2023.09.10
Dark Field Analysis l @unlockdancingplaza
Dance Plaza / WestKowloon, Hong Kong
2023.09.16-17
Dark Field Analysis draws its name from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to diagnose systemic bodily conditions originating in the blood. But the conversation between the two men encompasses more than medical facts. Here, blood serves as an analogy for looking inwards and outwards: Into and beyond ourselves. Tickets via https://unlock.com.hk/dc23/en/dark-field-analysis.html
2023.09.03
[NODE] | Open studio at DIORAMA
Emilie Gregersen presents work in progress showing at DIORAMA, Berlin
7th of September at 6PM
Developed during the [LINK] mentorship with choreographic mentor Jefta van Dinther, Gregersen presents an open studio preview event. Drawing inspiration from the trickster —a character known for breaking norms and fluidly shifting shape — Gregersen playfully works with the disruption of conventions, infused with a touch of humor, tricks, and drama. The boundaries between the personal and the fictional, the intimate and the artificial, seamlessly merge, creating a space filled with tension and suspense.
The event is free and no need to register.
Phtotography ©Cruz Proxy
2023.09.01
Remachine | Opening tonight!
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
“In life, we often feel as if we are both autonomous beings making choices and cogs in a system, governed by greater worldly forces. Remachine stages this inner friction, a space of limbo.” - Jefta van Dinther
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography and @adammunnings edited by @rhyspll
2023.08.29
Remachine | Premiere
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
Remachine explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment.
At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet.
The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect. In a cascade of both worldly and otherworldly forces, a dance between constraint and liberty, labour and ritual, emerges as a contradictory state of contemporaneity.
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography and @adammunnings edited by @rhyspll
2023.08.29
Remachine | Premiere
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
In a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material Remachine draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
2023.08.29
[SITU] RESIDENCY
[SITU] focusses on the geographic space where work is executed in order to realise new POTENTIALS of a community of practitioners and their future artistic goals. [SITU] enables access and use of the Diorama studio and its technical resources via two avenues. Within the framework of this format, artists, affiliated with the company, will be given the opportunity of 1-3 week residencies, during which they have full and sole access to the studio. Functioning as an exchange program, the [SITU] residencies offer the use of the Diorama studio and its resources, free of charge in exchange for participation and contribution to the other studio formats.
2023.08.29
[SITU] RESIDENCY | Stina Ehn
We are pleased to announce that Stina Ehn will be taking part in a residency at Diorama in Berlin in coordination with dans centrum stockholm.
Stina Ehn is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her work is based on experimental methods where making and analysing inform each other. The two week studio residency will support her work and research which explores the relations and problems between image and materiality by experimenting with dances that scratches, mimic or surrender to its surrounding.
#dioramaberlin @stina__eh @dcsthlm#danscentrumstockholm
Photography: @stina__eh
2023.08.25
[SITU] RESIDENCY | Hannah Schillinger
We would like to thank choreographer Hannah Schillinger for her contributions to Diorama and the studio ecology during her residency in July this year, which centred around an initiation of new work and community. Additionally, Hannah hosted an [VOLTA] Open class, together with Anna Nowicka @adreamwork, available free to the public.
Learn more about the upcoming studio calendar and its practitioners on the website.
[VOLTA] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland
Photography: @hannah.schillinger
[LINK] | CALL-OUT - Mentorship in Choreography
November 2023 – September 2024
What / [LINK] is a Mentorship Program in Artistic Practice taking place in the context of choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s choreographic projects. [LINK] enables an individual interested in choreography to be coupled with the choreographer and mentor Jefta van Dinther and dramaturg and supervisor Maja Zimmermann, for the duration of a creative process of one production. During the program a unique, paid opportunity will be granted to an artist, along with access to the studio Diorama and its resources.
For more info about how to apply click HERE
[LINK] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2023.08.04
Unearth | Munich
W/ joint_adventures_
“In the new Unearth, Van Dinther is part of the cast of eight dancers who take the space of the W139 Gallery in the middle of the bustle of Amsterdam's red light district, and for four hours invites us to witness a ritual that touches on lament. The public is free to enter and leave whenever they wish during this long period of time, however, the work traps in such a way that it becomes difficult to get away from this world created with voices and bodies, coupled in such a way that is really hypnotizing.“
— MARÍA INÉS VILLASMIL
Amsterdam, 23 July, 2023
Tickets available via @joint_adventures_
2023.08.01
[NODE] Open Studio | Remachine
We would like to thank those who visited and contributed during the Remachine process. We look forward to hosting the format in the studio again later this year.
Click HERE to learn more about the Diorama studio and upcoming events
Functioning as an open studio preview event, [NODE] is held during various stages of the production processes. This format grants opportunities for the artistic community as well as other audiences to get a glimpse of the studio practice and what is in store for upcoming work, giving audiences the possibility to influence the work in progress.
[NODE] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2023.07.12
Unearth | Munich @ freiheitshalle 5th & 6th AUG
Thank you @julidans_amsterdam! Next stop München for #tanzwerkstatteuropa @joint_adventures_
In „Unearth“ bringt Jefta van Dinther zehn Tänzer*innen in einer kraftvollen und reduzierten Choreografie aus Körper und Stimme zusammen. Im Mittelpunkt steht der menschliche Drang nach Wiederbelebung und die Sehnsucht, etwas neu zu erleben. „Unearth“ erforscht die grenzenlose geistige und physische Schaffenskraft des Körpers als Material. Dabei legt die Arbeit soziale und spirituelle Konstruktionen von Verwandtschaft, Bestimmung und Sterblichkeit frei. Das Publikum ist aufgefordert, sich auf die Intensität der Wiederholung einzulassen und in der Süße der Selbstreflexion zu verweilen. Stimme und Tanz lösen Erinnerungsfragmente und machen Gefühle der Verbundenheit erfahrbar.
