PREMIERE
This year's opening performance takes the audience on a walk, surrounded by dance and yoik. Through dance and yoik the performance reflects on the power of standing together and the awareness for the common ground and nature we stand on.
The performance starts outside of Harstad kulturhus and takes the audience on a walk that ends on the main stage of Harstad kulturhus. The audience and the performers moves as a great crowd, and thus the audience is part of the performance.
The theme of the performance is our relationship to nature as humans and humans as nature.
The 7 female performers on the stage are acknowledged dancers, yoikers and singers. The musical expression of the performance is polyphonic joik composed by yoik professor Frode Fjellheim. The yoik is a key element in the performance and the performers will both yoik and dance.
In order to ensure safety for both audience and performers, audience members and performers must wear a face mask until they arrive at permanently mounted seats at Harstad kulturhus, these will be handed out at the start of the performance.
Elle Sofe's approach and choreographic language make her one of the most interesting choreographers of her generation. She manages to present hyperlocal themes in a way that makes the experience universal.
