New Baltic Dance '27: Jefta van Dinther (Sweden / Germany) – REMACHINE

“REMACHINE” explores the interaction between humans and an inevitable hyper-mechanized environment. At the mercy of their own technologies, the dancers balance on unstable ground moving beneath their feet. The performance unfolds as a chain of cause and effect. Amid a vortex of earthly and otherworldly forces, dance between restraint and freedom, work and ritual emerges as a contradictory condition of the present day. “REMACHINE,” which strikingly combines vocal and physical material and marks a new collaborative project with composer Anna von Hausswolff, invites audiences to meditate on discipline, relentless motion, insatiability, and the mind’s power over the body.

“In life, we often feel that we are both independent beings who make decisions and cogs in a mechanism controlled by greater forces in the world. It is precisely this inner friction, this space of uncertainty, that ‘REMACHINE’ embodies.” — Jefta van Dinther

Jefta van Dinther (Sweden, Germany) is a choreographer and dancer whose work explores the interaction of the moving body with light, sound, and other materials. His performances ask what it means to be human and explore our relationship with community, the environment, and other forms of life. Using illusion, darkness, voice, and image, the artist creates otherworldly stage experiences.

Creative team:
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, and Sarah Stanley
Lighting designer: Jonatan Winbo
Costume designer: Cristina Nyffeler
Sound: David Kiers; the performance also features music created especially for it, based on works by Anna von Hausswolff: “Ugly and Vengeful,” “Red Sun,” “The Truth,” “The Glow,” and “The Fall”
Vocal coaching and musical consultation: Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, and Manon Parent
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann
Choreographer’s assistant: Tomislav Feller
Audio description: Emmilou Roessling, in collaboration with Silja Korn and Sindri Runudde
Visual design: Jubal Battisti and Adam Munnings
Photography and filming: Jubal Battisti and Elin Berge
Technical management: Max Rux
Technical implementation of sound design: Marius Kirch
Executive director: Sven Neumann
Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber
Tour management: Tammo Walter
Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, “ART HAPPENS”
Financial administration: “transmissions GmbH” (Germany) and “Interim kultur AB” (Sweden)
Thanks to: Ulrich Rasche

“REMACHINE” is a work by Jefta van Dinther.

Production: “HAU Hebbel am Ufer” and Jefta van Dinther
Co-produced with “Norrlandsoperan” (Umeå), “Dansens Hus” (Stockholm), “Tanzquartier” (Vienna), “Sadler’s Wells” (London), “DDD – Festival Dias da Dança,” “Concertgebouw” (Bruges), and “PACT Zollverein” (Essen)

Supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. In 2023, Jefta van Dinther’s artistic work was funded by “TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund” and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, and the Swedish Arts Council.