Fear Me - Theater Rotterdam | Dalton Jansen

Dans & ballet

No Dutch Required

Fear is not a whisper, it is a force. It settles in muscles, in breath, in the nervous system until movement stops. Till time lingers while everything goes on. Until everything is too much and too empty at the same time.

Fear Me is a performance based on personal urgency. About what happens in a body when tension builds up. About not knowing. About the area where light does not provide security and darkness sometimes becomes protection.

Fear Me does not romanticize fear. It shows the exhaustion. The battle for control. But also the power that arises when you keep moving, even when everything in you tells you to stop.

Fear Me is a raw performance. There is one actor and two dancers on stage. Together they move between panic and hope, between stillness and explosion, between keeping a grip and letting go. They do not look for explanations, but for sensations. To lightness in the heavy and to weight in what seems bright.

In a powerful urban contemporary dance language, a physical dialogue arises, in which bodies speak where language fails. The tension is palpable, direct and unfiltered. The performance does not follow a linear story, but shows an accumulation of moments. Of rupture, of resistance, of recovery.

No safe distance.
No answer.

A breath in the dark.
A step towards the light,
without knowing
if it will be able to carry you.

Standing still is not an option.