm shared among Amsterdamse city girls, one of unity, disorder, and intoxication. A psychomagic dance of witches.
Bathing in oat milk, the ecstasy of fitting in.
The frameworks within which the choreographers have to work are by definition limited and it depends on the choreographer in question whether he or she sees this as a challenge or limitation and that is exactly what makes this initiative worthwhile. Theaterkrant (in 2023 about DANSLOKAAL 11)
Dansateliers en Korzo are the creative partners of DANSLOKAAL 12.