Adam Seid Tahir is on stage crouching on the floor in a blue light

© Benedicte Ramfjord

Adam Seid Tahir is on stage laying on the floor with their leg as a fin, next to a long weave of hair.

© Amina Seid Tahir

Adam Seid Tahir is unbraiding their braids and then weaving the hair extensions into a long weave.

© Benedicte Ramfjord

42 min

Shifting between labor and speculative proposals ”several attempts at braiding my way home” insists on fiction as a tool for quaking potential and finding opportunities for recovery and belonging. The performance swims with the Clymene dolphins who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to the walruses who trust their hair for navigation. ”several attempts at braiding my way home” is a collection of strategies for creating home in an afro-nordic landscape. Braiding hair, fusing bones, growing fins. It is a heatwave and a longing for home.

Credits

Choreographers: Amina Seid Tahir & Adam Seid Tahir
Initiated and performed by: Adam Seid Tahir
Dramaturg: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Music: Crystallmess
Hair-costume: Malcolm Marquez
Costume: Amina Seid Tahir
Light: Jonatan Winbo
Tour producers: Johnson & Bergsmark

Supported by Kulturrådet, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, MARC, Riksteaterns Produktionsresidens för dans 2021