After a wonderful collaboration on location in 2014 and 2017, two Rotterdam icons from the performing arts – Conny Janssen Danst and Sinfonia Rotterdam – will enter the theatre together again in 2025. This time for a music and dance interpretation of Górecki’s charged Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
Solo soprano Ewa Tracz performs a triptych of emotional songs about motherly love, despair and sorrow. During the last part of this orchestral masterpiece you will experience a special choreography by Conny Janssen Danst, which gives all the emotion, drama and beauty of Górecki’s symphony an extra dimension.
The origins of this choreography lies in Conny Janssen’s performance Oktober (1999), of which a special version was created for TV in the same year, in close collaboration with filmmaker Jellie Dekker. In Sorrowful Songs, last performed in 2008 in the anniversary performance ‘PARELS’, Conny Janssen abstracted the existing material; reduced it to the essence of dance: pure dance movements.