NEXT | The Error of Being

With The Error of Being, Conny Janssen Danst presents a new choreography this spring by Vietnamese-Dutch maker Tú Hoàng. The performance is part of NEXT, the company’s travelling pop-up project, and can be seen in May and June 2026 at unexpected locations — from the city square at Museum Fenix to a parking deck behind the Weena in Rotterdam, and from Korzo in The Hague to the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

NEXT is the adventurous initiative of Conny Janssen Danst, offering a talented mid-career choreographer the opportunity each year to create a compact site-specific production with the company’s dancers. With this travelling programme, the company breaks through the boundaries of traditional theatre spaces. In addition to the premiere on Thursday 7 May at Plein Fenix in Katendrecht, the performance will also appear in Rotterdam during the festivals Motel Mozaïque and Rotterdamse Dakendagen, on the Erasmus University Rotterdam campus, and in HUIS Conny Janssen Danst. After that, the dancers continue on to Korzo in The Hague and the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre in Amsterdam.

Artistic director Conny Janssen:

“NEXT offers a platform for the creativity and innovation of makers and dancers, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of traditional performance spaces. Presenting work in different locations disrupts fixed patterns, allowing makers to develop a new perspective on their work.”

The beauty of wavering, doubting, and breaking
Through powerful, rhythmic movement, Tú Hoàng explores what makes us human in a time when control, speed, and perfection seem to be the norm. Five dancers move almost mechanically, until emotion inevitably breaks through. Hoàng’s hybrid dance language — merging Eastern philosophy, urban styles, and contemporary dance — gains extra resonance through an industrial musical soundscape and the energy of the chosen performance sites. The Error of Being reveals the beauty of wavering, doubting, and breaking — precisely where humanity becomes visible.