Unearth
[Link] - a mentorship program
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[LINK] is a Mentorship Program in Artistic Practice, aiming to connect curious artists from different fields with persons within the artistic team (scenographer, sound designer, light designer, costume designer) working with Jefta van Dinther for the duration of a creative process of one production. During this time a unique paid opportunity will be granted to an emerging artist, whereby a member of the artistic team will be assigned a collaborator for which to enter into a mentorship relationship, under supervision of dramaturg Maja Zimmermann and Jefta van Dinther... Utilising the production is seen here as a valuable opportunity for exchange with other actors in the field. [LINK] takes shape through several encounters between the mentor and mentee, as well as with the rest of the artistic team of the production and the supervisor, allowing for intellectual capital to flow in both directions. The mentee is thereby in a continuous exchange with the mentor and the rest of the team throughout the production, from the initiation of an idea to the final performance.
Unearth
In Unearth, Jefta van Dinther brings together ten dancers in a bold and stripped-down choreography of body and voice. In his characteristic cross-disciplinary style, which catalogues his extensive repertoire on human behaviour and its linked ecologies, Van Dinther breaks down our impetus to feel anew — time and again.
Centred around our human drive to revive and yearning to relive, Unearth lays bare the body’s boundless mental and physical resourcefulness.
In this durational work, 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.
/ˌənˈərTH/
verb
1: find (something) in the ground by digging; to dig up out of or as if out of the earth: exhume
2: discover (something hidden, lost, or kept secret) by investigation or searching; to make known or public: bring to light
Credits
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther | Created and performed by: Juan Pablo Camara, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojeviç, Dana Pajarillaga, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner, Thomas Zamolo and Jefta van Dinther | Costume: Cristina Nyffeler | Voice coach: Doreen Kutzke | Assistant choreographer: Thomas Zamolo | Artistic advice: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann | Photo & film: Jubal Battisti | Link: Kristjana Björg Reynisdottir
Unearth is a production by Jefta van Dinther | Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber | Distribution: Key Performance | Administration: Jefta van Dinther (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE) | Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå | The research phase of Unearth is funded by Swedish Arts Council | Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin |
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