Get close to the body in a vulnerable and intimate duet that moves between light, wakefulness, darkness and dream. Here, blood becomes a prerequisite for stories about life and technology.

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Venue

Blackbox, Barnhusgatan 12-14

Duration

55 minutes

27 Nov

20:30

28 Nov

20:30

29 Nov

16:00

Note! Please note that parts of the performance are performed in total darkness. This is an intentional part of the experience. If you have any questions or special needs, please contact our staff before the performance. Recommended from 15 years old.

In Dark Field Analysis a heightened sense of being is evoked alive by placing the uniquely human in relation to other life forms. An evocative, intimate and winding conversation takes place between two naked men on a carpet where blood becomes the common thread. Organic meets synthetic, human and animal - the physical against the immaterial; what I vividly recall is the colour red.

Dark Field Analysis takes its name from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy (dark field microscopy) to diagnose systemic bodily conditions that originate in the blood. But the conversation between the two men involves more than medical facts. Here, blood serves as a metaphor for looking inwards. A seeing that looks not only at our physical bodies but also into and beyond ourselves. 

Dark Field Analysis has been voted second best dance performance by the Dutch newspaper NRC, and listed as the fifth best performance of 2018 in Vienna, Austria. The show premiered in summer 2017 at Tanz im August in Berlin. 

The performance was shown 24-26 October 2017 at Dansens Hus Lilla scen (now called Blackbox). 

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Photo: Jubal Battisti

About Jefta van Dinther

Jefta van Dinther (1980) is a choreographer and dancer. His work is characterised by a clear physical approach and almost always stages an exploration of movement. The body is at the centre of the works, which interact with light, sound and different materials to form a whole.

Central to his work is the question of what it means to be human, explored through its relationship to society, community and environment, but also to other forms of life such as animals and other non-human entities.

Van Dinther's works include AUSLAND (2024), REMACHINE (2023), Unearth (2022), the diptychs On Earth I'm Done: Islands (2022) and Mountains (2021), The Quiet (2019), Plateau Effect for Staatsballett Berlin (2019), Dark Field Analysis (2017), Protagonist (2016), As It Empties Out (2014), Plateau Effect (2013), THIS IS CONCRETE (2012), The Blanket Dance (2011), GRIND (2011), Kneeding (2010), The Way Things Go (2009) and IT'S IN THE AIR (2008). Jefta van Dinther has also choreographed and dances in the music video Monument (2015) by Robyn & Röyksopp. Jefta was an associate choreographer with Cullberg between 2019-2022.

In 2012, van Dinther was awarded the Birgit Cullberg grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Van Dinther also received the Swedish Theatre Critics' Dance Award 2013 for Plateau Effect, which was also selected for the Swedish Performing Arts Biennale 2015. GRIND was awarded the Säde Prize in Finland for best lighting design and received three awards at the Favoriten Festival in Dortmund, 2012.

Van Dinther graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003 and was subsequently engaged as a dancer, working with several choreographers such as Mette Ingvartsen, Frederic Gies, Kristine Slettevold, Keren Levi, Ivana Muller, Leine&Roebana and Xavier le Roy. Van Dinther teaches choreography at various international centres and training programmes. He was appointed Artistic Director of the Master's Programme in Choreography at DOCH (Stockholm School of Dance and Circus) between 2012-2014.

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Uncompromisingly tender and hard-hitting - a mental thriller about our existence.

-SvD