Tickets available via @joint_adventures_
2023.07.10
Unearth | Julidans Amsterdam @ Gallery W139 10th & 11th JUL
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.
The title Unearth refers to something not of this earth. With this title, Van Dinther highlights the central theme of his work in recent years: the technologisation of the world we live in. Which was meant to serve us, but instead has come to govern our lives. "Jefta van Dinther once again succeeds in portraying humans as aliens and temporary guests on this earth," a reviewer wrote following the premiere.
Tickets available via @julidans_amsterdam
2023.06.28
Unearth | Julidans Amsterdam @ Gallery W139 10th & 11th JUL
“With Unearth, van Dinther invites the audience to an introspective journey. Using only movement and voice, the four-hour dance event at W139 arts centre in the heart of Amsterdam offers one big, propulsive trance experience.
The dancers turn their bodies inside out and expose deep-rooted feelings about social kinship, life and mortality. Stripped of theatrical elements such as lighting, music and scenography, the performance stages the capacities and incapacities of human beings in their purest form.” - Julidans
Tickets available via @julidans_amsterdam
2023.05.27
Remachine | Umeå Residency at NorrlandsOperan
Goodbye for now Umeå!
We would like to extend thanks to the amazing team at @norrlandsoperan who have been great coworkers during this residency period of Remachine. We look forward to returning for our last block of rehearsals in August and premiere season in September.
2023.05.27
Remachine | Umeå Residency at NorrlandsOperan
Spring has sprung in Umeå and Remachine has arrived to the @norrlandsoperan BIG stage ❤️🔥
We look forward to diving into this creation process with our team and for what’s in stall.
2023.05.11
Diorama | Berlin studio Opening
We would like to extend a warm thanks to everyone who came and celebrated the opening of the studio Diorama in Berlin. It was a pivotal moment for us and we look forward to having you all back again and a part of the future actions the studio brings.
Diorama 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
2023.04.29
[VOLTA] class with Tomislav Feller at Diorama
Tomislav Feller (CRO) is a choreographer, performer and educator based in Amsterdam. Tomislav is a guest teacher at a visual art master program Sandberg and SNDO choreography school where he gives workshops, movement research classes and advises students in their creative processes. His practice is focused on the notion of heightened listening, framing performativity by witnessing and re-imagining the body as a landscape of charged images. Tomislav is a certified Gyrokinesis trainer and practitioner, often sharing his experience in a form of classes and workshops.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.04.18
[VOLTA] classes with Rachell Clark at Diorama
[VOLTA] classes kick off at Diorama next week. Hosted by @rachellbo teaching Vinyasa Yoga. More information on how you can sign up for these classes on the website (link in bio).
**All classes are free of charge**
Rachell Clark is a Berlin based dancer and teacher. Her curiosity in Yoga came from a search to find a practice that richly supplements the dancing body and since completing her Ashtanga + Vinyasa Yoga training at Samyak Yoga School in Kovalam India, Rachell continues to rigorously practice and educate herself. The combination of both dance and yoga has brought her to a deeper understanding of movement and functionalities of the body, and the power of mobilising the breath. Rachell is motivated by the connective possibilities of yoga and the community it builds.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.03.23
On Earth I’m Done | Islands at tanzquartierwien in Vienna
23-25 MAR
In On Earth I’m Done: Islands, the audience is transported to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. Orbiting the conflicts of beauty and danger, existence must be rebuilt from scratch and living learnt anew. Elementary logics and irregular intelligences are being reborn; life passes between mineral, vegetal, animal, human and machinic forms. Islands is a performance which imagines an alternate order of organization, a state of exception, quarantined from the natural world. Here, replication becomes a mode of survival and dancing a weapon.
2023.01.20
[VOLTA] classes with Leah Katz at Diorama
Hosted by @leaaaahkatz teaching Vinyasa Yoga. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio.
Leah is a lover of movement in all of its glorious forms. Through her work as a dancer, she discovered yoga initially as an enhancement to her existing training. In many ways it has since become the basis of her approach to understanding and activating the body and the mind. She has fallen more in love with the practice the deeper she explores. Following a creative and flowing technique of Vinyasa yoga, there is a focus on safe and optimal alignment, exploring sensation, and bringing awareness to the body's infinite possibilities.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.02.16
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands by Cullberg
17-18.02 at Teatro Canal, Sevilla Spain
‚In On Earth I’m Done, the audience is transported to a place where all sense of space and time has vanished: a creation story and a post-apocalyptic search for humanity. Swedish-Dutch choreographer Jefta van Dinther creates hallucinatory performances in extremely tight design and an ultra-physical, energetic dance style... On Earth I’m Done is an „archaic-futuristic“ diptych that consists of the solo Mountains and Islands, a group work for thirteen dancers, made for and by the Swedish company Cullberg to which Van Dinther has been connected as an artist since 2013. Mountains and Islands are both geographical references, the performances leading the viewer through landscapes full of dark, hallucinatory images in a conceptual performance about transformation.‘
— Theaterkrant
2023.02.13
[LINK] | Emilie Gregersen - Mentorship in Choreography
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the recipient of this year’s [LINK] mentorship in Choreography as Emilie Gregersen who will be under supervision of the mentor and choreographer Jefta van Dinther and dramaturg Maja Zimmermann.
