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.
@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.
2023.02.11
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.
@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.
