Jefta van Dinther (Sweden / Germany) – UNEARTH

Duration: 3 h. 40 min.

ATTENTION. Entry to the performance is possible at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. – the duration of the viewing is unlimited.

Recommended age: 8+

In Unearth, Jefta van Dinther brings together ten dancers in a bold and stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In his characteristic cross-disciplinary style, which catalogues his extensive repertoire on human behaviour and its linked ecologies, van Dinther breaks down our impetus to feel anew — time and again.

Centered around our human drive to revive and yearning to relive, Unearth lays bare the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness.

In this durational work, the audience is summoned into the intensity of repetition and to linger in the sweetness of introspection. Unearth digs into the body as material, whilst exposing both social and spiritual constructs of kinship, purpose and mortality.

Jefta van Dinther (SE/DE) is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach and always implies a staged research of movement itself. The moving body is the core of his practice but belongs to and interacts with a body of light, sound and materials. Central in his work is the question of what it means to be human, examined through its relation to society, community and environment but also to other forms of life such as the animal and other non-human entities.

Jefta’s performances reach out into metaphysical or otherworldly realms and deal with notions of illusion, the visible and the invisible, synaesthesia, darkness, labour, sex, the uncanny, affect, voice and image.

Choreography: Jefta van Dinther

Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Juan Pablo Camara, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Dana Pajarillaga, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, Sarah Stanley, Thomas Zamolo and Jefta van Dinther

Costume: Cristina Nyffeler

Voice coach: Doreen Kutzke

Assistant choreographer: Thomas Zamolo

Artistic advice: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann

Photo & film: Jubal Battisti

Unearth is a production by Jefta van Dinther

Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber

Distribution: Key Performance

Administration: Jefta van Dinther (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE)

Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå

Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin

Jefta van Dinther is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin and Swedish Arts Council.

Premiere: August 13th, 2022, Tanz im August festival, Berlin, Germany.

Website: www.jeftavandinther.com

Instagram: @jeftavandinther

Facebook: @JeftavanDinther

Photos and video by Jubal Battisti.