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

“REMACHINE” explores the interaction between human beings and an inevitable hyper-mechanised environment. At the mercy of their own technologies, the dancers navigate an unstable surface moving beneath their feet. The performance unfolds as a chain of cause and effect. In a vortex of earthly and otherworldly forces, dance between constraint and freedom, work and ritual emerges as a contradictory state 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 power of the mind over the body.

“In life, we often feel that we are both autonomous beings capable of making decisions and cogs in a mechanism controlled by greater forces in the world. It is 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 investigate 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 specially created from 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: 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.