Do you see what I’m singing?

This is a vocal performance that invites the audience to disappear into a multi-sensory experience and explore the connection between the Danish and Irish vocal cultures.

According to Danish mythology, when Odin sacrificed one eye, he gained wisdom, poetry & magic. In Ireland, there is a long history of the wisdom and otherwordly insights of the Blind seer. Blind musicians like Turlough O’Carolon and bards like Antoine O’Raifteiri recorded the sounds, stories and rhythms of life around them in the haunting music and poetry we still have today.

In this performance, the audience is invited to turn down the dominant sense of sight and open up to the gifts that may come from deeper connection to the senses of hearing, (inner resonans, imagination?) and touch. Blindfolds will be available to the audience to facilitate this sensory exploration.

The performance has been created through an international collaboration between singer-songwriters Emilie Conway and Sussie Luscinia Nielsen, sound artist David Navndrup Black and dancers from the FIMD group, Dråbe.

The performance will be in Danish, English and Gaelic.

The event is wheelchair accessible. You can find detailed information about accessibility at Dansekapellet here.

Singers: Emilie Conway and Sussie Luscinia Nielsen
Sound artist: David Navndrup Black
Dancers: Paulina Rewucka, Lisa Dahlkild, Bettina Stoholm, Tom Sonntag, Piyannah Hassing and Inge Marie Baiocchi
Thank you: Agata Rutkowska

Photo credit: Henning Sjøstrøm