Fear Me
Dalton Jansen/Theater Rotterdam/Coproducers

Fear is not a whisper; it is a force. It settles into muscles, into breath, into the nervous system until movement stalls. Until time stands still while everything keeps going. Until everything is simultaneously too much and too empty.
Fear Me is a performance born from personal urgency. About what happens in a body when tension becomes fixed. About not knowing. About the space where light offers no certainty and darkness sometimes becomes shelter. Fear is not romanticised here. Instead, the performance shows the exhaustion. The struggle for control. But also the strength that emerges when you keep moving, even when everything inside you says stop.
In a powerful urban contemporary dance language, a physical dialogue unfolds between the performers, in which bodies speak where words fall short. The tension is palpable, direct and unfiltered. The performance follows no linear narrative, but presents an accumulation of moments, of rupture, of resistance, of recovery.
Credits
Director & choreographer Dalton Jansen Supervising director Anne Maike Mertens Concept development Dalton Jansen, Anne Maike Mertens, Gerleen Balstra Dance dramaturgy Gerleen Balstra Composer Tom van Wee Lightdesign Jasper Nijholt Costume design Odair Pereira, Dalton Jansen