Emilie (they/she) is an artist and choreographer born in Denmark and is recently based in Berlin. Emilie is co-founder of Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen - an artist-run platform and studio with focus on feminist, intersectional and artistic practices, currently run by 15 performing artists. Emilie holds a degree in dance and choreography from The Danish School of Performing Arts and has since 2018 produced her own works. Currently, Emilie is working on a performance series based on concepts of touch, consisting of the solo Touch (2020), the duet Caresses (2021) and the upcoming piece On My Tongue. As a performer and dancer Emilie has been working with Sergiu Matis, Marie Topp, Tina Tarpgaard, Andros Zins-Browne and BADco among others.
Head HERE find out more about Emilie’s practice and the LINK mentorship.
2023.02.11
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains by Cullberg | Tomorrow at Zodiak, Helsinki
In Mountains, Van Dinther tackles the question of how to be and stay in love with our ever-changing world. Through an expulsion of words, both familiar and foreign, the performer on stage acts as a conduit, lamenting on behalf of others. Their being unravels in the nexus between the physical, biological and anthropological – between gravitational forces, instinct and desire.
"Mountains is relentless in its form. Without depicting anything concrete tangible, the work listens to urges, longings, fears and suspicions that vibrate beneath the surface of homo sapiens - our fragile relationship with a world that constantly risks slipping out of our hands. It is a journey into the unknown interior - in search of a (spiritual) core - that stuns, captures and fascinates." – Svenska Dagbladet
In Helsinki the work is performed by dancer Marco da Silva Ferreira.
Image:©Urban Jören.
2023.02.10
[LINK] mentorship in Costume Design | Lena Böckmann
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the recipient of this year’s [LINK] mentorship in Costume Design as Lena Böckmann. Lena will be under supervision of the mentor and costume designer Cristina Nyffeler, dramaturg Maja Zimmermann and choreographer Jefta van Dinther.
Lena Böckmann is a costume designer and performer, working mainly within performing arts with a distinct focus in robotics. Coming from practical backgrounds of costume design and physical computing, her work is a playful hybrid of these two worlds. Her practice sees experiments between costume, e-textiles, wearable objects and robot scenography, allowing her to dive deeper into the digital arts and object centered theatre. She investigates these approaches sensually, via touching, hearing, feeling, smelling, thinking, crafting, dreaming and discourse; such themes that are inherently human and centric to her research in sci-fi, feel-fi and touch-fi.
Head HERE find out more about Lena’s practice and the LINK mentorship program.
Image:©Dorothea Tuch
2023.01.20
Leonce und Lena | Directed by Ulrich Rasche
Premiere at Deutsches Theatre Berlin
In connection with Büchner's pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote (The Hessian Courierr) and in a first-time collaboration with choreographer Jefta van Dinther, director Ulrich Rasche examines the comedy Leonce und Lena (1836) for its political content: as a fundamental social analysis and radical critique of the self-reference and ignorance of the ruling class. While she holds all the levers in her hand to change social conditions in favour of the exploited, she excuses her inaction with the hopelessness of personal action, the impossibility of influencing the world and the fundamental lostness in the universe.
Find out more HERE
Photography ©Arno Declair
2022.11.23
[VOLTA] classes | Voice training by Johanna Peine
In the voice training of Johanna Peine, we focus on the voice and its development. During evolution, the vocal organ has gone through vast changes. The evolution of the voice was always associated with new patterns of movement. Here we look to sharpen this understanding to better connect the voice, body, breath, movement and artistic purpose.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther@DIORAMA @Johannapeine
photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
VENUE | DIORAMA, Hauptstraße 13, 10317 Berlin
DOOR F (near the bolder gym), Level 4.
2022.11.18
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Teater Kungsbacka, Sweden
In On Earth I’m Done: Islands, the audience is transported to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. Orbiting the conflicts of beauty and danger, existence must be rebuilt from scratch and living learnt anew. Elementary logics and irregular intelligences are being reborn; life passes between mineral, vegetal, animal, human and machinic forms. Islands is a performance which imagines an alternate order of organization, a state of exception, quarantined from the natural world. Here, replication becomes a mode of survival and dancing a weapon.
Find out more information here
@jonatanwinbo @_____cny_____ #davidkiers @cullbergofficial
2022.11.02
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains
05 & 06 November Bern, Switzerland @dampfzentrale_bern
@cullbergofficial Danced by Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
“Mountains is relentless in its form. Without depicting anything concrete tangible, the work listens to urges, longings, fears and suspicions that vibrate beneath the surface of homo sapiens - our fragile relationship with a world that constantly risks slipping out of our hands. It is a journey into the unknown interior - in search of a (spiritual) core - that stuns, captures and fascinates.” –Svenska Dagbladet
Find out more information here
2022.10.22
Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne | Facing Nature
Jefta van Dinther in conversation with Myriam Van Imschoot
Jefta is pleased to be one of twelve artists invited by Tanzfabrik Berlin to contribute to an exchange of ideas on how to generate deeper reflections on our natural world.
Facing Nature hosts enquiries on “the status of nature in society from the point of view of dance, literature and performance art”. The arts symposia looked at the impulses behind art which deals with nature.
Find out more information here
2022.10.22
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Dansstationen Malmö, Sweden
“Some dance pieces have such an impact that they bring about a collective ecstasy in the audience. The Swedish-Dutch Jefta van Dinther does this with his work like no other.
