Workshop: Jefta van Dinther
Jefta van Dinther's teaching will be geared towards experiencing the inside of the body (anatomy, intensity, emotion, psychology), while simultaneously being in friction and relation to that which stands outside of it (the environmental, the social). The workshop will be made up of guided explorations, that also provide a space to practice performing. The workshop investigates how the body is conditioned to move by external forces; for this occasion, we will be able to work on the rotating disc of the performance.
Information:
Date: Sunday 11.05.25
Time / Duration: 10:00-12:00 / 2 hours
Venue: Main stage, Dansens Hus - Vulkan 1, 0182 Oslo
For: Professional and pre-professional dancers
The workshop is free of charge.
Changing rooms are not available
Registration:
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Bio:
Jefta van Dinther (SE/DE) is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterized 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.
In August 2024 Van Dinther premiered the performance AUSLAND during Tanz im August at Kraftwerk, Berlin. In September 2023, the performance REMACHINE had its premiere at Norrlandsoperan Umeå. In 2022, his durational performance Unearth premiered at the festival Tanz im August in Berlin. All of these works are currently on tour. Currently on tour are also Dark Field Analysis (2017), as well as GRIND (2011). His other works include the diptych On Earth I'm Done: Mountains (2021) and Islands (2022) for Cullberg, Plateau Effect (2019) for Staatsballett Berlin, The Quiet (2019), Protagonist (2016) for Cullberg Ballet, As It Empties Out (2014), Plateau Effect for Cullberg Ballet (2013), THIS IS CONCRETE (2012), The Blanket Dance (2011), Kneeding (2010), The Way Things Go (2009) and IT'S IN THE AIR (2008). Jefta van Dinther has also created the choreography for and dances in the the music-video Monument (2015) by Robyn & Röyksopp and has also organised and curated the festival LIAISON (2015) in Stockholm. Jefta was Associated Artist with Cullberg between 2019-2022.
In 2012 van Dinther was awarded with the Birgit Cullberg Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Van Dinther received the Swedish Theater Critic’s Dance-prize 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 graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003 and was thereafter engaged as a dancer and worked with several choreographers. Van Dinther teaches choreography at various international centres 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.