Photo Daavid Visnjic
About the performance
In Unearth, Jefta van Dinther brings together ten dancers in a bold and stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In his characteristic crossdisciplinary 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.
Tickets are available with entry times at 16:30, 17:30, or 18:30. You are free to decide how long you wish to stay and experience Unearth. From your chosen arrival time, you are welcome to remain until the performance concludes at 20:10. Throughout the performance, you may come and go as you wish.
Credits
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, Jefta van Dinther
Costume Cristina Nyffeler
Voice coach Doreen Kutzke
Assistant choreographer Thomas Zamolo
Artistic advice Gabriel Smeets, Maja Zimmermann
Photo & film Jubal Battisti
Unearth is a production by Jefta van Dinther
Production management Uta Engel, Romy Hansford-Gerber
Distribution Key Performance
Administration Jefta van Dinther, 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
The presentation at Dansehallerne is supported by the Goethe Institute.
About the artist
Jefta van Dinther (SE/DE)
Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterized by a rigorous physical ap- proach 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.
www.jeftavandinther.com
Practical info
Dates and times
6.9.2025, 16:30
6.9.2025, 17:30
6.9.2025, 18:30
7.9.2025, 16:30
7.9.2025, 17:30
7.9.2025, 18:30
Duration and stage
1 hour 40 minutes3 hours 40 minutes in Hallen
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V.
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
NB:
Children are welcome if they can engage calmly and quietly. We recommend the performance for ages 10 and up due to its quiet, focused nature.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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