Programme

Jefta van Dinther

Dark Field Analysis

Part of “A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction”

Duration 55 mins.

What makes us human? “Dark Field Analysis” delves deep into the essence of life – a captivating performance between two bodies in diffuse light, exploring existential questions in an intense atmosphere.

“Using the good old simple stage tools of light, music and body, van Dinther blurs contours, dissolves boundaries and creates a new world.” (Frank Schmid, kulturradio rbb)

What gives life its intensity? And what ultimately distinguishes humans from other forms of life? “Dark Field Analysis”, which draws its title from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to analyse blood, unfolds like an existentialist fever dream. Immersed in diffuse light, two men engage in an increasingly gripping and uncompromising exchange about the essence of humanity. Set against a soundtrack inspired by PJ Harvey songs and grasping the theme of blood as an analogy for looking both inwards and outwards, both into and beyond the self, the performance resolutely places human life, stripped bare of all its self-protective and deceptive facades, under the microscope.

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  • Cast

    Choreography & direction

    Jefta van Dinther

    Creation & performance

    Juan Pablo Cámara & Roger Sala Reyner

    Lighting design

    Minna Tiikkainen

    Scenography

    Cristina Nyffeler

    Sound design

    David Kiers with songs based on the tracks “The Slow Drug” and “Horses in my Dreams” by PJ Harvey

    Text

    Jefta van Dinther, Juan Pablo Cámara & Roger Sala Reyner

    Assistance choreography

    Thiago Granato

    Artistic advice

    Gabriel Smeets & Felix Bethge van Dinther

    Technical coordination

    Bennert Vancottem

    Art Direction

    Martin Falck

    Management

    Sven Neumann

    Dramaturgy

    Gabriel Smeets

    Distribution

    Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS

    Production management

    Uta Engel & Romy Hansford-Gerber

    Financial management

    transmissions GmbH

  • Credits

    This performance contains scenes that might be interpreted to depict physical and psychological violence. There is a moment of complete darkness.

Further Information

Visitor note

Production: Jefta van Dinther. Administration: Interim kultur AB (svb). Co-production: Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London, PACT Zollverein Essen, Centro Cultural Vila Flor Guimaraes, Dansens Hus Oslo. Funded by: Swedish Arts Council, City of Stockholm, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Co-production Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag. Supported by: O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo, BUDA Kortrijk, The Swedish National Touring Theatre.

 

Dates of production

  • Re-run

    Sun 16.11.

    from 20:00 HAU2

  • Re-run

    Mon 17.11.

    from 20:00 HAU2

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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