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. Remachine draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
Choreographer and dancer whose work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach and research of movement. The moving body is the core of his practice which is staged with light, sound and materials. Central is the question of what it means to be human, examined via its relation to community, its environment, animals and technology. Jefta’s performances reach into metaphysical worlds and play with voice and image.
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Creation and performance: Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Roger Sala Reyner and Sarah Stanley
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costume design: Cristina Nyffeler
Sound: David Kiers, including special composition based on Ugly and Vengeful, Red Sun and The Truth, The Glow, The Fall by Anna von Hausswolff
Musical and voice advice: Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine, Manon Parent and Mette Nadja Hansen
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann
Choreographic assistant: Tomislav Feller
Visuals: Jubal Battisti and Adam Munnings
Photo and video: Jubal Battisti and Elin Berge
Technical direction: Max Rux
Production: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber
Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS.
A production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Jefta van Dinther. Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London, PACT Zollverein Essen and DDD – Festival Dias da Dança and Concertgebouw Bruges.
With the support of German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, Swedish Arts Council.
