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Centered 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

Unearth is a piece for ten performers, including Jefta van Dinther, repeated in a loop over a period of four hours. This performance is to be seen from the ground, where the spectator sits on cushions to vibrate along with their reptilian crawl rather than looking at it from the stands like a theatrical object. The audience shares the same floor, from which the multitude of gestures they perform are born and die, like so many symbolic missions to relieve their scourge. A memorizing vocal morphing frees our imagination so that we become fully absorbed in the experience.