Mette Ingvartsen / Jefta van Dinther
It’s in the Air
It’s in the Air
Choreography and Performance, Jefta van Dinther and Mette Ingvartsen
Light and Set Design , Minna Tiikkainen
Sound and Photography, Peter Lenaerts
Dramaturgy, Bojana Cvejic
Technic, Oded Huberman
Production Management, Kerstin Schroth
Production Mette Ingvartsen/Great Investment and Jefta van Dinther/Sure Basic
Coproduction PACT Zollverein (Essen) ; Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) ; Kaaitheater (Brussels)
Corealisation Théâtre de la Cité internationale ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Funded by Haupstadtkulturfonds (Berlin) and Kunstradet, Danish Arts Council (Denmark)
Avec le soutien de Eurotramp (Allemagne), Les Brigittines (Bruxelles), Charleroi/Danses, Centre Chorégraphique de la Communauté Française de Belgique (Brussels), Ballhaus Naunynstraße (Berlin) and sommer.bar 2007 a project of Tanz im August (Berlin)
It’s in the Air is an aerial, dynamic piece in which the two dancers use trampolines as extensions of their bodies. The infinite swinging of bodies propelled in the air paradoxically creates an impression of stillness. The choreography produces a quasi-cinematic experience, displaying all the nuances between activity and passivity.
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