Shifting between labor 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 with the Clymene dolphins who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to the walruses who trust their hair for navigation. ”several attempts at braiding my way home” is a collection of strategies for creating home in an afro-nordic landscape. Braiding hair, fusing bones, growing fins. It is a heatwave and a longing for home.
Artist / Company Bio
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist, crafting performative works and designing/developing websites. Seid Tahir uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centres their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction.
Amina Seid Tahir (she/her) is a Swedish-Eritrean artist and choreographer. Her work is rooted in themes around resting and dreaming within the global majority community. Braiding together her interests in ancestral knowledge with oral traditions and myths, she creates a universe between reality and fiction. Manifesting spaces where dreams can work like seeds to grow futures.
@aminaseidtahir
Credits
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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 -
Lighting
Jonatan Winbo -
Tour producers
Johnson & Bergsmark
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Premiere date and place
09.09.2021
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Duration (minutes)
42 -
Target group
Open for all audiences of all ages, but directed towards a global majority (read:BIPOC) audience