Jefta van Dinther

Kneeding

What happens when inner worlds collide with outer reality? “Kneeding” explores the fluid boundary between mind and body through the continuous, pumping movement of three dancers. Spectators become intimate witnesses to this introspective journey where physicality meets psychology.

Showing during Berlin Art Week as an intimate performance, “Kneeding” is a choreography for three dancers, exploring the relation between what happens inside and outside of a body: how inner processes manifest themselves externally and how the exterior influences what is within.

The palpable reality of matter – the dancing body and its tactile surroundings – is combined with the immaterial reality of imagination. In this way, “Kneeding” negotiates between physicality and psychology, between “kneading” and “needing”. With continuous, pumping movement “Kneeding” works its way through the interlocking spaces of the mind and body. Seated on three sides of the dancers, the spectators become close witnesses of this undertaking. They are complicit in the act of producing and collecting the images that emerge, and at times literally implicated in the events that materialize amidst them.

Kneeding is presented at Jefta van Dinther’s studio Diorama in Rummelsburg — a rare opportunity to experience the work in the intimate setting of the artist’s own workspace.  

Concept: Jefta van Dinther / Performance: Louise Dahl, Jefta van Dinther, Thiago Granato / Original creation & performance: Jefta van Dinther, Frederic Gies, Thiago Granato / Sound: David Kiers / Management: Sven Neumann / Production management: Tammo Walter / PR and Marketing: Romy Hansford-Gerber / Financial management: transmissions GmbH

The presentation is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

General infos / Ticketing / Venue access info

• Running time ca. 50 mins. 
• There are limited free tickets available for these events, therefore maximum of 3 tickets can be reserved at a time
• Entrance is via Aufgang/entrance F only (near the boldering gym). Please follow signage to 4th floor to the studio DIORAMA
• There is a map on the DIORAMA website how to arrive to the studio with public transport: jeftavandinther.com/contact/
• Parking is available in front of the building. Access to the studio by means of same entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Please email tammo.walter@jeftavandinther.com prior to arrIval should you need to use the elevator.