Childrens performance - Conversation with Stone/ Samtale med Stein
lör 11 okt.
|Jillat - Samiskt Danscenter
Conversation with Stone is a gentle, listening-forward dance performance for children and families. Through movement, feeling and presence, a figure journeys “home” to a Sea Sámi landscape, weaving body, place and heritage.
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11 okt. 2025 17:00 – 17:30
Jillat - Samiskt Danscenter, Murjeksvägen 31, 962 70 Vuollerim, Sweden
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Conversation with Stone is a performance about belonging, culture, and a living landscape. The performance tells a personal story about returning to a Sea Sámi culture and to a landscape in Varanger. The figure in the performance, in many ways, dances the road home; a story about how, no matter where she goes, the stones from her home are her shoes. It is the wish to always carry her homeland with her by walking through the landscape. The figure has accepted her heritage within herself, in her surroundings, and she quite literally converses with the stones.
(Text inspired by a review of Conversation with Stone as presented at Cosmoscow in Moscow, autumn 2019.)
Conversation with Stone is a story told through the body, through emotions, dance, and presence. The performance seeks to create a space for children where listening is a major part of the experience. Original music is borrowed from the Sea…