Van Dinther and Granato in Fabrik Potsdam

Fabrik Potsdam shows This is concrete: a danceperformance by choreographers and dancers Jefta van Dinther (NL) and Thiago Granato (BR).

The performance ventures staging something intimate, incorporating the volatile as building blocks in its composition – offering to its audience the opportunity to spend time with something uncertain and infectiously slow.

The performance involves two people's bodies intermingling with each other continuously, blurring their boundaries. Infused in a sonic environment of dizzying beats and revolving shadows, the performers’ trip is lengthy, sedated, coital. Movements mutate into words as the voices start to speak. In the corporeal and social fusion generated between them, their drive slides into pleasure, talking into eating, fucking into dancing and symbiosis into parasitism.

Choreography and Dance: Jefta van Dinther and Thiago Granato

Lighting design: Jan Fedinger |  Sound design: David Kiers

Production management: Emelie Bergbohm

Production by Jefta van Dinther – Sure Basic and Thiago Granato | Executive producer: Interim kultur – Sweden and Sure Basic – The Netherlands | Co-production: PACT Zollverein, Grand Theatre Groningen, Panorama Festival Rio de Janeiro and Fabrik Potsdam / Étape Danse | Funded by: the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, City of Stockholm and Fonds Podiumkunsten The Netherlands, Central de Cultura Supported by: CNDC Angers

www.jeftavandinther.com

www.fabrikpotsdam.de