Dancer
Linnéa Sundling is educated at the Academy of Dance and Circus in Stockholm and has worked as a dancer and choreographer in various projects and companies since 2010. She has participated in many productions for children and young people and toured throughout Sweden as well as in Europe and Asia. Linnéa grew up in Umeå and has Umesami roots from Åsele in Västerbotten. In her artistry, she is driven by themes such as community, land, de/colonization and identity. She is curious about the traces that history has left in us and the land, and how these traces can take place in our bodies. Her artistic practice involves dance as a transformative embodiment - each movement varies according to her surroundings; energies, people and connection to space and land.
About the art
"I got to see an old shoelace that my grandmother's mother had laid. As I held it, I realized there was something I wasn't supposed to know about - a legacy that someone wanted to hide. The shoelace turned into a witness and bearer of a story. And then I started thinking about what other stories are out there."
Mojhtesh gurredh roughly means weaving stories in Southern Sami and is a dance and music performance for the whole family. With dance, Sami drum, joik, accordion and song, we offer different stories and memories from lands and people around Sápmi. After the performance, there is an opportunity for coffee and conversation and to weave your own stories into a large web.
The performance is partially interactive as the audience is invited to sing along with us in certain songs. Mojhtesh gurredh is preferably played to a multi-generational audience outdoors at a location where a fire is possible, preferably surrounded by trees. We gather with the audience some distance away and enter the venue together.
At the opening Linnea Sundling came with her and Nina Nordvall Vahlbergs production Mojhtesh Gurredh.
Film by Kenneth Ly
Edit by Liv Aira