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Havets Hvilken is an activist project about global climate change. An interactive performative installation at the intersection of art, dance, music and lighting design. Based on a dialogue with indigenous people from Greenland, Brazil and Scandinavia about ecology, multinaturalism and animism, the whole idea of ​​the installation is to dispel cultural myths about climate. Melting ice and floods are processed in a performative, poetic space.

How can the unpredictable consequences of climate change be understood so that they resonate in the individual?
The ice melts: Is a meditative space. It shows a dialogue between the iceberg and man. Inspiration from Greenland.
Flood: Is a cyclic space that shows a cohesion between man and the wave. Inspiration from Virginia Woolf's novel 'The Waves'.

As a spectator, you are invited into an installation to feel the ice melt and flood the room under the influence of light, music, speech and movement.

Duration 30 min.

Dancers: Alexander Montgomery-Andersen, Thomas Johansen, Camilla Spidsøe and Liv Mikaela Sanz. Photo: Björn Abelin

You will experience some of the highest recognized artists in the Nordics and Greenland.

Participating dancers Jon Ole Olstad og Liv Mikaela Sanz Choreographer and concept Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen Visual artist Marianne Grønnow Light design Jesper Kongshaug Composers and musician Carsten Dahl og Nils Henrik Asheim Supported by Augustinus Foundation, Nordisk Ministerråd, Knud Højgaard Foundation, Kulturkontakt Nord, Nordic Culture Foundation, Statens Artfond, William Demant Foundation.

Yggdrasil Dance, An image of the artistic vision for Yggdrasil Dance is the tree Yggdrasil from Norse mythology. The roots of the tree symbolize the people of the earth, who each have their own culture and thus each their own root. All the cultures come together and are influenced by each other in the tree trunk, after which they further branch out and form new cultures.

Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen PhD associate professor, Birgitte's performing arts productions combine dance, music and installation and are created based on current research, which provides fertile ground for understanding across national borders and cultural divides. With some of the world's most renowned musicians, dancers, lighting and visual artists, poetic lingering narratives are created in which nature plays a significant role.

They are developed in a translocal collaboration that becomes a new hybrid, a new community, in the global dialogue. This dialogue is based on both artistic and social elements. It is my experience that a transformation takes place both artistically and socially for the performers and the audience in the translocal meeting.