REMACHINE
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.
Artist Talk following the performance on Fri, 26.01.
Christina Gillinger (dance scholar, TQW Magazin & library) in conversation with Jefta van Dinther and participants in the production. The talk will be held in English and translated into Austrian Sign Language.
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is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterised 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 such as the animal and other non-human entities. 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.
Credits
Choreography Jefta van Dinther Created and performed by Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner, 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 advice Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, Manon Parent Dramaturgy Gabriel Smeets, Maja Zimmermann Assistant choreographer Tomislav Feller Audio description Emmilou Roessling 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 Key Performance Financial management Katrin Wiesemann (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE) Thanks to Ulrich Rasche Produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) Coproduced by Norrlandsoperan (Umeå), Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Tanzquartier (Vienna), Sadler’s Wells (London), PACT Zollverein (Essen) Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. 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 Community and the Swedish Arts Council. Jefta van Dinther is coproduced by DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (Porto) and Concertgebouw (Bruges).
In English
The performance will be accessible to visually impaired and blind persons through a haptic introduction and artistic audio description in English. To enjoy the experience, please register by 22.01. at trauter@tqw.at.
Additionally, handouts containing the performance text will be provided for deaf and hearing-impaired individuals.