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"Descendants Skellefteå" Choreography: youth in collaboration with Marit Shirin Corolasdotter. Filmphotographer: Tobias Norrfors
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"Descendants Reykjavik" Choreography: youth in collaboration with Asrún Magnúsdóttir. Filmphotographer: Carlo Cuppaiolo
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"Descendants Inari" Choreography: youth in collaboration with Auri Ahola. Filmphotographer: Kevin Franchett
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"Descendants Tórshavn" Choreography: Youth in collaboration with Katya R. D. Nielsen. Film photographer: Barbara Lervig
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"Descendants Ay Ay". Choreography: Youth in collaboration with Justin F. Kennedy. Filmphotographer: David Berg
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"Descendants Nuuk" Choreography: Youth in collaboration with Alexander Montgomery-Andersen. Filmphotographer: Ullanaq Ingemann
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"Descendants Copenhagen". Choreography: Youth in collaboration with Ingrid Tranum Velásquez. Filmphotographer: Stina Aletta Aikio
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"Descendants Accra". Choreography: Youth in collaboration with Nii-tete Yartey. Filmphotographer: Manuel Brown
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"Descendants Inari". Choreography: youth in collaboration with Heli Huovinen. Filmphotographer: Kevin Franchett
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Unfinished tales - a collective story Alexander Montgomery & Karianne Andreassen Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
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Unfinished Tales - a collective story Karianne Andreassen & Alexander Montgomery Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
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Unfinished Tales - a collective story Vár bech Arting & Inaja Skands Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
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Unfinished Tales - a collective story Vár bech Arting & Inaja Skands Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
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Unfinishes tales -a collective story Karianne Andreassen & Alexander Montgomery Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen
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Unfinished tales -a collective story Birtha Ragnhildur Asmundsdottir & Meri Nikula Photo: Annika Nilsson
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Unfinished tales - a collective story Birtha Ragnhildur Asmundsdottir & Meri Nikula Photo: Annika Nilsson
Unfinished Tales
- a collective story
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"Overgrown history is everywhere"
"Why do I know so little?"
"It feels like I have empty hand, no tools, a world of knowledge, but everything is in the dark"
"I hope nothing bad happens today, but it is ofcourse not good, what happened in the past
"It is not past, it is still here"
"We must continue talking, so that everyone can see, we all are one people"
(quotes from youth aged 13-19 years, during the first season of the cross-atlantic collaboration Unfinished Tales)
The Nordics have long met the painful scar tissue of colonialism with silence. But silence does not undo 500 years of practice. And silence does not heal trauma.
How does it feel to be young in the wake of colonialism? Having to find your identity between the unwritten pages of history books and black holes in the collective consciousness?
The nordic colonialism is an unfinished tale. Scar tissue of the past stretches into the everyday life of youth today, making the mindset of colonialism a present matter.
It is a tale composed by many voices and in the installation 'Unfinished Tales - a collective story' they meet in a raw and poetic archive of the emotional heritage and collective memories.
Unfinished tales -a collective story is created in collaboration between youth and artists from Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Finland/Sápmi, Norway, Svweden/Sápmi, Ghana and St.Croix.
8 performers from the Nordics and Ghana gathered in Copenhagen and created 4 interpretations of the same score. The score was composed by film, narratives and audiorecordings from 4 years of research with youth in thewhole Nordics, Ghana and St. Croix.
The 4 versions of Unfinished Tales will tour in the Nordics and Ghana, the performers guiding the audience through the tales, visions, dreams, hopes, perspectives and questions of the youth.
The research took place in 2019-2023, where 9 choreographers and youth between 13-19 years participated from Nuuk (Greenland), Tórshavn (Faroe Islands), Reykjavik (Iceland), Accra (Ghana), St. Croix (American virgin Islands), Oslo (Norway), Skellefteå (Sweden / Sápmi), Inari (Finland / Sápmi) and Copenhagen (Denmark).
In close collaboration with the local choreographers the youth expressed what nordic colonialism has ment and mean for their identity and everyday life.
Unfinished Tales is created in collaboration between:
The artists:
Artistic director and choreographer Ingrid Tranum Velásquez (DK), Poet Sarah Camille Osmundsen (NO), choreographer and dancer Nii-tete Yartey (GH), dancer Karianne Andreassen (NO), choreographer and dancer Alexander Montgomery (GL), choreographer and dancer Linda Remahl (SE), performer Meri Nikula (FI), dancer Birta Ásmundsdóttir (IS), choreographer and dancer Vár Bech Arting (FO), choreographer and dancer Inaja Skands (DK), dancer Maria Påhls (SE/FI), videoartist Stina Aletta Aikio (Sapmi/FI), scenographer Annika Nilsson (SE), composer Henriette Groth (DK)
- and youth aged 13-19 years from Nuuk, Torshavn, Reykjavik, Ay Ay (St.Croix), Accra, Oslo, Skellefteå, Inari and Copenhagen.
- and the institutions:
Northern Sustainable Futures (Arvidsjaur), NOYAM (Accra), Katuaq (Nuuk), Den Mangfaldige Scenen (Oslo), Annantalo (Helsinki), Norræna húsið (Reykjavik), Norðurlandahúsið (Tórshavn) og ZeBu(København).
In the creation of the Descendant films 2019-2021 we had the pleasure of additionally working with Camara Lundestad Joof (GM/NO), Marit Shirin Corolasdotter (Sapmi/SE), Auri Ahola (Sapmi/FI), Heli Huovinen (Sapmi/Finland), Justin F Kennedy (St. Croix), Ásrún Magnusdottir (IS), Katya R D Nielsen (FO), Jon Werede Hope (NO).
Ingrid Tranum Velásquez
Camara Lundestad Joof
Katya R D Nielsen
Justin Francis Kennedy
Ásrún Magnusdóttir
Alexander Montgomery-Andersen
Jon Werede Hope
Nii-tete Yartey
Heli Huovinen
Henriette Groth
Annika Nilsson
Stina Aletta Aikio
Marit Shirin Corolasdotter
Auri Ahola)
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