JEFTA VAN DINTHER

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

Jefta van Dinther (Sweden/Germany) is a choreographer and dancer. With an extensive repertoire, his work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach and always involves a stage exploration of movement itself. The body in action is the core of the practice, but it belongs to and interacts with a body of light, sound and materials. Van Dinther’s performances delve into metaphysical or otherworldly realms and address notions such as illusion, the visible and the invisible, synesthesia, darkness, work, sex, the unusual, affection, 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 Zaolo / Artistic advice Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann / Photo & film Jubal Battisti
Production Jefta van Dinther / Production management Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber / Distribution Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS / Administration Jefta van Dinther (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE) / Coproduction 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