The Homeless - a dance performance

The Homeless - a dance performance

The woman Meqqu, a shaman from a small community in western Greenland, is assigned the journey of a lifetime into the wide world. Her task is to bring back a young man's lost soul. The journey leads her astray, and suddenly it is 1978, and she finds herself in a Danish prison cell. In the same cell, a young man wakes up. This performance is a deeply personal story of failure in life, of repeatedly falling victim to yourself and circumstances, but still being able to get up, move forward and live the life you are meant to live. The work is fiction, inspired by Elisabeth's real life experiences and encounters across generations in Greenland, in the past and today.

Elisabeth is originally from Sisimiut in Greenland, but has lived in northern Sweden for 30 years. She was trained as an actress at the Tuukkak Theater in Denmark 1983-1988, of which two years were studies in Butoh Dance and Noh Theater in Japan. Elisabeth works as a freelance actress and mask dancer. She now also gives workshops in liberating dance and mask dance all over Scandinavia, Greenland and other parts of the world as well as lectures in various contexts within dance and health. Elisabeth has been employed by Giron Sámi Teáhter and has worked at a number of different theatres, also in Greenland.

Choreography and dramaturgy: Ada Eino Jurgensen.

Dancer: Elisabeth Heilmann Blind.

Composer: Tuomas Rounakari.

Jojk: Lars Henrik Blind.

Lighting Design: David Andersson.

Costume: Norlands Theater in Mo I Rana.

Language consultant: Inga Hansen.

Photo: Petvin Sandström.

A special thank you to:

Kulturskolan in Kiruna, my mentor Stina Yadav Olsson and Urfolksspår.