Malmö Archives - Dancephere

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.

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In the Midst of
a Natural Force

Vērpete (vortex, whirl), the creators-performers Erik Eriksson and Krišjānis Sants take the principle of a turning couple – a movement that is more familiar in games, folk and ballroom dancing – as a starting point and develop it into a dance of precision, speed, trust and exhilaration. As they vortex through the space, turning hand in hand, the performers bring the audience together and take part in dynamic patterns of repetition. The dancers create a paradox by committing to support one another through opposition, collaborating by constantly pulling apart. Vērpete is accompanied by live music of vibraphone and guitar, creating a dense and embracing soundscape, performed by Mārtiņš Miļevskis and Rihards Lībietis.

The audience shares the same space as performers and many have described their experience as if finding themselves in the midst of a natural force, perceived first by the body and then by the mind.

A Never-Ending Dawn

In the Midst of a Natural Force

In the Midst of
a Natural Force