A completely different experience at DYNAMO focusing on Denmark as a colonial power!
The year is 1978. A Greenlandic girl sits at a kitchen table in a suburban home near Aalborg, staring at the colorful flowers on the oilcloth. The Danish state has placed her in foster care to give her access to “a culture with future prospects.”
But soon, she stands up and walks away. Back to Greenland. Backward through time. She walks, but she is not alone. A Danish anthropologist follows her, and along the way, they encounter:
Ships from the 1960s and 1950s carrying Greenlandic children to Denmark for re-education; craftsmen, nurses, and teachers traveling to modernize Greenland. They continue and pass a stuffed polar bear and fake icebergs on their way to Emma Gad’s colonial exhibition at Tivoli in 1905, while the anthropologist keeps noting everything down, shaking her head.
But the girl just keeps walking, witnessing the Royal Greenland Trade Company of the 1800s, with ships heavily loaded with oil, whale meat, blubber, and sealskins. She walks further back to the 1700s, encountering the Danish mission and Hans Egede. Backward and toward something that has always been there.
DURATION 90 min
AGE 14+
LANGUAGE Danish & Greenlandic
TICKET DYNAMO CARD 0,- ADULT DOOR SALE 200,- / PRE-SALE 120,- / PENSIONER / YOUTH U. 25 / STUD. 80,- CLIMATE 40,- / CHILD U 15 & SCHOOL 40,-
Also offered as a school performance: playtimes 7th May and 8th May at 10.00.
Accessibility All seating spaces (including audience seating) in DYNAMO are accessible for wheelchairs, canes, crutches or other mobility aids. Read more about accessibility in DYNAMO here.
Trigger warnings: None
Supported by Frederiksbergfonden, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Nordea Foundation, Hoffmann Husman’s Foundation, Copenhagen Municipality’s Performing Arts Committee, Aarhus Municipality’s Cultural Development Fund, the Cultural Fund for Projects Between Greenland and Denmark, and the Danish Arts Foundation’s Project Funding Committee for Performing Arts.