The darling of the European dance podiums‘ allows light, space, sound and the dancers‘ bodies to flow together into what one reviewer once famously called a composition of experiential structures.‘ Van Dinther’s choreographies are ultra-physical, beautifully portrayed, and downright overwhelming.“
You can find the full article on here
2022.10.22
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Dansstationen Malmö, Sweden
With a special introduction by artistic director of @cullbergofficial , Kristine Slettevold, Islands continues it’s EU tour starting again in Malmö.
Find more information On Earth I’m Done: Islands and the tour calendar on the website.
2022.09.03
MENTORSHIP IN ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Costume design & Choreography
2022 – 2023
[LINK] is a mentorship/mentee program taking place within the studio of choreographer Jefta van Dinther and his upcoming choreographic projects during 2022-2024. [LINK] aims to connect curious artists from various fields with persons within the artistic team working with Jefta van Dinther, for the duration of a creative process of one production.
2021.08.13
UNEARTH | Trailer 2 out tomorrow!
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the upcoming Berlin premiere of Unearth, presented at @tanzimaugust
Tickets available via Tanz im August
Photo & film: Jubal Battisti.
2022.08.01
UNEARTH | Berlin Premiere - Tanz im August
Centered around our human drive to revive and yearning to relive, Unearth lays bare the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness.
13.–16.8., 17:00–21:00 | St. Elisabeth-Kirche
Find out more here
News
2022.08.05
[VOLTA] classes the first week of August by @aliheyward teaching Klein Technique™️. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio. Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Australia living in Berlin. Alice's practice develops through diverse collaborations, as author, co-author and interpreter, constructing different situations for exchange and connection. find out more here.
2022.08.04
UNEARTH | Trailer out tomorrow!
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the upcoming Berlin premiere of Unearth, presented at @tanzimaugust
Tickets available via Tanz im August
Photography: @matthiasleidinger
2022.08.01
[VOLTA] classes the first week of August presented by @aliheyward on Klein Technique™. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio.
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther
photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2022.07.06
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
Show is on tonight in Amsterdam!! On Earth I’m Done: Mountains and Islands in Julidans ITA. Good to be back!!!
@cullbergofficial @montpellierdanse
2022.07.01
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands 🇫🇷 tonight and tomorrow at Montpellier Danse
2022.06.29
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands is on tour in Europe. This week, on 1/2 July we are showing in Montpellier!
@cullbergofficial @montpellierdanse Photography: @carlsbergtuborg
2022.06.22
ON EARTH I'M DONE: MOUNTAINS | Tour 2022
This week Friday and Saturday 24+25 June, On Earth I'm Done: Mountains will be presented at @ccbelem, Lisbon, with Marco da Silva Ferreira @__meloyellow__ by @cullbergofficial . My first time presenting my work in Lisbon! With music by David Kiers, lights by @jonatanwinbo and set by @numenforuse
2022.06.16
THIS WEEK IN THE STUDIO | [NODE]
[NODE] will take place again tomorrow. Head to the website /studio for more information on how to join the open studio session.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
2022.06.05
Launching Studio Format | [VOLTA]
[VOLTA] is an exciting opportunity for actors in the field of performing arts to partake in free open classes in movement research and other physical techniques.
Participants are invited to join the current production cast in intimate classes, hosted by a network of industry professionals who focus on various practices.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. @dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther#tanz
2022.05.16
Launching Studio Format | [NODE]
[Node] is where we watch and react. Thank you to all who took part in the last open studio event. We really enjoyed having you all and appreciate your feedback. We Look forward to hosting again soon! Click HERE for more information on the upcoming program.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
2022.05.16
On Earth I'm Done | Islands | Cullberg
The World premiere of Islands was hosted on 11th May, 2022 at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden. Click HERE to follow more on the tour.
2021.05.16
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains | Cullberg
Finally the premiere of On Earth I’m Done: Mountains. Premiered is held at Dansens Hus, Stockholm 20-22 May and a more extensive tour will follow.
2021.05.15
Mountains: The Hunter | Swedish Television
Check it out! A short film for Swedish television based on an excerpt from the ready and upcoming production On Earth I’m Done: Mountains for Cullberg. HERE
2021.06.22
Plateau Effect | Staatsballet
Plateau Effect is back! The performance will be remounted for Staatsballet Berlin and be presented 10 times in their upcoming season at Komische Oper. Premiere on 6th of September 2019.
2019.05.09
Nordmark Pod
Det samtalas om och att; The Quiet, personlig utveckling, stanna til, vart det hela börjar, man vet inte vad man håller på med, nåt som kokar, fuska med sinnena, zooma ut, förstå vad man håller på med, det är inte en tavla, scenkonst...
2019.05.10
Associated Artist
This coming fall Jefta is starting a new collaboration with Cullberg. Together with Alma Söderberg and Deborah Hay, he will be one of Cullberg's Associated Artists 2019-2021. Read more here.
2018.07.01
Dans les coulisses
Centre Pompidou in Paris made a beautiful interview with the crew when we performed Dark Field Analysis there in April. Watch it below!
2018.03.17
Dark Field Analysis | on tour
Dark Field Analysis has toured to Oslo, Copenhagen and Malmö during these last weeks. Now coming up in Vienna, Paris, Guimaraes, Montreal and Amsterdam.
