The woven, Swedish fishing nets and the Eritrean practice of braided hair are intertwined to create an Afro-Nordic folklore, a new landscape where in opportunities for recovery and belonging can be found.
Dancer: Adam Seid Tahir. Photo: Amina Seid Tahir.
several attempts at braiding my way home is a collection of strategies for creating home in an afro-nordic landscape. It is a performance where precise rhythm travels like underwater signals in the ocean.
Shifting between labour and speculative proposals several attempts at braiding my way home insists on fiction as a tool for quaking potential and finding opportunities for recovery and belonging. The performance swims alongside Clymene dolphins, who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to walruses who trust their hair for navigation.
Thu 6.6. performance is directed for people of the global majority/BIPOC. This refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous, and or have been racialized as ‘ethnic minorities’.
Also a performance-related workshop Deep Dive will be arranged for BIPOC-people on Wednesday 5.6.
Note! The performance has strong sound and light effects.
Adam and Amina Seid Tahir are siblings of Swedish/Eritrean heritage. Amina is a choreographer and visual artist while Adam is a choreographer, dancer and web developer.
Choreographers: Amina Seid Tahir & Adam Seid Tahir
Initiated and performed by: Adam Seid Tahir
Dramaturg: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Music: Crystallmess
Hair-costume: Malcolm Marquez
Costume: Amina Seid Tahir
Light: Jonatan Winbo
Tour producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Supported by: Kulturrådet, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, MARC, Riksteaterns Produktionsresidens för dans 2021