Jefta Van Dinther

In “Unearth”, Jefta van Dinther brings together ten dancers in a bold and stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In this durational performance, Jefta 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. 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.

Jefta van Dinther 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. 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.