Jefta van Dinther (SE)

In «Unearth», Jefta van Dinther brings together nine dancers in a bold and stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In his characteristic cross-disciplinary style, 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. 

Artist / Company Bio

Jefta van Dinther graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003. He teaches choreography at various international centers and educational programs and was an Associated Artist with the Swedish company Cullberg between 2019-2022. In 2022 he premiered Unearth during the festival Tanz im August in Berlin. His most recent performance REMACHINE, premiered in September 2023. Currently on tour are also Dark Field Analysis and the diptych On Earth I’m Done. His work is characterised by a rigorous physical approach and always implies a staged research of movement itself. 

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