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.
Events in connection with the performance THE WANDERING HUMAN
Artistic introduction to the performance
Director Lotte Faarup talks about artistic, ethical and political considerations in connection with the creation of “The Wandering human”. We will discuss the themes: privilege blindness, circular dramaturgies, management of other people’s stories, the responsibility to break oppression and creating a theatre script on a collective basis.
Time and Place:
The Greenland House, Nordatlantisk Promenade 1, 5000 Odense C
Saturday 10.5. at 6.45-7.15 pm Free with purchase of a ticket to the performance
Dynamo Workspace, Finlandskaj 6, 5000 Odense C
Wednesday 7.5. at 10-10.15 pm Free with purchase of a ticket to the performance
Thursday 8.5. at 10-10.15 Free in connection with the purchase of a ticket to the performance
About creating collectively
The performers in “The Wandering Human” speak in this artist talk about collective artistic processes. Topics such as ownership and participation in the performance’s narrative, personal commitment, political indignation and the use of the body as a physical archive of experience will be touched upon. Afterwards there will be time for questions from the audience. The conversation will be moderated by the performance’s dramaturg Naja Dyrendom Graugaard.
Time and Place:
Dynamo Workspace
Friday 9.5. at 21.00-21.30 Free in connection with the purchase of a ticket to the performance
INFO FOR SCHOOLS – In connection with a collaboration around the performance between Det Olske Orkester and the school service in the Greenland House and the North Atlantic House:
Rigsfællesskabet – 4ever or in disintegration? online teaching material for primary schools.
Free educational courses targeted at the Danish primary school. There are four educational courses on the site as well as a final assignment and a thorough teacher’s guide as well as a number of materials that can be printed out for the students. The courses are interdisciplinary with descriptions of learning objectives for the individual subjects; history, social studies and geography. The courses can be supplemented with visits to the North Atlantic House/The Greenland House in Odense.
Rigsfællesskabet – 4ever or in disintegration? Here we would especially like to point out the “Independence Movement in Greenland”, which deals with the period from 1721 to 1953
Teachers can contact project coordinator Louise Jul regarding guidance on using the material, etc. on tel. +45 2246 0405 and lj@dgh-odense.dk
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.
