How do you find your home when the ground under your feet disappears?
The need to feel connected, recognized and secure is in every human being. But what if, due to personal circumstances, you lose your home? When the place you identify with no longer exists? In Domeless, two dancers delve into this search for a new home. They build walls, break down parts and eventually try to create a safe haven again. But what does that actually take? How do they build something when they have limited resources?
Domeless challenges you to think about the essence of a home and its connection to yourself and the world around you. Walls can provide protection, but they can also create distance. How do you stay in touch with yourself and your surroundings when you are cut off from society? And if you are both on opposite sides of the wall, who actually takes care of whom?
Domeless is a performance about the impact of loss and finding your new place in the world.
An ode to those who make us feel at home.
Bio Jefta Tanate
Jefta Tanate graduated from ArtEZ's dance school and entered the Dutch dance world through his internship with Scapino Ballet. He worked with Arch8, Johannes Wieland, Panama Pictures and RITUAL. In 2017, Jefta was nominated for a Swan for "most impressive dance performance" with his role in Jasper van Luijk's The Definition of Now. In 2022, he was nominated again, this time for a Young Swan for his performance in Birds by Dalton Jansen and Anne Maike Mertens, by DOX and Theater Rotterdam. In his dance career, Jefta has used multiple techniques and methods, such as contact improvisation, Martial Arts and circus, in which he further developed at Maas Theater & Dance, Panama Pictures and Arch8. Since 2022, he has been a creator at Theater a/d Rijn, where he will make two productions.
Credits
Concept: Jefta Tanate
Performers: Roni Yaacobi, Sem van der Zouwen
Artistic support: Peter Hendrikx
Dramaturgy: Eylül Fidan Akıncı
Costume design: Jivika Biervliet
Set design: Jefta Tanate
Advice on scenography: Julia Vargas
Light design: Rob Daanen
Sound design: Zino Schat & Adrian Newgent
Production: Theater aan de Rijn, aangesloten bij De Nieuwe Oost
Supported by: Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Gemeente Arnhem, Provincie Gelderland, Provincie Overijssel, VSBfonds, VriendenLoterij Fonds & Dioraphte
