AUSLAND examines our urge and search for alternate realities, in a performance where human and non-human players are toying with themes intrinsic to our times. Digital touch, deep fakes, and machine attachment become presets of a labyrinth that is layered in humour and darkness.
In a series of new creations, working across the mediums of movement, song, film, gaming, and objects, Van Dinther examines a world which is overloaded with offers. The audience navigates freely through an immersive and durational installation. Departing from Van Dinther’s previous works, which tackle themes such as kinship, mortality and spirituality, this work plunges further into the dichotomies of fantasy; exposing how play can turn serious at any moment. AUSLAND depicts distinct yet interwoven microcosms characterised by self-destruction, voyeurism, and subversion, where emotional resilience and mental and moral clarity are challenged.
AUSLAND is a muli-hour, constellative work in which various artistic performances related to a theme unfold in adjacent spaces. Viewers move from one happening to the next, creating an exhibition-like experience. AUSLAND creates a new experience where all spaces are characterized by playful experimentation, subversion, and darkness. It taps into the current zeitgeist where people consciously immerse themselves in new and fictional realms of experience.
- Jefta van Dinther
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by: Juan Pablo Camara, Louise Dahl, emeka ene, Leah Katz, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojević, Roger Sala Reyner, Mette Nadja Hansen and Jefta van Dinther
Composition: Billy Bultheel
Costume and set design: Cristina Nyffeler
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Voice coach: Mette Nadja Hansen and Doreen Kutzke
Dramaturgical Advice: Maja Zimmermann
Outside Eye: Thiago Granato
Photography: Carl Thorborg
Art Direction: Martin Falck
Technical direction: Andrea Parolin
Light technique: Fabian Bleisch
Sound technique: Marius Kirch
Management: Sven Neumann
Distribution: ART HAPPENS
Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber
Touring management: Romy Hansford-Gerber
Administration: transmission GmbH (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE)
Production: Jefta van Dinther
Co-production: Tanz im August Berlin / HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Dansens Hus Stockholm
In collaboration with: Berlin Atonal
Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin
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 Social Cohesion, and Swedish Arts Council
| Date | Performance | City Country | Organisation/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29.05.2025 | AUSLAND | Munich (de) | Dance Munich |
| 30.05.2025 | AUSLAND | Munich (de) | Dance Munich |
| 19.08.2024 | AUSLAND (world premiere) | Berlin (de) | Tanz im August |
| 18.08.2024 | AUSLAND (world premiere) | Berlin (de) | Tanz im August |
| 17.08.2024 | AUSLAND (world premiere) | Berlin (de) | Tanz im August |
| 16.08.2024 | AUSLAND (world premiere) | Berlin (de) | Tanz im August |