Remachine – Jefta van Dinther

REMACHINE - Jefta Van Dinther

REMACHINE explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment.

At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet.

The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect. In a cascade of both worldly and otherworldly forces, a dance between constraint and liberty, labour and ritual, emerges as a contradictory state of contemporaneity. Via a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material, and in a new collaboration with composer Anna von Hausswolff, REMACHINE draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
“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

Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner and Sarah Stanley | 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 and musical advise: Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, Manon Parent and Mette Nadja Hansen | Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann | Assistant choreographer: Tomislav Feller | Audio Description: Emmilou Roessling in collaboration with Silja Korn and Sindri Runudde | Visuals: Jubal Battisti and Adam Munnings | Photo and film: Jubal Battisti and Elin Berge

REMACHINE by Jefta van Dinther is a production by HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London, PACT Zollverein Essen, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança and Concertgebouw Bruges | Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation)

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 Department for Culture and Europe Berlin and Swedish Arts Council