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Exciting location dance performance at the Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek | Rotterdam

In So Here We Are Conny Janssen goes back to the roots of her city. She accomplishes

this by leaving the theatre behind in her search for a location that is characteristic of

Rotterdam – connecting the past, the present and the future of this Dutch metropolis. All

these characteristics are found in the Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek. The enormous space of

the factory’s former distribution centre and the music played by fifteen musicians of the

Ensemble van het Rotterdams Conservatorium, conducted by Carlo Balemans, moves

Conny Janssen and her dancers into a spectacular, multidisciplinary dance event.

A liaison between raw sturdiness and the supple virtuoso language of dance.

So Here We Are is the third episode in a series of performances themed ‘The City’. This

production, performed in one of the most striking historical buildings of Rotterdam,

was specially made for Rotterdam 2007, the year Rotterdam was European City of

Architecture.

‘First prize for beautiful dance performance Conny Janssen’ - Volkskrant

‘Conny Janssen has the powerful ability to give pure dance a human touch’ - Trouw

‘Janssen shows great inventions in manoeuvring her dancers in formations in clever

counterpoints of the space.’ - Dance Europe

‘Johnny Cash singing ‘pain is the only thing that is real’ cuts me to the soul’

- NRC Handelsblad

So here we are