2023.09.10
Dark Field Analysis l @unlockdancingplaza
Dance Plaza / WestKowloon, Hong Kong
2023.09.16-17
Dark Field Analysis draws its name from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to diagnose systemic bodily conditions originating in the blood. But the conversation between the two men encompasses more than medical facts. Here, blood serves as an analogy for looking inwards and outwards: Into and beyond ourselves. Tickets via https://unlock.com.hk/dc23/en/dark-field-analysis.html
2023.09.03
[NODE] | Open studio at DIORAMA
Emilie Gregersen presents work in progress showing at DIORAMA, Berlin
7th of September at 6PM
Developed during the [LINK] mentorship with choreographic mentor Jefta van Dinther, Gregersen presents an open studio preview event. Drawing inspiration from the trickster —a character known for breaking norms and fluidly shifting shape — Gregersen playfully works with the disruption of conventions, infused with a touch of humor, tricks, and drama. The boundaries between the personal and the fictional, the intimate and the artificial, seamlessly merge, creating a space filled with tension and suspense.
The event is free and no need to register.
Phtotography ©Cruz Proxy
2023.09.01
Remachine | Opening tonight!
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
“In life, we often feel as if we are both autonomous beings making choices and cogs in a system, governed by greater worldly forces. Remachine stages this inner friction, a space of limbo.” - Jefta van Dinther
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography and @adammunnings edited by @rhyspll
2023.08.29
Remachine | Premiere
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
Remachine explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment.
At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet.
The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect. In a cascade of both worldly and otherworldly forces, a dance between constraint and liberty, labour and ritual, emerges as a contradictory state of contemporaneity.
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography and @adammunnings edited by @rhyspll
2023.08.29
Remachine | Premiere
01.–02.09.
19:00 | Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
Tickets available via @norrlandsoperan
In a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material Remachine draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
2023.08.25
[SITU] RESIDENCY | Hannah Schillinger
We would like to thank choreographer Hannah Schillinger for her contributions to Diorama and the studio ecology during her residency in July this year, which centred around an initiation of new work and community. Additionally, Hannah hosted an [VOLTA] Open class, together with Anna Nowicka @adreamwork, available free to the public.
Learn more about the upcoming studio calendar and its practitioners on the website.
[VOLTA] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland
Photography: @hannah.schillinger
2023.08.29
[SITU] RESIDENCY | Stina Ehn
We are pleased to announce that Stina Ehn will be taking part in a residency at Diorama in Berlin in coordination with dans centrum stockholm.
Stina Ehn is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her work is based on experimental methods where making and analysing inform each other. The two week studio residency will support her work and research which explores the relations and problems between image and materiality by experimenting with dances that scratches, mimic or surrender to its surrounding.
#dioramaberlin @stina__eh @dcsthlm#danscentrumstockholm
Photography: @stina__eh
2023.08.29
[SITU] RESIDENCY
[SITU] focusses on the geographic space where work is executed in order to realise new POTENTIALS of a community of practitioners and their future artistic goals. [SITU] enables access and use of the Diorama studio and its technical resources via two avenues. Within the framework of this format, artists, affiliated with the company, will be given the opportunity of 1-3 week residencies, during which they have full and sole access to the studio. Functioning as an exchange program, the [SITU] residencies offer the use of the Diorama studio and its resources, free of charge in exchange for participation and contribution to the other studio formats.
[LINK] | CALL-OUT - Mentorship in Choreography
November 2023 – September 2024
What / [LINK] is a Mentorship Program in Artistic Practice taking place in the context of choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s choreographic projects. [LINK] enables an individual interested in choreography to be coupled with the choreographer and mentor Jefta van Dinther and dramaturg and supervisor Maja Zimmermann, for the duration of a creative process of one production. During the program a unique, paid opportunity will be granted to an artist, along with access to the studio Diorama and its resources.
For more info about how to apply click HERE
[LINK] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2023.08.04
Unearth | Munich
W/ joint_adventures_
“In the new Unearth, Van Dinther is part of the cast of eight dancers who take the space of the W139 Gallery in the middle of the bustle of Amsterdam's red light district, and for four hours invites us to witness a ritual that touches on lament. The public is free to enter and leave whenever they wish during this long period of time, however, the work traps in such a way that it becomes difficult to get away from this world created with voices and bodies, coupled in such a way that is really hypnotizing.“
— MARÍA INÉS VILLASMIL
Amsterdam, 23 July, 2023
Tickets available via @joint_adventures_
2023.08.01
[NODE] Open Studio | Remachine
We would like to thank those who visited and contributed during the Remachine process. We look forward to hosting the format in the studio again later this year.
Click HERE to learn more about the Diorama studio and upcoming events
Functioning as an open studio preview event, [NODE] is held during various stages of the production processes. This format grants opportunities for the artistic community as well as other audiences to get a glimpse of the studio practice and what is in store for upcoming work, giving audiences the possibility to influence the work in progress.
[NODE] is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the means of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin
Photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2023.07.12
Unearth | Munich @ freiheitshalle 5th & 6th AUG
Thank you @julidans_amsterdam! Next stop München for #tanzwerkstatteuropa @joint_adventures_
In „Unearth“ bringt Jefta van Dinther zehn Tänzer*innen in einer kraftvollen und reduzierten Choreografie aus Körper und Stimme zusammen. Im Mittelpunkt steht der menschliche Drang nach Wiederbelebung und die Sehnsucht, etwas neu zu erleben. „Unearth“ erforscht die grenzenlose geistige und physische Schaffenskraft des Körpers als Material. Dabei legt die Arbeit soziale und spirituelle Konstruktionen von Verwandtschaft, Bestimmung und Sterblichkeit frei. Das Publikum ist aufgefordert, sich auf die Intensität der Wiederholung einzulassen und in der Süße der Selbstreflexion zu verweilen. Stimme und Tanz lösen Erinnerungsfragmente und machen Gefühle der Verbundenheit erfahrbar.
