Photo: Sædís Harpa
Hunden bakom mannen (2021-23)
The performance “Hunden bakom mannen” is a new dance performance about the 97 Greenlandic sled dogs who were the first to set their paws on the South Pole.
Between the two of them, Selma and Hallveig divide the roles of the 97 dogs that sailed from Greenland all the way to the South-Pole to accompany the explorer Roald Amundsen to the South-Pole in 1911. Playing with perspectives and exploring ideas of protagonism, what stories we get to hear and who gets to tell them, we follow the dogs from Ilulissat to the Terrestrial South Pole at °90 South in a physical performance that balances on the border of dance and documentary theatre.
Hunden bakom mannen is Losti’s current project, supported by the Nordic Culture Point, Kulturkontakt Nord, Reykjavík Culture Fund, Letterstedska Fonden, Reykjavík Dance Atelier and Lókal Performance Festival.
Performances:
Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki - April 2021 (Work in progress)
Lókal Art Festival, Reykjavík - November 2021 (Premiere)
Ungi Performance Festival, Reykjavík - April 2022
Tjarnarbíó Theatre, Reykjavík - April 2022
Scenofest: World Stage Design, Calgary, Canada - August 2022
National Theatre of Greenland, Nuuk - October 2023
