Programme

Jefta van Dinther

Unearth

Part of Berlin Art Week

Part of “A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction – A Retrospective by Jefta van Dinther”

Duration 225 mins.

The highlight from Tanz im August 2022 returns to HAU! Jefta van Dinther and ten dancers explore the desire to relive the past in a reduced choreography. The intensity of repetition casts a spell over the audience and invites introspective leisure.

Berlin-based choreographer Jefta van Dinther breaks down our human drive to revive and the yearning to relive in a stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In this durational performance, ten dancers uncover the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness. The audience is summoned into the intensity of repetition and invited to linger in the sweetness of introspection. “Unearth” digs into the body as material, while exposing both social and spiritual constructs of kinship, purpose and mortality.

“Unearth” celebrated its premiere as part of Tanz im August 2022. The return of the work marks the start of “A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction”, a retrospective of Jefta van Dinther's work in November at HAU1 and HAU2, in which selected works by the choreographer and dancer since 2010 will be presented.

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  • Cast

    Choreography

    Jefta van Dinther

    By & with

    Brittanie Brown, Juan Pablo Camara, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, Sarah Stanley, Jefta van Dinther

    Costumes

    Cristina Nyffeler

    Voice coach

    Doreen Kutzke

    Choreography assistance

    Thomas Zamolo

    Artistic advice

    Gabriel Smeets, Maja Zimmermann

    Photo & film

    Jubal Battisti

    Management

    Sven Neumann

    Distribution

    Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS

    Production management

    Uta Engel, Romy Hansford-Gerber

    Administration

    transmissions GmbH (DE), Interim kultur AB (SE)

  • Credits

Further Information

Visitor note

Production: Jefta van Dinther. Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. In 2022 Jefta van Dinther was funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, with the support of the Federal States and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Swedish Arts Council. The re-run is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. In cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth.

Notes:

Starting with the beginning time of your individual ticket slot, admission is possible at any time and the duration of your stay can be freely determined. The audience area is unseated, therefore you can move freely in the space.

Dates of production

Location

St. Elisabeth-Kirche
Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin

The St. Elisabeth Kirche is accessible via a wheelchair ramp on the right-hand side. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor of Villa Elisabeth.

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