Fear Me

You love the people around you. You want to take care of them, protect them, and never lose them. But what if that very love triggers fear? What if the thought that something might happen to them keeps coming back, no matter how much you want to push it a af ?

In FEAR ME, choreographer Dalton Jansen takes you into a world where love and fear collide. Bodies brace themselves, movements freeze, and pent-up tension suddenly erupts. Dance, text, music, and silence make you feel how the fear of losing someone can take over more and more. What begins as the need to keep someone close becomes a battle with thoughts that cannot be stopped.

Drawing on his personal experiences with anxiety and OCD, Dalton explores how those thoughts affect his relationships and his role as a father. How do you care for the people you love when you constantly fear that something will happen to them? Where does protection end and control begin? And how do you come to terms with the fact that you can’t prevent everything?

FEAR ME is a raw, physical theater experience about protecting and letting go. About what fear does to love. And about learning to live with the uncertainty that is an inevitable part of loving.

The media about his earlier performance JAH!
"How do you shape the rastafarian culture of 'we' instead of 'I'? In JAH! by Dalton Jansen, five dancers show that in stunningly powerful scenes." (de Volkskrant ★★★★)

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• Please note: FEAR ME deals with anxiety, panic, OCD, and unwanted, intrusive thoughts. The performance also addresses self-harm and suicide. The performance depicts mental and physical tension in an intense way and may therefore be perceived as confrontational.

  Would you like to know more about the content of the performance in advance? Please contact Theater Rotterdam at angelique.vanbeckhoven@theaterrotterdam.nl