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. Via a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material, and in a new collaboration with composer Anna von Hausswolff, REMACHINE draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.
With REMACHINE, Jefta van Dinther strives to create a Gesamtkunstwerk that brings together dance, light, sound and scenography into a monumental whole. His sophisticated aesthetic creates a pressing, attention-grabbing image. The central theme is the relationship between man and machine. The dancers move and sing throughout the performance on a large spinning disc. They make their way through time like a disciplined, relentless and insatiable marching chorus. A balancing act between leading and being led, between autonomy and dependence.
Van Dinther shows the powerlessness as well as the grandeur of people confronted with the inexorable course of the world. REMACHINE wants to touch us, to make us feel what it is to be human in an unmerciful world, to stand up and go on in spite of everything.
- Jefta van Dinther
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by: Brittanie Brown, Gyung Moo Kim, Leah Marojević, Manon Parent, Roger Sala Reyner and Sarah Stanley
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costume: Cristina Nyffeler
Sound: David Kiers including specially composed music based on “Ugly and Vengeful”, “Red Sun” and “The Truth, The Glow, The Fall” by Anna von Hausswolff
Voice coaching and musical advise: Doreen Kutzke, Johanna Peine and Manon Parent
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets and Maja Zimmermann
Assistant choreographer: Tomislav Feller
Audio Description: Emmilou Roessling in collaboration with Silja Korn and Sindri Runudde
Visuals: Jubal Battisti and Adam Munnings
Photo and film: Jubal Battisti and Elin Berge
Technical direction: Max Rux
Sound technique: Marius Kirch
Managing direction: Sven Neumann
Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Financial management: transmission GmbH (DE) and Interim kultur AB (SE)
Thanks to: Ulrich Rasche
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
Funded by: Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Jefta van Dinther is funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and Swedish Arts Council Arts Council and co-produced by DDD – Festival Dias da Dança and Concertgebouw Bruges
| Date | Performance | City Country | Organisation/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.03.2025 | REMACHINE | Sevilla (es) | Teatro Central |
| 15.03.2025 | REMACHINE | Sevilla (es) | Teatro Central |
| 09.05.2025 | REMACHINE | Oslo (no) | Dansens Hus |
| 10.05.2025 | REMACHINE | Oslo (no) | Dansens Hus |
| 24.04.2024 | REMACHINE | Porto (pt) | Festival DDD - Dias da Dança |
| 23.04.2024 | REMACHINE | Porto (pt) | Festival DDD - Dias da Dança |
| 03.03.2024 | REMACHINE | Berlin (de) | HAU / Hebbel am Ufer |
| 02.03.2024 | REMACHINE | Berlin (de) | HAU / Hebbel am Ufer |
| 01.03.2024 | REMACHINE | Berlin (de) | HAU / Hebbel am Ufer |
| 29.02.2024 | REMACHINE | Berlin (de) | HAU / Hebbel am Ufer |
| 27.01.2024 | REMACHINE | Vienna (at) | Tanzquartier Wien |
| 26.01.2024 | REMACHINE | Vienna (at) | Tanzquartier Wien |
| 09.12.2023 | REMACHINE | Bruges (be) | December Dance/Concertgebouw Brugge |
| 02.09.2023 | REMACHINE | Umeå (se) | Norrlandsoperan |
| 01.09.2023 | REMACHINE | Umeå (se) | Norrlandsoperan |