Tickets available via @joint_adventures_
2023.07.10
Unearth | Julidans Amsterdam @ Gallery W139 10th & 11th JUL
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.
The title Unearth refers to something not of this earth. With this title, Van Dinther highlights the central theme of his work in recent years: the technologisation of the world we live in. Which was meant to serve us, but instead has come to govern our lives. "Jefta van Dinther once again succeeds in portraying humans as aliens and temporary guests on this earth," a reviewer wrote following the premiere.
Tickets available via @julidans_amsterdam
2023.06.28
Unearth | Julidans Amsterdam @ Gallery W139 10th & 11th JUL
“With Unearth, van Dinther invites the audience to an introspective journey. Using only movement and voice, the four-hour dance event at W139 arts centre in the heart of Amsterdam offers one big, propulsive trance experience.
The dancers turn their bodies inside out and expose deep-rooted feelings about social kinship, life and mortality. Stripped of theatrical elements such as lighting, music and scenography, the performance stages the capacities and incapacities of human beings in their purest form.” - Julidans
Tickets available via @julidans_amsterdam
2023.05.27
Remachine | Umeå Residency at NorrlandsOperan
Goodbye for now Umeå!
We would like to extend thanks to the amazing team at @norrlandsoperan who have been great coworkers during this residency period of Remachine. We look forward to returning for our last block of rehearsals in August and premiere season in September.
2023.05.27
Remachine | Umeå Residency at NorrlandsOperan
Spring has sprung in Umeå and Remachine has arrived to the @norrlandsoperan BIG stage ❤️🔥
We look forward to diving into this creation process with our team and for what’s in stall.
2023.05.11
Diorama | Berlin studio Opening
We would like to extend a warm thanks to everyone who came and celebrated the opening of the studio Diorama in Berlin. It was a pivotal moment for us and we look forward to having you all back again and a part of the future actions the studio brings.
Diorama 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
2023.04.29
[VOLTA] class with Tomislav Feller at Diorama
Tomislav Feller (CRO) is a choreographer, performer and educator based in Amsterdam. Tomislav is a guest teacher at a visual art master program Sandberg and SNDO choreography school where he gives workshops, movement research classes and advises students in their creative processes. His practice is focused on the notion of heightened listening, framing performativity by witnessing and re-imagining the body as a landscape of charged images. Tomislav is a certified Gyrokinesis trainer and practitioner, often sharing his experience in a form of classes and workshops.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.04.18
[VOLTA] classes with Rachell Clark at Diorama
[VOLTA] classes kick off at Diorama next week. Hosted by @rachellbo teaching Vinyasa Yoga. More information on how you can sign up for these classes on the website (link in bio).
**All classes are free of charge**
Rachell Clark is a Berlin based dancer and teacher. Her curiosity in Yoga came from a search to find a practice that richly supplements the dancing body and since completing her Ashtanga + Vinyasa Yoga training at Samyak Yoga School in Kovalam India, Rachell continues to rigorously practice and educate herself. The combination of both dance and yoga has brought her to a deeper understanding of movement and functionalities of the body, and the power of mobilising the breath. Rachell is motivated by the connective possibilities of yoga and the community it builds.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.03.23
On Earth I’m Done | Islands at tanzquartierwien in Vienna
23-25 MAR
In On Earth I’m Done: Islands, the audience is transported to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. Orbiting the conflicts of beauty and danger, existence must be rebuilt from scratch and living learnt anew. Elementary logics and irregular intelligences are being reborn; life passes between mineral, vegetal, animal, human and machinic forms. Islands is a performance which imagines an alternate order of organization, a state of exception, quarantined from the natural world. Here, replication becomes a mode of survival and dancing a weapon.
2023.01.20
[VOLTA] classes with Leah Katz at Diorama
Hosted by @leaaaahkatz teaching Vinyasa Yoga. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio.
Leah is a lover of movement in all of its glorious forms. Through her work as a dancer, she discovered yoga initially as an enhancement to her existing training. In many ways it has since become the basis of her approach to understanding and activating the body and the mind. She has fallen more in love with the practice the deeper she explores. Following a creative and flowing technique of Vinyasa yoga, there is a focus on safe and optimal alignment, exploring sensation, and bringing awareness to the body's infinite possibilities.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
2023.02.16
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands by Cullberg
17-18.02 at Teatro Canal, Sevilla Spain
‚In On Earth I’m Done, the audience is transported to a place where all sense of space and time has vanished: a creation story and a post-apocalyptic search for humanity. Swedish-Dutch choreographer Jefta van Dinther creates hallucinatory performances in extremely tight design and an ultra-physical, energetic dance style... On Earth I’m Done is an „archaic-futuristic“ diptych that consists of the solo Mountains and Islands, a group work for thirteen dancers, made for and by the Swedish company Cullberg to which Van Dinther has been connected as an artist since 2013. Mountains and Islands are both geographical references, the performances leading the viewer through landscapes full of dark, hallucinatory images in a conceptual performance about transformation.‘
— Theaterkrant
2023.02.13
[LINK] | Emilie Gregersen - Mentorship in Choreography
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the recipient of this year’s [LINK] mentorship in Choreography as Emilie Gregersen who will be under supervision of the mentor and choreographer Jefta van Dinther and dramaturg Maja Zimmermann.
