Co-production 2011-12

GRIND

by Jefta van Dinther in collaboration with Minna Tiikkainen and David Kiers

Grand Theatre Groningen | 21 February 2012 | www.grandtheatregroningen.nl

De Gouvernestraat Rotterdam | 23 February 2012 | www.degouvernestraat.nl

Inkonst Malmö | 29 February 2012 | www.inkonst.com

PACT Zollverein Essen | 2+3 March 2012 | www.pact-zollverein.de

Hebbel am Ufer Berlin | 16+17 March 2012 | www.hebbel-am-ufer.de

Frascati Amsterdam | 4+5 April 2012 | www.theaterfrascati.nl

Tanzquartier Vienna | 14 April 2012 | www.tqw.at

Chasse Breda | 19 December 2012 | www.chasse.nl

Frascati Amsterdam | 21+22 December 2012 | www.theaterfrascati.nl

“HARDCORE... a black scenic hole…filled with flashing electroshock-dance, hard pulsating techno and a kind of 3D sound-effects that with low-frequency rumbling vibrations scares the wax in the ears out through their ear ducts... Grind is a strange and brutal experience for eye, ear and body. The intellect is wiped out and matter is set in motion." - Anna Ångström

©Ivo Hofsten

Imagine a place that defies your senses. Imagine rhythms that affect your vision. Imagine a room where the dimensions of the space appear resilient. Imagine the pressure of sound transforming a body into vibrations. Imagine light that makes you perceive darkness. GRIND offers this place - where the components of body, light and sound create binds that affect, confuse and move. 

GRIND is a collaboration between choreographer and dancer Jefta van Dinther, lighting designer Minna Tiikkainen and sound designer David Kiers. Inspired by synesthesia, the performance seeks to challenge our grip on reality by suspending our senses and short-circuiting perception. Minimizing in order to maximize, GRIND forges simple elements into a full-on affective machine. Through duration and repetition the components of body, light and sound turn around and around, mixing until they start to seem foreign. With pulsating, cutting, flickering lights and the unrelenting beats of dark, loopy techno, it is a choreography of matter that GRIND generates.

Concept: Jefta van Dinther and Minna Tiikkainen
Choreography and Dance: Jefta van Dinther
Lighting design: Minna Tiikkainen
Sound design: David Kiers
Music by: David Kiers and Emptyset

GRIND is a production by Jefta van Dinther – Sure Basic and Minna Tiikkainen, executive producer: Hybris 
Konstproduktion – Sweden and Frascati Productions – The Netherlands

Co-production: Frascati Productions (Amsterdam), Weld (Stockholm), Tanzquartier (Vienna), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Grand Theatre (Groningen) and Jardin d'Europe through Cullberg Ballet (Stockholm)

Funded by: the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Nordic Culture Point | Supported by: Fabrik Potsdam