…The story goes, Skinfaxi pulls the chariot of Dagr across the sky and its mane shines at the sky and earth below to light up the day. While Hrímfaxi pulls the chariot of Nótt and the night sky appears, while "froth" is believed to fall from its bite down to the earth and become dew…

Skinfaxi and Hrimfaxi* are bound in an eternal cyclical exchange between sun and moon, galloping through endless shades of light. In the rhythmic cycle of pulling day and night across the sky, they look upon the other’s creation in awe, and so they wonder of the other's wonders. In the crossings from dawn to dusk there is a moment of twilight, a glimpse of another world and an exchange is happening between the two - a new cycle of exploration begins, a thrilling awakening.

‘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.

Adam Seid Tahir is a choreographer working with methods that use speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centers their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming as a portal for inspiration and the discourse of belonging and centralizing the experience of the so-called margins in the Nordics.

Disclaimer, this is the story of the working creatures of the mythology. Not the gods.