Choreography & direction: Jefta van Dinther / Creation & performance: Juan Pablo Cámara & Roger Sala Reyner / Lighting design: Minna Tiikkainen / Scenography: Cristina Nyffeler / Sound design: David Kiers with songs based on the tracks “The Slow Drug” and “Horses in my Dreams” by PJ Harvey / Text: Jefta van Dinther, Juan Pablo Cámara & Roger Sala Reyner / Assistance choreography: Thiago Granato / Artistic advice: Gabriel Smeets & Felix Bethge van Dinther / Technical coordination: Bennert Vancottem / Art Direction: Martin Falck / Management: Sven Neumann / Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets / Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS / Production management: Uta Engel & Romy Hansford-Gerber / Financial management: transmissions GmbH
What makes us human? “Dark Field Analysis” delves deep into the essence of life – a captivating performance between two bodies in diffuse light, exploring existential questions in an intense atmosphere.
“Using the good old simple stage tools of light, music and body, van Dinther blurs contours, dissolves boundaries and creates a new world.” (Frank Schmid, kulturradio rbb)
What gives life its intensity? And what ultimately distinguishes humans from other forms of life? “Dark Field Analysis”, which draws its title from a branch of alternative medicine that uses dark field microscopy to analyse blood, unfolds like an existentialist fever dream. Immersed in diffuse light, two men engage in an increasingly gripping and uncompromising exchange about the essence of humanity. Set against a soundtrack inspired by PJ Harvey songs and grasping the theme of blood as an analogy for looking both inwards and outwards, both into and beyond the self, the performance resolutely places human life, stripped bare of all its self-protective and deceptive facades, under the microscope.
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Dates
Past
Further Information
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Credits
Production: Jefta van Dinther. Administration: Interim kultur AB (svb). Co-production: Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sadler’s Wells London, PACT Zollverein Essen, Centro Cultural Vila Flor Guimaraes, Dansens Hus Oslo. Funded by: Swedish Arts Council, City of Stockholm, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Co-production Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag. Supported by: O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo, BUDA Kortrijk, The Swedish National Touring Theatre.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
