Jefta van Dinther

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Jefta van Dinther at the dance in August (2017)

Jefta van Dinther (born March 4, 1980 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch- Swedish choreographer and dancer. Today van Dinther lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm .

Life and accomplishments

Van Dinther grew up in the Netherlands and Sweden. From 1999 to 2003 he attended the Amsterdam University of the Arts , where he studied modern and contemporary dance . He then worked as a dancer with various choreographers, including Mette Ingvartsen, Xavier Le Roy and Ivana Müller. Since 2008 he has been creating his own pieces as a choreographer.

Van Dinthers pieces can be seen regularly in the program of international venues and festivals, for example in Berlin at the Volksbühne , at the Komische Oper , at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and at Tanz im August , at London's Sadler's Wells Theater , at the Amsterdam City Theater , in the Center Georges-Pompidou and at the Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris , at the Viennese dance and performance festival ImPulsTanz and in the Tanzquartier Wien .

In addition to producing his own pieces, van Dinther teaches choreography in various locations, including at the Stockholm Dance School . From 2012 to 2014 he was lecturer and artistic director of the master’s course in Choreography .

Many pieces are created in cooperation with the lighting designer Minna Tiikkainen and the sound designer David Kiers, with whom van Dinther has worked for many years. Van Dinther mainly produces his own works, but is also commissioned for pieces, for example by the Swedish Cullberg Ballet (2013 Plateau Effect and 2016 Protagonist ). For the Staatsballett Berlin , van Dinther adapted his 2013 piece Plateau Effect , which has been shown at the Komische Oper since the 2019/20 season.

Works (selection)

  • 2008: It's in the Air , collaboration with Mette Ingvartsen
  • 2009: The Way Things Go
  • 2010: Kneeding
  • 2011: The Blanket Dance , collaboration with the choreographers Frederic Gies and DD Dorvillier
  • 2011: Grind , collaboration with lighting designer Minna Tiikkainen and sound designer David Kiers
  • 2012: This is Concrete , collaboration with the choreographer Thiago Granato
  • 2013: Plateau Effect (for the Swedish Cullberg Ballet )
  • 2014: As It Empties Out
  • 2015: Monument , choreography for the music video by Röyksopp & Robyn
  • 2016: Protagonist (for the Swedish Cullberg Ballet )
  • 2017: Dark Field Analysis
  • 2019: The Quiet
  • 2019: Plateau Effect for the Berlin State Ballet

Awards (selection)

  • 2012: Birgit Cullberg Grant
  • 2012: The Wild Card and Prize of the Youth Jury at the Theater Festival Favoriten , Dortmund
  • 2013: Swedish Theater Critics Dance Prize for Plateau Effect

literature

  • Gabriele Brandstetter : Synchronization of movements in contemporary dance: On the relevance of somatic practices in the works of Jefta van Dinther. In: Thiemo Breyer, Michael B. Buchholz , Andreas Hamburger, Stefan Pfänder, Elke Schumann (Eds.): Resonance - Rhythm - Synchronization. Interactions in everyday life, therapy and art. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3544-7 , pp. 409-428.
  • Bojana Cvejić: Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-43739-6 . on-line

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Amsterdam School of Art. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ A piece of great drama . In: TAZ , September 1, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ Jefta van Dinther: Dark Field Analyzes . ( Memento of the original of July 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kulturradio , August 25, 2017, accessed on April 30, 2019. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturradio.de
  4. ↑ Strangely beautiful and transfixing . In: The Daily Telegraph , November 14, 2014, accessed March 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Protagonist, Planète des Songes . In: Liberation , January 18, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Website of the Cullberg Ballet. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Modern dance in Berlin can be so clever and classic . In: Berliner Morgenpost, September 7, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019.
  8. ↑ Jefta van Dinther: Plateau Effect . In: rbbKultur, September 7, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019.
  9. ↑ Kampnagel: Soaring dance theater dreams . In: Die Welt , March 20, 2010, accessed on March 20, 2018.
  10. ↑ Get to grips with reality by performing . In: Der Standard , April 19, 2010, accessed March 20, 2018.
  11. ↑ Game with game and tiger blanket . In: Der Standard , March 13, 2011, accessed March 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ Grind - architecture of the uncanny . In: Tanznetz, January 29, 2016, accessed on March 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ Desire in infinite space . In: K. West, March 8, 2013, accessed March 20, 2018.
  14. ↑ Trance and Trash . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 1, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  15. ↑ Nothing in the room . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 30, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  16. ↑ Link to the video on YouTube. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Sleepless in the club . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 15, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  18. ^ Studies in Black Matter . In: TAZ , August 24, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  19. ↑ The Quiet on Time Theft and Accelerated Society . In: Der Standard, December 13, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019.
  20. ↑ Start of the season at the Berlin State Ballet: Team building in a storm . In: Tagesspiegel, September 8, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019.
  21. ^ Plateau Effect at the Berlin State Ballet. A Radical Decision not to Dance at the Ballet. In: iHeartBerlin, July 7, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019.
  22. ^ Birgit Cullberg scholarship for Jefta van Dinther, former student Modern Theater Dance. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dinther, Jephta van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-Swedish choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht , Netherlands