December 10th – 11th, 2025 Dansstationen, Malmö
50 minutes
A Never-Ending Dawn
At times jittery and rapid, but then again lunging and feline, Tahir explores every shadowed corner to a soundtrack of galloping horses. Just as in any ritual, the time here is suspended if not abolished altogether.
Evgeny Borisenko
Dawn is exploring and reinterpreting Norse mythology through an Afro-nordic lens. In this piece Adam Seid Tahir is exploring and reflecting over the power contained within the symbols of day and night, light and dark? A binary that has been taken “hostage” through historical uses of the symbolic moral meanings of “good” and “bad”.
This work is a reflection upon the magical potential of both, the cyclical forces of light and dark and the shades in between. Foremost a continuation of the tradition of storytelling of myths and magical creatures and as a political gesture inserting a black body, a queer representation into Norse mythology.
Dawn is the first work in a series that re-interpret the runic alphabet of the Elder Futhark through a queer Afro-Nordic lens. This piece departs from the rune Dagaz, a rune symbolizing: day, dawn, awakening. Like all runes of the Elder Futhark, Dagaz carries many myths. Through these stories Dawn forms re-interpretations and alternate associations.