Creative dance workshop based on the performance Guoddi
Bures boahtin / Tikilluaritsi / Welcome to a creative dance workshop based on the performance Guoddi
The workshop has two parts, one is a dance class, and the other is a creative workshop where you get to explore and make your own dance material.
In the dance class we will work from street dance and try different street dance techniques. We will work from your level, and no previous knowledge of street dance is needed.
The workshop will be led by Sebastian Björkman, one of the dancers and choreographers of Guoddi.
Guoddi will be shown in Suialaa Arts Festival at Katuaq on Friday evening.
Place: NuQi Community Dance Center in Nuummi illorsuaq timersortarfik/Godthåbhallen
Date: 18 -19th of October 2025
Time: 13.30 - 16.30
Workshop presentation: 19th of October TBA
For 12+ and with prior dance experience (any kind of dance)
There will be snacks for participants
The workshop will be in English
For workshop registration and questions please contact: info@nuqidance.com write “workshop” in the subject line.
Workshop leader:
Sebastian Björkman is a young Sami artist from Sweden.
The workshop will be led by Sebastian Björkman, one of the dancers and choreographers of Guoddi. Guoddi will be shown in Suialaa Arts Festival at Katuaq on Friday and Saturday evening.
Sámi people are the Indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia that lives in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia.
Sebastian’s dancing background in the Urban Styles dance styles of Locking and Popping. He has studied street dance pedagogy at the University of Arts in Stockholm.
Sebastian has also worked with contemporary dance and performance-based dance in his work as professional dancer. Sebastian has been working with the Guoddi performance together with dancer/choreographer Ánna-Katri Helander, duodji artist Ann-Sofie Kallok and composer Anthoni Haetta.
Workshop Concept:
In North Sámi language guoddi means “someone who carries something”. In the performance it both means to wear an element that symbolizes pride in your culture, but also what it can feel like to carry an indigenous culture on your shoulders.
In the creative workshop we will try to find ways to move and dance in relationship to the ideas and concepts from the Guoddi performance. We will discuss the theme of what it means to uphold or wear something. And we will try out different ways to move from your body, and from your ideas, feelings and thoughts around these concepts. As well as explore how one can dance in relation to clothes or objects that you are wearing.
Guoddi was commissioned for Dáiddadállu’s 10th anniversary in 2024 and is created by Sebastian Björkman, Ánna-Katri Helander, Anthoni Hætta and Ann-Sofie Kallok. The workshop is a collaboration between NuQi Dance, Dáiddadállu and Nuuk Art Museum.
Photos by Johan Fredriksson.
