Speech/less | Dansehallerne

A performance for everybody from 10 years and up.

With a background in both Greenland and Denmark, choreographer Sarah Aviaja Hammeken explores the complexity of having roots in two countries. On one hand, it provides a richness of opportunities to feel part of multiple cultures. Yet, one may also experience not quite fitting in anywhere. But what makes one feel part of a community – or not? What cultural references does one carry? And what is it like to not fully understand or master the language, traditions, and rituals of a culture?

In Speech/less, you will encounter two dancers and a musician, and as audience you become part of the performance.

Speech/less has toured extensively in schools and other places in Denmark, Greenland and Faeroe Islands.

Sarah Aviaja Hammeken is a choreographer and dancer educated at Balletakademien in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019, she established AVIAJA Dance, where she creates performances that draw on her Greenlandic origins. Hammeken is driven by a deep interest in engaging with society through the body and dance. Alexander Montgommery-Andersen is an Arctic artist with a Greenlandic background, and with a degree in dance from the Bårdar Akademiet, Norway. He works primarily with a Nordic perspective and is very interested in exploring how the physical boundaries of the body are expressed aesthetically – and arouse emotional responses in the audience. Mathilde Rosengren Bruun is a singer, songwriter and pianist. She is educated as a rhythmic singer at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium in Aarhus. Rosengren Bruun writes music under the name VELA in the genre of electronic pop.