Speech/less | Dansehallerne

A performance for everybody from 8 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 Faroe Islands.

AVIAJA Dance is a contemporary dance company founded and led by Sarah Aviaja Hammeken, whose artistic vision is shaped by her Danish and Kalaallit (Greenlandic) heritage. The company’s work draws deeply from her Inuit roots, exploring the intersection between the physical body, emotion, and society. Through continuous movement research, AVIAJA Dance creates performances that fuse visual poetry with raw physical expression, capturing both vulnerability and strength.

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.