"I want the body, the light, and the sound to extend almost literally and reach the audience directly without the need for an interpretative filter."
Jefta van Dinther
After the previous acclaimed The Way Things Go, dancer and choreographer Jefta van Dinther creates a new work for the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm, titled Plateau Effect. This performance aims to disorient and challenge the audience, rapidly blending choreography, lights, and sounds in a quest to deepen the processes of perception and sensory contamination.
The nine dancers on stage resemble a constantly moving amalgam, in a disorderly progression through various fields of action. The actions—such as communicating, leading, constructing, and inhabiting spaces—transform into choreography when the performers join and meet in a common effort to create something that the individuals alone could not aspire to. With Plateau Effect, Jefta van Dinther continues his exploration "in the field of perception and synesthesia," intending to cultivate and promote a space where the audience can experience a time together with things they do not recognize.
The Cullberg Ballet was founded by choreographer and dancer Birgit Cullberg in 1967, who brought it to fame, and is part of Riksteatern, the National Touring Theatre/National Theatre Company, the largest theatre company in Sweden. Since its inception, the Cullberg Ballet has stood out for the personalities involved in its projects and the talent of its dancers. The company currently consists of fifteen dancers from almost as many countries. The Cullberg Ballet has performed and continues to perform worldwide, promoting Swedish dance culture internationally. The company collaborates with various national and international choreographers and performing artists, creating both large productions and equally significant site-specific works.
Dancer and choreographer Jefta van Dinther lives and works between Stockholm and Berlin. He has performed as a dancer with choreographers such as Mette Ingvartsen, Xavier Le Roy, Ivana Müller, Kristine Slettevold, and Frédéric Gies. In addition to his work as a choreographer and dancer, he is engaged as a choreographic teacher and has recently been appointed artistic director of the Master’s Program in Choreography at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.
