The starting point of the workshop deals with what defines us as human. This is heightened both through a kind of hyperrealism of human behavior but also by flirting with the tipping point into that which can be considered non-human. Speech, communication, gesture, responsiveness and certain behavioral patterns make up the basic vocabulary of this humanness. But through a layering of multiple tasks, split attentions, and the embodying and physicalizing of both the synthetic and the animal a complex choreography of space, time, meaning and relations emerges.

We will focus on guided movement explorations and then the layering of activities, parameters and time and space co-ordinates into complex practices. These practices are framed performatively, finding how they can be managed by the practitioner and at the same time holding the attention in the spectator.

Sign up!

Send your CV and a short motivation letter to anmalan@dansalliansen.se, no later than August 12.

This class is arranged in collaboration with Dansalliansen and is offered solely to professionally active dancers.

Bio:

Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer working between Stockholm and Berlin. Van Dinther graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003. His work includes the performances Dark Field Analysis (2017), Protagonist (2016) for Cullbergbaletten, As It Empties Out (2014), Plateau Effect (2013) for Cullbergbaletten, THIS IS CONCRETE (2012), GRIND (2011), The Blanket Dance (2011), Kneeding (2010), The Way Things Go (2009) and IT’S IN THE AIR (2008).

In 2012 van Dinther was awarded with the Birgit Cullberg Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Van Dinther received the Swedish Theatercritic’s Danceprize 2013 for Plateau Effect, which was also selected for the Swedish Biennial of Performing Arts 2015. GRIND was awarded the Säde prize in Finland for best lighting design and received three prizes during Favoriten Festival in Dortmund, 2012.

Van Dinther teaches choreography at various international centers and educational programs. He was appointed Senior Lecturer and Artistic Director at the MA program in Choreography at DOCH (University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm) between 2012-2014.