Emilie (they/she) is an artist and choreographer born in Denmark and is recently based in Berlin. Emilie is co-founder of Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen - an artist-run platform and studio with focus on feminist, intersectional and artistic practices, currently run by 15 performing artists. Emilie holds a degree in dance and choreography from The Danish School of Performing Arts and has since 2018 produced her own works. Currently, Emilie is working on a performance series based on concepts of touch, consisting of the solo Touch (2020), the duet Caresses (2021) and the upcoming piece On My Tongue. As a performer and dancer Emilie has been working with Sergiu Matis, Marie Topp, Tina Tarpgaard, Andros Zins-Browne and BADco among others.
Head HERE find out more about Emilie’s practice and the LINK mentorship.
2023.02.11
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains by Cullberg | Tomorrow at Zodiak, Helsinki
In Mountains, Van Dinther tackles the question of how to be and stay in love with our ever-changing world. Through an expulsion of words, both familiar and foreign, the performer on stage acts as a conduit, lamenting on behalf of others. Their being unravels in the nexus between the physical, biological and anthropological – between gravitational forces, instinct and desire.
"Mountains is relentless in its form. Without depicting anything concrete tangible, the work listens to urges, longings, fears and suspicions that vibrate beneath the surface of homo sapiens - our fragile relationship with a world that constantly risks slipping out of our hands. It is a journey into the unknown interior - in search of a (spiritual) core - that stuns, captures and fascinates." – Svenska Dagbladet
In Helsinki the work is performed by dancer Marco da Silva Ferreira.
Image:©Urban Jören.
2023.02.10
[LINK] mentorship in Costume Design | Lena Böckmann
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the recipient of this year’s [LINK] mentorship in Costume Design as Lena Böckmann. Lena will be under supervision of the mentor and costume designer Cristina Nyffeler, dramaturg Maja Zimmermann and choreographer Jefta van Dinther.
Lena Böckmann is a costume designer and performer, working mainly within performing arts with a distinct focus in robotics. Coming from practical backgrounds of costume design and physical computing, her work is a playful hybrid of these two worlds. Her practice sees experiments between costume, e-textiles, wearable objects and robot scenography, allowing her to dive deeper into the digital arts and object centered theatre. She investigates these approaches sensually, via touching, hearing, feeling, smelling, thinking, crafting, dreaming and discourse; such themes that are inherently human and centric to her research in sci-fi, feel-fi and touch-fi.
Head HERE find out more about Lena’s practice and the LINK mentorship program.
Image:©Dorothea Tuch
2023.01.20
Leonce und Lena | Directed by Ulrich Rasche
Premiere at Deutsches Theatre Berlin
In connection with Büchner's pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote (The Hessian Courierr) and in a first-time collaboration with choreographer Jefta van Dinther, director Ulrich Rasche examines the comedy Leonce und Lena (1836) for its political content: as a fundamental social analysis and radical critique of the self-reference and ignorance of the ruling class. While she holds all the levers in her hand to change social conditions in favour of the exploited, she excuses her inaction with the hopelessness of personal action, the impossibility of influencing the world and the fundamental lostness in the universe.
Find out more HERE
Photography ©Arno Declair
2022.11.23
[VOLTA] classes | Voice training by Johanna Peine
In the voice training of Johanna Peine, we focus on the voice and its development. During evolution, the vocal organ has gone through vast changes. The evolution of the voice was always associated with new patterns of movement. Here we look to sharpen this understanding to better connect the voice, body, breath, movement and artistic purpose.
More information on how you can join us for these classes here.
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther@DIORAMA @Johannapeine
photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
VENUE | DIORAMA, Hauptstraße 13, 10317 Berlin
DOOR F (near the bolder gym), Level 4.
2022.11.18
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Teater Kungsbacka, Sweden
In On Earth I’m Done: Islands, the audience is transported to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. Orbiting the conflicts of beauty and danger, existence must be rebuilt from scratch and living learnt anew. Elementary logics and irregular intelligences are being reborn; life passes between mineral, vegetal, animal, human and machinic forms. Islands is a performance which imagines an alternate order of organization, a state of exception, quarantined from the natural world. Here, replication becomes a mode of survival and dancing a weapon.
Find out more information here
@jonatanwinbo @_____cny_____ #davidkiers @cullbergofficial
2022.11.02
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains
05 & 06 November Bern, Switzerland @dampfzentrale_bern
@cullbergofficial Danced by Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
“Mountains is relentless in its form. Without depicting anything concrete tangible, the work listens to urges, longings, fears and suspicions that vibrate beneath the surface of homo sapiens - our fragile relationship with a world that constantly risks slipping out of our hands. It is a journey into the unknown interior - in search of a (spiritual) core - that stuns, captures and fascinates.” –Svenska Dagbladet
Find out more information here
2022.10.22
Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne | Facing Nature
Jefta van Dinther in conversation with Myriam Van Imschoot
Jefta is pleased to be one of twelve artists invited by Tanzfabrik Berlin to contribute to an exchange of ideas on how to generate deeper reflections on our natural world.
Facing Nature hosts enquiries on “the status of nature in society from the point of view of dance, literature and performance art”. The arts symposia looked at the impulses behind art which deals with nature.
Find out more information here
2022.10.22
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Dansstationen Malmö, Sweden
“Some dance pieces have such an impact that they bring about a collective ecstasy in the audience. The Swedish-Dutch Jefta van Dinther does this with his work like no other.
