About the choreographers
Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer working between Stockholm and Berlin. His work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach and always implies a staged research of movement itself. It deals with notions of illusion, the visible and the invisible, synesthesia, darkness, labour, the uncanny, affect, voice and image.
Thiago Granato is a choreographer and performer that lives and works in between Brazil and Europe. His own work as choreographer has been presented in different countries as Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany, Sweden and France. He was dance teacher at the Estúdio Nova Dança (São Paulo/Brazil), as well as for contemporary dance companies. During 2013 and 2014 he was selected to be fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart where he developed new choreographic research.
About the performance
THIS IS CONCRETE is a slow ride. Two men's bodies intermingle with each other incessantly, 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 two men's voices start to speak their mouths and bodies. In the corporeal and social fusion generated between them, their drive slides into pleasure, talking into eating, fucking into dancing and symbiosis into parasitism. THIS IS CONCRETE is a collaboration between choreographers and dancers Jefta van Dinther and Thiago Granato. The performance ventures staging something intimate, incorporating the volatile as building blocks in its composition - offering to its audience to spend time with something uncertain; something uncertain and infectiously slow.