Jefta van Dinther (SE\/DE) is a choreographer and dancer, based in Berlin. He grew up in Sweden, after which he moved to the Netherlands and graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003.<\/p>\n
Jefta\u2019s works include The Quiet (2019), Dark Field Analysis (2017), Protagonist for Cullbergbaletten (2016), Plateau Effect for Cullbergbaletten (2013), THIS IS CONCRETE (2012), GRIND (2011), The Blanket Dance (2011), Kneeding (2010), The Way Things Go (2009) and IT\u2019S IN THE AIR (2008). In 2019 Jefta restaged Plateau Effect for Berlin State Ballet which was included into their repertory in Komische Oper Berlin. Jefta also created the choreography for the the music video Monument (2015) by Robyn&R\u00f6yksopp and curated the festival LIAISON (2015) in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
Jefta van Dinther returns to Cullberg as Associated Choreographer to create two new works for the company, in 2021 and 2022. In the archaic-futuristic diptych On Earth I\u2019m Done, the audience is transported to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. The first part of the diptych is the solo Mountains, alternately performed by Agnieszka Sj\u00f6kvist Dlugoszewska\/Freddy Houndekindo\/Marco da Silva Ferreira. The second part, Islands, a group piece for 13 dancers, will premiere in May 2022.<\/p>\n
Jefta teaches in choreography, sharing his methods of work and practices. Between 2012-2014, he was artistic director of the MA program in Choreography at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Jefta was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Grant. In 2013 he was awarded The Swedish Theatre Critics’ prize for best production Plateau Effect that was also selected to The Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts in Malm\u00f6 2015. The performance GRIND was awarded the Finnish S\u00e4de prize for best lighting design and three further prizes at Favoriten Festival in Dortmund, 2012.<\/p>\n
Jefta van Dinther was, together with Alma S\u00f6derberg and Deborah Hay, associated artist with Cullberg, 2019-2022.<\/p>\n
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