Jefta van Dinther

Kinship and transience, revival and recovery of what has already vanished: the Dominican Church in the heart of Krems is perfect for the elegiac, three-and-a-halfhour performance Unearth. A celebration of becoming and fading away, the concentration and dissolution of movements, sounds and voices loud and silent, pregnant images that appear and slip away once again. Faced with the fleeting nature of human existence, the performers seek to fasten, to nail their bodies to the floor, while others desperately try to extract malignant ulcers from their sagging colleagues. Mouths form mantras, make contact with other mouths and other body parts.

After about 90 minutes, subtle shifts herald a second cycle in this durational choreography. Again, the entangled bodies approach close, perhaps too close – and open our eyes to the emptiness, to the alien within: life in Unearth is a song about death.

Credits 

Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Juan Pablo Camara, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, Sarah Stanley, Thomas Zamolo and Jefta van Dinther | Costume: Cristina Nyffeler | Voice coach: Doreen Kutzke | Assistant choreographer: Thomas Zamolo | Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber | Administration: Jefta van Dinther (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE) |

Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå | 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