The darling of the European dance podiums‘ allows light, space, sound and the dancers‘ bodies to flow together into what one reviewer once famously called a composition of experiential structures.‘ Van Dinther’s choreographies are ultra-physical, beautifully portrayed, and downright overwhelming.“
You can find the full article on here
2022.10.22
On Earth I’m Done: Islands | Performance at Dansstationen Malmö, Sweden
With a special introduction by artistic director of @cullbergofficial , Kristine Slettevold, Islands continues it’s EU tour starting again in Malmö.
Find more information On Earth I’m Done: Islands and the tour calendar on the website.
2022.09.03
MENTORSHIP IN ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Costume design & Choreography
2022 – 2023
[LINK] is a mentorship/mentee program taking place within the studio of choreographer Jefta van Dinther and his upcoming choreographic projects during 2022-2024. [LINK] aims to connect curious artists from various fields with persons within the artistic team working with Jefta van Dinther, for the duration of a creative process of one production.
2021.08.13
UNEARTH | Trailer 2 out tomorrow!
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the upcoming Berlin premiere of Unearth, presented at @tanzimaugust
Tickets available via Tanz im August
Photo & film: Jubal Battisti.
2022.08.01
UNEARTH | Berlin Premiere - Tanz im August
Centered around our human drive to revive and yearning to relive, Unearth lays bare the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness.
13.–16.8., 17:00–21:00 | St. Elisabeth-Kirche
Find out more here
2022.08.05
[VOLTA] classes the first week of August by @aliheyward teaching Klein Technique™️. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio. Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Australia living in Berlin. Alice's practice develops through diverse collaborations, as author, co-author and interpreter, constructing different situations for exchange and connection. find out more here.
2022.08.04
UNEARTH | Trailer out tomorrow!
Jefta van Dinther is pleased to announce the upcoming Berlin premiere of Unearth, presented at @tanzimaugust
Tickets available via Tanz im August
Photography: @matthiasleidinger
2022.08.01
[VOLTA] classes the first week of August presented by @aliheyward on Klein Technique™. More information on how you can join us for these classes in bio.
@dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther
photography: @jubalbattistiphotography
2022.07.06
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
Show is on tonight in Amsterdam!! On Earth I’m Done: Mountains and Islands in Julidans ITA. Good to be back!!!
@cullbergofficial @montpellierdanse
2022.07.01
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands 🇫🇷 tonight and tomorrow at Montpellier Danse
2022.06.29
ON EARTH I'M DONE: ISLANDS | Tour 2022
On Earth I’m Done | Mountains & Islands is on tour in Europe. This week, on 1/2 July we are showing in Montpellier!
@cullbergofficial @montpellierdanse Photography: @carlsbergtuborg
2022.06.22
ON EARTH I'M DONE: MOUNTAINS | Tour 2022
This week Friday and Saturday 24+25 June, On Earth I'm Done: Mountains will be presented at @ccbelem, Lisbon, with Marco da Silva Ferreira @__meloyellow__ by @cullbergofficial . My first time presenting my work in Lisbon! With music by David Kiers, lights by @jonatanwinbo and set by @numenforuse
2022.06.16
THIS WEEK IN THE STUDIO | [NODE]
[NODE] will take place again tomorrow. Head to the website /studio for more information on how to join the open studio session.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
2022.06.05
Launching Studio Format | [VOLTA]
[VOLTA] is an exciting opportunity for actors in the field of performing arts to partake in free open classes in movement research and other physical techniques.
Participants are invited to join the current production cast in intimate classes, hosted by a network of industry professionals who focus on various practices.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. @dachverbandtanzdeutschland #tanzpakt #jeftavandinther#tanz
2022.05.16
Launching Studio Format | [NODE]
[Node] is where we watch and react. Thank you to all who took part in the last open studio event. We really enjoyed having you all and appreciate your feedback. We Look forward to hosting again soon! Click HERE for more information on the upcoming program.
Made possible by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
2022.05.16
On Earth I'm Done | Islands | Cullberg
The World premiere of Islands was hosted on 11th May, 2022 at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden. Click HERE to follow more on the tour.
20210516
On Earth I'm Done | Mountains | Cullberg
The first part of the archaic-futuristic diptych On Earth I’m Done is the solo Mountains, premiered at Dansens Hus, Stockholm 20-22 May. With Suelem de Oliveira da Silva.
20210515
Mountains: The Hunter | Swedish Television
A short film for Swedish television based on an excerpt from the ready and upcoming production On Earth I’m Done: Mountains for Cullberg. HERE
20190622
Plateau Effect | Staatsballet
Plateau Effect is back! The performance will be remounted for Staatsballet Berlin and be presented 10 times in their upcoming season at Komische Oper. Premiere on 6th of September 2019.
2019.05.09
Nordmark Pod
Det samtalas om och att; The Quiet, personlig utveckling, stanna til, vart det hela börjar, man vet inte vad man håller på med, nåt som kokar, fuska med sinnena, zooma ut, förstå vad man håller på med, det är inte en tavla, scenkonst...
2019.05.10
Associated Artist
This coming fall Jefta is starting a new collaboration with Cullberg. Together with Alma Söderberg and Deborah Hay, he will be one of Cullberg's Associated Artists 2019-2021. Read more here.
2018.07.01
Dans les coulisses
Centre Pompidou in Paris made a beautiful interview with the crew when we performed Dark Field Analysis there in April. Watch it below!
2018.03.17
Dark Field Analysis | on tour
Dark Field Analysis has toured to Oslo, Copenhagen and Malmö during these last weeks. Now coming up in Vienna, Paris, Guimaraes, Montreal and Amsterdam.
