In Mountains, Swedish choreographer Jefta van Dinther tackles the question of how to be and stay in love with our ever-changing world.

After creating two large scale productions for Cullberg the past years, Jefta van Dinther returns to the company as an associated artist (2019-2022) to create two new works. First out is Mountains, a collaborative solo work with dancer Suelem de Oliveira da Silva, performed by Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska.

As human beings, we are perpetually haunted by our own implication in the nature-culture bind. In Mountains, van Dinther tackles the question of how to be and stay in love with our ever-changing world. Through an expulsion of words, both familiar and foreign, the performer on stage acts as a conduit, revelling, lamenting and ranting on behalf of others. Her being unravels in the nexus between the physical, biological and anthropological – between gravitational forces, instinct and desire.

Jefta van Dinther 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. Jefta van Dinther is an associated artist at Cullberg, together with Alma Söderberg and Deborah Hay, 2019- 2021/22.

https://www.dansenshus.com/en/performances/mountains