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AUSLAND
Where do we draw the line between experimentation and transgression? And what limits are we prepared to violate for our personal freedom, especially when the world as we know it can be difficult to trust. AUSLAND examines our urge and search for alternate realities, in a performance where human and non-human players are toying with themes intrinsic to our times. Digital touch, deep fakes, and machine attachment become presets of a labyrinth that is layered in humour and darkness.
In a series of new creations, working across the mediums of movement, song, film, gaming, and objects, Van Dinther examines a world which is overloaded with offers. The audience navigates freely through an immersive and durational installation. Departing from Van Dinther’s previous works, which tackle themes such as kinship, mortality and spirituality, this work plunges further into the dichotomies of fantasy; exposing how play can turn serious at any moment. AUSLAND depicts distinct yet interwoven microcosms characterised by self-destruction, voyeurism, and subversion, where emotional resilience and mental and moral clarity are challenged.
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Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Juan Pablo Cámara, Louise Dahl, emeka ene, Mette Nadja Hansen, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner and Jefta van Dinther | Composition: Billy Bultheel | Costume and set design: Cristina Nyffeler | Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo | Voice coach: Mette Nadja Hansen and Doreen Kutzke | Dramaturgical Advice: Maja Zimmermann | Outside Eye: Thiago Granato | Voice-over: Chrysa Parkinsson | Photography: Carl Thorborg | Art Direction: Martin Falck
Dark Field Analysis (film) is made by Jefta van Dinther and Max Vitali and performed by Juan Pablo Cámara and Roger Sala Reyner
Technical direction: Fabian Bleisch and Andrea Parolin | Light technique: Fabian Bleisch | Sound technique: Marius Kirch and Andrea Parolin | Management: Sven Neumann | Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS | Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber | Financial management: transmissions GmbH (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE)
AUSLAND is a production by Jefta van Dinther | Co-production: Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Dansens Hus Stockholm | Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin | With the kind support of Kraftwerk Berlin and the Tresor Foundation | In cooperation with Berlin Atonal
Jefta van Dinther is funded by: TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, and Swedish Arts Council
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Where do we draw the line between experimentation and transgression? And what limits are we prepared to violate for our personal freedom, especially when the world as we know it can be difficult to trust. AUSLAND examines our urge and search for alternate realities, in a performance where human and non-human players are toying with themes intrinsic to our times. Digital touch, deep fakes, and machine attachment become presets of a labyrinth that is layered in humour and darkness.
In a series of new creations, working across the mediums of movement, song, film, gaming, and objects, Van Dinther examines a world which is overloaded with offers. The audience navigates freely through an immersive and durational installation. Departing from Van Dinther’s previous works, which tackle themes such as kinship, mortality and spirituality, this work plunges further into the dichotomies of fantasy; exposing how play can turn serious at any moment. AUSLAND depicts distinct yet interwoven microcosms characterised by self-destruction, voyeurism, and subversion, where emotional resilience and mental and moral clarity are challenged.
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Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Juan Pablo Camara, Louise Dahl, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner, Felix Bethge van Dinther and Jefta van Dinther | Composition: Billy Bultheel | Costume and set design: Cristina Nyffeler | Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo | Voice coach: Mette Nadja Hansen and Doreen Kutzke | Dramaturgical Advice: Maja Zimmermann | Outside Eye: Thiago Granato | Photography: Carl Thorborg | Art Direction: Martin Falck
Technical direction: Andrea Parolin | Light technique: Fabian Bleisch | Sound technique: Marius Kirch | Management: Sven Neumann | Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS | Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber | Financial management: transmissions GmbH (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE)
AUSLAND is a production by Jefta van Dinther | Co-production: Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Dansens Hus Stockholm | Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds 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, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, and Swedish Arts Council
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Photography © Carl Thorborg
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