A choreographic landscape in which the signs speaks and the body listens
Date: 17 February
Time: 19.30
Date: 18 February
Time: 18:00
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Mercury Rising emerges from a phenomenological excavation of language. Created in collaboration with and performed by Dawn Jani Birley, Rita Mazza, and Lukas Malkowski, the performance charts both ancient and future non-linear languages, navigating the terrain between communication, gesture, agency, and physicality.
Mercury Rising positions the body as a volatile site of discourse—a place where meaning is made, unmade, and transformed through movement.
While inviting its audience to decipher an abundance of signs, the work also explores the slippery nature ofinterpretation and ultimately releases us from the need for the literal or the explanatory. Incorporating multiplesign languages, and created for all audiences—including Deaf and hearing audiences—Mercury Rising addresses the complexity of human communication on the brink of a paradigm shift. What we share, in the end, is not certainty—but the impossibility of full understanding, and the urge to connect nonetheless.
Jefta van Dinther
Choreographer
Jefta van Dinther is a Swedish-Dutch choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm and Berlin. He trained at Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and since 2008 has created several performances that have toured internationally. From 2019 to 2022, van Dinther was associate choreographer at Cullberg.
Among his most acclaimed works are Plateau Effect, Protagonist, Dark Field Analysis, Unearth, and REMACHINE. In 2016, Dansnät Sverige toured his work THIS IS CONCRETE, and he has also created choreography for the music video Monument by Robyn & Röyksopp.
Van Dinther was artistic director of the master’s program in choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts (DOCH) between 2012 and 2014 and has been awarded the Birgit Cullberg Scholarship and the Swedish Theater Critics’ Dance Award. His work is characterized by a strong desire to explore the relationship between people, society, the environment, and other life forms.
CREDITS
Choreography: Jefta van Dinther
Created and performed by: Rita Mazza, Dawn Jani Birley, Lukas Malkowski
Costumes and stage: Cristina Nyffeler
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Sound design: David Kiers, including “Run for Your Life (feat. La Chat)” by Clipping, “Cangilón” by Nicolás Jaar and “Momentaries” by Bjarni Gunnarsson
Backdrop surface: Gonçalo Sena
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Smeets
Artistic advisor: Maja Zimmermann
Reversal editor: Tomislav Feller
Technical direction: Andrea Parolin och Fabian Bleisch
Light: Fabian Bleisch
Sound: Andrea Parolin
Management: Sven Neumann
Distribution: Sarah De Ganck, ART HAPPENS
Production management: Uta Engel and Romy Hansford-Gerber
Financial management: transmissions GmbH (DE) och
Interim kultur AB (SE)
Produced by: Jefta van Dinther
Co-production: Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Cndc – Angers (Accueil Studio), Dansens Hus Stockholm, Dansnät Sverige, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin och PACT Zollverein Essen
Med stöd av: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion och Fonds Darstellende Künste
Photo: Adam Munnings & Rhys Powell
År 2025 finansierades Jefta van Dinther av the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion samt Kulturrådet, Sverige.
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