Unearth | Jefta van Dinther
Schedule
Sat Sep 06 2025 at 04:30 pm to 08:10 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, SF
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. Centered around our human drive to revive and yearning to relive, Unearth lays bare the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness.
In this durational work, the audience is summoned into the intensity of repetition and to linger in the sweetness of introspection. Unearth digs into the body as material, whilst exposing both social and spiritual constructs of kinship, purpose and mortality.
Tickets are available with entry times at 16:30, 17:30, or 18:30. You are free to decide how long you wish to stay and experience Unearth. From your chosen arrival time, you are welcome to remain until the performance concludes at 20:10. Throughout the performance, you may come and go as you wish.
NB: Children are welcome to attend the performance if you, as their accompanying adult, feel that the child can engage with the experience in a way that is meaningful to the child and considerate of others in the audience. As the work requires silence and calmness, we recommend it for children aged 10 and above.
About Jefta van Dinther (SE/DE):
Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterized by a rigorous physical ap- proach and always implies a staged research of movement itself. The moving body is the core of his practice but belongs to and interacts with a body of light, sound and materials. Central in his work is the question of what it means to be human, examined through its relation to society, community and environment but also to other forms of life such as the animal and other non-human entities. Jefta’s performances reach out into metaphysical or otherworldly realms and deal with notions of illusion, the visible and the invisible, synaesthesia, darkness, labour, sex, the uncanny, affect, voice and image.
Credits:
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Juan Pablo Camara, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Dana Pajarillaga, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, Sarah Stanley, Thomas Zamolo and Jefta van Dinther | Costume: Cristina Nyffeler | Voice coach: Doreen Kutzke | Assistant choreographer: Thomas Zamolo | Artistic advice: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann | Photo & film: Jubal Battisti | Unearth is a production by Jefta van Dinther | Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber | Distribution: Key Performance | Administration: Jefta van Dinther (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE) | Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå |
Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Europe 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 and the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe Berlin and Swedish Arts Council | The presentation at Dansehallerne is supported by the Goethe Institute.
