Jefta van Dinther REMACHINE
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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. Via a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material, and in a new collaboration with composer Anna von Hausswolff, REMACHINE draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
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
Lyrics in REMACHINE – by Anna von Hausswolff
Restless
I’m restless, I’m older
I’m heavy like a stone
Forgiven, forsaken
I’m staring at my bones
Red Sun
Red sun on the horizon line
It’s pure delight
As the night falls upon my eyes I am running wild
When there’s none to hold me tight I seek the light
Red sun on the horizon line I am short of time
Yes the shadows here before my eyes
Still I am full of light
The heart among the heart of man
Can you hear the sound?
The sweet echo through the yard
The sweet echo through the land
The sweet echo through the yard
The sweet echo through the land
It’s making that sound
It’s touching the ground
Unexpected
Unexpected out from nowhere
Was the truth told for me
From his heart and from his sadness
He sadly sang for me
My sweet Faun
My sweet Faun
My dear Faun, oh my love
My sweet Faun
My dear Faun, oh my love
Are we touching the magic?
Are we wearing the white angel’s glow
Surrounded by mountains
In a valley free from the snow
Will we fall?
Will we fall where we fall?
Will we fall?
Will we fall where we fall?
Oh, down in the river
Down to the bodies below
Oh, down in the chaos
Driven by black magic glow
My sweet Faun
My dear Faun, oh my love Will we fall?
Will we fall where we fall? Will we fall?
Will we fall where we fall? Will we fall?
Will we fall where we fall?
About Jefta van Dinther
Jefta van Dinther (SE/DE) is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach 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.
Artistic Team & Credits
Choreography Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner and Sarah Stanley
Lighting Design Jonatan Winbo
Costume Design Cristina Nyffeler
Music Composition David Kiers including specially composed music based on Ugly and Vengeful, Red Sun and The Truth, The Glow, The Fall by Anna von Hausswolff
Voice Coach and Musical Advise Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, Manon Parent and Mette Nadja Hansen
Dramaturgy Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann
Assistant Choreographer Tomislav Feller
Audio Description Emmilou Rössling in collaboration with Silja Korn and Sindri Runudde
Visuals Jubal Battisti and Adam Munnings
Photo and Film Jubal Battisti and Elin Berge
Technical Direction Max Rux
Sound Marius Kirch
Light and Stage Max Rux and Fabian Bleisch
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)
Touring Manager Tammo Walter
Thanks to Ulrich Rasche
REMACHINE is a production by Jefta van Dinther
Production HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Jefta van Dinther
Co-production Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Concertgebouw Bruges and PACT Zollverein Essen
Funded by German Federal Cultural Foundation
In 2023 Jefta van Dinther was 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.