Jefta van Dinther
“REMACHINE”
August 08 & 09, 2025
20.30 H
Muffathalle
22,- EUR / 12,- EUR / 30,- EUR supporting price
Barrier-free
Physical Introduction with Judith Hummel, August 08,2025, 19.30 H, Muffatstudio, free admission
“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
“REMACHINE” explores the fragile interplay between humans and their inescapable, hyper-mechanized environment. Six performers balance on a gigantic, inexorably rotating disk – a dance between restriction and freedom, work and ritual that impressively reflects the contradictory state of our present self. Even more intense than in “Unearth”, which was presented by JOINT ADVENTURES at TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2023, bodies, light, voice and sound merge here to create a captivating stage experience. Via a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material, and in a new collaboration with composer Anna von Hausswolff, choreographer Jefta van Dinther draws us into a meditation on discipline, restlessness, insatiability and the power of the mind over the body.
Jefta van Dinther's rigorous physical approach is also always a staged research of movement, in which the body is related to light, sound and materials. Central to his work is the question of what it means to be human – in terms of society, the environment and other forms of life. As an internationally acclaimed choreographer, van Dinther creates immersive stage experiences that impressively question perception, presence and identity at the interface of sensuality and abstraction.
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner, Sarah Stanley, Manon Margot Parent
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costume: Cristina Nyffeler
Sound: 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 coaching, musical advise: Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, Manon Parent, Mette Nadja Hansen
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets, Maja Zimmermann
Assistant choreographer: Tomislav Feller
Audio Description: Emmilou Rössling in collaboration with Silja Korn and Sindri Runudde
Visuals: Jubal Battisti, Adam Munnings
Photo, film: Jubal Battisti, Elin Berge
Technical direction: Max Rux
Sound technique: Marius Kirch
Managing direction: Sven Neumann
Production management: Uta Engel, Romy Hansford-Gerber
Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS
Financial management: transmissions GmbH (DE), Interim kultur AB (SE)
Thanks to Ulrich Rasche
Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Jefta van Dinther
Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London and PACT Zollverein Essen
Funded by German Federal Cultural Foundation
Guest performance: Nationales Performance Netz Gastspielförderung Tanz, gefördert von dem Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, sowie den Kultur - und Kunstministerien der Länder
Jefta van Dinther is 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 and co-produced by DDD – Festival Dias da Dança and Concertgebouw Bruges